March 2012
52 posts
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
shiyiya:
I’ve been wanting to do $5 in Paris in two shades of green yarn I have already, but the sizing doesn’t actually list measurements and I have no idea how much I’d cast on or anything :( So I’ve been putting it off >_<
Huh, no, that is a problem. D: I’m a 36” and I usually fit a medium or a small, so I’d probably eye that. But what you could do is knit a gauge...
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
subtlefire:
writingfromfactorx:
subtlefire:
writingfromfactorx:
I have been getting SO MUCH WORK done on my DNA tank top lately. :D
Purple and grey sweater, woot! (All those cat lady stereotypes had to come from somewhere.)
D: I WANT A PRIDE SWEATER! Oh man, now I’m thinking—oh actually that could be a RIDICULOUSLY pretty thing to make, if I did like a raglan with the flag stripes...
February 2012
86 posts
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
anthean:
writingfromfactorx:
I love geek knitting too! It’s only a bonus that that tank is gorgeous in addition to being ridiculously geeky. :D I have plans to turn the same DNA helix pattern into a hat—knit a section of it, sew the sections together, and then pick up stitches on the side to turn it into hat form! WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Oh dear, that is unfortunate! D: I pretty much got gauge...
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
anthean:
writingfromfactorx:
anthean:
writingfromfactorx:
I have been getting SO MUCH WORK done on my DNA tank top lately. :D
Guess who got nearly 5 inches of sweater sleeve done last night!
(DNA tank top? Tell me of this magic.)
Whoooo, congrats! :D I have yet to make anything with sleeves, I find them intimidating.
I am making this! Actual pattern here. I have been working on it...
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
subtlefire:
writingfromfactorx:
I have been getting SO MUCH WORK done on my DNA tank top lately. :D
Purple and grey sweater, woot! (All those cat lady stereotypes had to come from somewhere.)
D: I WANT A PRIDE SWEATER! Oh man, now I’m thinking—oh actually that could be a RIDICULOUSLY pretty thing to make, if I did like a raglan with the flag stripes going round the chest and...
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
anthean:
writingfromfactorx:
I have been getting SO MUCH WORK done on my DNA tank top lately. :D
Guess who got nearly 5 inches of sweater sleeve done last night!
(DNA tank top? Tell me of this magic.)
Whoooo, congrats! :D I have yet to make anything with sleeves, I find them intimidating.
I am making this! Actual pattern here. I have been working on it literally since July and kept...
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
metapianycist:
writingfromfactorx:
I have been getting SO MUCH WORK done on my DNA tank top lately. :D
HOW DO THEY KNOW I KNIT
AND HOW DO THEY KNOW THAT MY QUEERPLATONIC PARTNER HELPS ME BY MAKING SLIPKNOTS (WHICH I ALWAYS FORGET HOW TO DO)
I learned how to do them when I worked with horses! Because you actually tie horses safely with slipknots so you can pull the rope loose if an...
FACT: All asexual individuals knit.
I have been getting SO MUCH WORK done on my DNA tank top lately. :D
“My own realization was spent flailing around and trying to figure out exactly...”
– This is one of the best things I have ever read. From Ramp Up Essay: Being a Kinky Ace by Verbs_Not_Nouns @DW. (via aceadmiral)
This is probably the best thing ever that I have read today. Super special awesome bonus points for use of Alice in Wonderland vocabulary. A* post, too.
(via...
shiyiya replied to your post: I should probably be studying for my evolutionary…
Luck on the grad schools!
ihazmace replied to your post: I should probably be studying for my evolutionary…
Yay exciting! :) (and scary)
aceeccentric replied to your post: I should probably be studying for my evolutionary…
Good luck! :D I hope the replies come soon and you don’t have to wait too...
amarantae asked: Hola! I wanted to know if it would be okay to quote you for a school project and I don't mind citing you with your internet handle if sharing anything else is uncomfortable. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.
