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16 Anders als die Andern (Different From the Others)
Lately I really seem to specialize in icons nobody but myself would ever want to use. I think I just start looking for icons for myself & am not able to find any (usually for good reason), so I end up just doing my own & making too many & "sharing" them with all of you, my unwitting victims. But really, I think this is more your problem than mine. It's not my fault you're so uncultured. Go out, rent whatever it is I'm talking about, fall in love with it, & come back & take an icon. It's for your own damn good! Heathens.

That being said, I've iconized the 1919 German silent film Anders als die Andern (Different From the Others). Co-written by renowned sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld & starring Conrad Veidt (my dead spindly German Hitler-bashing bisexual boyfriend!), Fritz Schulz, Reinhold Schünzel, & Anita Berber, this was the first movie in history to deal explicitly with the subject of homosexuality. It was created partially to educate the public about Hirschfeld's ideas on homosexuality (namely that it's, shock, perfectly natural) & to protest the German anti-gay laws entailed in Paragraph 175 (not fully repealed until 1994). It is available today only in a fragmented form; when the Nazis seized power, one of their first actions (May 6, 1933) was to destroy Hirschfeld's entire library, including many prints of the film. I got it from NetFlix, & you should too, because it's amazing.

I got real bored with fancy brushes, that's why all these are pretty clean & simple. And all greyscale, except one.

Sample:
07. 14. 15.

Credit dykons or psychobiddy in keywords/comments.

Images from Amazon (for the first one, it's the DVD cover) & screencapped by me.

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#2 means no subtext, because who needs it? #16 is funny because Else (Berber) falls in love with Paul (Veidt), then he takes her to a Hirschfeld lecture to teach her about his gayness. And then she says something like, "I understand completely now. I want to devote my entire life to you. I want nothing more than to be your most true & loyal friend." Cinema's first faghag, created right there. <33

I swear I'll make some good ones soon. Ones you'll actually want. Uh, maybe.