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Carrousel on fire in Bergamo, November 22, 2017 Photographer: Oli Freuler
I love photos of amusement parks especially derelict or in this case catastrophic ones.
HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS
was gonna leave my comment in the tags but tbh i’m silent enough about this as it is.
seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.
i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.
they’ve hurt so many people and damaged our community badly and i will never forgive them for that. we deserve to use our own terminology and feel safe within our community.
sometimes i notice i haven’t seen “grace” (grey-ace) in a while and consequently wonder if i made it up.
I remember ppl - even other ace ppl - saying the card suit thing was “cringey” and “straight ppl aren’t gonna take us seriously” (sounds familiar?) So i guess the community wound up abandoning it. We were also having severe issues at the time with aces being stereotyped as “childish/immature” for associating things like cake, dragons, and space with asexuality, plus in general as most aces just don’t “get” allosexual things in media and irl. We were starting to be viewed as ignorant, virginal, childish, losers, etc. I haven’t seen an ace-cake thing in a good while now.
This was the infancy of exclusionary influence on us. I didn’t realize it did more damage than just closeting us. Whole symbols and terms have been lost. Community has been lost.
I remember three-four years ago I got myself into the ace community on Insta, and I came across these terms. People in these circles would talk about cake, space, dragons, and the black ring on the middle finger. Then, a year or two later, ace content fizzled out (I thought it was Insta’s algorithm figuring out that I knew all this and didn’t bring me the old stuff) and young aces had no idea what any of these were - including the black ring. Finding out young aces had no idea what the black ring meant nearly snapped my heart in two - I proudly wore the black ring, I drew characters with it, and it was my quiet way of communicating to others what my sexuality was. I was baffled at the lack of knowledge - and it turns out that exclusionists got their hands into our community and snuffed us out.
Anyways, we need to bring this back. I thought the card suite thing was cool, it taught people the different ways people can experience attraction, I loved making jokes about preferring cake, I loved wearing the black ring and talking about it with my fellow queer people at my highschool QSA club.
I’m sorry, people don’t know about the cake or ring anymore? I remember being welcomed with spams of cake gifs, photos, and MS Paint drawings. I also distinctly remember that the block solo ring in the midle was meant as reference to the Ace of Spades (black, solo, middle of card). Only thing I didn’t know was that other aces could represent a more refined nuance. Let’s see if we can get this all rolling again.
Welcome to anyone who is interested in helping with the culture revival.
I have to say it’s the first time I’ve heard this terminology. The reason it kind of died out or fizzled as someone put it may be because, well, it seems like it was devised by somebody in high school. Like a clique you would belong to. It has the feeling of a too neat adolescent symbology and I’m not sure that things like that can be artificially revived if they don’t have a life of their own. In any event the community surely is not dependent for it’s survival on the symbols on a deck of playing cards.
What’s more elusive about the idea of asexuality (and there are many people I have known who I suspect are asexual--though never heard anyone but Sister Wendy, the nun who used to critique art on tv ever admit to being asexual--is that for most people, most of our relationships are asexual. Many people are only sexual with one person (at a time), and every other relationship they have in the world is asexual. And there are just a wide range of familial and work relationships that generally lack any sexual potential. Also, people, a great many people, go through long periods of their lives not having sex, even not wanting sex. My partner’s mother never had sex after she separated from her husband, say the last 45 or so of her life. Does that count as being asexual,?maybe she never liked sex. And of course there have been celibate communities associated with religious orders for a very long time. Are they part of asexual culture?
Speaking of the culture, that’s possibly a stumper as well. Card suits and cake do not a culture make. They seem like symbols in search of cultural meaning. You kind of have to have community for a while to develop culture. So it might be accurate to say that asexual culture is in its developmental stages. It would I assume be based on how asexual people relate to each other, common experience etc. So if it is a thing, it will become. It will create itself and there are certainly few barriers to that happening with all the possible on-line connections to be made. It could be interesting to see what emerges.
https://twitter.com/mohammadhussain/status/1340439172687998981?s=21
I’m wheezing. Thank you, Mohammad, this thread is amazing. Now go put more lights on things!
That’s adorable, Mohammad. Made me smile and chuckle. We don’t do much decorating or gift giving but there is a menu both for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and Christmas dinner and the small centerpiece involving small pine cones and mixed nuts caused a great deal of consternation and shopping time as simple as it sounds it was anything but.
Inabitáveis/The Uninhabitable Ones, 2020, dir. Anderson Bardot
That’s beautiful.
