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Tumblr Tuesday: Ace Art

Happy Asexual Awareness Week to all aces and your allies. Here is a collection of exuberant ace art for your exuberant ace hearts. Keep on breaking those allo assumptions, one artwork at a time 🖤🩶🤍💜

@sandrune-art:

@evocaitart:

@unwashedace:

@tinyflowerclub:

@vuelode-irbis:

@szczurherbacany:

@wafflenati0n:

@dinxie:

@pokimoko:

@werew0lfprincess:

@plutonicbees:

@cowheist:

@lokithefoolishegg:

@yujateaandpi:

@transcendragon:

@starryaves:

@kyri45:

@squishlamb:

@peppermintbits:

@kateammann:

@soni-dragon:

@kynni-purri:

@theartofmadeline:

@icannotgetoverbirds:

@meoskyan:

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Here is my small piece of advice/plea for for the future for y'all for today, and I may be lightly skirting an NDA to say it, so please listen:

If you can, buy physical books.

I work in publishing and I'm scared about what the election results are going to mean for the future of books by and about marginalized people, especially books for children. There are a lot of things you can do by trying to get involved locally, especially to mobilize against book bans and laws targeting libraries and schools. Voting with your wallet is still an extremely important tactic, because we're going to be hit with economic issues re: diverse books before we get hit with legal ones. But my immediate concern is what might happen with e-books.

It's already a known problem that if you "buy" a book on Kindle or another e-reader, that you're essentially renting it from that retailer, and if that retailer decides to remove that book, they can wipe it from your device. We also know that servers can be shut down. Content policies can change. It could get very difficult to find a copy of the files to pirate, much less to purchase.

But you can't delete a physical book from the world.

Physical books are about to become very important repositories. Collect them, if you can. Go to library sales. Go to thrift stores. Go to your local bookstore -- and bonus point here: independent bookstores are and will be great hubs for organizing in the coming days. Hell, I'd even encourage you to go through Amazon to send a message that these books are still financially viable. Lord knows the latter doesn't want to advertise them to you.

I know (I know) that physical books are expensive and getting more so. I know space is at a premium in a world where we're being pushed to live in smaller and smaller apartments with more and more roommates. But if there's a book that was important to you, and if it's a book you think a bigot wouldn't want to exist in the world, I urge you to get your hands on a physical copy of that book. If nothing else, to preserve it for the next generation.

ALL of us can be librarians. ALL of us can be archivists. ALL of us can work together to preserve marginalized voices, and to ensure that they are heard.

I love you. Keep fighting. We're in this together.

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Alredered is celebrating National #GetToKnowYourCustomersDay to-day.

and we wish to let each one of our customers how thankful we are for them.

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Alredered is celebrating #NATIONALTROPICALFRUITDAY to-day.

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Alredered is celebrating #NationalSourCandyDay to-day.

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Alredered Remembers Margaret Laurence, Canadian novelist and short story writer, on her birthday.

"This is part of what writers do. They speak for people who cannot speak for themselves.'

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Alredered Remembers Elizabeth Gilbert, American author best known for writing Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, onb her birthday..

"I was a writer before Eat, Pray, Love, and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life."

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Alredered Remembers Jessamyn West, American author, on her birthday.

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."

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Alredered Remembers Elizabeth Jennings, English poet, on her birthday.

"I write fast and revise very little."

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Alredered Remembers William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist of the 19th century who was famous for his satirical works depicting life in English society, including the novel, Vanity Fair, on his birthday.

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new."

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Alredered Remembers Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author, on his birthday.

"The PATRIOT Act was a dagger in the heart, really, of even the concept of a democratic government that is free, equal and just."

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Alredered is celebrating #NationalCaviarDay to-day.

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