PRO-CRAS-TIN-ATE!

A roller coaster of emotion! To clarify a bit: I actually do like reading and making romance stories, so maybe that last panel isn’t 100% accurate. It’s complicated and hard to explain! I intend on doing a larger zine about this topic someday, but for now I just wanted to scribble something.

Trying to prove you DON’T experience something is actually ridiculously hard especially when you are nowhere close to understanding what it is you’re trying to disprove.

It’s a lot like playing a game of Where’s Waldo, but you have no idea what Waldo looks like and you rely entirely on the partial description of him you get from other people.

Take this image, and find “Jeremy” in it:

At first you’re like, “Who tf is Jeremy? That’s a thing?”

And then from discrete descriptions you hear in the hallways, you find out Jeremy has a red shirt.

And so you point to everyone on that picture who has a red shirt like, “Hey hey, red, THIS could be him. Certainly one of these is him!”

But, alas, you’ve gotten it confused with someone similar, but not him at all. This happens when you mistake romantic attraction or aesthetic attraction for sexual attraction or, if you’re aro, platonic attraction for romantic attraction. You’ve misidentified him because he was wearing the same color shirt and looked somewhat like what others were talking about.

You go online and ask for more descriptions of Jeremy, and you may gleam a few details. People are like, “Oh no, Jeremy has stripes on his shirt, and a funky…I don’t know, over the shoulder scarf thingy. Look, it’s really hard to explain. Trust me, if you have seen Jeremy, you would KNOW him.” Which is like ??? confusing, although it is true.

If only you could prove Jeremy isn’t on your board you would know you’re ace//aro, but it’s hard to ever be 100% certain he isn’t there when you have no clue what he looks like.

Which is why it is important for aces//aros to just, forget about trying to be 100% certain and just identify anyways. That’s what helped me the most, knowing that I didn’t have to prove something, I could just assume, “Yeah, if I had felt sexual attraction, I would know. I don’t have to prove without a doubt I don’t in order to use the word.” It’s okay, you give yourself your own validation.

The Fandom, with the speed of a thousand jolteons: *2,000 fan art drawings, 712 fanfics, 168 cosplays, and 3,400 memes*

The Fandom: “We’re shipping Candela and Blanche, and Spark is a huge nerd.”

Pokemon GO:

I have to say what’s in my black fat girl feelings right now. 

I’m a little surprised that throughout all the discussions about the reboot and the sexism that no-one has spotlighted how the entertainment industry’s beauty standards and the male gaze plays into the Ghostbusters reboot mess? 

They’re not only mad because it’s women. They’re mad about not being able to jerk it to The New Ghostbusters lineup. They’re mad because their expectations of getting at least one hypersexualized, female protagonist wasn’t met– not even one sexy secretary. That’s rough, buddy. 

Let’s be oh so real here: if it were Megan Fox, Zooey Deschanel, Cameron Diaz, and Jennifer Lawrence in the Ghostbusters reboot, we wouldn’t be having as much of a problem. McCarthy, Wiig, Jones and McKinnon in this movie are not funny-hot, like Cameron Diaz dorky dancing in a pair of underoos in Charlie’s Angels.  They’re just funny and serving you soft-butch, wild-butch, nerd-chic and (albeit a little too stereotypical) cut-a-bitch realness and it’s a problem for these assholes.

Brexit won

The £ plummeted to a 30-year low

Japan has stopped trading

Scotland is pushing for independence

Ireland is considering re-unification

The Dutch Freedom Party are calling for their own EU referendum

David Cameron has resigned, a fact I’d never thought I’d be sad about

Donald Trump just landed in Scotland, because we haven’t suffered enough

Nicola Sturgeon says EU folk are “still welcome in Scotland” and “their contribution is valued”

She’s thrown down the gauntlet re: staying in and is petitioning the EU for membership. The result is “democratically unacceptable”

“I intend to take all possible steps to give effect to how Scotland voted. In other words, to secure our place in the EU”

Statement officially made that second independence referendum “highly likely”

The financial markets are a shitshow

Morgan Stanley have started the process to move 2,000 investment banking staff from London to Dublin/Frankfurt

EU leaders are calling on the UK to get out ASAP

The New York stock exchange is down 500 points

From the amount wiped off shares, so far, divided by 32m voters… the cost is already at £6,000 per voter

Donald Trump has come out in support of the decision to leave, which is how you know we messed up real bad

Everything is fucked