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But like, if you don’t find any turtles it might be that there are no turtles or maybe you’re just really shitty at looking for turtles and maybe you THINK you saw a turtle over there or maybe it was just a stick. Maybe there are only a few turtles. Maybe you need to do something special to find the turtles. Maybe a bunch of these rocks are actually turtles but you couldn’t tell them apart. Maybe there are no turtles. You have no idea. Meanwhile some people are saying “Oh there have to be turtles! You’ll find them eventually ;)” or “How many turtles have you found in your pond?” or “Try planting some vegetables at the shore to attract the turtles.” Or “Oh no! What disaster happened to your pond that there are no turtles?” And you’re just standing there wet with an empty net and a tired expression.

But whatever because whether there are turtles or fish or not your pond’s ecology works just fine without them because that’s what eco-communities do they form a system around what they have. You aren’t missing anything if you don’t have turtles you just have a pond system without turtles. If someone tried to change you by pouring a bunch of turtles into your pond it would probably fuck something up.

Mother of fuck this didn’t post. Ahh. The first is the texting hotline. I see a post going around about a crisis line but it’s 1) very conservative based 2) doesn’t work on mobile and goes offline constantly.

This one, works extremely well. You can choose to be completely anonymous or tell them everything about you. You get a reply in less than ten minutes each time you send a response and as you can see they will text you a second time if you don’t reply to make sure you’re, yknow, not dead or something. They are trained and I SWEAR ON IT. It’s the best I’ve found because it’s directly a literal texting based crisis line.

Here’s the link: http://www.crisistextline.org/textline/

you know, i’ve seen a fair few aces, and people in the comments sectiton of the few articles that reported about jugehead not being ace in riverdale, say that him having romances w women doesn’t mean he’s not ace. but this rubs me the wrong way bc 1. they explicitly want to make him not asexual, and straight instead. Cole explicitly denotes the execs fought him and denied him the possibility of playing an ace character. not that they would play around with who he dates or that he’d be a sex positive or neutral ace, but that he will explicitly not be ace in season 1. the word asexual will not be mentioned. he will not be played that way. jughead’s canon sexuality will be erased

2. though not explicitly stated, jughead in the comics has stated over and over that he’s not into girls ‘like that’ (romantically) and has been shown to be touch adverse. most of the comments in the article section read ‘see!! he can date and have sex! aces are normal too, we can experience romantic attraction!’ and as an aroace, that makes me feel like shit. people need to stop throwing aros under the bus in order to make themselves seem more 'normal’ to the straights (or other queer people, too).

3. this is already explicit in canon. he explicitly mentions being asexual. as for being romantically into girls- he doesn’t like to go on dates with girls, is 'not into girls like that’, is not shown wanting to date anyone of any gender, explicitly states that he does not want to be with a girl romantically, but as a friend, gets uncomfortable when put in situations where romance or sex are expected of him, literally chooses to marry his sword in a video game to avoid marrying another person, and seems frantic and deeply uncomfortable when touched, especially when the person in question seems romantically and/or sexually attracted to him.

we have NO REP. we are invisible. this invisibility is what caused me to be denied medical care, because i needed to fix myself first. ditto with therapy. because no one knows what it is, just that you’re wrong and evil and inhuman and need to be made normal. you know what an aroace character would mean to people? even to professionals who see it and know it’s not an illness they need to fix? to young people who realize they’re not abnormal and broken and gross? but can be real and whole and complete? to people who don’t even know it exists? much less that it’s valid? or that you can lead a fulfilling life as an aroace?

i’m not here for the 'his romances with women don’t mean he’s not ace’!! because riverdale CLEARLY doesn’t want to portray his sexuality as ace at all, or even touch on him being aro. And sure, if he were an aroace who loved to date, i’d LOVE to see that portrayed too. but he isn’t. if he were an aroace that enjoyed sex i’d LOVE to see that portrayed too, but he doesn’t. all i want is an explicitly aroace character. i wouldn’t care if he dated or had sex, so long as the rep was there. because aces and aros come in literally a myriad of experiences, and dating (whether qprs or romantic partners) and sex can be part of many aroace experiences. but clearly not his at this time. He’s aro and ace, dislikes dating, and doesn’t like to be touched. and they’re making him straight. and having him be straight is erasing a queer and marginalized orientation and it should be treated as such. (sorry, too long for an ask and needed to vent. opinions welcome. i’m just tired of people being like 'but not all aces are aro!! we’re attracted to people, too!!’ especially when it comes to aces in comment sections seeking to make themselves seem more 'normal’ by throwing aros under the bus. as if romance is their redemption. if that’s the case, what’s left for me? what’s left for all the aroaces? and what’s left for all the aroaces who DON’T want to date because of their lack of attraction to people, or repulsion, or both? who don’t want to have sex? where does that leave us? invalidated and erased by society. we have a chance of having some representation, which could have REAL LIFE consequences. like maybe an ace goes to the doc for a hormonal problem, like me, and the doctor doesn’t decide to not treat them until they treat their disease (sexuality), and instead does, in an informed and professional manner. or their therapist doesn’t want to forcibly convert them by showing them pictures of 'straight sex’, humiliating them and forcing them to accept they have to be either gay or straight, that change can and will come if they tried hard enough. those are real life experiences i had and rep could’ve changed that. stop trying to normalize them making him straight)

Ok so at the time that I’m scheduling this post I haven’t really seen anybody talk about the fact that the buttons in the ship appear to be in Russian??

цифры “tsifry” = numbers or figures

контр “kontr” = counter

парам “param” = pairs

схема “skhema” = scheme, circuit, schematic, etc.

i have no idea what that “бл пок” is supposed to be either btw

it could be “блок” (block, unit) if they made a mistake but idek it looks more like an abbreviation (like, “block something”?)

also:

“контр” = “control”

“парам” = “parameters”

update: I KNEW IT