Achillean:A term to describe men, partial men, or male-aligned people who are attracted to other men, partial men, or male-aligned people. It is not necessarily synonymous with gay because people who are bi, pan, ace, etc can also use it as long as they fit the above statement. In ancient Rome, as in 19th-century England, green indicated gay affiliations. Victorian men would often pin a green carnation on their lapel as popularized by author Oscar Wilde, who often wore one on his lapel.
Term coined by: Unknown
[Image: A flag with three horizontal stripes. The uppermost and lowermost stripes are both light blue, and the center is a pale blue-green, almost white. In the middle of the center stripe is a drawn green carnation, with light green petals and dark green leaves.]
[Image: A flag with three horizontal stripes. The uppermost and lowermost stripes are both light blue, and the center is a pale blue-green, almost white. In the middle of the center stripe is a stylized green carnation, with light green petals and dark green leaves.]
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friendly reminder that you don’t need to justify your sexual orientation to anybody, whether you’re homosexual, bisexual, pansexual or asexual!
friendly reminder that you don’t need to justify your romantic orientation to anybody, whether you’re homoromantic, biromantic, panromantic or aromantic!
friendly reminder that you don’t need to justify your gender identity to anybody, whether you’re binary, non binary or use mogai identities!
friendly reminder that you don’t need to justify your pronouns to anybody, whether you use commonly used ones, rarer pronouns or neopronouns!
friendly reminder that you don’t need to prove to people that you’re “one of the good ones”!
friendly reminder that you don’t need to justify your existence to anybody, whether they be a stranger or a friend!
you don’t exist to be an argument for or against a political cause, and you shouldn’t feel the obligation to prove to people that you have a right to exist as who you really are.
when someone comes out to you, remember that their coming out is not about you and they’re coming out for them. support them, but don’t make their coming out about yourself.
we don’t talk enough about the issues Asian lgbt people face? constantly being fetishized and constantly facing rasicm within the lgbt+ community. you all are so strong and you don’t deserve any of this
I used to let the potential judgement of others dictate my confidence and self-worth. It was mostly the prefix because I didn’t understand what it meant at the time. It felt like a reminder of the fetishization of bisexuality and it put a dirty taste in my mouth. I figured it was better off to stay out of conversations about bisexuality in some communities and to just say bi in others. Bi is fine, but better off for who? I’m not doing it for my own convenience. I’m doing it because I am afraid of others, and that small bit of power that they held over me pissed me off.
I began saying bisexual and bisexuality more often than bi, then I tried to find more reasons to say it. Now, seeing people say bisexual fills me with pride and joy. It is a pride in overcoming a fear and becoming stronger than hatred. It is a joy that I feel the need to pass on. I hope every bisexual person can feel this way about their bisexuality some day, regardless of how similar or different their journey is from mine.
Our bisexuality is an integral part of us that is deserving of our acknowledgment and respect. All of our attractions—same and other gender attractions—are valid and important. They make us who we are.
Your bisexuality is beautiful. Your bisexuality is true. Your bisexuality is wholesome or sensual or sexy or all or none of these. Your bisexuality is yours. Your bisexuality is enough.
In my experience, the best way to confront biphobia, including internalized biphobia, is by being as loudly bisexual as possible. I don’t think enough bisexuals realize how much pride affects how others treat us. The word “pride” is used a lot in LGBT vocabulary, but do we truly understand what it means to have pride?
Even just the word “bisexual” puts a dirty taste in some mouths. But only at first. You see, unfamiliarity is often the root of disgust, which is often the root of hatred.
I used to avoid using “bisexual” in favor of “bi” because something about it made me cringe. Saying it in public made me self-conscious of what others thought. I would anxiously shrink myself and say the word quietly to draw the least attention. I was thinking too much into it giving the biphobes what they wanted: fear. I shouldn’t have to falter at all about saying a word. More than a word, in fact.
An identity. A statement. A weapon.
For every biphobic comment I hear—regardless of from or to whom—I say the word to their face at least twice. I say it loudly. I articulate. I make sure that they hear it and that they get used to hearing it. I say it obnoxiously and uncomfortably often, because that’s the only way to make the word normal and comforting. Eventually, the word does not bring out such strong reactions or feelings from biphobes, or myself.
❝As bisexuals, we experience pressure from both sides to make up our minds, to make a final choice. If we don’t, we incur a collective contempt.
Bisexuals deal with homophobia, biphobia and even heterophobia. The desire to identify with a community often forces bisexuals to repress one side of themselves.
It is a key element in the overall strength and wisdom of the lesbian/gay community that it include and validate bisexual people, and the bisexual movement as an ally in fighting the common enemy, heterosexism.
It is clear that homophobia is at the root of biphobia. Bisexuals have no intention of undermining the gains made by lesbians and gay men in the struggle to be a free people. Coming out as a bisexual is not something that is done to acquire or flaunt heterosexual privilege.
