Shaselma

Hey tumblr users! You can call me Shaselma. 29; Canadiana; (Aro)Ace Lesbian; She/her. This is my personal tumblr. I'm mentally ill and like/reblog associated stuff. I have opinions and experiences that I will not shut up about. I stalk and like/reblog multiple fandoms. I write shit sometimes.

[haveyouheardofjesus]

BuT ItS JuSt A cLuMp Of CeLls @prolife-feminist

[fandomsandfeminism]

So, as best I can tell, this video originally comes from "The Mirror" a British Tabloid. They claim it comes from a company called iFIND, though the iFIND website does not have this video on it. So. Grain of salt there. Regardless, the CLAIM is that this is a 20 week ultrasound (so, about 5 months) which...sure, seems plausible.

Now- about 67% of abortions happen in the first 8 weeks. (This is generally the stage when people say it is "just a clump of cells") Roughly 92% of abortions happen BEFORE 13 weeks. Only about 1% of abortions happen after 20 weeks, and those are nearly ALL in cases where the health/life of the pregnant person is at risk, or the fetus simply isn't viable. An abortion at 20+ weeks represents a pregnancy that never could have been carried safely to term anyway.

So, I ask you- what is your ultimate goal in posting this?

Because, you are right that a fetus at this stage of pregnancy isn't "just a clump of cells" but I would also ask you to remember that, at this point in a pregnancy, the pregnant person is more than just an incubator. They are ALSO a person, and their medical choices are still theirs. Their reasons are theirs. Their body is theirs.

[shaselma]

"Why are we carrying out this study?

It is important to be able to spot any potential problems with a fetus (baby) before he/she is born. Making a diagnosis prenatally (before a baby is born) allows the expectant parents to make informed choices about whether or not to continue with the pregnancy."

This is what the iFIND website *does* have on it.

[thundergrace]

I love "how do you do math?" questions. Here's how my brain does it:

How about you guys?

[shaselma]

(20+40) + (7+8) = 60 + 15 = 75

[montygreen]

The Good Place: 2020 Edition [insp.]

[sixpenceeeblog]

[dorian-mode-deactivated20240926]

It’s not just 11 years. An elephant never forgets.

[africanaquarian]

I’m finna put y’all onto more Black girls to listen to because I think they deserve more attention and streams.

[africanaquarian]

TKAY MAIDZA

[africanaquarian]

LILA IKÉ

[africanaquarian]

SEVANA

[africanaquarian]

TANERÉLLE

[africanaquarian]

TEAMARRR

[africanaquarian]

CHIKA

[africanaquarian]

BREE RUNWAY

[pleasenopaparazzinophotosplease]

👑

[j4ckme]

Two years?! I’m in!

[kentishviking]

why not

[texas-bi-lover-deactivated20181]

I’ll try it

[blog-of-what-comes-to-mind]

Eh

[eliyora]

Double your nana, double your yum

[fuckyahumor]

give me luck double banana

[possiblityforjoy-deactivated202]

No fucking joke, I was offered 4 days of film-set marshalling and I told him I was unavailable for one of the days but I could cancel. And he told me he’d potentially found someone else.

I reblogged this.

And not 20 mins later, he came back to me and said if I really want it, let him know now. So fuck. Wow.

[fear-the-spectacular-avatar]

Why not

[alansparkshark]

It’s a double banana. That’s already worth reblogging.

[redbeardace]

As long as we’re together, what does it matter?

They did it.

Seven years.  And they pulled it off.

One year in, I wanted to say something, but was it just a tease?

Two years in, I wanted to say something, but would they Mulder and Scully it?

Three years in, I wanted to say something, but would they Sara and Grissom it?

Four years in, I wanted to say something, but would they Bones it?

Five years in, I wanted to say something, but I didn’t trust them.

Six years in, I wanted to say something, I really really wanted to say something after that scene, but I knew it was coming back for another year, and I knew that they would ruin it.

But seven years in.

Seven years in and now it’s over.

And they did it.

So now I can say something.

If you’re asexual…

If you’re aromantic…

If you’re looking for the essence of a QPR and all of it’s what-are-we-anyway-we-love-each-other-but-don’t-love-each-other-and-we’re-so-much-more-than-friends-and-we’re-not-together-but-we-can’t-be-apart…

Elementary.

