I’d like to try to make the pastel version of the flag I made an alternative flag for courscatians maybe ?
‘‘Courscatian refers to someone who is nblm, nblnb, nblw, mlm, mlw, and mlnb, meaning someone who is non-binary and a man who is attracted to men, women, and non-binary people. Being “non-binary and a man” includes A) People who are genderfluid, and are sometimes non-binary and sometimes men. B) Bigenderormultigender people who are men or man aligned and non-binary at the same time. C) Masculine aligned non-binary person who feels connected to manhood as well as being non-binary. Courscatian is an umbrella term, like diamoric, though it can also be used as an identity by itself. ‘‘
Everybody is starting to coin very … funky terms here.
Listen.
‘‘My gender is outside of the binary and it feels warm and yet sweet like cinnamon’‘ is one thing. If you use these types of analogies to describe your gender, that is 110% valid.
But that doesn’t make you cinnamongender.
‘‘My gender is SPIRITUALLY CONNECTED to cinnamon.’‘ or stuff like that is just straight up a lack of understanding of gender.
Gender is SCIENCE. Is this science binary ? No. But it sure as hell cannot be spiritually connected to anything. Because gender is in the brain and not the soul.
And because gender is science, you can’t just come up with made up terms you have no idea if anyone ever felt before, which is something I think a lot of you guys do. It’s one thing to coin a term to identify with it. It’s another to make up a gender because you’re bored.
Don’t give this community a worse name than it already as.
1. “You’d hurt yourself just to make them smile and then they want to see you bleed”
2. “One who holds the blade doesn’t claim his innocence”
3. “You killed them all in-front of me, and you expect me to blind it from my conscious ?”
4. “You won’t get what you’re looking for here, you’re nothing but a liar. I thought I knew you back then - but I guess I was wrong”
5. “Why spare me when I would kill you in an instant”
- “Because I know you, I may not trust you, but I know you”
6. “No amount of pain could ever amount to when you left me, no amount of tears that fall from your face will ever make up for the agony I’ve endured in your hand”
7. “No matter what you will never be a saint, you will always be a husk of who you were - if you ever were something to begin with”
8. “I loved you at some point, but the person I loved isn’t the person I see in-front of me”
- “Then fake it”
- “I don’t think I can fake it anymore”
9. “You’re more of a monster than any of your past has ever been”
- “Don’t act like you know what I’ve been through !”
10. “You’re a condescending, compulsive liar - who can’t be trusted as far as they can be thrown and even at that is a stretch”
11. “It’s all been a ruse, hasn’t it ?”
12. “You aren’t the hero you claim to be, I see that now”
13. “You’re cocky for someone whose been outed as a manipulative liar”
- “Because there’ll always be fools who’ll believe me”
14. “Why must you torment me with more promises that you’ll break as soon as you make them”
15. “I have a job to do, trust me or not I’m sure you understand”
- “Trust you ? You’re a fucking murderer ! You — you killed my friend ! And — and you were going to kill me - !”
- “I want to keep one person alive each time to tell my story”
16. “You’re quite cowardly than when we first met”
17. “I might’ve did all that horrible stuff but I’m still your spouse/friend/best friend !”
- “You’re not them, you never were - you’ve made that perfectly clear”
18. “The terrors only just beginning ? What the fuck does that mean you vague cynical bastard ?!”
19. “You fucking traitor ! You traitor I hate you I HATE YOU !”
20. “You bring dishonor to your family”
- “Not like there was any there to begin with”
21. “You were able to make these decisions, you were knowingly hurting people and I can’t stand by and do nothing anymore, not again”
22. “You..I trusted you - I treated your word as gospel !”
I’m constantly questioning my gender but I live in such a conservative area that I can’t really feel safe talking about it with anyone hahahaha I’m so ready to go to college
Can we all do a thing where we talk about how we learned that we were asexual for asexual awareness week? I think it would be pretty neat.
Here’s mine:
I spent years knowing about the lgbtqia+ community and being super accepting of it despite my religious school and family. I think because of this I started questioning. There wasn’t any real reason, I just wanted to look into it.
Through the years I learned about so many different identities in order to figure out what mine is. I jumped from straight, to pan, to bi, to gay, and back to straight multiple times. But no matter what identity I would land on it never felt right.
In hindsight my asexuality should have been easy to figure out. Other people would look at a guy and say how hot he is, while I would just wonder how that’s the first thing someone would notice, and I didn’t even know what it meant to be attractive. I never had crushes and always thought waiting until marriage is easy. I never understood why people would actively seek out sex and crave it, because when I think about it I only feel uncomfortable and awkward.
It’s not as though I didn’t know the word “asexual,” but whenever I came across it I skimmed over it assuming it wasn’t me. I liked the idea of romance and stuff, so past me thought asexuality couldn’t be me. I obviously had misunderstandings about asexuality at the time so I don’t blame myself, but I should have read more into it.
One day during pride month, I was laying around reading lgbt reddit threads, when it just dawned on me that I’m asexual. It really came out of nowhere, it was actually a little weird lol, but I’m happy to finally know this part of myself. This has developed into my knowledge that I’m aro as well.
This was a little long and was posted fairly late into ace week (and I feel like no one’s gonna respond to it), but feel free to add you own story if you want!
Everyone irl is talking about how many kids they want but all I want in life are those car stickers that represent family members but instead of it being me, my spouse, and my kids, I want it to be me and just a ton of dogs. Dream big, kids
PICTURE ID: a picture from snapchat taken up close of a digital document. The person who took the photo wrote “If only … there was some kind of … neutral pronoun one could use … instead of he/she.” In the picture itself, it shows a grading rubric. One box reads “He/she (highlighted in pink) presents their (highlighted in green) research well. Also, he/she (highlighted in pink) tries to explain to the audience and has enough eye contact.” The next box reads “he/she (highlighted in pink) presents their (highlighted in green) research well. They (highlighted in green) try to explain to the audience, but it is sometimes unsuccessful. He/she (highlighted in pink) has little unsuccessful eye contact.” Last box reads “From the script, he/she (highlighted in pink) reads little, so does not present their (highlighted in green) research well. He/she (highlighted in pink) does not have much eye contact.” The highlighted portions are to show how the creator of the rubric uses both he/she and the pronoun “they/them” in a way that would suggest that the writer is aware of the neutral pronoun, but also tries not to use it. End ID.
I love that the internet saw people comparing women and other alienated groups of people and went, “they’re dating,” and, “they support each other.” We’re improving as a society.
Does anyone know who these artists are?? They’re brilliant and I’d like to credit them!!
Original Art Credits:
1: Malcom Evans, political cartoonist
7: sortimid on deviant art
9: gigis_lab on Instagram
16: @victoriaskeller (site unknown)
Redraw Credits:
8: sortimid on deviantart
9 & 15: destineytomoon on tumblr
10: tokimekiwaku
14: u/peachy-milk-tea on reddit
Can this be the new trend this year? I really love it, making non-positive art into beautiful accepting positivity. And also very gay. Love the gay.
