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@lithromantic
Polyamorous relationships are not for everyone. Monogamous relationships are not for everyone. Romantic relationships are not for everyone!!! We are all different people with different needs, maybe just stop trying to condense the human experience into a homogenous gray monolith!!! aaaaaaaa
Quick reminder that you don't need a solid sexuality! You can just be in love! Or not be in love! Or have a gender! Labels are a choice, not a requirement. All you need to do is be someone you like being! If labels help with that, great! But they are not required. You don't owe it to anyone, so don't feel pressured to choose labels if they aren't your thing!
Certified Sex Ed Post!
Identity of the Day
Aegosexual
Type: Sexuality
Definition: Aegosexual, also called Anegosexual, is a label with multiple meanings. This label may be used by those who like sex as a concept and enjoy content about it but experience no sexual attraction or desire to be one of the parties involved, those who enjoy sexual relationships as an idea but have to desire to be in one, those who feel sexual attraction only in scenarios where they are not involved, those who feel fully disconnected from the object of their attraction, or those who only want to be involved in sexual scenarios in their fantasies. It is a part of the Asexual umbrella. Those who are Aegosexual may fall under other Asexual identities such as Demisexual or Greysexual, but not all will. Not all who are Aegosexual are Aegoromantic.
Flag(s):
This is the Aegosexual flag made by hunterinabrowncoat in July 2014. The meaning of this flag has changed from its original. The current meaning of the flag is the triangle being used to represent an inversion of asexuality, where Aegosexuals are more likely to be seen as allosexual by others and even by themselves due to the experience of a directed arousal and interest in sexual content or fantasies. The color meanings represent the same as the original Asexual flag, with the black representing complete asexuality, the grey representing greysexuality, the white representing allosexual partners, and the purple representing the asexual community as a whole.
This is an alternate Aegosexual flag, made before or during August 2020 by an anonymous user who is Aegosexual. The colors, in order, represent:
Community
The Asexual spectrum
A disconnect between ones self and ones attraction
Asexuality
The flag than repeats the first, second, and third stripe in reverse.
This is another alternate Aegosexual flag, made in August 2020 by xeno-aligned. It keeps the original flags design but with the colors of the alternate flag.
Always nice to see aegosexual in more general places than just ace spaces!
My bank account is in the negative, and all I have left in cash is nickles and dimes. I have bills past due, more bills coming up soon, and very little food. I don't know if there's even enough gas in my car to get to the foodbank and back on Saturday. I could really use some sales right now.
I have bookmarks, potholders, jewelry, accessories, pride wear, pottery, knitting patterns, and more available for sale in my shop, all hand made by me. If you’re on a tight budget, check out my discount section!
I also take commissions, and have a gofundme. If there’s a custom piece you’d be interested in having me make beyond the order forms available on my ko-fi, I always welcome messages here.
Shipping outside the USA is not currently available through the store, but I can and do ship internationally – just message me about it and pay me directly through paypal, cashapp, or venmo, or with a card through my ko-fi once I can get you a shipping estimate. Online orders of 2 or more items come with a free watercolour bookmark!
Reblogs are always deeply appreciated.
Would I still be lithromantic if I felt romantic attraction to someone and we dated for like a year before the feeling went away? We aren't together anymore and the feelings came back a little but the label still feels right, is it ok for me to use it?
If the label feels right, use it. Nobody gets to decide someone else's orientation for them; you're the only expert on what it is to be you
I'm a disabled artist. I was already coping with very low inco… Lanthir Calendae needs your support for lost my car to a traffic accident; c
I'm a disabled queer artist, making my entire income off my art sales. I have an online shop, but sales from it are slow and unreliable -- my main income is from vending at markets. Which I cannot do without a car.
On the 21st of August, I was struck at an intersection, totaling my only vehicle. I am grateful that my injuries were minor (a concussion and some bruising). I am more grateful still that -- as I can no longer rely on my plan of living out of my car over the winter -- a tumblr friend has offered me their spare room for a while. But I need to somehow have a lot of money to reacquire my ability to reliably make money.
I am trying to raise somewhere around $8,000 between now and the end of winter to: -cover getting my storage unit emptied out so I have one less large bill to pay -help friends with gas money in exchange for rides -cover living expenses not covered by sales/commissions -replace my car
Any donations to my gofundme, commissions or sales from my shop, ordering fully custom work, or signal boosting my shop or fundraiser, would help me immensely.
I have lots of queer pride hats, neckwarmers, and home decor; pottery; jewelry; Judaica; knitting patterns; and more in stock currently! Shipping outside the USA is not currently available through the store, but I can and do ship internationally – just message me about it and pay me directly through paypal or venmo or with a card through my ko-fi, once I can get you a shipping estimate.
a QPR is a QPR because the individuals in it decided it is. not because friends ‘don’t live together and kiss eachother,’ or ‘because friendships aren’t this committed.’ that’s not how this works. friends can do anything and as long as they have the intent for friendship, it’s a friendship. you can defend QPR’s without pushing amatonormativity.