I am bisexual because I am drawn to particular people regardless of gender. It doesn’t make me wishy-washy, confused, untrustworthy, or more sexually liberated. It makes me a bisexual.❞
— Lani Ka'ahumani. “The Bisexual Community: Are We Visible Yet?” Out & Outraged: Non-Violent Civil Disobedience at the U.S. Supreme Court, 13 Oct. 1987, pp. 47–48.
《 Achillean Oriented Aroace P03 》 // for @fightingtrim
500x500, free to use! please credit if used!
[id: a set of 3 icons. all icons have an image of P03 from inscryption. all have a faint border around them, the left side being the achillean flag and the right side being the oriented aroace flag.
there is also a dni banner with the achillean flag in the background. the text on the banner says “nsfw / ddlg (+) / map / terf / exclus. / truscum / anti-mogai don’t interact!”. end id. ]
So ^O^ I saw these flags and thought, they would look absolutely stunning together! And I was correct!!!! Their color palettes compliment each other amazingly. For the first design, I broke up the two flags with a white stripe, symbolizing our similar experiences, solidarity, and friendship. The interlocked mars and venus symbols are colored the last stripe color of the flags. The second design has no white stripe, and instead, the symbols are colored white, mostly because it looked nice x)! I also decided to make the symbols hand drawn and a little wonky, to show the genuine compassion and care gay men and lesbians should have for each other.
You can use these designs for anything, but please make sure to credit the original flag creators as well! Also please tag me if you DO do anything with them, I would be so happy ^.^
i want to fall in love with him, starting with the tattoo on his shoulder and moving out from there. bit by bit, i want to know every part of him. i want it to start by asking, so why’d you get that tat? and never stop.
(wlm/nblm dni)
I want to show him all the art I have saved, and for him to help me pick out where I’m going to place them. Tell him the meaning of all the dates, flowers and paws that litter my arms. I want him to trace the outlines, and it to light my skin on fire as though it’s the first time anyone has made contact with me.
i want to fall in love with him, starting with the tattoo on his shoulder and moving out from there. bit by bit, i want to know every part of him. i want it to start by asking, so why’d you get that tat? and never stop.
hm it sure would be nice to lie down with you in the woods and get lost and then never come back to human civilization. let’s just, i don’t know, become fae boyfriends out in the wilderness or something. that’d be cool.
[image description: a transparent image of Negatus from Yonderland sprawled on his throne with one knee up on the arm and one hand behind his head. This image has been placed onto the lesbian, gay man, bisexual, genderqueer, 1978 rainbow, polyamorous, oriented aro ace, aro allo, mlm and gay flagby@painhaver. End image description.]
![A rectangular page with two images. At the very top are the words "We took different roads...", beneath which are a cluster of pride pins bearing different pride flags. Left to right, top to bottom, those flags are: butch, polyamorous, futch, asexual, trans, sapphic, genderfluid, aromantic, transmasc, nonbinary, transfemme, bi lesbian (new), bi lesbian (original), femme, intersex, achillean. Next is an image of a group of 5 non-white people of varying body types and skin tones who each wear some of the pins from the above cluster on their jackets (their detailed descriptions are given in the next paragraph). Behind the group is the orange-white-pink lesbian flag. Beneath them, at the bottom of the screen are the words "...but found the same home". [end of general description] [clothing description of each person]: From left to right, top to bottom: Person 1 presents wearing a crimson red, sporty-looking jacket. They have light beige skin, bright brown eyes, and short, straight brown hair parted at the middle with reddish dyed bangs hanging to each side. They are waving and wearing the butch, trans, and transfemme pins. Person 2 has smoky grey brown hair that is long at the front as a pair of braids by their ears, but is shaved into an undercut around the rest of their head. Their bangs are wavy, and parts of their hair is dyed a teal green. They have a medium copper like tone with bright orange-brown eyes, are holding up a peace hand gesture, and wearing a salmon crop jacket on which is pinned the genderfluid, achillean, sapphic, and bi lesbian (new design) pins. Person 3 has a rounded chin and fatter neck, and sports facial hair under their nose and jaw. They have a deeply tanned complexion, dark brown eyes, and short choppy blue hair that hangs off to one side and is shaved on the other. Their jacket is orange and wears the intersex, trans, and transmasc pins. Person 4 has voluminous, wavy curly auburn hair and aurburn eyes with a medium beige complexion, darker facial freckles, and square glasses. They have a light peach blazer jacket with the futch, nonbinary, and aromantic pins. Person 5 has a deep brown complexion, medium bown eyes and long hair that has been styled into locks where each lock has been dyed varying saturations of lavender so that some are more slate toned while others are more purple. They wear a soft pink hoodie jacket with the ace, femme, polyam, and original bi lesbian flag pins.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e9f4cc2487570096516da348b6a964cc/0d1a4db2aacb9fd6-2c/s640x960/a8afdb4bad0a49991399e5a54d4ccfa6d84baa53.png)
