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@starrgazr
in the past i've described my experience of being an ace with a sex drive as being hungry with no appetite, but actually my experience is more like being hungry and never going out to eat because i always have all the tools and ingredients to make exactly what i want, exactly how i want it, at home. i don't want other people in my kitchen and i certainly don't want to be in anyone else's kitchen. love reading about fictional kitchens, though.
The Aromantic Zine is complete!! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-vgIktgk3J5GI1qBcSCmC2HQm8Wp8zYl/view?usp=sharing
Aromantic Experiences-Zine.pdf
Everyone should check it out!
(My submission)
@morb1dcan1d <-creator of this incredible project!
Straights can come to the sexuality festival because at least they also have sex. Asexuals cannot come.
New stupid opinion just dropped, you may only attend the civil rights event if you arrive on site riding an enthusiastically consenting second party like a horse at the Kenfucky Derby
@teaboot #My tranny ass IS asexual you absolute ass#Where do you want me? Handing out sugar cubes from the fucking Cuck Chair??#Going to pride and leaving my Asexual behind in a hot car with the windows cracked#SEXUALITY FESTIVAL????
ruh roh
Y'all loved this last year, so I had to do it again for 2026! This time I added an additional sheet for the queer writers along with the queer readers!
For "what counts" under individual prompts, err on the side of personal interpretation. I made some of these vague so people with varying levels of ability and access can do them!
To support us making more queer history related printables, check out our Patreon!
shoutout to my mum (51) this pride who told me yesterday that it matters not at all to her what I identify as, even if she can't keep up with all the terminology.
mother, you know words like "aromantic" and "pan", I think you're light-years ahead of a lot of other people.
(second shoutout to my grandparents (my mum's parents) who were the first people I came out to as some sort of queer back in 2017, and who support me unconditionally. my grandma tells me every time she sees a queer celebrity mentioned on TV like she's a Gays Daily reporter)
Because I continue to overestimate my llamas' respect for informal agreements, I opened the pasture gate to let everyone graze a bit around the neighbour's barn. This area has a fence that can be jumped over pretty easily, but I was going to be sitting there watching them the whole timeāwell, watching them intermittently while reading a book, but if I glance up every 2 minutes, realistically how could four slow herbivores
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If you would like to join me on this long and patient llama hunt, I have prepared a crude map of the terrain so you can get your bearings. We are starting on the road right next to the neighbour's barn.
My first instinct was to resolve the situation through diplomacy. If the animals wanted to slightly broaden the grazing perimeter, well, okay; I could let them eat on the side of the road. Unfortunately, only Pirlouit supported this plan.
He kept trying to stop and eat, while the llamas had places to go.
So I followed them along the road for quite a while, patiently waiting to reach the wider stretch where I knew I could sprint ahead, overtake everyone and force them to turn around. Not yet a full victory but at least I'd feel like I was regaining some influence over events.
But PampƩrigouste is familiar with my manoeuvres, and she turned around of her own initiative before we reached this spot, left the road, and led everyone into the woods for a bit (and almost managed to shake me off as I kept getting slowed down by brambles, being the only person in this situation who was wearing clothes); then she re-emerged on the road near the barn, and went into the neighbour's pasture. Which is quite vast, and goes all the way down to the torrent.
So naturally, Pampe went all the way down to the torrentāfollowing a route of astonishingly unnecessary complexity and glancing back now and then to check that her followers had not lost faith.
The other animals clearly felt that once you've reached a vast and lush pasture, the logical next step is to stay and eat (while Pampe sees it as evidence that vaster and lusher pastures remain to be discovered.)
... that is, until we reached the torrent and I finally managed to turn everyone around, back in the direction of their pasture. At that exact moment, Pampe realised grazing was an urgent priority.
Once we finally reached the road, with Pampe bringing up the rear at an aggressively leisurely pace, I figured that if I got the rest of the herd back in their pasture, she would grudgingly follow.
I was wrong.
The other animals briefly hesitated (it was getting late; their pasture was right there; they don't like spending the night in unfamiliar places) before recommitting to Pampe.
We could have actually followed the road in this direction all the way back to my house, and therefore the other, upper gate to their pasture, bringing this expedition to a neat and peaceful conclusion. Pampe solved this problem by throwing herself into the woods.
At this stage I feel that my updated map will be more informative than human language.
