The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon.
I had no idea who he was, thank you.
This is one example of the Mandela Effect phenomena, where an iconic moment is reenacted with a hippy woman so many times that people think that’s the story and thus another gay man is written out of history. Thanks for the photo.
It was fun making this comic. I had to learn Clip Studio, which was quite frustrating since there are few English tutorials. But it was worth it. It reads from right to left since I had to follow the contest rule.
Throwing yourself off a plane, at a high altitude, relying only on a large sheet of cloth to save you from going splat on the ground far, Far, FAR below.
Sounds like a perfect activity to show you easily sacred alien companion!
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“Human Bob, why are we inside this aircraft and why are dressed in these odd suits?”
“I’ve already told you Trilli, once we had shore leave I was going to take you skydiving.”
“Yes, about that, you still haven’t explained what “skydiving” is.“
“Well Trilli, if I explained it to you we’d have another roller coaster incident on our hands.”
“YOU PROMISED TO NEVER BRING UP THAT DEATH MACHINE YOU FORCED ME ON EVER AGAIN”
“Well, that was loud.”
Robert, I swear if I die from this, I will become an ectoplasmic wraith and haunt you for the rest natural life!
Look at you Trilli, picking up on human threats!
Robert…
“Trilli, relax, I’m here. Everything is going to be okay.”
Attention passengers, we have reached the drop zone
“What did the voice mean by “drop zone”!? Why is the door of the aricraft opening!?WHAT MADNESS HAVE YOU DRAGGED ME INTO!?“
“Well Trilli, now you know why you suit is connected to mine.”
“…No. NO! NONONONONONOAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!”
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“Human Bob, why is Trilli clutching onto you with all four of their arms?”
“Well Xarn, that is something I’d like to call the skydiving incident.“
what are these “shower thoughts” everybody’s talking about, i dont think about anything in the shower, my mind is completely blank as i douse my body in scalding hot water and stare at a wall
