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Juvenile bull moose skull

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People need to understand that asexual people having sex is not the same as, e.g., gay people having sex with the opposite gender.

For allosexuals, "having sex with someone you're not attracted to" usually means the same as "having sex with someone you're UNATTRACTED to", which of course can be harmful. It implies a lack of internal consent and pushing through your own boundaries, even some level of compulsion. That's generally bad for you and not a good idea.

But if you're not sexually attracted to anyone, you're not sexually UNATTRACTED to anyone, either. That metric simply doesn't exist. So don't be worrying about the aces hurting themselves by having sex with people they don't fancy. They don't fancy anyone, they can make their own judgment on whether to sleep with someone or not based on any criteria they please.

Obviously real life is more complex than this simple rule of thumb. Plenty of aces are sex-repulsed or for other reasons really don't want to have sex, and pushing through that would be harmful. Other aces (e.g. demisexuals like myself) do experience some level of attraction and unattraction, so that complicates things. And I'm sure there are scenarios where allosexuals can have sex without strong attraction, as long as they're not actively unattracted, and that be fine.

Just, don't worry about the aces who are having sex. As long as we're all clear that they can also not be having sex and that isn't harmful either, it's all good.

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it's kind of sad that we don't really do custom ringtones anymore. most people just stick with the default list that comes with your phone, if they change it at all. if they're even aware they can change it at all. like yeah, people letting their phones ring in public is obnoxious, but wouldn't it be a little less obnoxious if it was something funny? or personal? people used to change the text tone of every contact so every time they got a text they knew who it was just from the sound. isn't that sweet? isn't that nice? don't you miss it? don't you want to scream when you hear that stupid apple pa-Ting!??? we could have a chorus of awoogas and clips of people's favorite songs and recordings saying '(blank) IS CALLING, WARNING, (blank) IS CALLING' and all things considered i would prefer that over pa-Ting!, pa-Ting!, pa-Ting!, whistle whistle, pa-Ting!

anyway im going to change my ringtone to the oldschool skype call sound and nobody will ever hear it because my phone is always on silent but i'll know. i'll know

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Yeah, this bothers me. Here in the UK we're always on about our relics of all kinds, right down to the random stone arrowhead some guy found in his herbaceous border, but over there you only seem to count history from when the Europeans arrived. There have been people in the Americas for like 20k years and they most certainly built things.

Someone will complain about the US not having any ancient history or architecture and then live in a place literally called Massachusetts. I’ll kill you.

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I feel like a bit of a grouch every time Doctor Who does a dramatic slideshow of all the previous Doctors but I don't know. It's cheesy, is all.

There was also something about the barbershop episode where there was a moment's disorientation like "who are all these white guys?'

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When you read a book regarding historical figures or events and suddenly you have massive beef with some guy who passed away like three hundred years ago

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LMFAO

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I dreamt there was an episode of Columbo where Elon Musk died a virgin by being electrocuted by a faulty car charger.

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Learn to enjoy doing it badly. That's the secret. Like playing in the mud. Enjoy just making marks. Practice drawing things DELIBERATELY badly and learn that it's ok and fun. Because if you're ever going to draw well, you're going to spend a LOT of time drawing badly, and if you hate it, you won't keep at it.

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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Make sure you tut loudly every so often.

shaking my head and frowning as i read soulmate fic so everyone knows as an aro i don't approve of the amanormativity inherent to the trope

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I could watch this, but it's more fun to believe they're just being claimed by the sinkholes.

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I could watch this, but it's more fun to believe they're just being claimed by the sinkholes.

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Sebastián Yatra - Dos Oruguitas (From "Encanto")

All the videos I've watched lately about how Disney is losing its touch never mention Encanto. Just rewatched for the first time since it first came out. This part is just... devastating. Heartbreaking.

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*sigh*

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Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.

It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.

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Watching a video the other day that explained how palaeontologists and palaeoanthropologists distinguish which fossils are on our family tree and which ones are on the chimp family tree. Really interesting. Our lot have an S-shaped spine (to carry our weight upright), bowl-shaped pelvis (to carry our guts around in), and a further-forward hole in our skulls so the spinal cord comes out the bottom rather than a bit more to the back in our knuckle-walking cousins.

We also have "sexually monomorphic canines", which sounds like a gay furry thing but actually means our boys do not have bigger canine teeth than the girls, which is the case in all our surviving ape relatives.

I thought that was interesting anyway.