I'm an (Aro)Ace Photographer

Josie | 36 | photographer and artist

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Intro Post!

I accidentally unpinned my previous introductory post. So that means it's time for a new one.

This is my photo blog. I used to reblog from this, my main, but I recently created a secret sideblog for reblogs. Also where I'll post any hobbies like D&D, tabletop games, and video game development.

There is also a writing and art blog. I also have a site for project updates, if that ever strikes your fancy.

My writer site is where you can find those updates.

@acewriter

@aro-ace-artist

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This feels like a Friday night post to make:

I've never had a nightmare before. Hearing what nightmares are for people is fascinating to me. The way people define a nightmare is something I've never once experienced. And I'm in my mid-thirties.

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Angel Island Series

Welcome to the Angel Island Series!

This one focuses on this cool island with a wild history in the San Francisco Bay Area. While it's not focused on the history, you can click the link to Wikipedia and read on from there.

This was my first time here, and I went with the intention of searching for a spot to draw, paint, and find some good photos. This was around August of last year (2025) and I believe I had just gotten my light meter. So there's a lot of fun experimentation here (i.e. learning what I'm doing with the light meter).

To quote Sam Reich in Game Changer, "The only way to begin is by beginning." And here we are with half a stairwell in BART.

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Shelby Forest Series end

I like finding symmetry in things.

This is the end of the series. Hope you enjoyed this! A couple of things came back up while posting this. It was so much fun looking around my hard drives for more photos to put up. It helps to have smaller bursts of photos when I queue them up.

As I type this, I'm figuring out what to do between semesters and grad school applications. I had this idea of continuing my transitions series, but I'm not sure if I wanna put myself in front of the camera again like that. I have comics to draw and novelettes to work on.

But I have a camera that I'm renting from my old job (Lens Rentals, see first post in the series)! It's not going to replace my Pentax, but it's a camera I'm considering having with me wherever I go if it works out. I'll share more after the rental is over with.

See you in the next series!

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Trans March

June 27, 2025

Location: San Francisco, California

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Shelby Forest Series

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This pride month give your local exhausted aro a godamn break from romance please I am begging it's everywhere

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This pride month I need every aromantic to get more annoying about being aromantic

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Liberate Comptons

Trans March

June 27, 2025

Location: San Francisco, California

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Some context because I feel this post should be getting more recognition

The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot happened in August 1966 in San Francisco. Located on the corner of Turk and Taylor, Compton’s Cafeteria was a cafe that carried out transphobia, including staff calling the police to remove and/or trans women and drag queens for reasons of “female impersonation”. The riot began when a trans woman stood against police brutality and systemic discrimination

This historic landmark is now owned by GEO Group, a private prison company known for labor and human rights violations, in addition to being known associates of ICE and providing “migrant detention”. June 2025, their contract was up for review; independent groups such as Compton’s xCoalition and TurkxTaylor have been calling for the removal of GEO Group to restore the building as a historic space and return it to the trans community. In July 2025, the board of appeals denied this request, allowing GEO Group to remain

Why I am talking about this

111 Taylor is run by a for-profit prison company. Stonewall no longer recognizes trans and bisexual people on their website. Obergefell v Hodges is in consideration for reversal.

This is what pride is about. Pride is about speaking out against police violence, hatred, bigotry, and the routine erasure of queer history, while speaking up for the basic human rights and dignities for the queer community.

We are in dark times. Don’t let history be erased

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Shelby Forest Series

This is where I found a bunch of tadpoles. Like I said in the first post of this series, I shot a video of me approaching this staircase. And they bolted. Pretty sure that's where the ripples came from.

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I've started the latest episode of Game Changer (Rulette 2) and I fully expected Sam to say "The only show where the game changes YOU!"

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have you ever had a beef with a teacher/prof

yes

no

hard to say

results

Voting ended onJun 3

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Shelby Forest Series

Lifesaver with no soul to save.

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Credits from the original airing of FLCL on Adult Swim (August 4-13, 2003)

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being into some bullshit that nobody cares about and also is stupid really changes you

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Here you go prev

Webcomics I Read

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This makes me think of the Dimension20 spreadsheet I created to keep track of all 30 seasons of the show. There are some webcomics that I keep forgetting about (bc AuDHD), so I guess I need to make another tab in my spreadsheet.

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It's been a few months since I last updated this so now I'm aggressively updating it as well as adding a new "publishing status" column and I might also add a "completed seasons" column. This entire spreadsheet was initially meant to serve as an answer when someone online asks me for recommendations, so I want to include as much information as possible for people to make a decision based on their own reading preferences. I tried including genre info but it was too hard to categorize. The other main reason I made/maintain this is to feed my autism.

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That's amazing. Especially the autism part. That's a big reason I created the D20 one. So I can keep track of what I have/haven't seen.

I was using StoryGraph to keep track of book recs, but I recently cancelled that and am looking for a new way to keep track these things. So, thank you for the inspo!

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Yeah, spreadsheets are good for keeping track of that.

For book recs I've been using Goodreads since 9th grade. Originally because it hooked in with my kindle paperwhite but now I just do everything manually in it. It's free, but I'm guessing you're trying to stay away from Amazon?

This does work pretty well for those, and it lets you add as many fields as you want, or even links. What I did was add in all the info in a blank spreadsheet and then converted it to a table.

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Yep, I'm trying to stay away from Amazon. That's why I've never done much with Goodreads and went with StoryGraph for several years. But I just don't care that much about stats like I used to.

I've been learning what works best for me in terms of spreadsheets. What makes things easier to keep up with and the like. It's less about the statistics and more about keeping up with what I want to read. And I intend on going into grad school for English and am learning how to break down books. So that's the sort of thing I'm looking at these days over numbers.