Azizo (they/them)

The void and i, we're friends .  

[aro-ace-culture-is]

aroace culture is not understanding why literally every 'subtle' aroace phone background is just the flag with the lines slightly blended together.

i want a subtle phone background if i wanted the flag id put the flag.

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[wandixx]

I don't know if that's what anyone needs or meant in the ask, however, I did the thing. I'm more than willing to adjust what I did here or create a whole new design if someone let's me know. Colors got away from me a bit while drawing the stars, but I hope it's still close enough to suit someone's needs. After quick research it turned out that most popular dimensions of phone screens were 9:16, 3:4 and 1:2, so I made version for each, with text for better deniability, and without it, in few contrast options. I tried painting on relatively big canvas, so they'd look well on different sizes of screens, but I don't know how much Tumblr will compress. Anyway:

9:16

Rest will come soon in further reblogs, because of Tumblr won't let me put all in one go

[wandixx]

3:4

One reblog to go

[wandixx]

1:2

I hope someone likes it. Drawing realistic stars was pretty cool. I can try with something more stylized, with actual aroace colors, though I'm not sure if then it won't be too on the nose tbh. Maybe I'll test it out

[mimilove2003]

Ace wallpaper/background

[storybookprincess]

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

[skribblegurl]

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

[heywriters]

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

[bumblewyn]

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

[breelandwalker]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

[myfairkatiecat]

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

[sirowsky]

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

[anaglyph2007]

REBLOGGING TO SAVE MORE LIVES

[anxiouswarlock]

THROWING THIS SHIT LIKE A LIFE PRESERVER

[1995lahaine]

"why is tumblr how i found out xyz" because you check your social media first thing in the morning instead of like. checking the news. hope that helps

[sandersstudies]

“Why is nobody talking about this?” This story was on the second page of every major reliable newspaper.

[intactics-deactivated20211231]

You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but most of your friends do not see it at all, and often wonder why, liking this, you should also like that. Again, you have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been looking for all your life; and then turned to the friend at your side who appears to be seeing what you saw - but at the first words a gulf yawns between you, and you realise that this landscape means something totally different to him, that he is pursuing an alien vision and cares nothing for the ineffable suggestion by which you are transported. Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of - something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat’s side? Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it - tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say “Here at last is the thing I was made for”. We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work. While we are, this is. If we lose this, we lose all.

― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

Is this anything?

Gwen's niche hobby is armour because it is NOT sad for a girl to know a lot about armour

[antarctic-arcanine]

If I ever share anything that was AI generated it is purely by accident. I hate that it's getting harder and harder to tell and it makes me want to never use the internet again. It definitely had its faults, but man I miss the internet of the 2000s so much.

[myqueenmarceline]

Adding to this: please TELL ME if I share something that is genAI and you know it is. I want to know this information.

[uwillneverknowwho]

Not only should teachers be paid more, they should have paid work hours dedicated to lesson planning and paperwork. Drops mic and walks away

[echosblanketfort]

I am gently taking your hands and begging you, BEGGING YOU, to understand that humans are not inherently harmful to the planet. We are animals who are part of the ecosystem. We belong here. This is our home. We belong here. You belong here. Yes, you belong here.

[dinosaur-ears]

"humans are animals too" means both that we are not uniquely worthy or valuable and that we are not uniquely terrible or harmful. We have the capacity and the responsibility to do better.

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[ginny-lala]

[lonelycharm]

genuinely what is romantic attraction?? because i don't think i experience it but i do kind of want a relationship someday. with someone who i think is nice, who understands and respects me. someone with nice lips who i could maybe kiss? so basically a friend whom i would occasionally kiss and also call my boyfriend? like i want a relationship that society would deem romantic but it actually wouldn't be. or maybe it would be just a little. i think i want romance but not romantic attraction. but i don't really know what romantic attraction is. i think i'm aroace but i still want some kind of relationship.

[chubby-aphrodite]

How many asexual/aromantic people do you reckon still think they “haven’t found the right person yet”

How many do you think thought that in all of human history

How many do you think forced themselves into relationships and whole marriages by thinking “this is how it’s supposed to go right? this is how I’m supposed to behave and this is how it’s supposed to feel? this is what I’m feeling right?”

and how many do you think wound up just thinking there was something wrong with them and wound up fucking miserable their whole lives

I hope there were some that didn’t. Some that found kinships of other types, maybe of others who felt the same way. Maybe just friends and family.

I know we’ve always been here. I know we’ve survived. It’s disheartening that we’ll never quite realize how many, but I hope cataloguing ourselves now will help others in the future not feel so alone.

[oocooartistry]

I decided to make yet another aroace wallpaper, since I'm not sure I feel comfortable using my Lovejoy ones anymore. This one is good if you want something subtle!

[whispers-into-the-void]

THIS is what subtle wallpapers should look like. masterful

[lunazepotato]

People said that Tumblr isn't a great place to post original art that isn't fanart, but I'm doing it anyway because I haven't got the motivation to draw anything else

Happy pride month lads! 🧡💛🤍💙

from an aroace potato :)

[spoonbendersanonymous]

"Single people are on average less healthy, less financially stable, and overall less satisfied with life than partnered and married people are. This must mean that monogamous relationships and marriage are the solution to society's problems"

Huh, it's almost like society, both socially and financially, is set up to specifically benefit people who have monogamous relationships and get married and punish people who don't partner or get married. It's almost like there are financial benefits that exist specifically to incentivize people to get married and have kids and be a nuclear family. It's almost like it was very culturally normal until very very very recently to just not have any deeper platonic relationships after you get married, meaning that single people past a certain age just get left behind and get treated as spinsters or loser bachelors. It's like life just is not designed for single people to be able to easily participate and survive while still being single. Huh, very weird. I'm sure marriage will fix this.

[fairycosmos]

i will die without routine. also this routine is killing me

[fairycosmos]

ROUTINE DRAGS ME ALONG BUT I WOULDN'T MOVE WITHOUT IT