December 2011
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hidden-agender:
vladdraculea:
hernameishelen:
No it’s not. Love can be great, and sex can be great. And love can be horrid. And sex can be horrid. Love is not INTRINSICALLY better, more positive, or more “good” than sex. Love and sex, or rather, I should say, romantic phenomenon and sexual phenomenon are both neutral subjects.
Really, they aren’t comparable, like apples and oranges....
This Quintessence of Dust: Helping a friend... →
duskandshiverrr:
Helping a friend prepare for a paper about the persecution of ‘witches’ in the Middle Ages, thinking
those are my people really I mean the persecution of those practicing the Old Craft and all the people accused of doing so—like that’s a bad thing—was so long and so very thorough that was one of…
This ^
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Your Diagnosis →
hawkelf:
crasscenturion:
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greytaliesin:
Fond of tradition, but attached more to the joy of human interaction, you are often a beacon of hope to those members of society who have lost faith or who are in need of succor. You are often emotional, and this emotionality is rarely held in check. Kind and helping by nature, when affronted you will explode, and just as...
An Accessory to Rambling: Tripped over yet another... →
hawkelf:
writingfromfactorx:
hawkelf:
writingfromfactorx:
Tripped over yet another resource defining asexuality as a “lack of external genitalia” again today. Since questions about my gender identity or my genital configurations aren’t actually uncommon for me when I come out, this one is a little bit of a pet peeve of mine.
Last year, when I found…
Would emailing them help, in this...
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Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on... →
acalc:
infoneer-pulse:
The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.
Though the software is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually...
November 2011
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beccabooface:
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jackal-crow:
Chorus: I am my mother’s savage...
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acesecrets:
I’m glad to be part of the asexual community. It’s helped me figure out who I am and my place in the world.
But I hate it when anyone, anyone at all refers to people of a sexual orientation by that label pluralised - eg. “asexuals”. I get that they’re only trying to refer to the group as a whole but using that word feels really dehumanising to me. I feel like I’m...
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LGBT Leadership: Split Hairs and Burnt Bodies →
Trigger Warning: graphic description of a brutal murder.
When Matthew Shepard was beaten bloody, tied to a fence, and left to die alone in agony, a call was heard around the United States for tolerance toward differing sexual orientations. The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community banded together, mourned and got to work to pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr....
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“Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you...”
– 10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)
If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large...
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““Lack of motivation” is a generally misunderstood symptom of depression. It does...”
– Maud, There’s Good News and Bad News. And Fat News. (Shakesville)
Wow, I have never seen this phenomenon explained so well and so accurately before.
(via autumnyte, kiriamaya)
If anyone’s ever wondered why I have problems getting things done: This is why. And I really hate it.
(via...
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Watchfat-birds:
Popcorn-crazy Frank by violetpie on Flickr.
Via Flickr: He would make a terrible date for the movies…
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““Lack of motivation” is a generally misunderstood symptom of depression. It does...”
– Maud, There’s Good News and Bad News. And Fat News. (Shakesville)
Wow, I have never seen this phenomenon explained so well and so accurately before.
(via autumnyte, kiriamaya)
If anyone’s ever wondered why I have problems getting things done: This is why. And I really hate it.
(via...
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holdontoyourassbutts:
(CINNAMON ROLL...
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I'm working on compiling a list of the words we...
vladdraculea:
outlawroad:
ace-talk:
I want to put them together with their definitions, and possibly links to the posts they came from, but for now here’s a list of the words I’ve got:
touch starved
touch craving
skin hunger
cuddle buddy
fitting together
cradling
hair-touching
warmth-seeking
entangling
baring
skimming
silking
skin-touching
skinship
ealy
Here are the words...
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“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in...”
– Sady Doyle, “Birth of the Uncool: In Defense of the Tori Amos Fan”, bitch magazine Spring 2011 Issue 50 (via ellielamothe)
Fucking THIS!
duskandshiverrr:
Just a quick reminder:
I know pronouns and names are sometimes really hard, but please be careful. =) It might seem like nothing when it happens but it can really, really hurt and upset people if you mess up their pronouns after they’ve told you what they prefer, especially if it happens more than once.
If you do slip up and use the wrong pronouns, just catch yourself,...
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I'm working on compiling a list of the words we...
outlawroad:
ace-talk:
I want to put them together with their definitions, and possibly links to the posts they came from, but for now here’s a list of the words I’ve got:
touch starved
touch craving
skin hunger
cuddle buddy
fitting together
cradling
hair-touching
warmth-seeking
entangling
baring
skimming
silking
skin-touching
skinship
ealy
Here are the words David Jay had on the...
The Ace Life with Vlad Drăculea: trigger warning:... →
toranseisstrong:
toranseisstrong:
I don’t know what I want anymore.
Except maybe to die.
I’m a failure at life and I’ll never be anything.
Maybe I should stop trying to decide things when I’m tired and brain-fogged.
Maybe my opinion on life and things and decisions I make will change when I have energy.
My family wouldn’t care.
My friends are practically nonexistent.
I don’t do...
trigger warning: suicide
toranseisstrong:
I don’t know what I want anymore.
Except maybe to die.
I’m a failure at life and I’ll never be anything.
Maybe I should stop trying to decide things when I’m tired and brain-fogged.
Maybe my opinion on life and things and decisions I make will change when I have energy.
I don’t know.
I just feel like the only thing I’m worth right now is to just kill myself because I can’t...
redpantsaddict:
vladdraculea:
redpantsaddict:
vladdraculea replied to your post: There’s this really terrifying sound that I’m…
Is it super windy where you are right now?
Nope. It’s not windy at all and now it’s stopped. D:
Oh, I just thought of something else it could be! Are you in an apartment building or dorm where they might have been testing the fire system? When they do that in my...
redpantsaddict:
vladdraculea replied to your post: There’s this really terrifying sound that I’m…
Is it super windy where you are right now?
Nope. It’s not windy at all and now it’s stopped. D:
Oh, I just thought of something else it could be! Are you in an apartment building or dorm where they might have been testing the fire system? When they do that in my condo building they pressurize the...
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On the douchebaggery taking place on the #autism...
yellow-eyeballs:
[TW for mentions of abuse/bullying; ableism]
So it’s come to my attention that allistic bloggers have taken to posting offensive, triggering, or irrelevant stuff on the autism tag (that is, even more so than usual) and that most of it is coming from parents of autistic children who want a place to either complain about how “burdensome”, “wrong”, “sick” and “hopeless” their...
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That's What She Said: On the asexual community and... →
astudyinawesomeness:
[Trigger warning: anti-ace sentiment and mentions of triggering, slut-shaming and the use of the word ‘sexual’. I’m also just going to use the term ‘OTJs’ to describe non-ace people until everyone can agree on something. Personally I’m a fan of zesexual (just for the symmetry), in lieu of sexual,…
A agree, and I’m quite happy to start using the term zesexual...
To all of the (mostly white) people on my dash...
fracturedrefuge:
Trigger warning: Police brutality
Have you ever been pepper-sprayed? I mean really, truly got a faceful of some quality, military-grade shit?
Cuz I have. I am a street medic. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it means I go to protests and carry medical supplies onm my person so when the pigs get frisky, I can treat my fellow protestors on the spot. Needless to say,...
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Thanksgiving
I have to admit I have very mixed feelings about Thanksgiving because of its history, especially the way its origins are mis-taught to school children in the United States.
On the one hand, Thanksgiving has in my family always been a happy affair and we focus on food, good cheer, and taking time to list the things we are grateful for in our lives. In fact, one year, I used the concept of giving...
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