I should probably be studying for my evolutionary ecology midterm this afternoon… but I’m way too lazy.
Also, I am finally done with interviews for grad school, which means that I don’t have anything to do now except twitch and watch my email inbox for final decisions from schools.
Though not till I'm done reading.: Okay but... →
higginstheshrimp:
Okay but actually, there was a “study” done in which evolutionary psychologists conducted a survey which showed them that women disproportionately preferred pink and men blue.
And from that, they somehow felt entitled to conclude that this was a result of inborn tendencies which exist as relics…
My favorite “study” like that is the one where they gave...
higginstheshrimp:
It’s weird how “IT’S IN OUR DNA” is a go-to for scientifically illiterate people who want to sound justified in their bigotry.
Yesssssss. Also, the whole natural fallacy thing, where “natural” somehow equals “better” to these people. Despite this, I have not yet seen many of them advocate ceasing to use things like indoor heating or synthetic fabrics...
Hey, aces...
raumlet:
ludmirermoyd:
How often do you get someone saying something like, “You’re asexual? You must get so much more stuff done!” (I got it about four times today.)
I usually say, well, I wish that were the case, but Tumblr.
Hahahaaaaaaah I love this response :| no, I promise, I get no more done than the average person. Honest. Asexuality is not a magic game-changer when it comes to your...
greenchestnuts:
writingfromfactorx:
Have you ever seen the variant with the stripes off of that one graphic that cycles through every single alternate sexuality flag cut to look like a triangle? This is an honest question, because I haven’t and am therefore not even entering that into consideration—it’s done to match the shape of the other flags in the graphic.
On userpics and crafts and...
Critique of popular reason: Unpopular opinion →
hawkelf:
I, like Sciatrix, use the AVEN triangle in my Asexuality 101 presentations. In doing so, I acknowledge two things during those presentation: a) it is a symbol of AVEN, not of asexuality, and b) it is an extreme and flawed simplification of sexuality and should not be taken as the end-all be-all model.
I use it because it is the best way I have found to introduce the concepts of grey-a...
Critique of popular reason: Unpopular opinion →
greenchestnuts:
Oh for—it’s not fucking based off the pink triangle. Seriously, it’s not. I’ve derived the AVEN triangle while doing an explanation of how asexuality fits into the Kinsey scales or while talking about asexuality a dozen times, it’s something I actually do pretty frequently when explaining how grey-As fit into ace communities, it’s often a fairly big part of my 101. It’s not an...
Unpopular opinion
southpawscopic:
metapianycist:
I don’t have a problem with the asexual community having the AVEN triangle as one of its symbols.
Even if it’s intended to be referencing the pink triangle.
I am a gay person and I have no problem with this. I am a trans person and I have no problem with this.
There are a limited number of shapes that can be used for symbols of gender and sexual minority...
Critique of popular reason: Unpopular opinion →
greenchestnuts:
metapianycist:
I don’t have a problem with the asexual community having the AVEN triangle as one of its symbols.
Even if it’s intended to be referencing the pink triangle.
I am a gay person and I have no problem with this. I am a trans person and I have no problem with this.
There are a limited number of…
I really wish the ace community would move away from the triangle. I...
Land of Gills and Boners: writingfromfactorx... →
higginstheshrimp:
writingfromfactorx replied to your post: I’m torn between feeling bad for taking the…
I second imkoala’s point. I have taken too many courses + too much labwork several times over my college career and it SUCKS and is generally ridiculously horrible. Don’t do that if you have…
I would aim for seven less stressful semesters over six compact, stressed ones. Especially if...
Gritty Mermaid Reboot: I think one of my beefs... →
greenchestnuts:
galesofnovember:
“You made your mom a powerpoint presentation about all the details of your sexuality????”
“Your favorite hobby is writing porn based on BBC shows and most of your internet friends are other people whose porn you read???”
“You goal in life is to live in a polyamorous experimental family where…
Sometimes the whiplash from trying to keep up with the latest...
