March 2012
52 posts
chibiwaja:
2shayster2:
Ooh, potential asexuality arc on Girls With Slingshots? My interest is piqued.
Seriously. C: I mean, I’ve expected it to be brought up officially for a while, so I’m really curious to see how the subject is handled.
In other news, I just have feelings about Erin/Jamie, so I’m even more dying to know how this pans out.
Oh man, I just got home and saw the comic,...
Guy comes out of closet on Facebook to friends who... →
agreatcollision:
This is adorable!
(via @Lori_Ella)
And hilarious.
As it turns out, I have to give a talk about my...
I am really, really not excited about doing this. Mostly because a) there is not enough time to present all the data, and b) I really want to have the data from the thing I’m doing now first. But since there is no way I will be coding 90 recordings by then, it’s not going to happen.
Bleeeeeeh. At least it’s a presentation for the CV, I guess.
chibiwaja replied to your post: Oh man, they got to the bit where Nani’s trying to explain to Lilo that she has to give her up to foster care.
I just want to give you all the hugs right now. ;~;
I AM JUST SNIFFLING OVER HERE. ;__;
It’s hit the nadir, though! NANI AND STITCH ARE GOING INTO SPACE TO RESCUE LILO! IT WILL BE SORTED OUT IN THE END.
*wibbles*
Oh man, they got to the bit where Nani's trying to...
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[tw: #cissexism, #transphobia]
rattyhugs:
I wonder if we can get that lovely lady in the Miss Universe pageant back in, or generally petition against them by way of Internet Magic
does anyone know if there are any existing petitions about this? I feel like if we get enough outrage we can make at the very least a change in their rules.
That’s the thing, though—she didn’t do anything against the rules!...
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I'm holed up watching Lilo & Stitch tonight.
I have so many feelings about this movie. I mean, there’s the ohana/found-family ones, about Stitch learning to function in a family and about people never leaving each other behind, and that’s really meaningful to me. People caring about each other and sticking with each other, that’s important.
Mostly right now, though, I want to talk about my feelings about Nani. [[MORE]]
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Can we all just agree that no matter your sexual...
raumlet:
…you’re going to experience a lot of drama in your life, and there’s no way to escape that by switching to some other sexual/romantic orientation?
Because that seems like a thing we should all be able to agree on.
FACT: Aromantic asexuals are prone to...
chibiwaja:
factsaboutqueers:
This is even more true if they are also atheists, agender, and/or have names beginning with A.
Erin, didn’t we have this conversation?
TRULY I AM AN ALLIGATOR MADE OF A’S. <3
I have a brand, shiny new laptop.
And I’ve just spent the past two hours fiddling with it until it (mostly) fits the ridiculously specific way that I like my laptop to be, so I can pretend no change at all is happening la la la la la. The keyboard is still different and I keep accidentally clicking the mousepad without meaning to, but I will adjust to that if I keep using this machine and not the old dying one I have had...
Anonymous asked: Hi, I'm not sure if you're still looking for poems, but here are three I enjoy: A Confession by C. S. Lewis, For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks by Martin Espada, and (mostly because it just /sounds cool/), To Brooklyn Bridge by Hart Crane.
emerald-ace replied to your post: I read Beauty Queens today.
I love that book! I did a quote spam a while ago because it had so many wonderful lines.
I know, right? I kept glancing around to look for someone to share all the awesome lines with, only to be foiled because no one was home but the dog and he was very unlikely to appreciate them.
My professor was glaring at us all and telling us...
…and I was sitting there off to the side going “omg I have to include ecology in it? WHAT IF IT’S NOT ECOLOGICAL ENOUGH.”
Being one of two primarily-evolution-focused people in a class full of people with more of an ecology background is pretty fun sometimes.
I should start looking up papers for my...
I think I’m going to do it on the evolution of sociality and what’s known about that, because I’m going to be working on courtship behavior for like the next five years and I may as well take this chance to work on something new.
I’m actually kind of excited about it. I should probably be working on the mRNA decay one for my seminar instead but that paper is going to suck...
henryshrimpins replied to your post: I read Beauty Queens today.
Do you mean Beauty Queens? And if so, A+ reaction.
Yes! I had hoped I had corrected that typo fast enough that no one would catch me, but DENIED. >__>
Also, I’m kind of ridiculously in love with basically every single character. Except Duff. Duff can go die in a fire. But everyone else is awesome.
I did want so much...
The AVEN identity crisis
nextstepcake:
(Drawn from another convo, but it’s a point that I think is interesting, and I think it would be interesting to hear people’s thoughts on this.)
AVEN is for the most part an excellent site, in my view, but it does admittedly run into problems sometimes because it is trying to do too many things at once, and they can hamper each other. Now, for many years there wasn’t a way around...
I read Beauty Queens today.
After, uh, procrastinating on actually reading it (or about anything fiction) for some months.
It was awesome. A++++++. Also, it made me feel so much better about losing two solid days of data today at work because I didn’t bother to check to see if my files had actually loaded to the computer from the camera before deleting them so I could record more courtships. Aaaaagh. *facepalm*
the girl and her dog: cassket: Common Myths about... →
hawkelf:
cassket:
Common Myths about Sexuality and Disability
There are many common myths about sexuality and disability. Most start with the biggest myth of all, which is that people with disabilities are all the same, and that you can talk about them as one single group. This is completely…
An interesting article, even though it has some rather massive flaws (assumption that everyone is...
