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Bambi-sexual — A term for people who prefer non-genital forms of touch, such as cuddling, hugging, and kissing. Bambi-sexual people may or may not enjoy genital touch as well, and may or may not be on the asexual spectrum. It may also be spelled as bambisexual, and may be paired with any sexuality (e.g. bambi lesbian, bambi gay, etc.)
It's earliest known use was in The Alyson Almanac in 1989, with the following definition:
BAMBI-SEXUALITY. Physical interaction centered more about touching, kissing, and caressing than around genital sexuality.
Etymology, flag symbolism, and further info is below the cut.
Etymology — Unknown. Possibly inspired by Disney's Bambi.
Flag Symbolism — inspired by the asexual flag and Disney's Bambi. The flag has four stripes, as a nod towards the asexual flag, due to the common overlap of the two identities. The colors reference Bambi, the character from the 1942 Disney film by the same name. Each stripe additionally has its own meaning:
Yellow represents “light” or non-genital forms of touch. The color was chosen because yellow is a light color. Genital touch is often associated with dim lighting, and many forms of touch are considered “light” in and of themselves, such as gentle caressing.
Orange represents energy, joy, and warmth, highlighting some of the positive feelings that can come from physical touch, without genital touch being necessary. The color was chosen due to its cultural associations with these feelings.
Red is commonly depicted as a fiery, passionate color. It represents love, passion, and intimacy, without genital involvement.
Purply brown represents asexual and ace-spec bambis, due to the common overlap in these identities. The color was chosen due to purple’s association with asexuality, and brown’s association with bambi-sexuality.
I really adore the concept of keeping a photo of your love in your wallet. You open it to pay and there’s the smiling face of the most beautiful woman.
Like everything has just left you so drained that any joy you used to get from it is just gone. The spark just isn't there anymore.
Sounds like burnout.
I don't know of any other cure but to take care of yourself and rest and be willfully distracted. The alternative is to get stuck in the compounding misery spiral of feeling depleted, failing to be productive, and then feeling so guilty about the lack of productivity, you push yourself even harder to work. But you can't really punish yourself into making art. You end up in a negative feedback loop that only makes you want to avoid it.
Go on adventures with friends, spend time with animals, cook, look at other art, watch movies, read books, play games, find some new music to add to your playlists, sleep and dream. Try not to let the sense of obligation to be creative and productive burden you for a little while, if you can.
The compulsion and desire to make things tends to come back when you have the physical energy and a replenished mental well to draw from.
My mom for some reason: I know you look and feel like complete garbage right now, and I'm sorry. Anyway, here's an hour long lecture about how you never clean up after yourself!
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