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[catchymemes]

everyone: happy pride month 🌈

my brain at 12:00 am on june 1st:

[timeflow]

trans pride flag color picked from trans pride flag

[februarytrash]

being sad and horny is a privilege

[leshermes]

June 1st is TOMORROW. It means that GAY PEOPLE will exist, but only for ONE MONTH. Do not forget to buy your tickets to see them NOW, or else you will have to wait AN ENTIRE YEAR to be able to meet them AGAIN.

[empathviv]

people are always trying to humanize dracula and hes always trying to draculize humans

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[musithical]

happy pride everyone!!

i have a new song coming out that will be very pride oriented soon! in the meantime, here is a list of songs i have written that are overtly queer, and some explanation of how they are queer. i think it is so important to be loud, especially as someone with a voice and a platform. this month is ours to be loud as a reminder that we can and should exist openly every other day of the year too. with that, here are some songs that i hope you can sing loudly and with pride <3

Polychrome - a fan favorite, and an older one at that! this was written around the time we were first facing why pride is so important. i can't believe it's already been almost 4 years since this came out (and we came out in our own way too, as this coincided with our first time publicly talking about our transition).

"hold on to all your glory, hold on and tell your story"

Candy + Vampires - doomed lesbianism in song form. this one is a concept song about a pair of best friends who grow up in a small, extremely traditional town where everyone knows everyone. they fall in love, but one outs the other to save herself from persecution by the townsfolk, and their lives drift apart as a result.

"but when you looked into her eyes, you felt a little part of you come back to life"

I AM A WEAPON - the title of this song is a twist on the idea of "Art is a Weapon", which is a revolutionary phrase meant to evoke the idea that art and the creative spirit are powerful acts of resistance in the face of oppression. this song takes that a step further, stating that being yourself loudly in the face of oppression can be a weapon against oppression.

"well, this is how i cast my vote - with my life"

FREAK - trans people are often characterized to be these disgusting, unappealing half-humans that are mutilating themselves in pursuit of some delusion. but the reality is that transition is a beautiful, lifesaving process for many. so often, the words people use to insult us simply lose their meaning when you dissect them and embrace yourself truly and unapologetically. if doing this makes me some monster, i'd rather be a monster than face the torment of never getting to live as my truest, happiest self.

"i'd rather be a freak than ever feel this way"

Damage (with AvidMc) - this song is by far one of the proudest i've ever been of something i've written, and i am eternally happy that i got to share it on a project with one of my best friends and have him sing it with me. Damage is a song about missed opportunities and the perceived "damage" we do to our lives going down the wrong path. it was specifically written with going through the wrong puberty in mind, but the sentiment echoes out into so many aspects of our lives and as the song of ours with the most reach, i have heard so many different interpretations and all of them bring me so much joy.

"a ghost of someone never known, who lives on through my tears alone, whose sight i'll not ever get to behold"

Tell Me - i'll be honest, this one was one we almost skipped putting out. but you all seem to love it, so i'm glad we did. this song has so much confidence in it's delivery and is maybe the harshest we've ever dug in with our lyrics, but i think it says something that even in our anger and vitriol, we can't help but change course back to something intimated and personal by the end.

"at the end of the day, i don't really have hate left. i just want you to see me, face to face"

[genderkoolaid]

just a pride month reminder:

if you are making something featuring multiple flags and you put in the asexual flag, you better put in the aromantic flag.

if you put in the aroace flag, you better put in the aroallo flag.

fighting aromantic erasure starts with YOU 🫵

[genderkoolaid]

for reference:

^ the aromantic flag

^ the aroallo (aromantic allosexual) flag

& just btw, aromantic erasure is so bad that on pubmed, many of the very few studies that have looked into aspec people specifically, categorize us as a type of asexuality. from this study:

Our findings highlight that aromantic people wish for aromanticism not to be considered a part of asexuality—a practice that has dominated contemporary literature (Antonsen et al. 2020; Carvalho & Rodrigues, 2022; Clark & Zimmerman, 2022; Hall & Knox, 2022; Zheng & Su, 2018). Many participants clarified the distinction between their sexual identity and romantic identity and highlighted that though they may be connected for some, they should be considered independently as unique contributors to an individual’s identity and experience. This aligns with a previous aromantic community survey that showed 72% of the sample did not identify with asexual terminology (AUREA, 2021a). In combination with our findings, this suggests that a tendency to conflate and describe these identities as the same or linked may be to the disadvantage of a significant portion of the aromantic community.