Trump’s Memo to the Supreme Court
Memorandum: Counting Votes Against me is a Total and Complete Fraud Date: November 6, 2020
RE: Donald J. Trump and Michael Pence vs Counting Votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia (but not Nevada and Arizona)
Dear Supreme Court:
As you know, it's easy to win (we're always winning, winning, winning) but it's hard for me to lose; so all the Democrat votes that might make me lose after I was already ahead by such a great number of votes, should be thrown out and are the greatest fraud against the American people. Plus I told everyone we already won and Melania has already ordered her inaugural ball gown (you should see it), and the invitations have gone to the printers so the counting must STOP! They should never have been counted after I was in the lead. I was like way ahead but can you believe it, they didn't stop counting. What happened? All these votes magically appeared at 5am. They found all these votes. Wisconsin..I don’t know. Nobody knows where they came from. It's like the testing. I told them, I said, stop testing and COVID will go away, it will just disappear. I looked at the numbers in Pennsylvania and I said, Wow, Wow that's a lot, because when you add in North Carolina which and there's a lot of life in Georgia and people who love their president. So you know we have to stop it.
Free and fair elections are so unfair to me. Because there's counting. They're basically unfair like the fake nyews. And the counting. The counting. They go on and on and on. The Biden fraud, this is them. They have to count everything. They got toilet paper stuck to their shoe, that's a ballot. Hey, there's something on that one. That's for Biden. It's true. Totally happened in Philadelphia. Truckload of Democrat toilet paper ballots. No. So this is what you do. You go one, two, three four and that's enough counting. So you stop it. And we won as far as I'm concerned. Did you know we won Texas and O-Hi-o by 8.1 points. Great victories, and everybody said, they have to call it; you won everybody said; but what happened to the election? They stopped the election and kept counting--finding Democrat votes. That's what somebody said. They can't catch up; How can they catch up. Impossible, so stop the counting. I said, my judges will stop the counting.
They knew they couldn't win so they said, "Let's go to court", I predicted it, so I am taking them to your very amazing supreme courtroom to throw out all the fraudulently counted votes.
P.S. remember that I appointed three of you;
PPS to Amy (this is another perfect memo; hint hint)
What happens when a fly inhabits Mike Pence’s head space for 2:03? It’s now a climate denier, refuses to wear a mask in public and attends every super-spreader cookout it can, and has forced all its gay larvae into conversion therapy.
When your debate opponent turns out to be a corpse.
If I were a fly looking for the biggest lying sack of sh** in the room where would I land? Hmmm...
Bernie Bash Coming Soon to Xbox 360
Get ready for Interactive Political Action! Chase the old Jewish Socialist Democrat all over the Electoral Map and see if you can earn your Moderate Bona Fides while attempting to bring Crazy Bernie down. Earn points for learning the liberal media talking points in Pundit Land "How is he going to pay for that", "Trump is licking his chops", "Medicare for All will never pass." "He'll kill the down ballot", "He's a Castro fan boy", "He's unelectable", then take your bonus pundit points buy the weapon of your choice (but only the one you can afford)--Pete's Pea Shooter, Klobuchar's Klub, Warren's Woman Wand, Joe's Javelin, Blumberg's Bazooka, Steyer's Stun Gun, Moderator's Machete, or Media Mega Mace--and take aim during Democratic Demolition Debate night. Blood, Bleating and Blather rules as the also rans take turns bludgeoning the front runner. Guaranteed to make Crazy Bernie unelectable and unrecognizable. Then go participate in your state's Carcass Caucus or vote in a primary. Just think of any mainstream position--I love Israel, rejoin the Paris Accord, we'll never be a socialist country, let's just fix Obamacare, anything including the words bi-partisan support, I want to keep my junk insurance, I believe in markets--and presto the magic ballot will choose the safest candidate. Finally, you'll wake up as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, where Bernie will be drawn, quartered and immolated by Tom Perez and the DNC with state of the art HD graphics. On the final night, use your remaining points to create a CGI dream candidate of incremental change (well, the one you can afford). Combine your favorite celeb with your candidate of choice and come up with a President-to-be only an American Idol could love. Can your CGI candidate win in November?
Disclaimer:
Bernie Bash contains violence not suitable for under age gamers; must be over 18 to play; those convicted of a crime, not in possession of a voter ID card, or currently on a voter purge list in Wisconsin, Florida or Georgia prohibited. Game may be rigged. You can play but you cannot win.
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This is not a tasty gummy sweet but a Jewel Caterpillar found in Amazon Rainforest. They are covered with sticky goo-like, gellatinous tubercles that provides protection from its predator like ants until they metamorphosise into winged moths.
HAVE YOU SEEN IT GROWN UP THOUGH
literal pokemon
have you seen the cocoon it makes though?
it’s so pretty as a baby, it looks like an actual gem. then suddenly it pupates into a net thing and when it comes out it looks like the fucking Lorax
this is a pokemon
acid caterpillar