(I made an attempt to restore coherence to our journey through the use of directional arrows.)
When we somehow ended up back in the neighbour's pasture after an exciting (not for me) chase through the woods, I admitted defeat, and texted my neighbour to let him know my animals would be spending the night in his pasture due to circumstances not meaningfully under my control, but I would be back on the case in the morning to get them home. Having met Pampe, he didn't ask any further questions.
I didn't really believe that the animals might magically return on their own during the night, but still I left the pasture gate openābut only the one near my house; the other gate by the neighbour's pasture remained closed because I just couldn't face the slope again.
And somehow, the next morning, when I opened my window, everyone was here.
I should add that my neighbour later found several tufts of llama wool caught on his fence in various places, allowing us to partially reconstruct the llamas' return journey (that's me in the background attempting to get a statement from his cow.)
I have therefore updated my map once more to illustrate (in green) the final stage of this expedition, based on physical evidence and on my partial understanding of Pampe's worldview.
But really the moral of this story is that giving up and going to bed works. Always give up!
Apparently it's aromantic visibility day today (June 5th)
so uh hi? I'm aromantic.
Can you see me now?
See you all on April 6th when I'll be visible again for another day.
What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
68-69
70-72
73 or higher
No preference
What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?
64 or lower
65-67
68-69
70-72
73 or higher
No preference
Sometimes I think about my initial idea for Prayers to Broken Stone, which was going to be a tragic satire of the Nehru-Gandhi family starring the House of FinwĆ«, which I shelved because believe me when I say, despite their relative global fame/infamy compared to the stars of Kozhikode District North municipality politics, contextualising that fucking family and their straight up fucking weirdo dynamics for a non-Indian audience would take at least a few more years off my life than Prayers has, and frankly I didnāt have it in me to turn the line of Thingol into the fucking Bhuttos or something.
However, it would have been so fucking funny. You need to know how funny it would have been. Nehru would have been FinwĆ«, obviously. Miriel would have been Kamala Nehru, ie Nehruās wife who was pretty much a child bride and also died of tuberculosis pretty fucking soon. Indis would be Edwina Mountbatten, equally obviously.
FĆ«anor would have been Indira Gandhi, and Curufin would be Sanjay Gandhi. Finrod would have been golden boy raja beta Rahul Gandhi, and Galadriel was born to play Priyanka Gandhi. Obviously there are only a finite number of Nehru-Gandhis so I would have to branch out into the upper echelons of Bollywood and other conglomerates. Caranthir is Vijay Mallya. Maglor could have been Akshay Kumar (Canada is his Valinor) but then after the First Age, he turns into Aamir Khan and starts making social commentary Bollywood films starring his brothers. Melkor is Arnab Goswami. Fingon is Salman Khan in his shooting-deer era.
The only fly in the ointment would have been fucking Elrond. Every time I think about what Elrond could have been in that AU, all I can think of is:
that one 100% Caucasian French lady who plays Indian women in Bollywood films because Bollywood producers literally cannot sleep at night if they donāt spend every single day incrementally making colourism even more of a problem than it already is
Rajdeep Sardesai
Gotta admit that I (very German, no context for this) don't get it, but I'm always very happy to see your posts on my timeline, because I can tell you have The Most Fun with them!
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
If I'm not the best-dressed man at the on-site quarterly financial planning meeting, I'll *die*.
I am normally not a fan of shiny ties, but this one is an exception. It's this shimmery copper in person.
1940's-ish vibe - please don't drive me crazy by calling this Victorian or earlier. This is also all separates and not a suit. (Jacket and trousers would match if a suit, and there would be some cut differences, fwiw.)
Coat is less than 20 years old but is stylistically close to a hacking jacket, new vintage shirt from Darcy, new vintage trousers from Oldfield, boots are Taft, waistcoat and tie are true vintage, though at least a decade apart. (While this waistcoat is shorter than modern, it is still a tad long for the silhouette I want. So, alas, cannot completely slut it up today.)
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over
always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
summer
1. make a syllabus for yourself - books, media, places, recipes
2. complete 40% of it
3. eat every fruit u can
Summer Syllabus: flintandpyrite edition
Ok Iām going to separate it out by type I think:
Experiences
-one left over from my New England List last year (I think the only one I missed): go camping on an island! Iām booked for this in August so I need to buy sleeping mats for our tent and probably a sleeping bag
-go up north again to see the Milky Way (this was so good last year I definitely need to do it again)
-Colorado visit in July to spread my grandparentsā ashes
-canoeing? I found a bunch of places that rent canoes for cheap but maybe this is the year to buy oneā¦
-contra dance! I plan to do this in June and also August. Coincidentally the dance is ALSO on an island, and you have to catch the mailboat to get there!
