my name is aech, but you can also call me kandi or io [if you're feeling generous].
my pronouns are xae/xaer/xaers/xaerself and it/its/its/itself. [if you use they/them for me, i will bite you ^_^]
ask for pronouns in other languages
i am 18 years old.
i am an alterhuman alien coatimundi frog thing. mostly an alien, though. ask me about my home planet, i am begging you.
i am a transxenine genderfluid girlboy creature-thing. i'm also a gaybian abrosexual lesboy turigirl faggot, so watch tf out.
this used to be a coining blog, but now it's just my main. might coin some stuff every now and again.
i'm autistic and i have ADHD and a lot of other stuff goin' on.
right now i'd describe myself as a j-fashion-obsessed punkish emo. i dabble in goth music, fashion and culture, but wouldn't really describe myself as such.
about this blog
i mostly post content related to my interests (see below)
i'm trying to make my blog more accessible again, i apologize for the absence of image IDs, i'll start tagging "id to be added" to posts i'll ID later.
askbox is always open and i encourage asks, actually. i need attention.
please be patient with me in general, i'm a nervous fella.
tags
#aech reblogs - reblogs
#aech rambles - textposts and misc ramblings
#aech’s terms - stuff i’ve coined (pride flags and stuff)
#the ghost of queue - queue
#aech’s asks - asks
current obsessions
musical / fashion subcultures are one of my biggest interests and have been for a damn while now. biggest fixation rn is emo [obviously], scene, goth and j-fashion.
my chemical romance, green day and jack stauber are my biggest music fixations at the moment [although, i'm really fixated on every aspect of jack stauber's work, not just the music]
david tennant and michael sheen [alec hardy is my wife btw]
tags, DNI and more info under cut
me because i got the emo freak autism instead of the science or math autism (music section)
killjoy, member of the mcrmy or whatever you wanna call it (i love my chemical romance and would die for ray toro)
my fav genres:
1st wave emo, crunkcore, easycore, emo [duh], emo metal, emo punk, grunge, grungegaze, indie, indie pop, metalcore, midwest emo, new wave, nu metal, pop-punk, punk, queer punk, screamo, shoegaze, "weirdcore" [worst genre name of all time].
emo music is the best and worst genre of all time [emo bands i like]:
the academy is..., a day to remember, alkaline trio, brokencyde, dot dot curve, evanescence, fall out boy, green day, mayday parade, my chemical romance, paramore, pierce the veil, taking back sunday, the used.
i also like other music btw:
alice in chains, bauhaus, blur, cavetown [saw him nov 2022], faith no more, gorillaz, jack stauber, kittie, lemon demon, siouxsie and the banshees, system of a down
other interests [in case you care]
writing and drawing. i might post the odd fanfic [ao3 url: artsyaech] or post a drawing once in a blue moon. i'm a college art student.
sociology and psychology.
collecting stuff. mostly virtually, i have a collection of internet graphics and such.
2000s culture in general, though i focus mostly on alternative stuff.
fashion. fashion history, fashion design, fashion styles. i observe modern fashion trends with binoculars from a bush, such interesting specimens. putting together outfits is a huge hobby of mine.
my beliefs
i am passionate about justice, equality and activism
free palestine 🇵🇸
free congo 🇨🇩
disability justice ♿️
neurodiversity acceptance - neuropunk ♾️
mad liberation and autonomy - madpunk, [mostly antipsych] 🗣️
black lives matter ✊🏿
no human is illegal 🫶
queer and trans liberation 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
intersex rights - end violation to intersex bodies 💛💜💛
feminism 💕
red umbrella - bodily autonomy for all ❤️🌂
religious freedom ✡️☪️✝️🕉️☸️🪯
DNI
basic DNI criteria. bigots, right-wingers, TERFs, tr*mp supporters, etc.
queer exclusionists. this includes exclusion of any "good faith" queer identities [for lack of a better term]. this blog is a safespace for lesboys, turigirls, mspec gays and lesbians, xenogender people and neopronoun users. nobody has the right to dictate other people's gender, orientation, presentation, etc. research queer history.
anti-alterhuman [anti-therianthropy, anti-otherkin, anti-fictionkin] i am all of those things, if you have a problem with that, i'm just gonna continue existing
anti-theists. i am religious.
radqueers. go away, please.
proshippers and the like. (personally uncomfortable)
what are the correct uses of people of colour and which ones are to be avoided?
Okay. Grammar lesson!
"People of color" is a noun. So use it as a noun.
"I am speaking about people of color."
People who are of color. People. People is a noun.
It is not, as the Internet likes to use it, an adjective!
"POC characters!" is the color blind racist equivalent of "colored characters!"
Do you want to call me colored? Is that the racism we really want to use? Old 1960s racism? Shall I go to the colored water fountain next? I'm sorry- the POC water fountain?
If you are talking about all non-white people as a group, use "People of Color".
"White people are used to being the default- which is why they get to be White and the rest of us are People of Color. The Other."
If you are talking about a specific group of people, and you KNOW that, then SAY their group and NOT "people of color".
"I am not just a person of color, I am Black. Antiblackness is about Black people, not all people of color. Otherwise, I'd just say racism. Words have meaning!"
Further resource:
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why is everyone defending michael jackson now? i feel like im in crazy town, like, he was a pedophile and i see so many fanposts about him now and saying he did “nothing wrong”. even a youtuber i passively watch sometimes released a video about why he’s awesome and like. is one shitty movie all it takes?
Natural Black Hair Tutorial!
Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
I find it weird, actually, that today it's more common to have sex with casual acquaintances you meet on the Hookup App than to have sex with people you already know and like and have fun with. and how if two friends have sex, there's an assumption there must be underlying romantic feelings. because apparently casual non-romantic sex is fine, but only with people you don't already like and care about?
I feel like the hippies and people who lived through the Free Love movement would be rightfully disappointed at us for these made-up lines we're drawing between Sex/Romance and (gasp!) Friendship. shockingly, it's fine to have casual sex with people you enjoy hanging out with and do not want to date. fun and healthy even!
You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this
