People on the asexual spectrum? They’re amazing.
People on the aromantic spectrum? They’re awesome.
Aspec people in general? They’re aspectacular.

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Cosmic Funnies
trying on a metaphor
Misplaced Lens Cap

roma★
will byers stan first human second
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

oozey mess
ojovivo

Love Begins

#extradirty

Product Placement
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One Nice Bug Per Day

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People on the asexual spectrum? They’re amazing.
People on the aromantic spectrum? They’re awesome.
Aspec people in general? They’re aspectacular.
Yasmin Benoit
Who: Yasmin Benoit*
What: Model, Activist, Writer
Where: British
When: June 10, 1996 - Present
(Image Description: a photo of Benoit from the waist up with the words “# This is what asexual looks like” over it. She is a black woman with a medium dark complexion. She has long straight dark hair, excellent eyebrows, and dark eyes. She is wearing a leather/latex tank top/spaghetti strap top and pants/a skirt of the same material. She has her arms akimbo. End ID)
Benoit is a model, writer, LGBTQ+ Activist, and a self proclaimed metal head.
She works hard to spread awareness of asexuality and dispel myths about us using her platform and her sizable social media presence (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter). She is often a contributor to queer media and writes often on asexuality as well as fighting hard for visibility and representation for asexuals, Queer POC, and POC in general. Her YouTube channel is particularly of note in which she deals with the ongoing problem of aphobia despite the hate and bile she gets in return.
(Image description: a photo of Benoit in fishnet stockings and a shirt with the Venus symbol with devil horns on it. She is snarling and has her hand in her hair.)
Orientation: Aroace
I have a lot of quotes from Benoit because she is extremely eloquent and points out a lot of things I, at the very least, relate to.
“It has nothing to do with how you look—that’s something I get a lot—people are like: ‘Oh but you’re good looking, you don’t need to be asexual,’ which tells me that people think that there is an asexual look and that it isn’t a good one, and two that asexuality is a choice that people take when they can’t get dates or that they can’t get laid.“
“You barely see asexual people as it is, let alone a black asexual person…I think that representation is definitely very important because I think the LGBTQIA+ community in general is pretty whitewashed in its representation…Even in the LGBTQIA community, I find that people tend to cut out the A or think that the A stands for allies.”
“One of the benefits of being asexual is definitely that you don’t have to worry about–if you’re aromantic—you really don’t worry about relationship stuff.”
-Yasmin Benoit, all from a Pink News interview, November 2018
(Image Description: a photo of Benoit at some kind of a show or ceremony. She stands in front of a wall with a logo reading “Diva” repeated all over it. She is smiling with her hands on her hips and wearing a short black dress.)
“I may not be in the first four letters, but I do not relate to the heterosexual experience in the slightest.”
“[On modeling as an aromantic asexual] I believe one comment [on one of her photographs] was ‘that girl looks like she’s about as asexual as a stray dog’. And I’m not entirely sure what that means!? Are stray dogs particularly sexual creatures? They were like ‘if she’s asexual why is she getting her picture taken? Why is she wearing those clothes?’ You obviously don’t understand what modelling is, you have to get your picture taken, you have to wear the clothes…I do think people outside of my circle find it kind of difficult to comprehend. And even for me IN it, it’s difficult to navigate sometimes! People see that I do lingerie and are like, ‘oh she’ll probably just take any job.’ But I’m VERY specific [with the jobs I take]. I’ll be like, ‘lingerie in what way?’…If you see a girl on the cover of GQ in a bra, she’s not selling the bra. The bra is irrelevant to the equation, it’s her that you’re supposed to be looking at. So I’m always like, ‘am I showing off a product, which is kind of the point, or am I supposed to just be showing off myself?’ I’m kind of picky over whether the images are aimed at titlating somebody or if they’re aimed at commercially making the clothes look as good as possible – which is my goal with it. From within the industry, it’s complicated, especially because of my body shape. If you have anything above an A cup then you’re pretty much in the lingerie category. And everything you do is seen as being more sexualised. It’s interesting navigating it from within and to people outside of it as well.”
