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Four decorative golden frames on a light blue wall. In the middle frame, on a rainbow background there's a text that reads Queer Art We Love for World Art Day. Another frame shows Frida Kahlo's painting "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird". Two other frames show colorful abstract art.

Happy World Art Day! Our rec lists tend to be a bit book-centric, so we thought this’d be a great chance to share some artists and artworks we love. Note that because we don’t intentionally assemble these lists – they’re simply based on what our reccers choose to suggest – they can end up unbalanced. We’re aware this list skewed toward male artists as a result. We encourage you to find more artists, such as from this List of LGBTQ artists on Wikipedia. The contributors to the list are: Rascal Hartley, Shannon, Nina Waters, Evangeline Giaconia, Shea Sullivan, Lucy K.R., Neo Scarlett, and theirprofoundbond.

We have made the intentional choice not to include artworks that aren’t in the public domain as images on this post. We strongly encourage you to follow the links to view the works!

Electric Fan (Feel It Motherfuckers): Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate by John S. Boskovich

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Félix González-Torres

Two Men Dancing by Robert Mapplethorpe

Study for I Am in the Air You Breathe by Kent Monkman

Compositional Study for They Walk Softly on This Earth by Kent Monkman

They Knew Everything They Needed to Live by Kent Monkman

Sir Michael Gambon in Rehearsal by Maggi Hambling

True Westerners for One Strange Hour by Yowshien Kuo

National Coming Out Day by Keith Haring

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo

Interwoven Socks by J. C. Leyendecker

Works of Anthony Hurd

Letterpress works by E. “Oscar” Maynard & Tender-Heart Press

Who are your favorite queer artists?

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a funny thing about being a Weird Trans Person is that you wind up bodily-autonomy-pilled to such a degree that you come across as an insane person to anyone else who is not similarly Pilled

james_davis_nicoll

Reaching the Moon is one thing; trying to settle and survive there is another matter...

Five Stories About What Happens After We Get to the Moon

duckprintspress

I had, for me, a relatively light reading week. Mostly because of a dumb game on my phone I've been playing a lot, and because sick!brain has been struggling to focus on words.

1. What are you currently reading?

only my continuing, slow plod through 盗墓笔记 vol. 2. I'm almost halfway!

2. What have you recently finished reading?

I had an extremely rare (for me) DNF - I think the first DNF since I started doing these weekly check-ins. It was Apothecary Diaries vol. 5 by Natsu Hyuuga. I was struggling to maintain my interest anyway, and then the last chapter I read was just so unpleasant that I decided no future chapter would possibly be engaging enough to make up for it, and I put it down, returned it to the library, and I'm done. I've tried so hard to enjoy this series, and to figure out why everyone else seems to like it so much, but I'm just baffled. It's not for me. Oh well. That was last night so I haven't started a new novel yet.
The Beauty's Blade by Feng Ren Zuo Shu: it kinda picked up the last 100 pages? And then the pacing fell off a cliff the last ten pages. Oh well. That sure was a book.
Yona of the Dawn vol. 28 by Mizuho Kusanagi
Daybreak vol. 2 by Moosopp: this was exactly as fluffy, sweet, and lowstakes as I'd hoped it would be.
A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation manga vol. 5 by Misaki: yeah I love them.
Yellow omnibus vol. 1 and 2 by Makoto Tateno: holy early oughts yaoi tropes batman.
Dan of Green Gables by Rey Terceiro: speaking of pacing in the end of things fall off a cliff, what a terrible last few pages of an otherwise good book.
Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 3 by Tsumiji Yoshimura
Kaiju No. 8 vol. 15 by Naoya Matsumoto: KAIJU ORIGIN STORY WUT??? This volume was so good omg. I want the next right now

3. What will you be reading next?

Novels: Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Physical graphic novels from the library: Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins

E-Book graphics novels via Libby: nothing I have is due in the next 7 days so idk, whatever I feel like I guess.

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Members of a literature club wrestle with adolescence, crushes, and the fact their high school principal would like them to not loudly declaim the spicy passages from great works of literature.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season, volume 1 by Mari Okada & Nao Emoto

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Current Mood: awake

senmut

Question for anyone to ponder:

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, movie version, played with larger than life literary persons of the 19th century dealing with a threat just at the turn of the century to the 20th.

What persons, literary or real that have been mythologized, would have been a good 20th century team to deal with a more nefarious Y2K plot?

Discord has offered Egg Shen (Big Trouble in Little China), Sarah Connor (Terminator franchise), and Hiro Protagonist (Snow Crash).

I offered the mythologized Jimmy Hoffa as either recruiter or villain, not both as M was in the movie.

Looking forward to your ideas. Let's build a team of adventurers!

ETA: as I have been hit by rules lawyers elsewhere: person must feasibly be able to exist/be established to exist on Earth of the late 20th century within their canon.

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Posted by mimsical

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83158126

by mimsical

MB's life is pretty stable. It works for campus security, makes friends with the university faculty, and tries to be a functional adult. What it might do in its private life is its own business.

Then ART decides to make that its business, too. Neither of them expect how much they'll matter to each other or how intertwined their lives will become.

Words: 7531, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Other
Characters: ART | Perihelion, Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Relationships: ART | Perihelion/Murderbot
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Human, Explicit Sexual Content, BDSM, Under-negotiated Kink, Past childhood sexual abuse, Past Rape/Non-con, Developing Relationship, Dom Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Sub ART | Perihelion, But also, Switching, Foster Care, POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Gender Issues, racial issues, Mental Health Issues

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83158126

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utilitymonstergirl

Fun in a lot of ways, deeply silly in others, but my biggest structural complaint is that Ryan Gosling is simply too Hollywood-handsome for this schtick of "b-but I'm just some schlubby science teacher!"

