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They/Them, Plural, Aroace, >18, not open to NSFW content

[queerlingkits]

Fish

[roguedeer]

Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism

[sanyu-thewitch05]

No hate to OP, there are other Black asexual activists besides Yasmin Benoit.

Marshall Blount: https://www.instagram.com/marshall_blount?

Ace in Grace/Ashabi: https://www.instagram.com/_aceingrace_?

Yagirllici: https://www.instagram.com/yagirllici?

This one is more of a group but there’s Black Ace Culture: https://www.instagram.com/blackaceculture?

Asexual/AroaceBarbie: https://www.tiktok.com/@asexualbarbie?_r=1&_t=ZT-97gFM9iWa3a

Kim Riottt: https://www.instagram.com/kimriottt?

Jacques Jacky: https://www.instagram.com/jacguesjacky?

[queerlingkits]

I'm from a part of the US with forests and trees and green. And compared to that, I find Portland green (for an urban area). It's like, so green and there are trees everywhere.

[lemonscribs]

Aroace pride shark 🧡

pride month may be over but I‘ll continue drawing some more pride sharks :D

shop~

[chainsofprometheus]

i like to think duke & cass would have a mini book club between the two of them and they’d send each other their recs and reviews

[roguedeer]

Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism

[chilewithcarnage]

The pigs in Mississippi just murdered a baby, A BABY! A ONE YEAR OLD INFANT!

Mississippi officer put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

Protests erupt in Senatobia after one-year-old Kohen Wiley killed after police responded to report of shoplifting

[creatingblackcharacters]

Even if she HAD stolen the diapers... Why are you shooting at someone over diapers. That wasn't because he cared about no damn theft. He wanted to shoot, and he killed a one year old over it.

[queerlingkits]

Masked agents who refuse to identify themselves (who aren't the police but are basically the police) show up and literally kidnap people for being different and spirit them away to what amount to prisons without informing their loved ones where they are and with zero intention of letting them out and where they are undoubtly treating them inhumanly. Am I talking about ICE or the ATF in the Static:Season One?

I'm so-so on the writing and not a fan of the art, that said, the comic had a lot of potential and I do think the general themes are pretty damn topical to today.

[queerlingkits]

The fact that Duke Thomas is often portrayed without a love interest in fan spaces actually pisses me tf off. Because everyone has a ship or two for every last one of Bruce's kids. Except for Duke. Why? Because no one cares enough about his character to pair him up with anyone. You might think the fandom would go with Ana because they get Duke's entire existence from freaking WFA, but no. Not even her. Probably because she's a girl and so are Izzy and Riko, so obviously straight ships suck, right?

I think the one that pissed me off the most was where everyone was paired up and Duke was "aroace." As an aroace, I find it extremely upsetting that someone is using my orientation to skirt around the fact that they don't know anything about Duke. It unironically feels like when those white neurodivergent queers start popping off about how they can't be racist because they're also oppressed. Because we all know exactly why Duke isn't getting the love he deserves. Both textually and metatextually.

To be clear, I am talking about when everyone is paired up except Duke. If you're like me and largely not writing the romances (or only background ones) then you are not who I'm talking about. You might still need to check in, but this post isn't about you.

[queerlingkits]

Crater Lake

[blackityblackk]

JUSTICE FOR TONEA MILLER!

[queerlingkits]

So I haven't read WFA in like, two years? Smth like that. Idk time is hard. But I recently checked back in on it because I needed the name of a character that exists only in WFA (bc fuck Izzy & Riko right?) and I realized something I hadn't noticed before:

At the very least in the early episodes, Duke's character was erased in favor of making him an audience stand-in. He's introduced to the more domestic side of the batfam as the audience is so the audience has someone to relate to. He's not given the agency to be himself because he's being reduced to the point where he's practically a Y/N.

And I think there's an interesting way of doing a "new character introduced to a new environment" thing w/out breaking Duke in the process. You have Damian be that fish out of water. It's already non-canon right? So have an Alternate Universe that's lighter about Damian's character development. But DC is too much of a coward to actually do that because it requires A. Not having an audience character, and B. Because it would mean actually treating all of the al Ghuls with a nuance (which yes. You could do within format and genre) that they're unwilling to provide.

[queerlingkits]

Major spoilers for the Avatar Legend of Aang movie

I know that the Avatar Movie was in the works for years and that it was probably unintentional, but the parrellels between Tagah's and Israeli rhetoric is uh.... Well, it's definitely there. And if you can't see the fact that Israel is the bad guys but you can see that Tagah is? Idk man, take a literary class?

[queerlingkits]

The way this fandom treats Duke Thomas will never not make me foam at the fucking mouth.

[queerlingkits]

Okay so we all know Kevin Day is a history nerd and Jason Todd is a lit nerd (not sure if that's canon or fanon, but I stand by it). I also think we all know about those "Jason goes to college instead of Red Hooding" AUs.

So imagine: Jason goes to Palmetto (it's not too far from home but it's not close either and it's low-key enough keep him off of Bruce's radar if he's not doing exy). Jason has also spent the past several years off the map/dead/busy as Robin/on the street and he doesn't have the time or care for Exy. Subsequently, he has no idea who Kevin Day is. But one semester they have a classic lit class together and they continually get into heated disagreements about this, that, and everything. So obviously they're friends now.

Jason is still oblivious to the famous athlete thing (Kevin won't admit it, but he really likes that) and Kevin "I only have eyes for Exy" Day wouldn't have recognized Jason even if Jason was all of 14 and not publicly dead.

Imagine the hijinks. Imagine the shenanigans.

[queerlingkits]

Minor Minor spoilers for the Avatar movie below the cut. Post is about morality between the nations in the Avatar world. (Airbender not blue people)

I know this wasn't the direction they went with the Avatar movie, but I really wish they'd shown a time in history where the Air Nomads weren't the good guys. We've gotten the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom (twice now), but it really feels like the narratives around the Air Nomads is that they're always good. And I wish we could explore the complexity within them instead of having them (on the whole) as moral bastions for all of time. I wish we got to see more of that push and pull within the four nations about who was good and who was bad (with more nuance than that ofc) like they were trying to sell by juxtapositioning the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation in the original series

[guysandcorpses]

bitches want me desperately for constantly pointing out that wfa watered down duke’s personality and made him more “comfortable” for a white audience, rather than letting him be the angry, anti-cop activist he really is.