LIFE IS NOT A WAITING ROOM

Toronto is not a wildfire-prone area. It is extremely close to the USA border, and the smog is currently affecting NY right now. There is literal chunks of debris in the air. The sky is orange, and the sun is nowhere to be seen.

Climate change and its effects are right outside your door. Data centres are the cause for the insane heat waves across the globe, and the increase in wildfires and other natural disasters.

You will watch recordings of the world burn around you, and only when you are behind the camera will you realize there is no going back.

If possible, based on the razzmatazz album, since the stripes are nice:

Thank you!

This one was a challenge but I quite enjoyed it! I hope you like the result!

I Don't Know How But They Found Me

Asexual | AroAce | Aromantic

Ace-spec | Aspec | Aro-spec

AlloAce | Anattractional | AroAllo

➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):

➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.

➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.

Couples Counseling Needed

The checkbox at the start of the big annual survey reads:

Yes, I confirm that I don't really fit into just one of the two boxes of "always, solely and completely a woman/girl" or "always, solely and completely a man/boy."

Obviously the logic of this very precise wording is very familiar and coherent to me, because I have been thinking about it every year for like 10 years or something! But I do always get a few people confused about whether binary trans people are deliberately excluded, or whether they are "nonbinary enough" to participate.

So, this evening I made this diagram that I hope illustrates what I was going for with it:

So, there will be people in just one circle, or two circles, and people all the way outside all three. (That's me, agender, occupying zero circles: consistently never anything.)

I think most cisgender, transgender and intersex binary women would say that they are always women, they're not anything else, and they're women all the way through, for the most part. Ditto most cisgender, transgender and intersex binary men. If they agree with that for themself, they're not invited to participate.

It's intentionally very broad. That's why cisgender and binary are on the checkbox list, because someone could feel like they are a cisgender man or a cisgender woman and there is still something that nudges them out of that central segment. (As a nonbinary person I'm like, "are there really people who feel like they truly absolutely are always, solely and completely [men/women]? That sounds fake." But yeah, that's most of the population apparently!)

And the thing is, there is no sharp cut-off. Two people can have the same internal experience of their gender and maybe even call it the same thing - but one of them might feel that they qualify while the other feels they don't, and that's totally fine.

Edit: Diagram now with "none of the above" and "secret third thing" for clarity!