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The Emerald Forest Ecosystem - DID-OSDD (we're a co-fronting fool), polyam, Fem Zero™ (all of the taste, none of the gender), autistic, adhd, acequeer, aroqueer, animist, feral buddhist, secular jewish, punnish, they/them and also I/we - genderfree trans crone - we're orm-irian on bsky - oh also we're Older Than The Gävle Goat
anyone whose guilty pleasure is watching Bones should know they pissed off s lot of people (including us) when they named Angela's first husband Berimbao and then said "it's a kind of brazilian flute" - no it ain't
the berimbao is a brazilian instrument yes, but as you can see in the photo, it's a one-stringed instrument (a string on a springy stick, with a bridge) that you play with another stick, and you can change the pitch of the string by pressing the dobrao on it, and the gourd is open at the back for resonance and you can push that against your tummy to change the tone - and there's a shaker too, the caxixi
Australian Census - how to get Asexuality to count as your orientation!
This year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census is the night of August 11th.
If you’ve never done this before, it is a snapshot of Australia that is used for statistical analysis , taken every 5 years.
And this year, because LGBTQIA+ advocates have fought hard, there are a number of new things, including a way to count someone’s gender outside the binary, and a way for everyone’s sexual orientation to be counted and tallied.
Check out our infographic for more a detailed explanation regarding how to make Asexuality be counted as your sexual orientation, as well as how the ABS staff will log the info that you write in. The text contained within the infographic is also written below for those who use readers .
Need more info as to what the Census actually is?
https://info.census.abs.gov.au/
(image: green and purple infographic by Ace and Aro Collective AU, the following is what is written in the infographic)
Census 2026
Answering the sexual orientation question for the ace & aro communities
The 2026 Census will take place on August 11
Question 57 asks about sexual orientation. It is for people aged 16 and over only. The question is worded like this:
“How does the person describe their sexual orientation?”
The available answers will be very limited and “asexual” and “aromantic” will not be included. However you can write anything you like under the option that says:
‘Uses another term (specify)’
This infographic provides our knowledge and advice about how the Australian Bureau of Statistics will code your answer in the data collection process and how your answer will be reported in official statistics so that you can make an informed choice about what you write.
We understand that you may be unhappy with how you and your identity are going to be counted in the 2026 census.
WE are not happy with the way aspec - and aromantic identities in particular - are being counted in this census.
Please understand that data collection is a very complicated field and that lobbying the Government to do anything for us is a long and laborious process. It took almost a year to get the outcome we did of ensuring that allosexual aromantic people were not miscounted as asexual.
We hope that in 5 years we can make some more progress and that the 2031 census will count us all properly. Please understand that there is only so much we, as community advocates, can do.
1. The ABS will count one orientation per person, and it will be the first one you write.
If I write “asexual lesbian”, this will be coded into the computer system as “asexual”, and I will be counted and reported in official statistics as asexual.
If I write “lesbian asexual”, I will be coded, and then counted and reported as gay/lesbian.
If I write “biromantic asexual”, “heteromantic asexual” or any other alloromantic identity followed by “asexual” we do not know how you will be coded. They may not recognise the first word as an orientation and code you as asexual, or they may take the first word and code it as “other”. We do not have this information. But we will attempt to find out before August 11. If this applies to you, please wait for advice.
2. Aromantic & asexual will be counted as separate orientations.
You may have heard that aromantic identities were going to be coded under asexuality. We have had direct confirmation from the ABS that this error has been corrected. Aromantic and identities with a -romantic suffix will be coded separately.
However, we do not know if this will mean aromantic responses will be individually counted or grouped under “other”. We think it is unlikely, they will be individually counted, but we will advocate for this.
3. Microlabels will be identified as either asexual or aromantic.
There is a long list of sexual and romantic orientations and how they should be coded. We have seen the list. It is very comprehensive and includes common labels like demi- and grey- but also less well-known identities like ficto-, aego- and lith-.
If you write any of these identities, you should be aware that you will be categorised as either asexual or aromantic, depending on which suffix you use.
4. Aroace will be coded as asexual.
5. The number of people who identify as asexual will be officially reported and recorded!
It’s disappointing that we don’t have the same promise for the aromantic community. However, it’s very exciting that the ABS has committed to reporting on the number of people who are coded as responding asexual (see point #3).
Data gives us the ability to ask for resources, funding, access to services and a seat at the table when the Government and LGBTIQ+ service providers are consulting with communities. It will allow us to say “Look! This is the size of asexual Australia! Right there in raw data!”
It will be significant in world-wide terms. Are asexual people really 1% of the population - that’s a 20 year old statistic we can test!
So if you do have more than one orientation (such as the asexual lesbian example in point #1), please consider writing asexual first, so that you are counted as asexual. Help bring our numbers up, so that they count us accurately.
Makes my brain sing those words to the tune of "You Belong With Me" the early Taylor Swift hit, specifically it has a similar structure to the bits of chorus that are like:
"She wears short skirts
I wear tshirts
She's the cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers"
I'm not a dedicated swifty, but that song was so omnipresent when it was released that it's stuck in my brain.
oh thank you! we love when songs remind people of other songs and so on - we're not a fan ourselves and we're so out of any mainstream music loops we probably have never heard that one, tbh our main experience of taylor outside of tumblr posts is her showing up in the hannah montana film which we have a soft spot for *rolls eyes at self*
frankly pissed off at the moment - we were hoping to go to a concert of bagpipe music for the Bagpipe Society's 40th anniversary (it just happened to be not far from here) but we're just not well enough :(
here's a sample of some different pipes from a concert a few years back
[ID: A looping gif of the brushbuddy from Witch Hat Atelier patting its paws repeatedly, edited to have a PNG of a computer keyboard beside it so it looks like the brushbuddy is tapping it. End ID]
Shallow dish, Jun-type ware. late 14th to early 15th century.
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/461211
i love that maned wolf pups also do the canine thing where they feet too big for their got damn they, but because they also have the long ass legs they end up looking way more normally proportioned than the adults. like this:
Hey idk who needs this but helpful reminder that "virgin blood" in any witchcraft shit that requires that means "virgin" in the same sense as "virgin hair" means hair that hasn't been dyed or processed in any way, natural in the default sense. So no, "virgin blood" doesn't mean blood from a virgin, just blood that hasn't been used for any other kind of witchy shit earlier.
Whether nor not someone has fucked before is completely irrelevant. Any act of fucking doesn't instantly make someone contaminated or un-magic any of their shit. You're just not supposed to re-use blood for blood magic. That's just not. Just do not. Like that's just weird who does that.
Unles you've like, poured out ALL OF YOUR BLOOD, used it for a spell, and then somehow SIPHONED THE WHOLE THING BACK IN, that doesn't mean the blood on the inside of you is also used. And even then, if you'd had your sacrifical blood IV'd back into your body-
actually nevermind, I need to draw a graph to illustrate:
Question from an uncultured mf ✋ if I use blood from a dead body, would it be staled since it isnt quabulating or would it be just normal unused blood? If it is the former, would it affect the spell in any way
"Dead man's blood" is a completely different ingredient than fresh blood! And just like "virgin blood" doesn't need to come from a virgin, the age and gender of the deceased is irrelevant to it being dead man's blood. It would affect the spell, the same way if you were baking a chocolate cake, and the recipe asked for a cup of whole milk, and you decided to substitute it with a chunk of cheddar.
I don't know. Nobody knows. That is some forbidden dark magic best left for the italians, greeks, and whoever else grows and cultivates the trees that bear them.
