#iri.asks

[huneingkai]

he's growing a mullet for the cb ❤️ he's the exception to the rule ❤️

he won't <3 they'll cut it <3

[huneingkai]

ponytail curse u can’t escape it :/

hes giving me high blood pressure every time i see it i suffer

[huneingkai]

questionable. 😐

its the truth i made u a nice gift how dare u 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[iridisphere]

I feel kinda sad that you have to add "this are was made by an Antizionist Jew" and "Free Palestine" on drawings that have nothing to do with Zionism or Palestine, your art is pretty, I feel bad that you have to add it to not get reblogged by Zionists or not get hate from people who are using Palestine to harass Jews.

I really miss the days where Jews could just exist on the internet without having to specify they're normal to not get harassed.

we add it to our art for three reasons-

activistic: we're chronically ill/disabled and fairly poor. there isn't much of any activism we can do. so if absolutely nothing else, it makes us feel like we're doing something while trapped in our apartment and trapped in our constantly malfunctioning body. we've made plenty of non-jewish art before now; on our part, the decision to make pointedly jewish art, exactly as the world is right now, is a specifically anti-zionist statement.

ideological: zionism is a hot and sticky tar on our millenniums-old culture. it seeks to subsume everything jewish it touches, and make it so that judaism and zionism become progressively synonymous and inseparable. and like a hot tar, it is so sticky and so damaging that separating it from whatever it touches is an extremely difficult and involved process. putting that banner on our art is our [small] way of fighting that, to be as overt and unambiguous as possible that zionism cannot claim what we make.

functional: put bluntly, people are afraid to touch our art if we don't label it as explicitly antizionist. the goyim see anything with jewish themes and they clam up, don't interact with posts they otherwise would. and yes, that is quiet "micro" antisemitism, but a similar thing also happens with jews. for example, i won't interact with explicitly jewish content blogs until i see unambiguous signals that they aren't zionist. and we know other jews on the hellsite etc. who work similarly.

and yes, a lot of the above is sad; but i personally don't want to waste any more time or energy wallowing in topics like why it's sad for me. not while there's a genocide being committed and supported by people who claim it's in our name. we're making overtly jewish art, we want to make sure the message is clear who it's for, and who cannot claim it.

(also, we're a trans woman, it's been years since the majority of people were "normal" to us about pretty much anything)

[iridisphere]

im studying to convert to judiasm and have a particular fascination with angels, so seeing your art and writing is absolutely amazing. i love it, keep up the good work <333

i saw "anonymous asked a question" and honestly expected it to be hate mail bc of our new footer but i am pleasantly surprised! 😅

thank you for your kind words! jewish and other ancient near eastern conceptions of angels are something fascinating to us! the imagery and associations of angels from christian (namely USamerican protestant) vantages is so pervasive that for a long time it fully prevented us from exploring angels in any capacity, believing them to be a very inherently christian concept. although there's poems/prayers as common in reform spaces as shalom aleichem (where "malachei" is the literal 3rd word), we didn't even know angels existed as a jewish concept until academically studying judaism and kabbalah as an adult. in our [debatably heretical] view, the halakhic prohibition on angel imagery (for fear of inspiring idolatry) combined with rabbinic decisions to deemphasize angels as an inherent part of judaism during the babylonian exile and after, have functionally served to detach jews from this inherent aspect of our culture and allow christian angel imagery to drown out the entire concept of angels. our art is our small attempt to revive a jewish conception of what an angel is, and can be...

anyway, apologies for using your ask to ramble, and thank you for your kind words :)

[huneingkai]

I love the vibe of your account

oh thank you!! i am glad it is enjoyable LFDLSK hope u have a great day/night!! <3<3<3

[huneingkai]

what was the dream shdhjdjfkfkg 🤣🤣

NO COMMENT!!!!!!! to this day idk where it came from but han brings it up every time i mention him now 🤬🤬🤬 i'll take it to my grave riri JDKDNS

[huneingkai]

hi! can you post all of member's 2022 weverse magazine when they come out please? i love your gifs <3÷

hi!!! thank you for liking our gifs!! sorry tho i was only planning on recolouring kai's and yeonjun's but i'm sure someone else will post the other members!!! thank u again tho 💞💗💗💓💗💓💗💓💘💓💗💓💖💓💗💓💗💓💗