me @ ace characters:ย ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ good shit goเฑฆิ sHit๐ thats โ some good๐๐shit right๐๐there๐๐๐ rightโthere โโif i do ฦฝaาฏ so my self ๐ฏ i say so ๐ฏ thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: สณแถฆแตสฐแต แตสฐแตสณแต) mMMMMแทะ๐ฏ ๐๐ ๐ะO0ะเฌ OOOOOะเฌ เฌ Ooooแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแต๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐Good shit
me @ aro characters:ย ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ good shit goเฑฆิ sHit๐ thats โ some good๐๐shit right๐๐there๐๐๐ rightโthere โโif i do ฦฝaาฏ so my self ๐ฏ i say so ๐ฏ thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: สณแถฆแตสฐแต แตสฐแตสณแต) mMMMMแทะ๐ฏ ๐๐ ๐ะO0ะเฌ OOOOOะเฌ เฌ Ooooแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแต๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐Good shit
me @ characters on the ace and/or aro spectrum:ย ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ good shit goเฑฆิ sHit๐ thats โ some good๐๐shit right๐๐there๐๐๐ rightโthere โโif i do ฦฝaาฏ so my self ๐ฏ i say so ๐ฏ thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: สณแถฆแตสฐแต แตสฐแตสณแต) mMMMMแทะ๐ฏ ๐๐ ๐ะO0ะเฌ OOOOOะเฌ เฌ Ooooแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแต๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐Good shit
me @ asexual/aromantic/spectrum headcanons:ย ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ good shit goเฑฆิ sHit๐ thats โ some good๐๐shit right๐๐there๐๐๐ rightโthere โโif i do ฦฝaาฏ so my self ๐ฏ i say so ๐ฏ thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: สณแถฆแตสฐแต แตสฐแตสณแต) mMMMMแทะ๐ฏ ๐๐ ๐ะO0ะเฌ OOOOOะเฌ เฌ Ooooแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแต๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐Good shit
m o o d b o a r d ; asexual pride
Hi all,
I have created a petition encouraging NBC to pick up Hannibal for a second season! http://tinyurl.com/d3trcah
If you need more Hannibal (or just more Will in his tighty whities), please sign and share!
Do youโฆ. Have any trashy romance novel suggestions ๐
Absolutely. I can give you some author recs, if you're down for it? They're really prolific authors and have a range of stuff, so you'll probably find something to your tastes.
Cat Sebastian mostly writes Victorian/Regency romances with queer characters (I particularly rec A Little Light Mischief which is unbearably cute).
Alyssa Cole has a lot of great, diverse romances with POC and queer as the MCs (particular rec for How to Find a Princess, which is about security officer and the princess she's trying to get to claim her title).
Rebekah Weatherspoon is really funny and writes really great characters, and her fairytale retelling series (esp. If the Boot Fits) is one of my favorites.
Yvette Hines is one of the funniest writers I've read, and she has a bear shifter romance series that is so full of bear puns it's amazing.
Sam Burns is also really fun, and mostly writes queer paranormal romances that are really fun and full of relatable characters (I'd rec the Fantastic Fluke series because who doesn't love ghost romance and mysterious plots?)
Alexis Hall is maybe my favorite on this list? They write really, really entertaining "traditional" sorts of Victorian romances (among others) but with queer protagonists. My personal go-to when I'm feeling down is A Lady for a Duke, with a trans woman MC and a childhood friend romance. It's lovely.
carletoncolton - GPOY 6: Value World
Tagged: @the-ever-chaos-collective (Thank you~ ๐๐โจ)
1. Star Trek: The Original Series, 1966
2. Twin Peaks, 1991
3. Hannibal, 2013
4. Almost Human, 2014
5. Yuri!!! On Ice, 2016
Tagging: @simper-fi @maleficarum-regrets @brighteyesandwits @the-horae @eternion (But only if youโd like~ ๐บโค๏ธ)
Got tagged by @the-good-queen-alysanne
List 5 TV shows that changed you and made you feel better, than tag 10 people. (do I even have that many followers?)
1. The Owl House
2. Hazbin Hotel
3. Helluva Boss
4. Game of Thrones (up to season 4 plus all Dany scenes)
5. Vikings
@no-starless-sky @ariana-blackoff-holmes
Iโm filling a notebook with the URLs of the Cumber Collective to send with the Relax the Real Project. Reblog and I will include yours!
Scrapbook #15: Xan (Click for full-size image.)
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Even if it did, something tells me people would still just elect not to tag.
