Where is the brain? I thought you had it

romance-evil-aro

when will the aro community stop enforcing the false dichotomy of loveless/romance repulsed aros vs romance favourable aros? there is nuance. there is grey area. justice for the aros whose relationship with romance is more complicated than that

gay-otlc

This pride I would like for people to be normal about aroallos

morningsaidthemoon

first panel of an across the spider verse comic, all colored. miles, from behind, looks at peter who is noticeably wearing a pink shirt with block text over his spider man suit. mayday is on his shoulders.

panel 2. a close shot of Peter's pink shirt, which says, "I SUPPORT MY TRANS CHILD"

panel 3. a close shot on Miles' face, which is scrunched in confusion as he guesses, "..Mayday?" panel 4. Close shot of Peter's face as he looks down at his own shirt.

panel 5. zoom out to both Miles and Peter, facing each other. they are cartoonishly simplified as Peter says "Miles are you not trans. i was trying to be supportive. you're literally wearing the flag right now." drawn arrows point to Miles' earrings, gloves, and socks, which do all have the trans flag colors on them. Panel 6. close up on Miles' face, still confused but now in a different way. he says, "?? this is spider-woman merch"

continued from panel 5, snapshots of the trans flag items prove to be merch. the gloves are fingerless, and on the back have pink and blue stripes, but on the palm have webbing printed. the socks look like the flag on top, but the feet of them mimic Gwen's ballet slippers. The earrings are a pair-- one striped pink and blue with web patterning, the other a symbol of the spider-woman eyes. panel 6. Miles, out of frame, continues "also yes I am trans. what does that have to do with YOUR trans child." Close on Peter's face, who looks utterly exhausted and unimpressed by Miles' deductive reasoning.

+ this problem goes both ways,,

bonus panel of previous comic. Gwen stands in casual clothing, which is noticeably colored like the trans flag. she looks off screen, slightly outraged, as she says "DAD ITS NOT MY FAULT THE TRANS FLAG COLORS GET MISTAKEN FOR SPIDER-WOMAN MERCH." there is an asterisk by "not my fault" with a note at the bottom of the image which reads "it is in fact her fault"

mikeymurdock

also maybe none of you care but sitting in a movie theater in florida as a trans person and seeing "protect trans kids" plastered across gwens wall on a giant screen was. so powerful. I didn't expect it to hit me that hard cause I knew it would be there but. yeah.

nastiagarachtchenko

aaa-battery-not-rechargeable

about a month ago, my uncle asked if I had a significant other. I appreciate his gender inclusivity, of course.

I'm used to the question. it's not like it's something outrageous that he's asking. so I simply said no, that's not for me.

he looked at me and said "well, someday." not someday maybe, just.... someday.

of course I'm not quick to anger, but there's a part of me that's a little more defensive about my aroace identity. so I jumped to my defense.

my uncle isn't a bad guy, he's quite nice and tries his best to be respectful in the current political shit storm by supporting queer people. but apparently that does exclude me, an aroace.

I reiterated that I'm just not interested in a romantic or sexual partnership, and I really do not ever see that changing.

and he said something to the effect of "it's okay if you don't want that now."

and I said, "no, it's just okay that I don't want that."

and he said that I was pessimistic. as if I was secretly searching for a relationship or a partner, but was rejecting love because I could not find one.

I calmly (with all the rage in my veins) told him "no, a life without love or sex is something optimistic for me."

he had the gall to look horrified.

I'm sick of aroace people not being seen as normal human people when they don't want the outcome of their life to look like everyone else's. I'm sick of the white picket fence, I'm sick of the assumption that everyone has another half out there.

I'm whole on my own.

just-curtain-responses

mx-misty-eyed

I'm getting so pissed with people who are saying Gwen isnt trans. Like they're trying to explain why her dad has a trans patch on his jacket and why she has a trans flag in her room, by saying she supports trans people... wtf???? Literally what ally has a TRANS FLAG, IN THEIR ROOM, BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE??? That's some shit closeted me would tell my parents when they saw me drawing rainbows. People that are saying this shit are literally just transphobic and dont want her to be trans. Gwen is trans and fuck everyone that argues against that.

mx-misty-eyed

which one of these is the so called "american flag"

bitterrosebrokenspear

In Gwen’s universe trans people took over America and made the trans flag the national flag.

pasteboard

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

zyx

happy pride

shmaroace

don't get me wrong, i love all the positivity around being aro, like "be proud of being aro!! love who you are!!", but we never talk about how hard it is to reach that spot. so here's to the aros who are still trying to understand themselves, who aren't proud of who they are yet, who are still coming to terms with their new identity.

autisticspirit

I feel like excuses are a made up thing to get people to feel bad, because I was trying to figure out the difference between a reason and an excuse but all the excuse examples anything came up with were like… reasons?????

Like if someone keeps interrupting someone and they say like, oh sorry I’m bad at reading the room, that’s a *reason.* they aren’t excusing anything. Someone breaks something and is like, sorry I’m clumsy, that’s a reason. Literally can’t think of something that is an excuse

Where is the brain? I thought you had it

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.