Stockpile HRT now.
To my brothers on T I know this is gonna be harder for you so please listen up:
First, if your doctor is open to it, ask for the 2000mg/10ml vial, you'll need to be careful to keep it clean and free of contamination from the stopper, but the expiration dates will typically be a year plus. Please specify the 10ml vial and not a three month supply, the difference is minimal but important.
Next, have it sent to a busy, understaffed CVS (most of them are busy and understaffed). If your insurance doesn't cover CVS use GoodRx, at time of writing it should be about $50. Our system by default makes us mark the 10ml vial as a 28 day supply regardless of the dosage because we cannot guarantee a beyond use date beyond that (as I said, non-zero chance of contamination, use a 90 degree angle and a alcohol pad every time and you'll be fine). Only the most stickler of pharmacists or technicians are going to bother changing it - if they even know the system workaround to bypass it.
Then, come to refill it the next month. If they marked the first fill as 28 day supply (you can see on your label in the lower right near the price) it will process without any red flags in the system and will again will likely slip by all but the most stickler of pharmacists and techs. If they marked it as something longer just explain that your doctor told you to discard the vial after 28 days per USP guidelines and so you were a good boy and already threw it out, this should work against all but the biggest douchebag of a pharmacist. If that fails and your doctor is cooperative, have them call the pharmacy and authorize an early fill - if that doesn't work try another pharmacy.
If all goes well you'll probably be able to fill two to three vials in a row before anyone starts to question things.
I cannot speak for other pharmacies, but in general retail pharmacy is kind of a shit show right now so a busy store in another chain is also probably going to just go by USP even if their instincts or morals tell them to be jerks about it.
If anyone has any questions or if you need advice on a situation I didn't cover please DM me anytime, or hell send me an anon ask if you're shy. If anyone's insurance requires a non-CVS pharmacy and you can't afford the $50 let me know and I can find a tech at another pharmacy to see if they have any advice that would be relevant to their chain.
To my transfemme sisters, you've got it a little easier. Have your doc send your meds with a 12 month supply to a pharmacy you don't typically use, use GoodRx if you have to, none of the usual drugs in a transfemmes HRT regiment should be extremely expensive. Tell them you're going out of the country in a week or two and would like to purchase the entire year's supply at once. A year's supply of 2mg estradiol tabs taken four times daily (the max dose I've ever seen) is $75 on GoodRx at CVS right now. They'll probably need to order more tabs in but again only the biggest stickers are gonna question it. (You can also send to your usual pharmacy if you don't take any other meds, but I recommend not returning for at least a year just to be on the safe side. It's not illegal, but again you could run into some stickler pharmacist who calls your bluff and refuses further fills or tattles to your doctor or something.)
Again, please please please don't hesitate to send me DMs or asks if you have any questions or need specific advice.
I'm sure many people have already shared this here, but I think it's important that people here on Tumblr need to see this.
"I disagree with Kamala's position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" by US Senator Bernie Sanders
His question is NOT RHETORICAL by the way! Transcript for anyone who struggles with video:
“I understand that there are millions of Americans who disagree with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the terrible war in Gaza.
I am one of them.
While Israel had a right to defend itself against the horrific Hamas terrorist attack of October 7th, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages, it did not have a right to wage an all-out war against the entire Palestinian people.
It did not have the right to kill 42,000 Palestinians, two thirds of whom were children, women and the elderly, or injure over 100,000 people in Gaza.
It did not have the right to destroy Gaza's infrastructure, housing, and healthcare system. It did not have the right to bomb every one of Gaza's 12 universities.
It did not have the right to block humanitarian aid, causing massive malnutrition in children and, in fact, starvation.
And that is why I am doing everything I can to block U.S. military aid and offensive weapon sales to the right-wing extremist Netanyahu government in Israel. And I know that many of you share those feelings, and some of you are saying,
"How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she is supporting this terrible war?"
And that is a very fair question. And let me give you my best answer. And that is that even on this issue, Donald Trump and his right-wing friends are worse. In the Senate, in Congress, the Republicans have worked overtime to block humanitarian aid to the starving children in Gaza. The President and Vice President both support getting as much humanitarian aid into Gaza as soon as possible.
Trump has said Netanyahu is "doing a good job", and has said Biden is "holding him back". He has suggested the Gaza strip would make excellent beachfront property for development. And it is no wonder Netanyahu prefers to have Donald Trump in office.
But even more importantly - and this I promise you - after Kamala wins, we will together do everything that we can to change U.S. policy toward Netanyahu. An immediate ceasefire, the return of all hostages, a surge of massive humanitarian aid, the stopping of settler attacks on the West Bank, and the rebuilding of Gaza for the Palestinian people.
