1st try portrait painting experiment/practice. Sad chrollo is sad 😢. I’ll try to finish it tomorrow…
Oil painted chrollo looks so right! He must be sad coz his little spiders (children) are dying :(
I laughed so hard at your tag. Now I can’t stop imagining him as a painted witch in a haunted castle.
yeah it’s silly. it’s also for gishwhes 2017, which just began today.
i’ve created a survey to determine which side of the mouth people tend to start with when brushing their teeth. if y’all can fill this out, it’d be much appreciated!
i need 400 participants in this survey, so please reblog this post and spread the word! every response is valued!
if you would like to send the link to other friends, here is a copy-paste version:
thank you for taking the time to help me out and taking my survey!
Do you have a list of YA books that don't feature romance as a main plot, only as a minor/background sub-plot involving other characters? As an aromantic and asexual teenage girl, it would be really nice to read a book in which it isn't the main focus and not feel like a freak of nature for once. Thanks!
Editor of YA Interrobang here! First of all, you should never - ever - feel like a freak of nature. Half of Team Interrobang is on the asexual spectrum, including me, and there are plenty of authors who are asexual or aromantic or both, even if it’s not something they actively discuss. (Take Katie Locke, for instance, an author on the asexual spectrum whose debut YA novel hits shelves next year.) You are not alone, and you are no more a freak than I am.But time to answer your actual question! Here are some books with as little romance as possible or no romance:- A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston - Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge - Archivist Wasp by Nicole Korhner Stace- Tunnel Vision by Susan Adrian- Seven Second Delay by Tom Easton- The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma- The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews- This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab- A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (out in UK now, releases in US in March 2017)- On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis- I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest- Iris and the Tiger by Leanne Hall- Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung (releases in September)- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman- The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes- Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein- Nobody’s Princess by Esther Friesner- You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner (releases 2017)- and many, many more, but if I keep going my fingers will breakHere are some books with specifically asexual characters:- This Song Is Not For You by Laura Rawlin- Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari- Ultraviolet + Quicksilver by R.J. Anderson- The Beast of Callaire by Saruuh Kelsey- Make Much of Me by Kayla Bashe- Deadly Sweet Lies by Erica Cameron- We Awaken by Calista Lynne- As Autumn Leaves by Kate Sands- Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire (a personal favorite)- We Go Forward by Alison Evans- Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee (releases 2017)Tristina Wright’s 27 Hours, which releases in 2017, has a character that is both asexual AND aromantic. And here are posts on YA Interrobang that may be of interest to you:- Calista Lynne talks about sexual representation in YA- Adrianne Strickland talks writing as a genderqueer asexual- Julie Daly talks asexual representation in YA (with recs)Happy reading!- Nicole ( @nebrinkley ), editor
“Let’s get back those 37 cents” - Serena Williams
imagine being able to handle things. that’s wild.
PoC Ace & Aro positivity.
Things I can’t deal with: “aces aren’t oppressed because not being sexual is considered pure and good”
Yeah, if you’re a white woman. I am sick and tired of people dismissing the complicated relationships POC have to sexuality (in the “being sexual” sense, not the orientation sense, though that’s it’s own maze of complexity). And when we do talk about, it’s solely about hypersexualization, which is only half of the puzzle.
Brown and black people of all genders are also desexualized. That’s true overall, but I can only speak in detail about the experience of being a south asian brown woman. Me being non-sexual is NOT seen as pure and good. It’s seen as my default state. Even more so because I am not thin by any definition (fat people, and fat POC in particular, have that extra layer of desexualization to deal with). I am not “pure” when I don’t have sex and “dirty” when I do. Non-sexual is seen as my “natural” state of being. Having sexual desire/being sexual, for a brown fat girl, speeds right on past “dirty” and into “repulsive”. It’s not naughty or scandalous, it’s unnatural, gross, the abject.
Asexuality as an identity is already so much to try to grapple with when you have this history of colonialism and white supremacy defining what it means to be sexual. I don’t fucking need white lgbt people preaching to me about how society ~values~ lack of sexuality/sexual desire, when imposing that lack upon us has been one of the historical tools of white supremacy.
On a separate but related note - it also smacks very much to me of the whole “society’s ideal woman is bisexual”! Which again a) completely misunderstands the definition of the identity and b) imposes a ridiculously narrow white-centric understanding of sexuality onto the whole goddamn world.
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@cryingcucumber - Mai Li - 21 - She/Her or They/Them - lesbian demiromantic ace questioning nonbinary - Korean/Ashkenazi
I’m a media studies nerd with a love of video games, a toy collector, a hobbyist artist, and a recent college grad. I’m cryingcucumber on tumblr, come talk to me about the social impact of video games or other nerd stuff!
