A safe space for the Catholic and Christian A-spec

An open space regardless of your religion, come talk, ask questions, or share your experiences. ~ask box always open! ask questions!!~ ~moodboard requests: open ~ ~name/pronoun validation requests: open ~ ~♥️~ ~❤~

[lylahammar]

WHEW comin in under the wire with this one, but of course I had to draw something for International Asexuality Day! 💜🤍🖤

Teddy (he/him) and Robin (they/them) are from a comic that I'm currently writing called Willamette Valley Dream Clinic, and they're both ace! ✨ Happy birthday to all my fellow aces! 😁💖

[abby-from-hell]

Happy international Ace day ✨

🖤🤍💜

[affishionado]

lil jarchivist for ace day:))

[thybogwitch]

Birb said respect aces...or else

[bastart13]

I keep forgetting when these days are, but if you're ace, you're cool

[retrogamingblog2]

Pride Pokeball Stickers made by Zquishi

[beelzemon]

[goodbaby18]

✨Froggy ✨☺️💙

[ace-culture-is]

Ace culture is laughing quietly to yourself everytime you see an ACE Hardware

[herefortheace]

Some facts

- asexuality and aromanticism are minority orientations

- there is no ace or aro privilege

- aces and aros as a group do not benefit from sex-shaming or from the sexualization of oppressed groups

- many ace and aros are in fact harmed by sex-shaming and the sexualization of oppressed groups

- aces and aros are not more likely to be bad people than others, there is literally no reason or excuse to assume that

- asexuality and aromanticism are not desexualizing identities

- society at large is not thrilled about ace and aro identities. To start with, a lot of people think it’s not “normal” to not experience sexual attraction and a lot of people think romantic love is an essential part of “the human experience”

- society has zero qualms about pathologizing ace and aro identities, denying their existence and painting them as something in need of “fixing”

- aces and aros often do not learn their orientations exist until way late, if ever. They’re generally not taught about in school or college or in any comparable contexts and a lot of people with power there have zero interest in this changing (for example, because they think our identities are “unhealthy” and/or because they refuse to acknowledge them as orientations)

- a lot of aces and aros have recounted a lot of really bad experiences connected to people learning/knowing they’re ace and/or aro

- aces and aros are not in any way better protected from harm than other people

- there is literally no reason to act as if all this isn’t true

Gonna leave it at this for now

[would-we-be-friends-if-i]

Aros and aces are NOT cishet

[pennie-dreadful]

As someone who has actually come out to a couple of work acquaintances I can assure everyone the straights are just as weirded out and baffled by the concepts of asexuality and aromanticism as they are by homosexuality. They ask us the same dumb, invasive and rude questions. They simply can’t fathom anything beyond their own experiences. I am dead serious, the first guy I told I didn’t want to get married or have any kind of romantic relationship at all, ever, had a look of such shock and horror, you would have thought I’d told him, idk, I eat live goldfish or something.

[ace-culture-is]

Ace culture is being very unimpressed when someone uses "[x] isn't going to f*ck you" to shut down someone else's argument

[ace-culture-is]

Ace culture is not being able to enjoy non-sexual intimacy properly because of being scared that it'll eventually turn into a sexual intimacy :/

[friendlyreminderfrog]

Frog Reminder - Aromantic People

[ID: a cartoon purple frog is drawn on a white background, with "a reminder: aromantic people do not have to be asexual" written above it's head]

[redbeardace]

More swag today!

Black rings that are full of rainbows!

[ciliria-art]

Pride Pins/Stickers I will eventually make and will happily make other flags on request!

[chibird]

As you all may know, I am an Asian American, and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the US is tragic and terrifying. A few years ago, my mother and I had unprovoked, racist threats spat at us while we were simply grocery shopping. They didn’t care who we were as people- they just reduced us to our race. I want this space to be positive and encouraging for everyone, and that’s not possible unless I make this space clearly anti-racist. I hope this comic is a hopeful reminder that we’re all able to make the world a better place together! I can’t stop anything alone, but together, we can make a more caring society that welcomes and protects people of all races. 

[raavenb2619]

[ID: The pigeon meme. A man, labelled “me, an ace”, looks at a butterfly, labelled “aesthetic attraction”, asking “Is this sexual attraction?”. End ID]