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mutual did not see the post i reblogged specifically for them. 13 dead, 65 injured.

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today I was outside and saw many dashing surfer dudes who upon closer inspection might have been stunning butch women

peace and love on planet earth

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carved my first stamp today oh yeah (with a lot help from my lovely friend who actually has previous stamp carving experience)

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Please please please

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we lost our way when we started having discourse justifying shipping aroace characters with "ace people can still have sex/aros can still date", instead of using it as evidence to hc characters who aren't canonically aspec and who date and have sex, as aro/ace.

scraping the bottom of the barrel for characters who don't express interest in dating? no, i'm coming for your ladies' men and your sluts, your suave and sexy sweet talkers, your femme fatales and your serial monogamists.

aroaces you must liberate yourselves, break free of the shackles of that one canon aroace, you don't need them. sick of people shipping your fave canon aroace? their fave is aroace now. want more sex/romance favourable aroace rep? this works for that too! there are literally no downsides

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Making absolutely peak pinup art that lowkey. I don’t think I can post anywhere

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My favorite part of a piece of media that I used to love being terrible now is that when people who still like the media interact with my old fan art posts n shit. Like fuck yeah. I loved those AUs. Too bad those guys are my characters now.

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Podcast Jam Snippets

The countdown for the PodJam marathon is running! Until then... we present exclusive sneak peaks into the works of Jam Projects (script and audio snippets, soundtracks, bloopers, etc.)

Below, we have out of context scenes and bloopers.

Inn Between Worlds

Valdivian's [REDACTED]: Competitive Market

Left Alone Once More

A Merry Dance at Whistlestop Junction

Want to hear these wonderful shows and many more in complete? Check out this page for more info on the Podcast Jam, this post for more info on the jam marathons and check out our website or join the Discord for more info on the Podcast Book Club.

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Fuck I forgot about my trans cowboy jarthur at this point they’re no longer like malevolent AU shit, they’re my ocs sobbing

Todays page plus all of the close ups. Gotta run back to work. Have fun with the trans cowboys

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Podcast Jam Snippets

The countdown for the PodJam marathon is running! Until then... we present exclusive sneak peaks into the works of Jam Projects (script and audio snippets, soundtracks, bloopers, etc.)

Below, we have out of context scenes and bloopers.

Inn Between Worlds

Valdivian's [REDACTED]: Competitive Market

Left Alone Once More

A Merry Dance at Whistlestop Junction

Want to hear these wonderful shows and many more in complete? Check out this page for more info on the Podcast Jam, this post for more info on the jam marathons and check out our website or join the Discord for more info on the Podcast Book Club.

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2025 Closing Ceremony Stream

Happy belated Audio Drama Sunday to all who celebrate!

Join us on Saturday May 24th & Sunday the 25th at 8AM EST/1PM BST on @podcast-bookclub Twitch to check out all of the shows (22 new audio dramas!) created during this year's Jam event. We can't wait to listen with you 🎧

If you're unfamiliar with the Podcast Jam or Podcast Book Club - it's nice to meet you :) Podcast Book Club is an online community space for creators and enjoyers of audio fiction to share in podcasting together. Podcast Jam is an annual event we host, where participants collaboratively or solely create the pilot episode of a podcast from start to finish. To find out more, see our website or join the Discord.

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im only just realizing that hannibal saying 'you slice the ginger' was a pun about cutting up freddie and will's subtle smile after, oh god they're insane

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Me: *unbelievably stressed out for the last month*

My direct manager: “btw moved you off of women’s shipment tomorrow, seemed like you could use a break”

What I probably looked like to her:

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With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

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tbh I really dislike how aphobia tends to be discussed whenever there's some kind of incident that makes it visible to general society. The most common response seems to be some variation of "why would anyone hate asexual/aromantic people, they aren't even doing anything" and it just always sits wrong with me. It paints such a passive picture of our existence and feels like a comment influenced by the level of invisibility that aspec people have in society. Why would you be annoyed by someone who is practically invisible? Just go back to ignoring their existence, it's easy!

But despite the invisibility, aspec people are actually doing quite a lot of things that will piss off queerphobic, right-wing and religious people (and hell, even left-wing people). And the most obvious point is that we are actively not performing heterosexuality the way they want us to. People who's entire world view is "cis men and women should be in monogamous, heterosexual marriage and have (white) babies" are not going to lean back and say "oh but those asexuals and aromantics are fine". They will also hate our guts, and they will come up with all sorts of reasons, including insinuating we're all secretly into bestiality, or mentally ill, or not human, or attention seeking children. It's just plain old queerphobia, and like all queerphobia, there's no inherent logic to it which you can worm your way out of by "not doing anything".

And like, there's a lot more that aspec people do which people hate. Raising awareness about amatonormativity? People feel attacked, they hate it. Asexual people having sex? Or not having sex? People hate it! Aromantic people being in (seemingly) romantic relationships? People fucking hate it! Aromantic people having sex? Ohh people hate that!!

I guess the existence of aphobia can be confusing when you haven't spent much time thinking about asexuality and aromanticism, but in the end, these are identities that aren't heteronormative and they will be hit with the same or similar bigotry as any other queer identity. I just get tired of this response after seeing it recycled for 10 years without ever seeming to go any further.

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she’s right