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[aromantic-diaries]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[alirex-art]

Gem June 5 Chrysoberyl

[azangi]

Can we start normalizing flagging NSFW content with a NSFW tag so that ppl who are sex repulsed are not forced to look at it when looking at the tags of their fav characters/shows/etc?

"Oh why are you such a purist at your age" no Janet. If YOU want to talk about sex, draw sexy fanarts and stuff, that's fine by me!! You should be allowed to talk abt that, period! What I'm saying is: Just don't force ppl who don't like it to look at it, bc those ppl are trying to ENJOY that stuff just as much as you, and being forced to look at smth that makes you straight up uncomfortable REALLY ruins the experience.

"Then why don't you set your tumblr so that it doesn't show adult content?" bc sometimes Tumblr doesn't identify it or flags perfectly innocent stuff, Tom. Meanwhile, if ppl just bothered to add ONE TAG, this issue wouldn't really persist

[rain-refrain]

how she's pulling up to fail a 2% during summer camp

and here she is looking silly⬇️ Shes making sure you think she looks awesome. tell her she looks awesome.

[alirex-art]

Gem June 6 Hemimorphite

I struggled a lot with this one, I don't really like it. Well that is Gem June for ya, you have to be fast..

[umamusume-headcanons]

[reminiscentrainclouds]

More of my pride month headcanons! ^_^ I love them!!

Joe (he/they/any) - Pansexual and Pangender

Sara (she/her) - Aroace

Ryoko (she/her) - Bisexual

The sketch for fun again because I always think it's silly how much messier it looks in comparison once I'm done.

[lunkelor-art]

Ask a child to draw a car, and certainly he will draw it red

[gleepus-glorpus]

For those of you who don’t know, Seven Havens is at risk of being leaked by hackers, with some reported to have already obtained the show’s content. If this happens, we might not get anymore Avatar content in the future!

[azangi]

Bro, you gotta be kidding me...

[myceliumfungi]

I don't have anything to post and won't in a while (have attestation + quite trying art in progress) so little scribble for a nice discovery I made in jp server: both sisters have short-haired disaster of a roomate. Truly a curse that runs the family

There's some grammatical errors please don't mind them🥹

[azangi]

LMAO SO GLAD TO KNOW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT ABT THIS

[olimeaseal]

Day 3-4 of @alirex-art Gemjune

Red Beryl is so cutee╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

I love her design and she’s really fun to draw

[azangi]

Just stumbled accross a crazy PR move by Apex GP :OO

[yurimom]

yearning for your friends suckssss. its expected to yearn for your partner or a crush romantically, but yearning platonically is real weirdo like, treated like some stalker shit.

im serious about them and i want to spend more time with them, and i miss them so much when i’m somewhere they’d love and they’re not there. i get a tug in my heart about it, the kind that makes you feel a little sick. my friends give me butterflies sometimes, in the sense i feel giddy to be around them. but because this is all platonic, simply strong platonic feelings, i think its frowned upon and treated as a little perverse and very strange. i feel strange even typing it.

[ruinedchildhood]

[canismaenad]

Very well translated gag from the comics.

[monaddecepticon]

I haven't seen the show but in the comic the next page is a badass full-page fight scene.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[enki2]

[azangi]

But we already had these!! They are called gacha games on your phone...

[homunculus-argument]

Looking at the sheer amount of world leaders who are currently in their goddamn 70s, I resent the possibility that one day when I'm in my 60s these fuckers will still be holding on, 100 years old and living on 1 hp, but refusing to die because they ontologically refuse to do anything that might benefit other people.