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Holy SHIT guys I commissioned Kevan Brighting to say some comforting things as the narrator and it’s giving me LIFE. He did such an incredible job. Please give this a listen. AAAAAAAAAA

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I’m attaching a transcript below with emotional indicators for those of us who struggle to pick up on that sort of thing.

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snowbaz fluff(y hair) for the soul✨

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Valentine’s Day kisses 10/10(!)

Alex, Henry and the prompts ‘Neck’ & ‘sleepy’

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“You were talking with Nora and June, happy and animated and fully alive, a person living in dimensions I couldn’t access, and so beautiful. Your hair was longer then. You weren’t even a president’s son yet, but you weren’t afraid. You had a yellow ipê-amarelo in your pocket.

I thought, this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen, and I had better keep it a safe distance away from me. I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire.”

- Chapter 11, Red, White and Royal Blue

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Favourite scene from Any Way The Wind Blows for Baz’s birthday!

And an extra page of Simon playing with Baz’s hair because this is apparently my new favourite thing:

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“I know what you are.”

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Love, A.

Happy birthday to His Royal Highness Prince Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor ✨💕

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“You and me and history, remember? We’re just gonna fucking fight. Because you’re it, okay?”

- Alex, Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

This scene was voted on by my fellow RWRB fans on Twitter and Instagram for Fandom Forward’s charity auction! Details for the auction will be forthcoming, but this piece will be put up for bid as an 8x10 print (along with a few other RWRB-themed goodies by me). Stay tuned for details on how to bid!

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The cuteness and softness and endearingness this hualian donghua style chibi emanate melts my heart (TT).

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“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

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Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

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supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

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prepare for a ramble my friends because I just spent a week researching ace history for an essay and this isn’t the first use of the term.

The first use of the term ‘asexual’ that I can find is from 1907. Charles Schlegel, a german preacher in new orleans, was put on trial(?) by his church for advocating for gay rights (again, in 1907. this guy was badass) and this was his response in court:

“Let the same laws for all the intermediate stages of sexual life: the homosexuals, heterosexuals, bisexuals, asexuals, be legal as they are now in existence for the heterosexuals.” (quote taken from ‘Minutes of the Presbytery of New Orleans’, spring meeting 1907)

He resigned, and was deposed from the ministry, but still. The guts on this man.

the first use of the definition of asexuality (which is contested so this is my opinion only) was Emma Trosse’s pamphlet ‘Ein Weib? Der Konträrsexualismus in Bezug auf Ehe und Frauenfrage’ which was written in 1895.

The whole thing is written in german (and in frakturschrift) which I don’t speak very well at all so if there are any germans out there who want to take a crack at it, you are welcome to it (and also pls send me your translations), but my approximate translation is as follows (emphasis added):

there is another kind of connection in Hymen’s realm. I’m talking about people without sensuality, it is only possible with them. A general laugh and head shaking. “Something like that does not exist. This is twisted, overstrained stuff. Human remains human. Nobody can go against nature.” […] When he’s gone, she longs for him, for his presence, his conversation, not for his embrace, his kisses, at least not kisses like the ones he usually gives. She loves his spirit, his soul, not his body.

What she’s talking about here is, as far as I’m concerned, romantic asexuals, or even QPRs, relationships between someone who doesn’t feel sexual attraction or desire, but still loves their partner. “this “apparently without sensuality” is perhaps the most intense degree of sensuality that lies over the body” says Emma Trosse and I’m inclined to agree.

1895.

First mention of asexuality (bc that’s what it is really) was from only 3 years after the first use of ‘homosexual’ in english and well before ‘gay’ was used to describe same-sex attraction.

And yet, people still say we’re a tumblr invention. WE HAVE A FUCKING CATEGORY ON THE KINSEY SCALE AND HAVE SINCE THE 1940S

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mr. crimson rain 📸

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i finished awtwb last night…! what a journey. here’s simon & baz getting some well-deserved cuddles <3

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been thinking about simons eventual surgery scars a lot lately 🤍 posting a lineless and lined version of this because they both looked good and i’m trying to experiment