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Intro Post!

I figured I should probably make one of these so here you go lol :>

Hii my name is Ezra or Ez

I use He/Him pronouns

I use my blog as a dump for all the things I like, I am a SERIAL reblogger lol, it's basically my like button

Check out my friend @dcfamilyenthusiast 's blog bc he's super awesome sauce x>

#intro post #:þ #superbat

velvetyssweetcafe

god breast america 🔥🔥🔥

what-even-is-thiss

where do i hear more about whats been going on the past 14 yrs with the aspec community n stuff?

I don’t think there’s any one place all of the history is compiled. I’ve thought about doing that but that would probably include digging through a lot of aphobic rhetoric and I just really don’t have the stomach for that these days.

Basically though aces and aros have been gathering in the internet since the early 2000s on AVEN (the asexuality visibility and education network). Educating others, discussing on forums, making friends and community and coordinating local meet ups.

Eventually though the culture on there kinda got a little annoying for some folks and a lot of people started slowly migrating to tumblr and twitter. We stayed strong though. There were asexual YouTubers, educational materials, online holidays for the community, small local groups being represented at pride. We were small but we were stronger together.

Then in the mid 2010s for reasons I still don’t fully understand it became a lot more popular to start severely bullying openly asexual and aromantic people on the internet, especially teenagers.

Every time an aro/ace person made a minor mistake or was mildly annoying they were dogpiled. Online celebrities that came out as being on the spectrums or even just coming out in support were ruthlessly attacked and sometimes even accused of being pedophiles to try to get them forced off of their platforms. I remember around this time Evan Edinger came out as Demisexual and got bullied for it so severely that he basically hasn’t talked about it since.

There’s always been people who have tried to argue that aces and aros don’t belong in the lgbtq community. Some aces and aros themselves don’t identify with that community or feel like they’re in a sort of in between space. But these people were arguing that aces and aros can’t be queer just because they’re aro or ace. Which has just never been the case historically because there’s a history of people we’d now call asexual being included in bisexual spaces.

There was also a lot of accusations that we were confusing children or something. And like. No. People change their minds about their identities sometimes and that’s all that was.

Anyways, since then there’s been a good amount of pushback and being openly aphobic has become a bit less accepted in queer spaces, although it’s not entirely fixed. At this point so many people have been bullied back into the closet that we’ve almost had to rebuild our community from scratch. There’s also still a lot of ignoring of aro/ace specific issues like a lack of sexual or romantic attraction still being seen as a mental disorder, aro/ace specific sex education, and systemic discrimination against single people.

justcakethanks

Of course Grace would give them such fisting fitting names.

This also doubles as a sort of model sheet.

Credit to @avoid-avoidance once more for a great idea on their names.

spextronaut

sitting here rocking back and forth with my visions of qpr bloodymary where both simon and grace are traumatized in such similar ways that they can bond but simon is like a feral cat and grace is like a stray dog who’s been around humans for a while and has less anxiety. their bond surpasses the bounds of what qualifies as romantic or platonic because they are the same and different and so lonely yet so connected. banging on the walls of my enclosure can anybody hear me

evil-astley

Okay hear me out.

Bloodletting as a form of reconciliation on Eden.

You are supposed to return your body to the dirt so the concept of giving of your body as a religious ritual already exists to them. Reconciliation is all about turning back to god and choosing religion over sin to make up for wrongdoings. I don’t think the father in Eden’s religion has underlings like priests, so I imagine him to be like a lower pope. Talking to the pope for something is a huge deal so it would make sense that people would have a ritual which doesn’t require the father’s oversight, right? Blood letting into the dirt for the last tree wouldn’t really require the father’s involvement. Kneeling down and giving of your body to the tree would fulfill all those requirements: praying for forgiveness, proving dedication to god, and giving of yourself to make up for wrongdoings.

Now hear me out for Bloody Mary implications. Simon on Erid with Rocky’s imitation tree. He doesn’t know how to cope with so much of Grace’s resources being used on him. They used so much medical supplies on him before he woke up and Grace practically forced him to take half the food rations for himself. Grace suffered more because Simon was around and he just can’t handle the fact that someone would do such a thing.

So he goes to the false tree. False idols are not to be praised but if god can be at the bottom of an ocean, there can be god in any tree, can’t there? He kneels down, very carefully slicing his palms and pressing them to the dirt. He presses his head to the ground, keeping his palms firmly in the fine gravel. It was the closest he’d ever seen to dirt outside of the last tree’s terrarium. He sits there praying. He doesn’t know what for. The blood makes him sick, he can smell the iron. It was a punishment, he knew it was. God was laughing at him for daring to still live. Forgiveness had to be earned, fought for, just like everything else.

I also offer you Rocky and Grace going to check on Simon who fell asleep while kneeling. They go to nudge him before realizing he’s face down in the gravel and his hands are covered in blood. They panic, thinking he’s dead. Grace, in his panic, decides to try and resuscitate him. Simon wakes up at being shoved on his back and shoots up, smacking his head against Grace’s.

They settle on doing gardening together instead of the bloodletting. Blood isn’t all that good for plants anyways.

undeadghosty

Girl Dad Simon and his Eldritch Baby

(Based on art by succulentes on twi/tter)

calinde4n

my swap ryland ref sheet

loony-ludy

Don’t worry, it’s not an insult! Calling someone “the shit” is actually a common earth compliment!

Template by @justcakethanks whose comics have been making me lose it for the last several days

justshipsandstuff

Uhhhh..I think I just wanted an excuse to make the Eridian baby trebuchet

snoopyoftheday

snoopy of the day

fibfoolingart

science teacher besties!!

i feel like they would get along SO well plus ms. frizzle could solve the petrova problem in one episode easy

7dmom

I just felt a white person go to hell

tomorobo-illust

I also really love how you draw Simon, his hair is so pretty and floofy!

AAH Thank you so much!! It took a while trying to figure out a style I was satisfied with, so I'm happy that you like how Simon's hair turned out! I like to imagine Grace also likes Simon's hair, especially after it's freshly washed and dried ;D

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zinniae

Love when people draw Simon in the 'I had potential' shirt, its great

purplegutz4

Had this in my head for a while

stonesense

totally i understand narratively why project hail mary ends with grace becoming a teacher again but ever since i saw the movie i haven’t been able to stop thinking about what a crazy move it is from the eridian perspective. like imagine if we had one (1) alien on earth and we liked him so much that we just let him have a class of schoolchildren to teach all the brand new alien science to, for fun. what’s the selection process for that classroom. do the adult eridian scientists wish they were in there

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