And let me be clear. We will have, in my view, a much better chance of changing U.S. policy with Kamala than with Trump, who is extremely close to Netanyahu and sees him as a like-minded, right-wing extremist ally.
But let me also say this - and I deal with this every single day as a U.S. Senator - as important as Gaza is, and as strongly as many of us feel about this issue, it is not the only issue at stake in this election.
If Trump wins, women in this country will suffer an enormous setback and lose the ability to control their own bodies. That is not acceptable.
If Trump wins, to be honest with you, the struggle against climate change is over. While virtually every scientist who has studied the issue understands that climate change is real, and an existential threat to our country and the world, Trump believes it is a "hoax". And if the United States, the largest economy in the world, stops transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel, every other country - China, Europe, all over the world - they will do exactly the same thing. And God only knows the kind of planet we will leave to our kids and future generations.
If Trump wins, at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, he will demand even more tax breaks for the very richest people in our country while cutting back on programs that working families desperately need. The rich will only get richer while the minimum wage will remain at $7.25 an hour and millions of our fellow workers will continue to earn starvation wages.
Did you all see the recent Trump rally at Madison Square Gardens? Well, I did. And what I can tell you is that, as a nation, as all of you know, we have struggled for years, against impossible odds, to overcome all forms of bigotry - whether it's racism, whether it's sexism, whether it's homophobia, whether it's xenophobia, you name it. We have tried to fight against bigotry. But that is exactly what we saw on display at that unbelievable Trump rally. It was not a question of speakers getting up there, disagreeing with Kamala Harris on the issue. That wasn't the issue at all. They were attacking her simply because she was a woman, and a woman of colour. Extreme, vulgar sexism and racism.
Is that really the kind of America that we can allow?
So let me conclude by saying this: this is the most consequential election in our lifetimes. Many of you have differences of opinion with Kamala Harris on Gaza. So do I.
But we cannot sit this election out. Trump has got to be defeated. Let's do everything we can in the next week to make sure that Kamala Harris is our next president.
Thank you very much.”
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Did you know that in many states, you're required to get time off to vote?
And read up a little on your local elections! Mayors, School Boards, Sheriff, even Congress... If you want your single vote to really make a numerical difference, THAT'S where you do it!
i keep seeing misinformation about this, so: queerplatonic relationships do not have a set definition. the name comes from the idea that it's "queering" the platonic relationship, tailoring it to the individual relationships' own desires. it isn't necessarily romance lite, but it also isn't necessarily whatever definition you want to impose on it. the point of queering the platonic relationship is to break away from strict allonormative views on friendship, romance, and sex, not to make a new categorical box to fit in.
the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.
official aromantic post
If there's any terfs following me or reblogging my stuff please know that I love + care about people of color, trans people, sex workers, and all sorts of kinksters and dykes and my posts are not for terfs 😌
Now, I’m not saying romantic relationships are inferior, or that they’re useless, or that you being in one or that you shipping some characters romantically is Bad or something off the walls like that. What I’m saying is that two people (or characters, since we’re talking shipping here) can be just as devoted to each other, love each other just as deeply, mean just as much to each other while being in a platonic relationship. The end point of caring about someone doesn’t have to be romance.
Friendship isn’t a stepping stone between strangers and romantic partners, it’s a different path. And you can follow that path as deep into the wood as a romantic one if you want, and neither is inferior to the other, they just have different views.
reblog my aro posts you cowards
fellow alloaros! do you perceive kissing as romantic, sexual, and/or platonic? also, do you personally like kissing?
A short questionnaire on how arospec people view kissing.
actually, could y’all fill this out instead? it’s only 4 questions long, so I’d really appreciate if you could take a look at it ^_^
hey there, so in the past few months I went on the contraceptive pill (for acne reasons) but now I don't feel any romantic attraction (this is a known side effect). I know I've felt it before, however, but the idea of someone liking me back makes me uncomfortable now. Is this lithromantic, pill side effects or something else?
To be honest, this sounds like something to discuss with your doctor. I don't really know much about the effects of hormones on how one processes emotion, unfortunately.
once again aromanticism is not a tragedy
ok, so is it... not necessarily bad, but just... irrational, to know full well that i'm lithromantic but still want a relationship? it's not that i become uninterested in romance when it's reciprocated, i just become uninterested in the person. but despite that, and despite the fact that i AM proud of who I am... i still want to be in love. is that irrational?
No, that sounds rational to me. As rational as any emotional response is, at least. I hope some day you’re able to find a person and/or relationship dynamic that works for you to have the kind of relationship you desire. Personally, I’ve found dating people who are on the aromantic spectrum takes a lot of the pressure off and makes a relationship MUCH more sustainable for me. But everyone is different, and what has worked for me may not for you.
Is it normal to feel sad and happy at the same time for having discovered lithromantica? Happy to finally know who I am, but sad because I just wanted to be normal like everyone else
I think it is within the common range of experience to have mixed feelings about something that sets you apart from what is considered “normal” by society.