“The only reason I noticed I was asexual was around the time everyone else realised they weren’t asexual. I remember coming back from the summer holidays thinking, what’s happened to everyone?”
“I want people to understand that asexuality is literally just what it says on the tin…Don’t approach it with all of these other ideas of how it’s supposed to be or how the story is supposed to end… it’s literally just normal people, every type of person, every country, every background, every occupation, it’s not just young confused teenagers, it’s not just people who look a certain way. It’s a diverse group of people and the same thing as you’d expect from any other community. It’s not a psychological problem, it’s not a physical problem… for a lot of people it’s not a problem! It’s literally just one element of a normal person’s life. So just treat it like that, without any of the extra baggage that people feel the need to throw on top of it.”
-Yasmin Benoit, all from a The Nopebook interview, March, 2019
*She does not have a Wikipedia page
(Image description: a photo of Benoit wearing fishnet stockings, a fishnet undershirt, and a long t-shirt with a cartoon whale on it. Around the whale in block print it says “Asexuwhale”. End ID)
Regardless of other factors, do you believe asexual people have the right to be part of this community because of their asexual identity?
Yes: 94.2%, 1838 respondents. No: 5.8%, 113 respondents.
Regardless of other factors, do you believe aromantic people have the right to be part of this community because of their aromantic identity?
Yes: 92.2%, 1771 respondents No: 7.8%, 149 respondents
Meaning of the letter “A” when appearing in LGBT[…]+ acronyms:
Asexual: 95.4% of respondents, 1936 total
Aromantic: 80.7% of respondents, 1639 total
Agender: 66.7% of respondents, 1353 total
Ally: 13.9% of respondents, 282 total.
I’m just posting this here for my aces and aros who are feeling down on themselves and defeated tonight. Remember that nine out of ten people support you and that the current loudest voices are not those of the majority.
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I dragged my feet all week and almost missed Ace Week!
Shout out to all other aces out there who have awful taste. Make me feel less alone.
(Available as shirts, stickers, mugs, etc!)
Pride Dragon Buttons!
Long time no see Tumblr! Check out these pride dragon buttons, previously made for pride month but now available year round! 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈
10 different options + pronoun buttons too! :D
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Just a Small Reminder
Hi everybody!
We’ve surpassed 800 interviews (less than 200 before we reach a thousand! AH! That’s so exciting! Seriously, people, keep those interview requests coming)
So I’m terrible at asking for any sort of help or support, but I’m trying to get better at it (being a starving artist, that’s a skill I need to hone). I run this blog entirely by myself and receive no reimbursement. It’s very time consuming and requires a lot of energy: replying to emails, uploading and scheduling interviews (including writing introductions), organizing the links pages, and setting up the occasional signal boost.
This is all on top of my usual job: being an author (an indie author, which requires a ton of marketing).
A while ago, I set up a page about how you can support the Asexual Artists blog (Support Asexual Artists: Tumblr & WordPress). It has a link to my Square store, I believe where you can pick up a copy of my books if you’re in the US. If you’re not in the US, there’s a link to the Snowy Wings online store. And they’re also available as eBooks through Amazon.
I have a Ko-Fi page set up. I know money’s super tight, but even a few bucks is helpful and so very appreciated.
Thank you, everybody! Keep being your awesome selves :)
Asexuality by Tiny Dinosaur :)!
I know we all know this but I just love Tiny Dinosaur, okay.
I mean, how could we not.
Tiny Dinosaur never gets old.
Smaug! 🐲
This book looks so cute??? And it’s an ace romance book?? (That’s the first I’ve seen) I’m definitely reading the his hell yeah
QUEER POC ASEXUAL BOOK?????? FUCK YEAHH!!
HeishskzosgsmIsvdus uh
And if the tagline alone isn’t enough to make this legit in your eyes:
This is the closet asexual mood. Perfectly encapsulated and immortalized.
someone wanna donate to my paypal so i can read this???? :o
