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transmasc-wizard

people who just use acespec as their identity instead of something "more specific" or just "asexual" are cool

people who just use arospec as their identity instead of something "more specific" or just "aromantic" are also cool

people who use acespec and a more specific identity are cool

people who use arospec and a more specific identity are also cool

acespecs and arospecs are cool

gayteensupreme

meiselr

Happy Pride-Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Let’s celebrate with Pride-Togepis :)

I will offer these as stickers in my shop in Autumn.

snootyfoxfashion

Worm on a string LGBTQ+ Pride Flag Sticker from nomsikka

netoey

Isoport you <3

this really dumb pun won’t leave my head and I haven’t done anything for pride yet so here we are :)

bananonbinary

here’s another fun fact: asexual does not mean nonsexual.

asexuals’ relationship with sex and sexual attraction tends to be….complicated. there’s a bit of an idea of like, oh of course, you’re either sex-favorable, sex-neutral, or sex-repulsed, but honestly i see a LOT of discussion about how wildly different those can each look for each individual. some people are comfortable with some acts in very specific contexts, and deeply upset by them in all others. some people find certain forms of nonsexual intimacy (like kissing) to still be off-limits, while something most people might consider more charged (like nudity) is totally fine. a lot of us just kind of have a long laundry list like “this is fine, this isn’t, that one’s okay, that one’s always off-limits….” because the big secret is that “sex” isn’t really any cohesive act as much as a lot of little things that people just threw together and called one thing.

as for attraction: some aces are actually attracted to other people once in a blue moon, and simply don’t want to clarify that every time. some aren’t entirely sure, but don’t want to spend their whole lives guessing. some ARE completely sure they never have and never will feel an attraction.

at the end of the day, much like any label, this single word really doesn’t tell you much of anything about what a person is actually like unless you bother to ask them what it means to them.

fuckyeahasexual

Okay so I don't know why people say sex or love is what makes us human. Lots of organisms in nature have sex or mate for life. You know what makes us human? Cooking. Nothing else in nature cooks except humans. Checkmate aphobes. Sincerely, an ace cook.

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is that true??

Holy shit!!

singing-sorrowless

Not only that, some anthropologists think that cooking is what MADE us human- as in the ability to consume large amounts of EASIER-to-digest calories (with all the pathogens killed off and the tough cell walls broken down) is the thing that allowed us to devote evolutionary energy to growing larger brains, and solidified the beginnings of communal human civilization. Have you seen how many hours a day pandas spend chewing on raw bamboo? Cooking let us take a shortcut so we could evolve in other ways. Especially bread, bc it’s a lot of caloric energy packed into a portable chunk you could take with you for days and days. Also in order to have bread you have to have grain farms, so bread (and beer, also made from grains) sort of catalyzed humans settling down into centralized permanent settlements. So cooking (and eventually farming) didn’t just help us physiologically evolve into our current form, but also shaped our social structures from the beginning. You should watch the Michael Pollan documentary “Cooked,” on Netflix! It’ll rock your world.

Source: “What makes us human? Cooking, new study says,” National Geographic

synapselost

Evolutionarily evolved to love Bread

jenniferrpovey

There’s a strong theory that we didn’t invent farming to make bread.

We invented it to make beer.

sarasa-cat

Just to put this into the long time frame of perspective, agriculture with permanent settlements is about 10,000 years old where as the earliest archaeological evidence of cooking is a million years old, which is a massively big difference.

But biological evidence suggests the earliest human ancestors who cooked have been doing so for almost twice that – almost 2 million years ago.

Here is an abstract for a non-paywalled paper that models this:

Organ, C., Nunn, C. L., Machanda, Z., & Wrangham, R. W. (2011). Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of Homo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(35), 14555–14559. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107806108

ABSTRACT

Unique among animals, humans eat a diet rich in cooked and nonthermally processed food. The ancestors of modern humans who invented food processing (including cooking) gained critical advantages in survival and fitness through increased caloric intake. However, the time and manner in which food processing became biologically significant are uncertain. Here, we assess the inferred evolutionary consequences of food processing in the human lineage by applying a Bayesian phylogenetic outlier test to a comparative dataset of feeding time in humans and nonhuman primates. We find that modern humans spend an order of magnitude less time feeding than predicted by phylogeny and body mass (4.7% vs. predicted 48% of daily activity). This result suggests that a substantial evolutionary rate change in feeding time occurred along the human branch after the human–chimpanzee split. Along this same branch, Homo erectus shows a marked reduction in molar size that is followed by a gradual, although erratic, decline in H. sapiens. We show that reduction in molar size in early Homo (H. habilis and H. rudolfensis) is explicable by phylogeny and body size alone. By contrast, the change in molar size to H. erectus, H. neanderthalensis, and H. sapiens cannot be explained by the rate of craniodental and body size evolution. Together, our results indicate that the behaviorally driven adaptations of food processing (reduced feeding time and molar size) originated after the evolution of Homo but before or concurrent with the evolution of H. erectus, which was around 1.9 Mya.

livingbisexualtragedy

Happy international asexuality day!

For aces who are in the closet.

For aces who can't coming out.

For aces who already come out.

For aces who use microlabels.

For aces who like sex.

For aces who hate sex.

For aces who don't mind sex.

This day is for every ace.

This day is for you.

kyri45

Be Ace, do Crime

(Small doodle for the International Asexuality Day!♠️♣️♥️♦️) Gentle reminder that:

💜You are not broken or in need to find the ‘right person’ to fix you💜

💜you are never alone and your other 70 000 000 fellows ace friends around the world will always support you💜

💜You’re valid and awesome and if someone tell you otherwise fight them with your cards💜

roses-and-giggles

Ace ghost stimboard for International Asexuality day

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demi-romantics

Happy International Asexuality Day everybody! May this be a wonderful international celebration of everybody under the ace umbrella! And may this be the first one but certainly not the last time this day is celebrated all around the world by fellow aces!

alphabetsoupcomic

Pages 52, 53, 54, 55, and 56 all at once!!! Whaaat?!

this will probably never happen again

lordiedams

Ooh this is sweet

thelockenessmonster

Wow, this was actually really helpful for helping me understand demisexuality more. I never really got it before but now I feel like I know a bit more about it, thanks OP.