Misquote
asexylove:
I’v been getting a bunch of e-mail recently about a quote that was attributed to me on Tumblr. As most of you have surmised, the quote is fake (I won’t bother linking to it), someone’s idea of a way to attack the AVEN admods. Since this is an issue that’s on people’s minds, I want to make it clear what I DO think. I think the admods are awesome. I also think that, like all elected...
littlepaperfrogs asked: (this is nextstepcake, btw:) Can I just say that I appreciate your very eloquent commentary on the aspects of AVENs moderation that you don't like? I feel like all to often people bash AVEN without actually having much experience with it, so it's nice to see someone explain specifically what it is that they aren't comfortable with. And it's nice to have a more calm and helpful...
Wow, I am really justifying my blog title tonight....
Next Step: Cake: In Defense of AVEN →
nextstepcake:
in response to the commentary around this: http://writingfromfactorx.tumblr.com/post/19250064556/lizziegoneastray-writingfromfactorx
also, full disclosure: I am a member of the AVEN Project Team
ok. well, first of all, without more accurate information I can’t really comment on the initial…
Hi, I just want to clarify—despite my serious issues with AVEN’s...
I'm in a mood for poetry lately.
Anyone feel like sending me links/copies of their favorite poems?
chibiwaja:
Break for angry blogging about asexuality, college, heteronormativity, acceptance, and my father. Possibly triggering…?
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Crap, I’m so sorry that’s happening to you. Um—if it helps, my parents did that more or less to the word—although I don’t remember them pulling the “I want you to find happiness with a boy” thing...
henryshrimpins:
For what it’s worth, in my first readthrough I was rooting for Peeta, but that’s largely because I just like(d) him more than Gale.
And Katniss could so easily have been written as canonically aromantic what a missed opportunity.
asfgl I KNOW. Part of the reason I hated the romance in Mockingjay so much was—goddamnit, I was totally reading Katniss aromantic all through...
henryshrimpins:
writingfromfactorx:
henryshrimpins:
The Hunger Games love triangle could have been better resolved by Katniss being an aromantic asexual and having Gale and Peeta fall in love.
WOULD READ.
Although I’m trying to think how Gale/Peeta could actually work now, in terms of personality dynamics. They don’t… actually seem to have all that much in common except Katniss? It’d be...
henryshrimpins:
The Hunger Games love triangle could have been better resolved by Katniss being an aromantic asexual and having Gale and Peeta fall in love.
WOULD READ.
Although I’m trying to think how Gale/Peeta could actually work now, in terms of personality dynamics. They don’t… actually seem to have all that much in common except Katniss? It’d be interesting to...
Also, I am currently finding it very hard to focus on most things that are not related to either grad school or finishing up my current research project.
So if I’m kind of absent-minded or not getting back to people at the moment, that’s why.
Today I spent my morning recording fly sex. And then, after lunch, I spent some time revisiting my previous fly sex and attempting to determine (among other things) what proportion of the total time of courtship was spent engaging in genital licking.
My job is the best job.
Also, I have picked my grad school and today I got an enthusiastic letter from one of my new labmates and I’m just...
Also thanks for the congratulations, everyone! :D...
Further to my asexuality/aromantic confusion...
tarnagona:
How do I tumblr? I can’t seem to figure out if there’s a way to reply to answers. Well, here’s hoping I don’t muck up quoting by hand. shiyiya:
Aromantic = doesn’t experience romantic attraction, has no desire for romantic relationships. It has nothing to do with candy/flowers/cuddles
Then what makes a romantic relationship different from a platonic one? If it’s not marked by sex...
anthean replied to your post: gueeeessssss who got into graduate school today?
Congratulations! what school?
UT Austin! :D It is actually my first choice US school, so unless the one UK school I applied to magically gets around to talking to me very soon I will probably accept.
I am so exciiiiiited!
gueeeessssss who got into graduate school today?
*dances* BEST DAY IN A LONG TIME, GUYS.
Also, apropos of nothing
I find myself getting really interested in evolutionary modeling lately. My one class keeps bringing up all these equations and not following up on them and all I want to do is take them to their logical conclusions and see where they go.
I miss math.
Kaz's tumblings: A question about vocabulary →
sidneyia:
writingfromfactorx:
kazaera:
Because lately, I have seen people using words in the ace tags that are new to me, and also using words I know in ways that make no sense with the meanings I associate with them. Needless to say, this makes constructive dialogue a bit tricky.
Here I work through my thoughts and personal…
My definitions more or less match yours, with one exception: I’ve...
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Aromanticism: Not The Same As Touch Aversion
I am so, so sick of seeing otherwise good asexuality articles define aromanticism as “not wanting to be touched.” The current one that set this off includes the line “[aromantics] often shirk away from physical touch,” for fuck’s sake. (Not linking because I’m opting to leave a polite comment at the source in an attempt to create dialogue and would rather not...
Kaz's tumblings: A question about vocabulary →
kazaera:
Because lately, I have seen people using words in the ace tags that are new to me, and also using words I know in ways that make no sense with the meanings I associate with them. Needless to say, this makes constructive dialogue a bit tricky.
Here I work through my thoughts and personal…
My definitions more or less match yours, with one exception: I’ve seen...
I am done with all my assignments for the week!
Now to snuggle in, knit, and watch an episode of Inside Nature’s Giants before bed.
Mmmm, cassowary anatomy.
So a question for people with platonic partners:
physistorian:
Or zucchinis or whatever you like to call them:
How exactly did you get together? Because I can’t for the life of me figure out how to platonically ask someone out.
Really awkward conversations about the state of the friendship? Involving, in one case, increasingly less subtle attempts by a third party to get the both of us to actually talk about it; I am, uh. Not the most...
