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In a world full of "Rocky hates Stratt" I am "Rocky thinks Stratt is brave for giving up the one person who understood her most"
I agree but in my mind it goes like:
Rocky hates Stratt —> rocky learns more about stratt through grace (grace speaks in a sort of bittersweet way) —> rocky understands Stratt and respects her decision
Yasmin Benoit for Thistle and Spire
FUCK YES QUEEN 💕💕💕
Baby wake up Springtrap is getting political
queer author interview w/ l.v. peñalba!
if you feel like you'd be into "aro/ace protagonist who writes love songs about anime ships," then this one's for you.
for this year's queer Summer Reading Challenge, we interviewed L.V. Peñalba, author of Shapes of Love, to talk about the inspiration behind her aroace pop star romance, why aro/ace representation matters, and the message they hope every LGBTQ+ young person takes away from the book.
📚 Every LGBTQ+ person has a story that helped them feel seen. What book, movie, TV show, or piece of art made you feel that way growing up, and how did it influence the stories you tell today?
What was the moment, person, or question that inspired you to write this story?
Writing Shapes of Love was both a safe space and therapeutic for me in a way. I was frustrated with things I saw around me, like how society tends to ignore or minimize a-spec people’s experiences and struggles. I wanted to challenge the idea that love is a monolith and write a story where an aroace person gets the happy ending she wants, not what society says she should want.
📚 This obsession people have with the “story behind the song” is nothing new in pop music. We see it all the time with stars like Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, the list goes on. You’ve found such a fresh take on telling the real story behind a pop star’s hit music, and you’ve found a way to do it that I think most LGBTQ+ readers can instantly relate to. I’m wondering how you found yourself to this story? Have you personally always been intrigued by “fan culture?” And why was it important to you to center this story on a character who is aro/ace spec?
The spark for this story was me thinking something like: “what if there was a famous singer who was actually aro/ace but people just assumed she was straight? Would her fans create a fairytale? Would her label want to capitalize on it?”
Although Sasha is famous, most of her struggles come down to things happening in her private life, like growing apart from her friends or feeling like everyone’s partnering up and leaving her behind. As an artist, when she almost comes out by accident, she gets a lot of a-phobia online, which also plays a part in her agreeing to the fake relationship. She feels pressured to become this person she’s not. On a personal level, she’s a little lonely, but she’s unsure what her options are because the message echoed in society is that the only way not to be alone long term is to get into a romantic, sexual relationship.
Ultimately, Sasha just wants to live authentically in a world that keeps trying to convince her that there’s something wrong with who she is, which is unfortunately something a lot of queer people have had to face.
📚 If you could leave one note inside every copy of your book for the next LGBTQ+ young person who reads it, what would it say?
That I know it’s not always easy to exist as a queer person these days, but it’s always worth it. That you’re not alone, even if it feels that way sometimes, and I hope your future is filled with happiness. And that you don’t have to break yourself into a million pieces to fit into someone’s definition of love; you can shape love so that it fits you.
📚 Why do you think “Shapes of Love” is such an important book for right now?
I just hope it provides a safe space for readers and helps other aro and ace people feel seen—although Sasha’s experience is just one of many under the aro and ace umbrellas, and hopefully we can have more stories in the coming years showing different aro and/or ace experiences.
📚 What are three books other than your own centering LGBTQ+ characters that you think every person should read?
This question is always so hard for me to answer (only three books?), but here are some books I’ve enjoyed!
Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Smash or Pass by Birdie Schae
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more about the books and summer reading challenge here
and drop your donations to support lgbtq+ youth after every book you read here!
Reblog bc I want to read it
Got eggsecutive vp today YAAAAAAAYYYY
ALSO PICS OF THE RUN THAT DID IT :D
"Raiders Great Ending" 2 heroes, a sona and a well-earned nap.
Big man is the bed
I’m gonna make a comic for this, I have a fantastic idea. I am rebloging to remind myself + motivate myself. I WILL LOCK THE FUCK IN 😭🙏
extremely underrated subgenre of tumblr post: when someone makes a general statement about something, and another person offers a counter-statement that's just completely nonsensical, and the OP just agrees instantly even if it makes no sense at all
examples:
Tumblr is truly the website ever.
By popular demand: He eat a Wawamelon
Something I realllyyyy like about Motm Shelly rn is how she’s deceptively nice, she overwhelms you with cute mannerisms and her loud bubbly personality and takes you by surprise when she suddenly GASSES YOU???
Really like how I don’t really think she thinks that she’s being deceiving, just being herself.
She’s truly really blunt under her outgoing personality, you just don’t realise till she’s done something “wrong”.
Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.
One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.
And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.
Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism
My dead ass reaction when I find out that the LEADING ACTIVIST FOR ASEXUALS HAS THE SAME NAME AS ME????? AEE YOU KIDDING?????????????
Reblog if Fan Fics are just as valid as Fan Art
Affirmation for writers, please!!
Likes do nothing!!
Listen up!
You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled
Hit that.
Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern
Yes.
Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in
Tumblr will follow up and help them.
Warning: this is only for mobile. If anyone knows how to do this for desktop, please add it!
This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO REBLOG THIS.
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT DOESN'T GO WITH YOUR BLOG'S THEME.
And yes, REBLOG. Liking does no shit at all. This isn't ig.
You reblog, people see it. You don't, people don't see it. This shit's that simple.
This could save someone's life. It's not a joke.
This isn’t some ‘oh yeah sure it could’.
This could legitimately do so.
Don’t you dare fucking scroll past.
This is good stuff to know!
please, please, please reblog. reblogging will take one second of your time. meanwhile it could save someone’s entire life.
please reblog!
He eat a nemon
Why are actual people following me I ain’t posting nothing on this app bruh I need to lock tf in 😭😭
did you know that if you want to signify simultaneous inclusion of asexual people in general and aromantic people in general, you should use the flag for asexual people in general side-by-side with the flag for aromantic people in general? because the purple ace flag represents all aces, and the green aro flag represents all aros. the blue/orange aroace flag is great, but it represents aroaces, not everyone who is aro or ace. (and hell, even some aroaces like me prefer the individual aro and ace flags more, whether because we see our aro and ace identities as distinct, or because we just prefer green and purple.) if you're creating a space meant for aros and aces, if you're making a post about aro characters and ace characters, you need to include more than the aroace flag — you need the aro flag and ace flag individually. you can certainly throw in the aroace flag, because it serves a wonderful purpose for the aroaces who choose to use it, but you should include aroallo and alloace flags too. the aroace flag doesn't represent all aros and aces automatically.
The whole point of the aro/ace flag being different colours is to show that aro/ace does not equal aro or ace!!! OP is 100% correct!
Include smaller communities in your pride posts and be sure to do a LOT of research💕
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i’ve been utterly captivated by @neonthewrite’s Grace by Inches fic for the past week. it’s like if the book was also the movie and also if he was really really small on top of that and it’s REALLY GOOD
here’s a scene and a bit i decided to sketch out! spoilers for chapters 8 and 13:
Need 2 read
