~phoenike~

Finally undergoing the massive effort of switching my tömblr account, this is the new one. Old main, now called @phoenikethatwas, got shadowbanned. I know I could try opening a ticket with the staff and maybe get the issue resolved in about five minutes if I’m lucky – but I also kind of feel like getting rid of about 8 years of tumblr history. I’ll keep my old blog as a repository of likes and reblogs.

Wow, I can actually see myself in the damn search, now.

Tagging some mutuals who might still want to follow…? No obligations of course. (A few of yall seem to be shadowbanned, too, so I have no idea if the tags work…) Also, I’m not leaving anyone out on the purpose of losing them, I’m just squeamish about bothering people, especially if we haven’t interacted that much lately. Alternatively, I might not have noticed you when scrolling the list. Or you’ve gone and changed your handle and I don’t recognize you anymore.

Finally undergoing the massive effort of switching my tömblr account, this is the new one. Old main, now called @phoenikethatwas, got shadowbanned. I know I could try opening a ticket with the staff and maybe get the issue resolved in about five minutes if I’m lucky – but I also kind of feel like getting rid of about 8 years of tumblr history. I’ll keep the my old blog as a repository of likes and reblogs.

Wow, I can actually see myself in the damn search, now.

Tagging some mutuals who might still want to follow…? No obligations of course. (A few of yall seem to be shadowbanned, too…) Also, I’m not leaving anyone out on the purpose of losing them, I’m just squeamish about bothering people, especially if we haven’t interacted that much lately. Alternatively, I might not have noticed you when scrolling the list. Or you’ve gone and changed your handle and I don’t recognize you anymore.

Get yourself un-shadowbanned That post seems to be going around a bit but not the reblog on how to fix it, so here’s another

Go to postlimit, put in your blog name, TAKE A SCREENSHOT

Go to tumblr support and file a support ticket. Category: Blog incorrectly marked explicit. Details: posts hidden from search results. Attach the screenshot. Do this even if you’ve already filed a support ticket N days ago without a screenshot. Make sure the relevant blog is chosen and you have the right contact email address.

We have one more full week before we close application submissions for the LV365: Simarkus Charity Zine! 

We recently announced and are extremely excited about our two guest artists, @lusciouswhiteflame and @ushidoshi! 

And we also held our poll for the charity we will be donating the profits to, The Trevor Project! 

So if you haven’t done so already and would like to, please submit your applications by using the provided links below, and if you have any questions, even after you’ve referred to our Submission Guidelines and Comprehensive FAQ, please don’t hesitate to ask, even if you think it’s a dumb question! Both myself and Mod BI300 promise to have a response to you ASAP. 

As a reminder, our goals are as follows:

Our goals are as follows:

12-14 ARTISTS

12-14 WRITERS

2-3 MERCH ARTISTS

4-6 BETA READERS

What we are looking for with your application:

Writers:

2-3 pieces of what you would consider your best work.

At least 1 of these pieces MUST be Simarkus, Simon, OR Markus.

Please do not submit any pieces over 2500 words.

NSFW submissions are allowed, but be aware that this is a SFW zine.

Artists:

2-3 pieces that you consider to be your best work.

At least 1 of these pieces MUST be Simarkus, Simon, OR Markus.

NSFW submissions are allowed, but be aware that this is a SFW zine.

All submissions should be AO3/TUMBLR/TWITTER links that we can easily view.

Below are the respective applications. (Note: if you are applying for more than one, you must fill out both/all applications).

Writers Application

Artists/Merch Artists Application

Beta sign ups

Thanks for the support so far everyone, and good luck, applicants!

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^LOVERS <3

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

A lot of American generals were against using the bomb as they felt it served an empty purpose.

Those who agreed with its usage completely disagreed with dropping them on cities.

Truman went ahead and had them detonated in two highly populated civilian cities anyway. Two cities that had remained mostly untouched by regular bombings throughout the war precisely bc of their lack of value to the Japanese war effort.  

s/o to aces with kinks

s/o to aces with fantasies

s/o to aces who experience sensual attraction

s/o to aces who like to be sensually intimate with their partners

s/o to aces who like to be sexually intimate with their partners

Alternatively, it’s possible to sort of “trade favours”; instead of sexually pleasing their asexual partner who is disinterested in receiving sexually, the non-asexual party might cuddle, kiss and otherwise be physically affectionate with their partner while making love. This’d still count as sexual intimacy, even though only one person in the act is - hopefully - orgasming.

Some asexuals see sex as a way to bond with their partners. Again, the act isn’t specifically interesting to them, but it works as a means to an end - through it, they get to feel closer to their partner.

Asexuality is the absence of sexual attraction, the “I want to bang that” trigger that most people have in response to potential sexual partners. Not the absence of sexual activity itself, which would be celibacy - the choice to not engage in sex, the act. An asexual can have sex and not feel that specific type of attraction to their partner, as attraction is passive and not based in active choice. It doesn’t mean that that partner is disgusting to them, either; they may well be aesthetically attractive to the asexual person (the same way you can appreciate a beautiful statue or a painting without becoming sexually aroused by viewing it) and the asexual person may well desire physical intimacy with them, such as hugging, kissing, cuddling and holding hands. Since not all asexuals are inherently repulsed by sex but merely disinterested in it by default, turning that desire for general closeness into sexual activity where it provides fulfillment of some form to both parties isn’t necessarily paradoxical.

Someone once brought up a fairly good point regarding this subject; non-asexual people also sometimes hook up and have sex with people that aren’t specifically attractive to them. It can still be perfectly consensual and satisfy the needs of both parties, despite the fact that the base attraction wasn’t there. For example, a person who just wants to have sex with someone might go along with a partner they would not otherwise choose, but who simply happens to be available and ready to do the deed with them. Alternatively, a woman might seek to have a baby, and have sex with a partner solely for that purpose, and whether the partner chosen is sexually attractive to them or not isn’t a big factor in the choice. (Plenty of asexual women choose to have sex to have children.) There are multiple reasons to have sex even when you’re not sexually attracted. Specifically for asexuals, the factor of having a non-asexual partner is usually a big motivator to have sex, and other reasons like the ones I explored above may additionally pop up to support that decision.

We don’t know what God tested and what God registered as true or untrue. 

We don’t know what God entered into the code since the last time we tested. 

We don’t know what God ticketed as an issue and what just God ignored.

I’ll take all that I can get

 Just don’t make me go.