@europa-io - Europa - 21 - She/Her - Aro/Ace - Indian
I go by Europa, she/her pronouns are good with me and I’m 21 years old. I’m proudly aromantic and asexual. I’m Indian but I was born in South Africa, and I’m currently living in Australia. I’m doing my Bachelor of Science in Maths and Physics currently. I love space, astronomy and all things Maths, especially topology. As for hobbies, I enjoy reading, games, anime/manga, drawing/painting (I’m terrible at it though), playing with my dog Samson and drinking tea. I’m europa-io on tumblr if you ever want someone to talk to.
@kuraihonofullmeta - Vlad - 17 - She/Her - Quoiromantic Asexual - African-American
I’m Vlad and my pronouns are she/her. I am only weeks away from 18 and I am a possibly non binary quoiromantic asexual, who has some type of attraction to females and female aligned individuals. I am an African-American, living in America. I am a quite boring individual, whose interests include anime, most of the shows on the SyFy channel, Dungeons and Dragons, Harry Potter, most movies from the MCU (except Captain America) and other books/movies/shows of science fiction and fantasy subject matter, so long as it has action in it.
@mooncake24 - Sofia - 16 - She/Her - Cis Alloromantic Ace - Native American
Hello, I’m Sofia a 16 year old who goes by she/her pronouns and I am a cis alloromantic ace ( though things may change, I am still figuring myself but I will always be ace). I am a proud Native American, who was born in San Francisco but is being primarily raised in Houston. I live for memes and nerding out over the things I love such as comics/anime/cartoons,history and medicine. My dream is to one day become a surgeon and to open my own hospital.
@se-anubis - Se-Anubis - 19 - He/Him or They/Them - Agender Asexual Aromantic Panalterous - African-American
Hello, I’m Se-Anubis, a 19 year old Agender Asexual Aromantic Panalterous Black guy. I use he/him or they/them pronouns, but it doesn’t really matter to me. Originally from Louisiana, I’ve lived pretty much everywhere in the Southern US. Big anime fan, but I love most animation, even in America. If you see a HC for a cartoon or book that you’ve never heard of, it was probably me, lol.
@stardust-rain - Alex - 27 - She/Her - Aromantic Asexual - Chinese
I’m stardust (or Alex), I’m a 1.5 generation Chinese diaspora who grew up in Sweden, recently finished my MA and am currently working in Hong Kong. I like reading, space, cities, urban fantasy and audio drama and occasionally going on long rants about politics and representation.
Extra thanks to @uncontinuous for the original idea.
hi i’m curious, take this quiz made by dreamworks and put your results with ur zodiac sign in the tags
I just came to a 2 a.m. realization.
Gryffindor: I want to be.
Slytherin: I will be.
Ravenclaw: I could be.
Hufflepuff: I try to be.
That’s more accurate than most Hogwarts House quizzes. That’s not an exaggeration.
This drawing by Araki really makes me wish we got to see more of Jotaro’s wife. Like who tf even is she???? We never got to see anything about her!
do u ever feel like you’ve accidentally tricked certain people into thinking you are smarter and have more potential than you actually do and do you ever think about how disappointed they’ll be when you inevitably crash and burn
Fun fact: Impostor Syndrome is ridiculously common among high-achievers, particularly women. If you identify with this post, odds are pretty good that you’re exactly as smart as people think you are, and the failure you’re afraid of isn’t inevitable at all.
and don’t forget this is one of the psychological barriers placed in by thousands years of patriarchy and male supremacy.
My computer science professor actually talked about this on the first day, it was really cool.
Fun brutal fact: in addition to the existence of imposter syndrome, being “twice exceptional” (also known as 2e) is also a thing. That means being intellectually gifted AND ALSO having a disability that affects your ability to succeed at study or work. Such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc etc etc. A lot of people believe that it’s not possible to be both, but it very much is.
Society tends to have very high expectations for how well gifted people will perform. Society tends to have low expectations for how well disabled people will perform. Society tends to attribute invisible disabilities, including mental illness, to a failure of willpower or effort or a bad attitude.
So if you read this post and went “no, but seriously, this is not just low self esteem on my part, people keep thinking I’m smart and then I keep crashing and burning and disappointing them and they can’t understand why I didn’t live up to their expectations, it happens again and again and when I tell someone how I feel and ask for help, they just tell me to stop being so hard on myself and that I’ll succeed if I have more self-confidence,” it is not just you.
(Also, one of the previous posts in this thread buried the lede a little. Imposter syndrome is ridiculously common in people from underrepresented groups in academia and other high pressure/high status fields, particularly women and people of colour. Maya Angelou did not only feel out of place because she was a woman.)
This essay also totally changed my view on the intersection of impostor syndrome and mental illness.
