March 2012
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Cute stories? Since when I do I write those?
I handed in a new story to my workshop yesterday and it’s actually sort of cute! It’s a cooking story, and the protagonist is a gray-a (male) who lives with his platonic life partner, a straight man, who is married to a woman that likes living in her own place. They’re British.
And now, I’m trying to finish this other short story where the two main characters are women...
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daradarazu:
I recently read some fanfiction with asexual!Sherlock. And I thought I’d identify with it, and it would help me feel better as an ace, and so on and so forth.
But I’m actually really uncomfortable with most asexual!Sherlock in fanfiction, because asexual is almost always conflated with alibidinous.
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It’s true, some authors of fanfiction out there don’t...
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February 2012
In other news....
Today at work, I was sitting next to my co-worker/friend and we were quietly working on our own stuff…. I look up at her and start asking her a question, she cuts me off mid-sentence, and just randomly says, “You are so beautiful.”
And I stop and sort of smile and go, “Oh. Thanks. It just occurred to you?”
“Yeah, you’re just really beautiful.”
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Confused on definition of asexual
forever-a-bear:
I’ve seen lots of posts and articles on how asexuals don’t have sex/ don’t enjoy it as if this fell under the definition of asexual. This however confuses me because I think ‘doesn’t feel sexual attraction’ should be the definition. That by itself. Whether they enjoy sex or not should be irrelevent. I mean you sometimes get ——-sexuals who dislike sex but still feel attraction.
I...
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From a conversation that just happened in the van...
[Paraphrasing]
Girl 1: “How’s the sexy time?”
Girl 2: “Oh, good.”
Girl 1: “Oh, that’s why you haven’t dumped him. You should’ve said so…. Sex is a third of a relationship, so if that’s not going well, it’s failing…. Only 66%, that’s like…..”
Guy: “65 is technically passing….”
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Lucy Liu To Play Watson In CBS’ Modern Sherlock... →
shaddicted:
bakerstreetbabes:
The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilotElementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee Miller as eccentric Brit Sherlock Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard...
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If being a celibate asexual means I live and die...
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The more I think about it, the more I feel like...
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If I let myself dream optimistically about my...
Maybe in ten or fifteen years, asexual social websites will exist and be really great and have a high number of members and I could meet my partners there. Maybe I’ll meet them through working as an asexual activist and educator. Maybe I’ll meet them through writing novels and short stories about nonsexual love and asexual characters; maybe they’ll read my work and feel that...
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UK Observer asexuality article - "Among the... →
nextstepcake:
oh hey look it’s me (in the photo).
For those of you who have paper copies of the Observer, it should be on page 22.
Great article!
acescongregate:
Who identifies as asexual? Reblog and/or like this post. I want to know you all.
Attempted Danger: There is No Such Thing as Sexual... →
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outlawroad:
This is largely an issue of semantics, but I happen to believe that words matter, so I feel compelled to set things straight. That word, “compromise,” gets thrown around a lot in the asexual community when it comes to mixed romantic relationships (meaning, a romantic relationship between an…
I mostly agree on the semantics, however, I think you’re...
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There is No Such Thing as Sexual "Compromise" in...
This is largely an issue of semantics, but I happen to believe that words matter, so I feel compelled to set things straight. That word, “compromise,” gets thrown around a lot in the asexual community when it comes to mixed romantic relationships (meaning, a romantic relationship between an asexual and a sexual person). Either the asexual is “compromising” by having sex in...
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The Happy Celibate Ace in Fiction?
I think it is both curious and sad that a lot of fanfiction (I use this because obviously, it’s the only fiction we have so far that specifically includes asexuality) featuring an asexual character has that character engaging in sex. Of course, some asexuals have sex and don’t mind it, even like it, etc. I get that. But on some level, I can’t help but feel that some asexual...
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Steven Moffat interview addresses the Sherlock &...
fuckyeahsherlocklestrade:
Many thanks to ninetimesbetter, who submitted the following:
Guys I don’t know If you’ve seen it, but in a recent interview with Steven Moffat, this is what he said…
“I think people get under his skin and I think possibly without him even realising so John and Mrs Hudson definitely, he’s very fond of her, and he’s actually terribly fond of Lestrade. He doesn’t know...
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School's Out: Asexy Teens →
YOU GUYS.
IT’S SO GOOD.
Sometimes I reread the Ace!Sherlock series by...
remustheravenclaw:
It’s just so fricking beautiful.
:D
This makes me so happy!
— Ivory Novelist
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Two New Short Story Ideas....
In the first, the male protagonist (ace? gray-ace? aromantic) is in a platonic life partnership with a straight man. They live together. Straight man is married. Wife has her own flat.
In the second, two women are in a platonic life partnership. They’re legally married in Boston. At least one is straight and has heterosexual relations with men semi-regularly. Not sure about the other...
All right, I'm decided. Male partner must be...
greenchestnuts:
At the risk of sounding like a troll, what happens if you fall in (some form of) love with someone who doesn’t fit these parameters?
And at the risk of sounding like one of those obnoxious “you’ll know better when you’re older people,” life doesn’t always work out like we plan.
1. It is very, very rare for me to feel any kind of attraction to anyone, whether that’s...
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All right, I'm decided. Male partner must be...
Getting Books on Asexuality Into Libraries
greenchestnuts:
Hey aces, ace-spectrum people, and allies, I have thought of a potential way to further our eeeeeevil asexual agenda!
Next month, the first book about the asexual identity comes out in US markets (I don’t know about international ones). Some parts of the description are giving me pause, but it is by a researcher who has done some thoughtful studies of asexuality, so I hope it...
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On Living Alone
aceadmiral:
So the other day I was linked to this article about how people who are single generally have just as much support as married people, and actually over time tend to have more. Then, yesterday, I saw this segment where an author talks about research he’s done on the global trend of more and more people living alone, and how, in spite of his initial expectations, he seems to have found...
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