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slowly recovering from birdsite

autistic queerthing from france. kitty fighting the puppy allegations. Asks welcome!

Icon: Komugi from Wonderful Precure
Header: Whisper of the Heart



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something that i like very much is tom jennings' zine, HOMOCORE, a anarchist/punk gay zine that ran from 1988-1991. it's especially poignant when you take into account the fact that jennings was also responsible for fidonet, the backbone for fetch-and-echo technology that allowed for individual BBSs to send messages to one another automatically. the punk/anarchist scene is pretty well established as a foundation for BBSs, but i just love that jennings was just as interested in queer community as he was in networked computing

jennings co-edited the zine along with deke nihilson until they got burnt out (pretty typical for zinesters) in particular bc "the psychic load was getting heavy...we were becoming the sole source of support for a lot of really fucked-up, isolated, damaged kids. The horrible things parents did to their kids is depressing; and I can imagine it's only worse today, what with all the police/drug culture and lack of creatively subversive culture."

check out the gay anarchist/punk roots of the internet here


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