#ace discovery

[lili-lilis-posts]

I just discovered something about myself tonight. I feel like pride month helped me really discover this more (I’ve been reading about the different communities in the LGBTQIA+ community!) I feel like the best way to celebrate and describe myself is…I’m grey ace and Panromantic! I feel so happy to have discovered more aspects of myself!

[thewonderginger]

How I discovered I’m Ace!

There were actually a lot of signs my entire life but because I was celibate and waiting until marriage I thought it was just a religious thing.  Then my religious friends were into sex in a way I couldn’t understand, getting married so they don’t “sin”, so I just thought I was doing right by Jesus or something for being a an 18-year-old virgin.  One day I meet friends and they’re like “Yo, sex is weird, we’re waiting til marriage too” and I was like “Ayy”!  Feeling a whole lot less alone.  Then a few years later those friends say “Well maybe not until marriage but with the one I’ll eventually marry” and I’m like “say what”.  Starting to feel alone again.  Then one day a friend and I had a real long conversation about kinks and masturbation and I was trying to be sex positive and honest.  But I couldn’t talk specifically about what I liked done to my body.  Like that made me freeze.  I cried when I went home and I had no fucking idea why.  I was confused because I loved talking about sex but just not me having sex.  I liked learning about kinks but was super uncomfortable talking about the ones I liked.  Then I discovered Ashley Mardell!!

She’s a youtuber and she was, and still is, crazy into LGBTQIA+ identities and I watched her channel like nobody’s fucking business!  And amongst her coming out as pansexual videos, slam poems about pride, guess what she did a video series on?  A-fucking-sexuality!!!  It’s still up!  Its really in depth.  Go fucking watch it!  And you know what I felt when I watched it???  “Oh, thats neat.  Anyways I’m straight”.  LIKE NO 24-year-old me!  You were so close.  I told my friend that I related to asexuals and I loved that they existed but I wasn’t asexual myself.  I was convinced that because I masturbated so much and because I was trying to be sex positive that I would get married and have crazy sex with my husband, and that was actually a really relieving mentality for a while.  

Then one day at 26 years old I went back to those videos and watched them again.  And then I watched them a month later.  Then I found documentaries.  Everyday I was looking up as much asexual content as I could.  I was compelled.  Compulsed.  I was obsessed!!!  I gave myself a moment and said “Go ahead and identify as asexual”.  It was weird.  It wasn’t comfortable.  I was straight.  A cis lady who liked dudes straight.  But I kept saying in my head for weeks that I was ace and I didn’t want to let it go.  It was like I was following the sun that I felt existed but had never seen in my life.  

I have been identifying as het-ace ever since and it has filled in so many gaps in my life.  I can deal with crushes and compartmentalize my emotions in a much healthier way.  The idea of being alone, though never really something that bothered me, has lost a lot of its terror. I now realize I was equating waiting until marriage with my asexual feelings which is why it bothered me when my friends didn’t want to wait. But most importantly I’ve actually allowed myself to dislike sex.  I never realized but there was a lot I was forcing myself to do mentally because I was trying to be “healthy”.  Sex is a good thing and I strongly believe that.  But it is not a requirement.  Have Pride fellow Aces! 

[frederator-studios]

It's been more than five years since Cartoon Hangover let loose Tom Gran & Martin Woolley's "Ace Discovery." 2018 verdict? — as rude and funny now as then.

https://youtu.be/kdZddYMTCkY

[worldofwonky]

Throwback to this pilot cartoon we produced for Cartoon Hangover... I wonder what ace is doing now? (drunk probably)

[lesserknownwaifus]

[spinkickbros]

new Ace Discovery character line-up for the 100% top secret Ace comic we’re working on

[spinkickbros]

Here’s an initial design for a new Ace Discovery side character. We’re thinking of making Ace into a webcomic and shoving it down everybody’s throats until someone is forced to give us a big-time TV series/movie deal.

[frederator-studios]

Whoa! It's been a whole year since "Ace Discovery" premiered over on Cartoon Hangover Uncensored. The short's by the Spin Kick Bros, Tom Gran and Martin Woolley. Give it another watch, why don't you, if only for all those adorable schnitzels.