At the start, it was so obvious what would happen.

Gender swap Watson so there can be network-approved heteronormative sexytimes.

You know the pattern.  Ignore it for season one.  Tease it in season two.  Make it almost happen in season three.  It’s canon in the season four cliffhanger.  Then it’s all downhill from there.

But no.  Not Elementary.  They didn’t go there.

They didn’t tease it.  They didn’t make up some reason why it couldn’t be.

It just wasn’t.  Because it doesn’t have to be.  It would have been grit in a sensitive instrument, a crack in a lens, it would have placed them in a false position.

Yes, there was romance.  Yes, there was sex.

But they never romanced or sexed each other.

For seven full seasons.

And they ended up together in a relationship that can’t be described, but it works for them.

Well done, Elementary.

[redbeardace]

[shaselma]

I would also like to recommend Dutch and Johnny from Killjoys as one one of the best QPRs I've ever seen in fiction. Fifth and final season, still going strong.

[bahrains]

it’s so difficult not being able to use milennial humor in a corporate setting. like i made a mistake today and i wanted to tell my supervisor it’s because i suffer from Dumb Bitch Disease, but do you think that would fly?? fuck no. i gotta say shit like, “sorry for the misunderstanding!” i can’t wait till the workforce is made up entirely of millennials and i can say “sorry i drank idiot juice for breakfast this morning” and my coworkers will be like “oh worm.”

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

i taught my boss the meaning and usage of “yeet” after i accidentally let it slip in the office and a day later he walks up to my desk and says “i just yeeted you an email” with a completely straight face and i nearly bowled over

[shaselma]

"Yeet" is so beneficial as like, the opposite of "yoink," that it's mind-blowing that there wasn't an equivalent before it was invented by that black girl in that vine.

[mossdeep-archive]

hey with june around the corner i want everyone to… keep an eye out for pride posts that exclude lesbians specifically. don’t reblog them. just because your identity is in the post, if op excludes the first acronym in LGBT it does not reflect the community. you include the whole acronym or you don’t make the post at all. excluding lesbians shouldn’t be tolerated and if i see that shit on my dash i won’t tolerate it either.

[mossdeep-archive]

like… this is the kinda shit i’m talking about. it makes my blood boil.

[lovealotsmoved]

i rly like this post but i noticed flag discourse being brought up a lot (not by op but in the notes) and its kinda bothering me because people will exclude lesbians even if flags aren’t being used. like i see a lot of pride pins w/ the identities plainly written out and lesbians still arent included. like this isnt an accident, or something that just happens because of flag discourse. its deliberate 

[shagsjxjcksns]

SPEAKING OF THAT SHIRT I HAVE A HUMAN SHIRT THAT INCLUDES LESBIAN!!!

ITS ON REDBUBBLE GO CHECK IT OUT!

((Sorry I’m just OBSESSED with this shirt. It’s literally the only HUMAN shirt I’m ever going to wear in my entire life omg I love it I want others to know about it too sorry hhsjsjjs))

[feminismandmedia]

So you’re okay with them removing the pan flag?

[feminismandmedia]

Rewriting because Tumblr deleted it, but this is super gross to me?

Like no one just.. forgot the pan flag here. A person literally sat down and said “hmm which identity can I take out” which was a deliberate act. A very deliberate act of panphobia.

There’s another remake going around which I do like which says “human beings” on it so they could add MORE identies in without taking any out.

And yes talking about how lesbians are left out are bad but it’s literally just as bad to leave out other identities (like pan is left out all the time too) and then actively and deliberately remove them?

Call out lesbophobia but don’t become a bigot yourself. It shouldn’t be that hard people. (ALSO please remember the creator of the lesbian flag is a racist biphobe which is why many people may opt to just use the rainbow flag because there’s no set flag to take over now)

[rorytelling]

OP’s an aphobe. Probably less upset the racist Lesbian flag isn’t here and more upset that the ace flag is there instead.

[feminismandmedia]

Oh absolutely. I already knew that from a different time of seeing this post, I’m just especially pissed at the commenter (who is a transmed btw) who removed a flag thinking THAT was a good idea?