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Valentine's Apathy →
Also I wrote about most of the reason for today’s generalized grouchiness.
Writing From Factor X: Linkspam →
Look, I finally got around to doing another linkspam!
I'm really *grouchy* today. Augh.
Going through the ace tag
greenchestnuts:
redbeardace:
strawberreli:
and apparently, there’s all sorts of posts about how there was this big blowout over asexuality.
Hmm.
Must’ve missed it.
reblogging related posts, though.
I see that sometimes, too. Makes me wonder if I’ve just blocked all the perpetrators so that’s why I don’t see what everyone’s on about…
I get confused when I see posts like that but not...
hearkens:
writingfromfactorx:
hearkens:
Decided to have a nose around the boyfriend J.T’s thestudentroom.co.uk posts, and found he was posting (giving advice) in sex advice threads. I felt physically repulsed by what he was saying, how openly comfortable he was, how in detail he was, and how much he knew.
……This is not an asexual problem, okay? As an asexual person who is very, very firm...
higginstheshrimp:
writingfromfactorx replied to your post: I JUST FINISHED A CLASH OF KINGS AND I’M FULL OF…
Aaaaaaand that is why I don’t read A Song of Ice and Fire anymore. Protip: the sadness is not going to get any better.
I’M SO SAD
BUT I CAN’T STOP
RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN. Seriously, you will get more and more sad until you explode in a horrible vortex of sadness and resentment at...
hearkens:
Decided to have a nose around the boyfriend J.T’s thestudentroom.co.uk posts, and found he was posting (giving advice) in sex advice threads. I felt physically repulsed by what he was saying, how openly comfortable he was, how in detail he was, and how much he knew.
……This is not an asexual problem, okay? As an asexual person who is very, very firm on the importance of...
Also, more people should know about Dr. Frances...
shiyiya replied to your post: More questions about analyzing the survey data!
gynesexual/androsexual? I have no idea what to do about the ticking nonbinary and I’m saying this who ticked ‘nonbinary’ and ‘other’ and then rambled in the box about being confused about demiromaticism
Yeaaaaah, when I do the specific gender breakdowns (one for people who IDed as female only, one for people who IDed...
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More questions about analyzing the survey data!
Okay, so a while ago I mentioned I got to play with the data from the Asexual Awareness Week and that I had some questions about general categorizations of gender! And I’m still working on the gender identity data and playing with the numbers, but I also wanted to start making up rough graphs for the romantic orientation data.
This is, if anything, possibly more intimidating a project than...
higginstheshrimp:
writingfromfactorx:
higginstheshrimp:
writingfromfactorx replied to your post: Someone found my wordpress blog by googling…
The best one I’ve gotten in a while is “someones view on what they think should happen to elephants “. I love getting to look at search terms.
Oh same.
I get a lot of search terms with transmisogynistic slurs in them, though, which is not ideal.
...
higginstheshrimp:
writingfromfactorx replied to your post: Someone found my wordpress blog by googling…
The best one I’ve gotten in a while is “someones view on what they think should happen to elephants “. I love getting to look at search terms.
Oh same.
I get a lot of search terms with transmisogynistic slurs in them, though, which is not ideal.
Eurgh, that sucks and I’m sorry to...
I am allowed to do things that make me happy.
greenchestnuts:
imaginationcarriesus:
whatfreshhellisthis:
I am allowed to do things that make me happy.
I am allowed to do things that make me happy.
It’s not a waste of time because it makes me happy.
And that is important.
This. Take it to heart, people. Just because people like, say, playing video games or being on the Internet rather than being “productive” (what a shit...
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Studying the evolution of sociality with real and... →
Before we began working with striped hyenas, they were routinely described as being strictly solitary. However, we discovered that this was not always the case. At our first site, while they almost never interacted, males were willing to share ranges while females were strictly solitary. At the second site where resources were more plentiful, males were strictly solitary but some females shared...
