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every so often, i think, and it might be so selfish of me, but i crave to be someone's first choice. i want to be the person that someone sees fun things to do and their first thought is to ask me to go with them. i want someone to be willing to inconvenience themselves a little bit sometimes for me as i would do for them. i want to be looked at in a list of people and to have someone pick me out of all of them. i want to be held at the same level as a romantic partner in terms of effort and closeness. i want someone to want me as much as i want them, even though it's not in a romantic sense. i want to be important to someone.

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For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his "historic first tour to the commonwealth realm" i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shouting the following:

I literally can't even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.

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hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

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cat racing ... more like catsitting

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Is it difficult making archery sexy?

Not really! In fact, the difficult part is making archery platonic

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lady trent memoirs were literally so right for putting pictures. put more pictures in fantasy books they’re so fun and useful for those of us who can’t picture shit

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10 year old me: I have designs 135 nations. They will be the foundation of your worldbuilding.

20 year old me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- I HAVE TO TWEAK 135 GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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The memoirs of lady trent just prove to me that realism and fantasy can absolutely go hand in hand. The path to more knowledge is something that is missing in a lot of fantasy, often times centuries if civilization have yielded absolutely no scientific improvements and that’s just lazy in most cases.

The same goes for things like sexism, that are touched on sometimes but rarely explored beyond “woman is being underestimated but then she proves that she is cool” or something. In Lady Trent you have icky rumord about her being spread, strategically sending tom to do bureaucracy, worrying about decency and such… Never have I seen mysogyny touched in such a way and it makes ascend to a higher plane of existence.

Also, Isabella is autistic and I love her for it

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Dragons. You agree, reblog

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the difference between romantic love and platonic love is mostly intent

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Marie Brennan didn't just avoid the "not like the other girls" trope in writing Isabella, she examined and broke down the misogynistic aspects of the concept:

But really everyone needs to read Memoirs of Lady Trent. The whole series is amazing.

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@two-hands-toward-the-sun were joking about subella but are we wrong??

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Okay, I realize this hilariously late for Asexuality Awareness Week (which was last week), but due to unforeseen stressors, it didn’t really get done in time.

Anyway! I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while, and I’m proud of myself of actually getting a six page comic done within a week. (Not that it’s really anything super fancy, but it’s better than nothing lol) I do apologize for the massive ugly text wall that is page four but I had a hard time figuring out how to convey it visually while being kind of pressed for time. oh and the occasional copy/paste, I’m sorry for that too

Enjoy! Click on the separate pictures if the text is hard to read.

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Any other aro folks really want one or more platonic life partners. Like friends but you live with them forever

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i think it says a lot that orym brought up the murder of his family and ludinus didn't even say i'm sorry