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Amen

i think ace and aro people should be allowed to talk about their feelings about sex and romance, and how the fact that they’re so pervasive in our society has affected them, without having to baby everything down and wrap every statement in reassurances for allos

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Honestly as a blind person I’m so tired of seeing fictional blind characters who don’t use white canes or other guides. “They have special powers so they know what’s around them” or “they’re confident enough to not need a guide” are common tropes, and I’m tired.

Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?

I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.

Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.

Tldr I’m blind and tired of sighted people lol

🔪 Sighted People MUST Reblog This 🔪

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i really can't stand this anymore oh my god

so i have made a few posts talking about this, but my mom is Making Ultimatiums that are going to fuck me over financially just for the hell of it. i am currently unemployed, receiving no more benefits, and i have absolutely no savings. at this point i have a negative balance on my bank account and i have nothing much i can do about it. i am a trans man with adhd, ptsd, and severe depression so it has become inhospitable in my current living environment, and i need to move, except i currently live in one of the most expensive places in the US and i don't know how to drive. basically, i need to buy a bike, get a plane ticket, and find a job. so this is a mutual aid request but also like. if any of you know of any trans people who know of any trans safe living areas that are not wildly expensive, please message me!

anyway i have talked for too long, here is my info

cash.app: $luvlandfrog

paypal.me: /ezrabanksy

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gay ppl be like yea these are my comfort characters *literal ray of sunshine*, *murderer*, *war criminal*, *six feet under*

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Okay. I have an observation, which I am going to try to explain as best I can and hope desperately that it doesn’t set off anything terrible.

Most of the time, when I see ace people worried about misrepresentations of asexuality in media, as long as the character isn’t doing something obviously problematic like vilifying asexuality or trying to fix it, the criticism usually falls into one of two categories:

Alloromantic aces upset with ace characters that are aromantic or assumed to be aromantic, because it reinforces the misconception that asexuals can’t be in a relationship or fall in love

Aromantic aces upset with ace characters that are alloromantic or assumed to be alloromantic, because it reinforces the idea that romantic attraction is still required to be “acceptable” or “normal”

But the interesting thing is, I see both of these comments with pretty much equal frequency. And despite being predicated on basically opposite premises, they are both real problems and valid arguments. I see it come up especially when an asexual character’s romantic orientation is not confirmed - alloromantic aces remind people that the character should not be assumed to be aro, and aromantic aces remind people that the character doesn’t have to be allo. Both perfectly reasonable arguments, in almost perfectly equal numbers.

So the obvious question is, if these are both legitimate concerns, than how can any asexual character possibly be good representation?

I’ll posit an answer: the issue really doesn’t have to do with the asexual characters’ romantic identities at all - the problem is the lack of asexual characters in the first place. If your sample size is small, any addition to that sample size is going to have a much larger effect on the relative proportions. This explains why the reveal of an asexual character can garner such conflicting reactions - people want to feel seen, and unfortunately there are so few ace characters right now that their specific romantic orientation makes far more of a difference to whether people feel seen than it would if there was already a large, diverse body of ace characters in existence.

So coming back around to the question, barring ace characters that are clearly problematic, all ace characters are good representation, because the most important thing right now is to have more of them. More ace characters, more diversity in romantic orientation, personality, background, age, feelings about sex, characters in more genres, more mediums.

And this means that rather than policing every ace character’s romantic identity, we should all be celebrating every asexual character we have, regardless of their romantic orientation.

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KNOWING JK ROWLINGS SPECIFIC BRAND OF BIGOTRY CASTS MUCH OF HER WORK IN NEW AND UNFLATTERING LIGHT IT TURNS OTHERWISE BENIGN PLOT POINTS INTO A DEEPLY UNPLEASANT RACIAL SUPREMACIST NARRATIVE

KNOWING HP LOVECRAFTS SPECIFIC BRAND OF BIGOTRY MAKES MUCH OF HIS WORK REALLY FUNNY IT TURNS HORRIFIC ELDRITCH MONSTERS INTO POTENTIAL BOYFRIENDS

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I’ll represent you in court :)

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leftist antisemites are really everywhere on this hellsite making & reblogging their posts like “the Jews have too much power and privilege and actually their very recent genocide was not that bad compared to what my group experiences and antisemitism doesn’t even exist in my country and especially not in liberal spaces”

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This question and its answer from The New York Times work advice column is W I L D.

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crows!!!! holding flowers!!!!! walking!!!!!! holding round things!!!

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Let’s do this #EthicalMemes

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A man who has traveled to 217 countries in the world on visiting Iran 

http://highlife.ba.com/articles/lessons-learned-from-travelling-to-217-countries/