Land of Gills and Boners: eatoncrow replied to... →
higginstheshrimp:
eatoncrow replied to your photo: Synalpheus filidigitus. The queen of this eusocial…
Charles please talk about eusocial animals, they’re my favourite
Oh yeah ME TOO
I wish I knew so much more about eusocial animals I wish I knew EVERYTHING.
But I do know that there are about…
Also the really really cool thing about Synalpheus is that it’s early eusociality,...
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There's just something about him... →
This is a really cool article about the effects of Toxoplasma gondii, a very common parasite whose primary hosts are cats and rats but is also fairly common in people (some estimates suggest that 25% of people are infected with it, and its existence is why pregnant women are warned not to handle cat feces). It’s usually brought up because of its amazing ability to alter the behavior of its...
AYFKM and other acronyms: Instructions / Neil... →
librariesandlemonade:
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before. Say “please” before you open the latch, go through, walk down the path. A red metal imp hangs from the green-painted front door, as a knocker, do not touch it; it will bite your fingers. Walk through the…
This is actually one of my favorite poems.
chibiwaja:
writingfromfactorx:
Chalkboard Symphony: Rin, Tumblin from my phone so I can’t reply directly.
chibiwaja:
mooselord:
Sob.
ANYWAY. I am waiting for Sam top come in my class to see if she’s seen it. But yes.
I need to join lambda and the doctor who club BECAUSE WE HAVE ONE IS THAT NOT AWESOME?!?!
Two lambdas. Together. In looooove cough Excuse me darling. Got carried away.
...
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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes →
If there was a ‘Just So’ story for how the zebra got its stripes, I’m sure that Rudyard Kipling would have come up with an amusing and entertaining camouflage explanation. But would he have come up with the explanation that Gábor Horváth and colleagues from Hungary and Sweden have: that zebra’s stripes stave off blood-sucking insects (p. 736)?
Seriously, this is so cool. Parasite adaptation...
Chalkboard Symphony: Rin, Tumblin from my phone so... →
chibiwaja:
mooselord:
Sob.
ANYWAY. I am waiting for Sam top come in my class to see if she’s seen it. But yes.
I need to join lambda and the doctor who club BECAUSE WE HAVE ONE IS THAT NOT AWESOME?!?!
Two lambdas. Together. In looooove cough Excuse me darling. Got carried away.
Yes! Join them…
Wait wait wait.
We have a Doctor Who club? How did I not KNOW this?
the loveliest and the saddest landscape: While... →
thebellsareturnedtotears:
writingfromfactorx:
thebellsareturnedtotears:
While doing some personal research on asexuality, I came across an article title “Radical refusals: On the anarchists politics of women choosing asexuality.” Now, I don’t want to judge a paper based solely on the title but “women choosing asexuality” doesn’t exactly sit well with me. Asexuality…
Given that this is the...
chibiwaja:
…And I think I’ll just add a couple things to my queue and avoid tumblr for the rest of the night because tee hee, apparently my dash wants to be asshole-ish concerning asexuality.
Eurgh. What exactly is happening? My dash has been pretty good, if mostly science-heavy—do I dare check the ace tags?
blackdogrunning:
writingfromfactorx:
shiyiya replied to your post: Also I am sitting here waiting to get to watch a movie about the things we’ve learned since Darwin
Man, if you’re going to mutate a chicken into a dinosaur, at least be properly Mad Science about it and make it ridiculously dangerous.
I KNOW, RIGHT? Also, it would probably help to have a better reasoning for why you want to do...
shiyiya replied to your post: Also I am sitting here waiting to get to watch a movie about the things we’ve learned since Darwin
Man, if you’re going to mutate a chicken into a dinosaur, at least be properly Mad Science about it and make it ridiculously dangerous.
I KNOW, RIGHT? Also, it would probably help to have a better reasoning for why you want to do this than “because it would...