I would've preferred someone like Sam Rockwell, who is much better at playing a bedraggled dipshit, but my Magical Christmasland casting wish would be to make this character an offputting transsexual, which would juice up the core themes of the story quite well: they're already a heterodox weirdo who gets cast out of the scientific establishment, makes ends meet with gigs they're vastly overqualified for, then gets scooped up and treated as both a brilliant auteur and disposable lab rat, and after someone else's catastrophic fuckups they get strongarmed into becoming a martyr at a distance where nobody from Earth will ever have to look at them again. The transmisogynist subtext already writes itself!

I like the ending's exhumanism of Grace choosing to stay on Erid, but if I'm being mean, I could say that him bringing the American education system to aliens is the same type of horror as the space station in Interstellar recreating American suburbia.

billroper

I have decided to make my previous post private.

But it felt *really* good to write it.

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I don’t know how I keep timing these so that I finish my audiobook and my paper book one right after the other. This weekend I also wrapped up The Black Fantastic, an anthology compiled by Andre M. Carrington. Thank you to pauraque for bringing this one to my attention! This is a collection of “Afrofuturist” stories by Black authors. If you want more detail, Pauraque has done individual reviews of each story which you can read here; I won’t get that specific.

With the usual caveat that all anthologies vary in quality, I enjoyed this one. There were a lot of very different stories, from some really fantastical stuff to ones that are just a little bit to the left of the world as it stands. On the high end of things, pieces like A Guide to the Native Fruits of Hawai’i by Alayna Dawn Johnson, where the protagonist grapples with her decision to collaborate with a group of vampire invaders to prey on the locals (and the metaphor of vampirism for the way Hawaii is treated by wealthy Americans is not lost in the shuffle); or The Orb by Tara Campbell, which was both strange and unexplained, choosing to focus not on the “why” or “how” of the situation but again on the moral quandary of its main character.

On the lower end, ones like The Ones Who Stay and Fight by NK Jemisin, which felt…narratively unclear, to say the least. It is either a satire of the kind of utopia writers create where its status as utopia is essentially dependent on eliminating any disagreement or contact with the outside world…or it’s a whole-hearted endorsement of that view. And if I can’t tell which, I tend to think the author’s failed at their purpose; or Ruler of the Rear Guard by Maurice Broaddus, which seemed to end just as it was getting to the plot.

Overall, I had fun with this anthology. SFF short story collections, done well, are such a scintillating showcase of creativity and I felt that here.

ericcoleman

Hallie Dolin, Marty Burke, Flash Girls, Linda Short, Pair O'Dice, Moss Bliss, Rhiannon's Lark, Puzzlebox, Playing Rapunzel, Two Bard Party, John Anealio, Ookla the Mok, Phoenix

Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.

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stardust_rifle

This aggressively cute animated short about two trans people in love, with a really indie energy that makes me happy for some reason.

I've probably shared this before, but this meta on Ao3 (archive-locked) is one of my absolute favorite works on fandom. The first chapter is one of the absolute best "why do people do RPF" explainers I've ever seen, while the second chapter is devoted to analyzing the Dream SMP's fandom practices in the context of How RPF Fandoms Function, how the DSMP fandom's practices differ and stay the same, and why that is.

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Posted by Murderboy (1happydaiz)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83127501

by Murderboy (1happydaiz)

The last option involves closing down as many programs as I can get away with without shutting down, including the really important ones. It sounds terrifying, and it is. (Was.) (...Actually, who am I kidding, it’s still terrifying)

Words: 8, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: Other
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion, Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
Relationships: ART | Perihelion & Murderbot, ART | Perihelion/Murderbot
Additional Tags: only brief ratthi, POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Possessive ART | Perihelion, Hurt/Comfort, mostly comfort, ART drone, Dissociation, except not quite its something else, Murderbot Has Sensory Issues (Murderbot Diaries), Short One Shot, Illustrations, Podfic, Podfic Length: 30-45 Minutes, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83127501

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Posted by BirdsInsideYourWalls

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83125256

by BirdsInsideYourWalls

"You’re not going to, you know…?"
I don't know. Not unless you clarify what you mean.

Some goings on and consequences, which may get a little absurd at times - happens in the academic circles all the time (especially when your Rosetta Stone is a person).
A little angst as well.

Part 2 of “Missing Parts”! Do not touch if you haven’t read part 1 - it will make little sense.

Words: 1328, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Missing Parts

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83125256

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Posted by Farla

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83122076

by Farla

Usually I was in long term mining installations, where everyone hated being there and were one late shipment of synthetic fruit snacks away from stabbing each other. This was, by my standards, an extremely fancy place. The floors were cleaned, there were decorations on the walls, people complained when there was minor signal interference, and 91% of human on human conflict hadn't escalated beyond raised voices.

Maybe I should have known something was coming, because I would never be that lucky.

Words: 2207, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Crossovers

Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Dead Space (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: Gen
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83122076

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Fandom: BTS
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Jeon Jungkook
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery:

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Why this piece is awesome: It's a simple piece featuring Jungkook during the first part of the Arirang concert. I loooove the coloring as well as how the artist used highlights to indicate the parts of Jungkook's fit that's reflecting the stage lights.

Link: ✨ (on Twitter) | ✨ (on Insta)