-go to Canada? Hey, if the emoji oracle says I need to go to Quebec to eat croissants, who am I to argue.
-renaissance faire? Pretty sure thereās only one weekend this summer Iām not on call and can get there so hopefully the weather is ok
-I do want to get to at least one of the hyper specific food festivals in this state this year as well. So many to choose from! Oysterfest? Salmon fest? Potato blossom? Organic farmers? Wild blueberries??
-hiking is always on the list so I will try to get that in, maybe even next weekend since Iām not on call then
-outdoor picnic! I havenāt done a proper outdoor picnic in a few years and would like to. Even if itās just on a blanket in the yard.
-swim!!! We have water shoes now so there is no reason to miss out on swimming in ponds and ?the ocean? This year!! Probably will be warm enough by August so letās gooooo
-OUTDOOR SHAKESPEARE. Iām definitely going to see that Julius Caesar production at the old fort. Maybe also The Tempest down on the coast if I can get it together.
Eats
-more fiddleheads! Maybe Iāll run by the store that sells them today
-wild blueberries! We got completely screwed by the drought last year so there were almost none, really really hoping itās not so dry this year
-would like to commit to making more sourdough now that I have a fairly reliable recipe (King Arthur Flour Vermont Sourdough my beloved)
-honestly I really just need to eat through the backlog of food in our freezer so we can put up whatever we get from the garden this year! I have a lot of frozen vegetables in there that need to get et asap
-Iād like to grill more too! I did burgers stuffed with bleu cheese last night and they were really delicious! Grilled pizza? Chicken skewers? So much I havenāt done. And grilled veggies are so easy.
-oh I need to make a cake for Frankieās birthday! He never asks for one but I know he likes it. Something custard-y. Maybe strawberries and custard.
-last year we went to the best restaurant in the state for our anniversary and Iād like to make another reservation there this year! Seven years together, crazy.
Books/mediaāIām so bad at planning these ahead of time because I pretty much read according to mood but:
-top of the list, just got out of the library: If We Were Villains, dark academia my beloved
-next up I want to reread Rebecca bc we are doing a book club with my mom and SIL
-Jane Eyre, round 5? I just love that book so much
-Iām on book 6 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series so I have a few more to go before Iām caught up. Highly highly recommend the audiobook version of this, Jeff Hayes does a different voice for every character and itās just tremendous.
-new June Hur book?? Yes please š I love her.
-pretty sure I have a few Murderbot stories to catch up on!
-basically Iād like to read more with my eyes and spend less time online overall. Iāll try to keep something on my kindle at all times because im way better at reading there than on my phone.
Hobbies
-Iām hoping to finish my x blocks for that purple and orange quilt by July! Going to have to stay focused if I want that done in any kind of time. Letās say Iāll finish the top by august, ok?
-Iām definitely on track to finish the yoke of that silk sweater by the end of this month. Does that mean I will finish the sweater this year? Ehhhh
-my parents were just in Iceland and got me the lĆ©ttlopi to make a Riddari for Frankie. Itās going to be the perfect addition to his wardrobe so I will try to make that before winter is over next year. Weāll see!
-I have Reddit blocked on my phone and social media (my only social media is tumblr lol) limited to 2 hours per day. Iām going to try and stick to that all summer so I can enjoy The Outdoors more
-running!! Iām doing the 100 days challenge in 2026 and on track to hit 50 days of running in June. Iāll try to keep it up after that as well :) would love to get back to doing a 5k weekly as well as my short runs
-the garden!! The work of planting is done but now itās all weeding and watering until late July when things start to be edible. Iām really hoping my seeds germinate as planned :)
Learning
-plans are in motion to start offering [new treatment type] at work so Iād like to stay on top of the recent science and recommendations for that. I took some notes on it earlier this year so I will review once itās approved by the higher-ups
-we also have a [piece of equipment relevant to my work] available and Iād really love to become certified in it. I will try to make moves towards taking a class and getting that covered by my employers
that's so fun, made my own list as well!