I’d also like to point out that my identities are rarely represented in popular merch. The queer flag has never shown up on a post like this. The only semi-popular merch place that I know that has it is nerdykeppie. Everything else is requests or small artists. This I semi-understand because it’s underrepresented and unknown in general.

However, the nonbinary flag? Often left out and it is a well known identity. Literally left out of both of these remakes.

[diskhorsedudes]

Let’s not forget that 95% of the greater lgbt and queer communities are not aware that a lesbian flag even exists. For as long as the community has existed, the rainbow flag included lesbians. As a lesbian myself, I’m really fucking annoyed with how entitled others in my community have been acting in regards to this shit. When people don’t include the new as fuck and largely unknown lesbian flag (who was made by a racist, biphobic asshole), it is never on purpose and it being included doesn’t have to happen at the expense of other identities that tend to get erased way more than lesbianism does.

[shaselma]

My irl lesbian friends who've never had tumblr had no idea there was a lesbian flag, and weren't interested in it at all when I told them because they love the Rainbow flag and feel completely represented by that flag.

In their eyes, OP's shirt pic is not lesbophobic or exclusive of lesbians in the slightest, because they have always seen themselves in the rainbow flag.

I think they'd find it kind of lesbophobic for OP to tell them all their rainbow merch doesn't actually include or represent them.

[chunkecheeks]

type “i am” in the tags and whatever comes up first is your new mandatory kin

[floatygirlii]

I am best girl🌸

[kirishimanneedslove]

I’m Batman

[bird400-deactivated20250118]

[lu-wooah]

I have some questions ?

[shaselma]

How can you be aro ace and also a lesbian? If you’re not sexually and romantically attracted to anyone you’re not a lesbian.

Hey, guess what?

You know what you can do instead of policing marginalized identities?

You can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!

Cheers!

[stuartette]

It was a genuine question. This proves that you’re just bullshitting

[shaselma]

Oh, yes.

"If you’re not sexually and romantically attracted to anyone you’re not a lesbian" is a completely genuine question, my bad!

Also, I've genuinely answered this "genuine" question many times, which I was kind enough to take the time to link you to in my reply.

I'm sorry if you expected your lesbophobia to be treated as genuine inquiry, but I don't accept it as such.

[shaselma]

How can you be aro ace and also a lesbian? If you’re not sexually and romantically attracted to anyone you’re not a lesbian.

Hey, guess what?

You know what you can do instead of policing marginalized identities?

You can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!

Cheers!

[yiffscourse]

So basically you’re just an aroace who wants women as friends.

Oooooooookay lol

[sweetheartfemme]

yeah op i’m gonna just say it… if you aren’t attracted to women you can’t call yourself a lesbian lmao.

[shaselma]

[shaselma]

How can you be aro ace and also a lesbian? If you’re not sexually and romantically attracted to anyone you’re not a lesbian.

Hey, guess what?

You know what you can do instead of policing marginalized identities?

You can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!

Cheers!

[yiffscourse]

So basically you’re just an aroace who wants women as friends.

Oooooooookay lol

[shaselma]

[shaselma]

How can you be aro ace and also a lesbian? If you’re not sexually and romantically attracted to anyone you’re not a lesbian.

Hey, guess what?

You know what you can do instead of policing marginalized identities?

You can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!

Cheers!

[im-fucking-asexual]

but their question is v good considering you can’t be attracted to ppl if you don’t experience attraction! do you not realize how fucking dumb that sounds

[shaselma]

[shaselma]

How can you be aro ace and also a lesbian? If you’re not sexually and romantically attracted to anyone you’re not a lesbian.

Hey, guess what?

You know what you can do instead of policing marginalized identities?

You can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!

Cheers!

[a-place-to-be-panace]

So a lot of people know A-Okay by Adam Winny (talk about an ace anthem!), but I found this amazing ace song by Neej on YouTube and it’s so catchy and relatable!

[cybercrimer]

“due to personal reasons i will ____” is so fucking funny because it implies both that whatever you’re doing is some kind of self care AND that it’s nobody else’s goddamn business 

[shayminning]

Type “Due to personal reasons I will” and let your phone predict what you will

Due to personal reasons I will be on the floor yesterday

[lemonbellflower]

due to personal reasons i will not work

[shaselma]

"Due to personal reasons I will be very disappointed in the way I am."

Well, fuck. Why does my keyboard have to call me out like this?