this is why it is so important to include aromantic people as our own group and to specifically include non-asexual aromantics. i hope y'all can understand how frustrating it is to be erased through a group that is already erased.

asexual representation is sparse? all aromantic rep is asexual and most of the time people don't even bother to remember that "aromantic" is its own thing. i can't count how many times i've seen a character talk about not experiencing romantic attraction, only for people to go "wow asexual rep!" even though sexual attraction was never brought up.

asexual community & resources are sparse? when i try to look up groups for aromantics, i get resources on "ace & aro groups" that are literally all asexual-focused. at best asexual-focused with a mention of aromantic people. which isn't really helpful when you are aroallo and don't really want or need a group that is clearly meant for alloro asexuals and aroaces.

asexual history is sparse? i've literally never seen anything even trying to talk about aromantic history. the most impactful thing on aro history is that one tumblr post talking about a woman at a nursing home who heard the term and realized her best friend was likely aro. see above with the character situation as well.

my point here is not "aros have it worse than aces" because we are both aspec and both get fucked over by the same forces and in fact, a LOT of asexual aromantics are also very frustrated by aromantic erasure! i've even heard some people talk about not identifying as strongly as asexual, even though it fits them, because they feel their aro identity is more important to them but gets constantly erased by their asexuality.

my point is that it is so fucking disheartening to be aro even in queer spaces that are trying to be asexual-inclusive, even in supposedly aspec spaces, because it swiftly becomes apparent that people see your entire identity as just a footnote for asexuality. so many people never even realize they are aro because they aren't asexual and don't realize that you can be aro but not ace. i dealt with some really intense arophobia as a teen after realizing i was aro, feeling broken and alone. it hit much harder than any internalized homophobia or transphobia did for me at the time. i did not meet another person who identified as aromantic irl until this year. any resources and community that i had as a queer teen, as a trans teen, did not exist for me as an aro teen and does not exist for me as an aro adult, really.

and big problem is that, because people think of aromanticism as just a footnote of asexuality, they implicitly assume that more asexual rep, more asexual resources, more asexual visibility will automatically serve aromantics too. and when it doesn't work like that, aro people continue to suffer as a result.

things have improved over the years and i hope will continue to! but i really need every queer person to become more aware of aromanticism & arophobia & how the queer community contributes to it & hurts aro people. hence why i am so testy about when people will include the ace flag but not the aro one. YOU 🫵 will care about your aromantic siblings and consider us this pride month!!!!!

[realkeithkogane]

is it okay for me to admit that the concept of f1 racing had absolute 0 appeal to me. i thought it was a loser rich man sport that only those with smooth brains could enjoy and i never understood why so many people were so into it, that i thought it was a poor excuse of a "sport".

then i read the f1 klance fic and suddenly it all clicked. the adrenaline of going so fast that any minor choice could not only cost you the race but your life. the rush of it all. between the sexually charged rivals-to-lovers pages, a door of understanding was opened to the formula 1 world. i get it. i get it now. and that's the power of klance.

[asterion-mothman]

oh fuck my back hurts so badly and ive got robotics today

[asterion-mothman]

sometimes i miss how little i ate last year especially when my parents are like this

[sanyamoloko]

And no light was brighter than Nico di Angelo ｡⁠*ﾟ✧

[twigistired6437]

your trauma is not your fault. you are not the reason anything bad has happened to you, whether life-altering or mildly incoveinent. your god is not upset with you. no one has enacted their vengeance. your actions did not cause your abusers to do what they did. it is not your fault. this is important. remember this.

[twigistired6437]

your trauma is not your fault. you are not the reason anything bad has happened to you, whether life-altering or mildly incoveinent. your god is not upset with you. no one has enacted their vengeance. your actions did not cause your abusers to do what they did. it is not your fault. this is important. remember this.

[sunshinemoon3341]

[antikristes]

Pov: Will and Nico greet you at camp half-blood

[lycheeek]

A drag path but its all the campers Will Solace has saved throughout the years