Learning
Read a short story in Chinese (I've got this side by side storybook lying around)
Work through Polish textbook as a refresher Participate in a course offered at the local community college (no idea what they're currently offering)
Learn to build an app from scratch (and actually complete the app)
Write an essay about a topic I know nothing about.
Complete the Crash Course about Native American history on YouTube
Also the one on South American literature
Visit a local museum
Hobbies
At my local bouldering gym, complete a blue route (moderate-hard difficulty)
Bake some good bread (haven't worked with yeast much for a while)
Run a 10k to prep for the
18k Xletix obstacle run in September
Be brave and try out a new machine at the gym (even if it might look silly figuring things out)
Finish the CSS for the modified AO3 rainbow skin (lost half of that after accidentally deleting :(( )
Make another deep sea inspired AO3 skin
Write a short story with at least 10 pages (so bad at prose lol)
Experiences
See another local theatre production (went to an interpretation of Cassandra's story earlier this year and that we awesome!)
Get nails done professionally (never done that before, and I don't know yet if I really want to xD)
Donate blood
Have a themed dinner with friends
Go swim in a nearby lake or river (sadly none directly in town)
Have an outdoor reading session with friends (maybe with a picnic?)
Decorate my bedroom ceiling with glowy stars
Explore a nearby town I haven't visited before
Participate in a political demonstration
Go on a day long hike (we have some nice trails not too far out)
Books and Media
Finally read 'Dawnshard'
Catch up on the Rivers of London series
Watch the Murderbot show
Read a book about a niche subject I know nothing about
Borrow books from the library
How to Fix Underwriting
1. Slow down at emotionally important moments.
Big emotions need space to land. If a scene feels rushed, pause the plot briefly to show how the moment affects the character.
2. Add reactions, not explanations.
Instead of explaining what a character feels, show it through physical responses, hesitation, or small actions that reveal emotion naturally.
3. Ground every scene in the senses.
If a scene feels thin, add one or two sensory detailsāsound, texture, smell, or temperatureāto make the moment feel lived-in.
4. Let thoughts interrupt action.
A line of internal thought can deepen a scene without slowing it too much. Thoughts show stakes, fear, longing, or conflict beneath the action.
5. Expand consequences, not events.
You donāt need more things to happenāyou need to show what matters. Focus on how events change relationships, decisions, or self-perception.
6. Strengthen setting where emotion peaks.
The environment should echo or contrast the emotion of the scene. Setting is not decorationāitās emotional reinforcement.
7. Add specific details instead of general ones.
Underwriting often relies on vague language. Swap āthey arguedā for one sharp line of dialogue or a specific breaking point.
8. Let dialogue breathe.
Short dialogue exchanges without pauses can feel flat. Add beatsāsilence, gestures, interruptionsāto give the conversation weight.
9. Show transitions between scenes.
If scenes jump too quickly, readers feel disoriented. A brief transition helps establish time, mood, and emotional continuity.
10. Clarify stakes early in the scene.
If readers donāt know what can be lost, scenes feel empty. Make sure the character wants something specific and fears losing it.
11. Use the āwhat are they feelingĀ right now?ā check.
After each major beat, ask what emotion is dominant in that moment. If itās missing on the page, the scene is likely underwritten.
12. Expand scenes that feel ātoo clean.ā
If a scene resolves too neatly or quickly, it probably needs more tension. Messy emotions and unresolved feelings add depth.
image title: you will regret inviting me to contribute to any cursed fandom trend because i will take it and i will run with it and turn up late and transform whimsy into actual nightmare fuel.
anyway, meet maglor the reverse mermaid. if i ever came across this fucking guy when out running on the beaches of old lindon, my head would say RUN, my heart would say RUN, and my [redacted] would say ā¦ok look hear me out
thank you for asking me along to the chaos @peasant-player + for running this event, truly the contributions have me wheezing forever and turned a hell week into a much more tolerable one! š„°
also you know how my commissions say iām happy to draw most things except furry/anthro stuff because of style clash? this is why. this is why i am the last person you want touching your fursona.
sure being clumsy is cute, until you try to drink any beverage like a normal person and end up spilling, say, iced coffee all over yourself
yeah okay, admittedly I was trying to get to the ice cubes to crunch on them, which is a decidedly more risky maneuver, but surely that counts as normal-person-drinking
