#seeker week

[ghost-dusk]

Late Kyoshi week day 6

I wasn’t gonna participate at all since I found out about the event literally a few days before so I couldn’t plan anything, but here’s a little something for the animal companion prompt.

I’ve always felt that the spirit fox was fitting as her animal companion.

[angelbitezzz]

This is about me exclusively drawing his Father for the past few weeks in @finderseeker's whiteboard, which finally ended a few hours ago

[kaitontenchu]

" . . . There was no other way . . . " -

DSR cleared on 4.9.2024

[randomationality]

yall gotta believe me when i say this is skywarp

well without his visor i guess. Redesigned him coz idk just wanted to

[no-passaran]

Hi, it's Asexuality Awareness Week and I would like to share one of the reasons why it's important to raise awareness: including asexuality in legal protection.

One of the reasons why legal protections are necessary is the case of asylum seekers. Asexual asylum seekers, who are endangered in their home country, are routinely not accepted as asylum seekers because the legislation protects LGBT people but doesn't include asexuality in the acronym.

Let's see a couple of examples:

In 2018, an Algerian man applied for asylum in the Netherlands, explaining that he feared being persecuted in his country of origin for being asexual and for refusing to marry his niece.

The Netherlands, a country that accepts LGBTI asylum seekers, did not accept this man's asylum request because asexuality is not mentioned as being in the LGBTI. The court also said that asexuality is not punishable in Algeria. But not being legally called by its name and explicitly punished does not mean asexual people don't face discrimination, forced marriages, and threats of violence and rape. (Marriage itself, by the laws in most of the world, must include "consummation", whether the people involved want to or not).

This is the case of a 26-year-old woman living in Senegal, using the pseudonym Jade. Her family, across the border in Guinea, demanded that she find a man to marry. Her sister told her that if she didn’t, their parents would force her to wed a man who would rape her.

In Guinea and Senegal, forced marriages are common – the same sister who threatened Jade was in one herself. Divorce is also heavily stigmatised – when one of Jade’s cousins told her abusive husband she wanted a divorce, he said he would shoot her, her mother and himself.

Jade is a sex-repulsed asexual woman. She feared being married to someone she didn’t love and being subjected to so-called “corrective rape” until she bore children.

She considered suicide.

Her mother suggested sending her to therapy to fix her "aversion to marriage", when Jade refused, the mother said she'd "fix" her herself. She had Jade lay on the floor while she put her hand on her chest and prayed over her, asking afterwards whether she felt any different.

For a while, Jade’s last resort was escaping West Africa permanently. After she began studying in the US, it became her first choice. When researching what her options were, she found the case from the Netherlands that we've talked about before this one. She also found that legislations that aim to protect LGBTQI around the world don't include asexuality.

At present, the only piece of legislation which explicitly mentions asexuality is New York’s Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act of 2003. However, that didn’t help Jade. A New York lawyer told Jade that there was no information as to whether asexuality was grounds for asylum in the US. After a long process of trying in the USA, she couldn't make it but after a year and a half she found an opportunity to do an internship in Ireland, where she lives now.

Since leaving West Africa, Jade has learned that her parents had chosen a husband for her without her knowledge, not long before she managed to escape. She says that, had she not been able to escape, she wouldn't be alive today.

This is what people mean when they say "asexuals aren't LGBTI!", "We can't have asexuals stealing our resources!". These are the kind of resources they mean: the ones that could save the life of a person being discriminated against for not being heterosexual heteroromantic and not conforming to the normative ideas of what their love and sex life should be like. An issue that is deeply shared with the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community.

[ii-thelightseekers]

If we were to do another Multiversal event would you want either this weekend or the weekend after thanksgiving break? >:]

[parvuls]

I am once again analyzing the haus layout and mourning all the little nooks I haven't seen in fics. jack has his own walk-in closet?? (so does bitty, btw)

so many opportunities for bitty helps jack pick a tie/shirt and they get locked inside getting togethers

so many opportunities for year 2 au's with secret zimbits relationship where one of them has to hide in the other's closet to avoid getting caught

post-kegster game of hide and seek where jack and bitty both end up hiding in the closet (this may or may not be a real thing that happened to me)?

so many jokes about being in the closet

like, at least one scenario I can think of where shitty talks to jack through the shared wall of their closets, pretending to be the haus ghosts

[gothbot-online]

I've been playing the Transformers Minecraft game with @oneshallball and our official gamer opinion is... 10/10. Feels like you're playing the G1 cartoon as a silly little game hehehe

[stinkysarai]

OK OK OK so i saw this supder dupder cool spirit touched sokka idea by @harleyification and while i didn’t think i was going to doodle anything about it just was CONVINCED! SO I DID!!! it’s not all that great. but was it fun doing some light research about foxes? Yes. was it fun drawing? yes. did i giggle? Yes. FOX SPIRIT SOKKA SOOO COOL!!! Fanart technically? Methinks? IDK!!! sokka sokka sokka sokka sokka! moght draw something with color maybe MAYBE AIF IM NOT BUSY. but ya!

FOX SPIRIT / KNOWLEDGE SEEKER SOKKA!!!

enjoyed very much the fic is so great btw ‘The Little Fox’ by Spookedy !!!! on ao3!!!! ITS SO CUTE AND COOL AND GRAAAHHHHGHGJGN THE AU IDEA IS SO AWESUMM might draw more 🙏🙏

quality is bad so just click on it i suppose to see it.. less blurred? IDK! sorry there aint no color 😞 also my handwriting bad if u cant tell 😆☝️

this is such a cool and unique au idea cries my eyes out i need to draw more I NEED I NEED!!!!

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

putting the nasty in dynasty 🙄

[leefyberrybread]

BIG DOODLE AND WIP DUMP!!!

Stuff I’ve been working on over the past couple months and whatnot.

I have many WIPs and this isn’t even all of just transformers related WIPs. God I have so much stuff I want to do and finish loll

[that--unusual-person]

SPRINGGGGBREAKKKKKKKKK

[zhaliacain]

I’m working on a Cherit related project so I was scrolling through photos on google just to get some basic reference photos etc…

Ai art has got Cherit.

It is horrifying.

[lavampira]

chase your dreams but always know the road that'll lead you home again

[xbluue-jayyx]

excerpt from my current long-form Kyoshi WIP: The Light of Kyoshi

@kyoshi-era-week-24

[tidesfate]

once I return / things are better, I might add some minor muses to the blog. Creations of Mora.