This looks so good!
[image description: a screencap of the mobile version of BN Teen’s article Our Most Highly Anticipated LGBTQA YA of 2018, displaying the paragraph about Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (January 23):
Let’s take a moment to obsess over that gloriously joyful and asexual cover, shall we? Okay, now we can move onto the glorious and (biromantic) asexual book! Alice is a 19-year-old college student who’s out and proud…as bi, anyway. As ace? Not so much. She already lost her last girlfriend over her asexuality, and she isn’t interested in going through that again. Or at least she wasn’t until she met Takumi, who’s absolutely adorable and has wormed his way into the heart she’d been trying so hard to close off. Now she has to decide if it’s worth putting herself out herself out there again.
The cover shows a young black woman with with dark skin and an afro smiling with her hands in the air, like she’s dancing. She’s wearing a white dress with a ruffle at the collar. The title looks like it’s painted on in flowing purple script.
The next image shows a close-up of the text on the cover: “Alice is about to ace this whole dating thing.”
The last images shows an excerpt from the book: “When it came to accepting that she was asexual, it was about an eighty-twenty split.That twenty part encompassed the fact that Alice could not call herself asexual in front of another person. So instead of telling the whole, hard truth, she danced with the definition.”]
My dear lgbt+ kids,
The A in lgbtqa+ stands for Asexual, Aromantic and Agender - and it stands for Amazing because that’s what you are and Accepted because you deserve to be.
With all my love,
Your Tumblr Mom
Ace discourse survey!
Hello everyone! I’ve decided to make a survey to find out different peoples opinions on ace discourse! I want to make this survey as unbiased as possible, so I would like inclusionists and exclusionists to take this if you can! I will tag an equal amount of inclusionist blogs and exclusionist blogs (ask me if you’d like to be untagged!) i will keep everyone on this blog updated on the progress of the survey.
Thank you for your time!
Link : https://goo.gl/forms/gsGLEeXmZPlgPGk93
Inclusionist tags: @aces-aint-cishets @the-radical-inclusionist @queer-inclusionist @flower-course @ungracefulace @big-ace @generallydiscourse @weedcourse @acelations @aces-and-aros-are-lgbt @cookies-and-queer @rubiouscourse
Exclusionist tags: @crazy-allo-in-spacey @heteromanticmarkiplier @punkcourse @cowboy-course @wyrmcourse @baroquecourse @cishetsarentopressed @kniifecourse @transallobenvolio @wrightcourse @allosexualmercy @discoursekilljoy
Giving this survey a boost. As of the last update after a day of being open it has nearly 400 responses, most of which are exclusionists. [x]
Since this is a simple demographics survey that seems to be aiming to determine how common inclusionism and exclusionism are within the general population, I’d like to get this spreading, since it hasn’t seemed to spread much through inclusionists yet.
I’ll also be scheduling this post to reblog a few more times over the course of the week.
Let’s show em how many of us there REALLY are, yeah?
I’m not gonna pretend I didn’t notice that this thing is filled with exclusionist dogwhistles and that the inclusionist list consists exclusively of comparatively small blogs with small audiences and limited traction. But I found it, so that’s just too damn bad for the creator.
So let’s get this sketchy ass thing circulating for real, without the underhanded manipulation, and make sure the data reflects the truth.
Followers? Do your thing, take a few minutes to respond and reblog. It’s very quick to take, if very biased.
We have until May 4 to make ourselves heard.
SIGNAL BOOOOOOST
Time for a boost y'all!!
bastard pride flag! for when you are just an absolute fucking bastard
AND it’s Slytherin-y. I’m into it.
An Asexual, a Pansexual, and a Bisexual Walk Into a Bar
They finish this hilarious joke but everyone ignores them
My nickname for you is basilisk, because baby I’d let you slither into my chamber any day
I’m honestly so disappointed that you didn’t go all the way into making that a “Slyther-in” pun as well. I don’t know if we can be seen together anymore.
I accept that, I’m just going to go cry in my chamber…
Would you allow me to… Slytherin?
reblog if you are a NERD who loves DRAGONS
I MEAN…
Who
Doesnt
like dragons?
They can be loyal
or they can be firce
How can you not love dragons?
They are like huge cats
DRAGONSDRAGONSDRAGONSDRAGONS
DRAGONS.
DRAGONS
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