Iโm biologically female, and Iโm not attracted to men. Society told me I was supposed to be, but it never happened, and I spent years of my life feeling broken and wrong. The other option presented to me when I was young was being attracted to women. I watched girls closely, trying to figure it out, but that wasnโt working for me, either. Wanting to be sexually close to another person just baffled me. I swore everyone else was making those feelings up. But they werenโt, and I got older, I realized that and it sunk in that I was just one big weirdo. I was in college when I learned the word for it, and had a breakdown of panic and relief. I canโt begin to put into words how it felt to discover I wasnโt brokenโthat I was a part of a group of people who felt in their hearts and souls the way I did.
Then came the process of coming out. My friends were a mixed bag, but friends you can pick and choose from if they arenโt supportive.The vast majority of my friends were cool about it, even if they didnโt quite understand. There were assholes, and one suggested โshowing meโ I was wrong (creepy creepy creepy), but mostly my friends were neutral to positive.
After some select friends, I came out to my family.
My parents told me I was wrong.
It was like being run over by a truck. To this day, I canโt talk about my asexuality around those I love most. It caused one of the only serious arguments Iโve ever had with my parents (I love them and theyโre wonderful about 99.9% of the things in my life, but this is one place they werenโt). I was told I just had to find the โright personโ, and I would change. That I was too young to understand my feelings (I was in my 20s) towards boys. That I shouldnโt put labels on myself that would make men not want to date me. Because god forbid men not find me attractive! Because clearly, from my conversation with them, what I wanted most of all was to find a man who wanted to get in my pants! Yeah!
Yeah.
Itโs not really their fault. We live in a world where happiness is defined as falling in love, getting married, etc. Not wanting another person in your life as your โother halfโ is an alien concept. Media is flooded with messages of heterosexual normalcy, and now in very small pockets (hopefully growing, because it should! <3), a homosexual option for partnered normalcy. Itโs shoved in our faces CONSTANTLY. Our society and government have even set things up to benefit couples financially. Which is fun now that Iโm in my 30s and trying to save up for a future family, all by myself. And thankfully, even though they still avoid the word, over a decade later my parents do seem on board with the fact that Iโm not pursuing relationships and are supportive of my life choices to save for a family by myself.
Listen. I am by no means saying that I am oppressed as a person the way people attracted to same-gendered people are. Iโm not saying Iโm oppressed the way the trans community is. Iโm not saying any of that. But I AM dealing with a world where who I am is just not โokayโ. Where who I am is wrong, where who I am needs to be fixed. Or, in many cases (most cases), where who I am DOES NOT EXIST. I donโt belong in the heterosexual world. Iโm an outsider to it. But Iโm also an outsider to any world that involves sex and attraction. And as a youth, I had NO WORD to use to describe who I was!
So when asexuals advocate for asexual inclusion in the LGBT community, itโs not because we want to weirdly steal thunder from anyone in your community, or because we want false pity for oppression we havenโt faced the way you have. Itโs because we donโt want others to have to grow up the way we did.
We donโt want the world to continue not knowing about our existence. We want asexuality recognized publiclyโboth so asexuals can learn about themselves in an honest way, and so non-aces see us as legitimate humans. The LGBT world seemed like the natural place for us to go to to ask for inclusion. The place where others might understand what itโs like to grow up in a heterosexual world, as someone who is not. Itโs who I first turned to when I discovered the word for myself, only to find immediate pain, rejection, and even mockery. I was horrified.
But I didnโt give up. I couldnโt give up. In 2005, I was in college and gave a talk at my universityโs LGBT club. They had never heard of asexuality before, despite being part of a huge liberal university. It was the scariest thing Iโd ever done in my life. I had to introduce the concept, and represent the entire community. And then answer a barrage of questions. Personal, personal questions, about my body, my life experiences, everything. And at the end, there was a long period silence. Until one brave person said:
โWow. You have gone through the same things as us. You said you had some pamphlets about it? Can we put them in our office? People need to know about this. I canโt imagine growing up not knowing about homosexuality. As scary as it was for me, at least I had a word for it.โ
I broke down crying and gave them all the pamphlets I had ordered. Many of them started crying, too. We became a blubbering mess in that meeting room. In that moment, I thought I had found a community who understood after all.
Did I? I suppose thatโs up to you. But please, take some of this into consideration before you say that asexuals shouldnโt have a letter in your acronym, or should make their โown, separateโ community. Weโre unknown and invisible in so many ways, but nevertheless hurting in ways I think many of you can sympathize with and understand. Itโs not that weโre attracted to the โwrongโ sex or gender. Itโs that weโre not attracted to the โrightโ one. And holy crap, the world just isnโt super friendly or understanding to people like that. Like us.
Thank you.