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-USC being a real university

I thought all the universities in this series were all fictional but this one’s actually real and they have an American football team that’s also called the Trojans.

Wild.

-The concept of East and West coast

So you guys divide your country up between the east and the west? Cool. I thought it was just north and south but apparently not.

-Time difference in the same country

Cause what do you mean Jean wakes up and Kevin’s still asleep? That’s crazy that.

-France being considered a far away land

There were so moments where Jean was talking about how Marseille is a distant memory. And I know he meant his childhood there but I’d be dead arse sat here at some points like I mean you can see it from here…fuck wait he’s in America never mind sorry 😅🤣

Fun fact you can actually you can see France from the White Cliffs of Dover on a clear day the more you know~

-A university sport being this big of a thing

Granted I think that’s America with sports in schools in general. I mean the stadiums being used for World Cup matches are your lots school stadiums which is wild to me.

My university graduation the 1st one was in one of the lecture theatres, it didn’t even have a stage. But you’re telling me that the Ravens Vs Foxes match was televised?! Okay okay.

-Aaron Minyard not being in medical school

If you’re gonna be a doctor in the UK you go to medical school as soon as you finish secondary school (11-16 or 18 but in this case 16 years old.) I don’t know if there’s alternate pathways there might be but there’s a very set this is what you do pathway into being a doctor.

Like you have to apply before everyone else does there’s a whole thing about it in school. So it was really confusing seeing Aaron studying biology being all I’m gonna be a doctor but I guess it’s different over there maybe.

Stressed me out though I was like what do you doing put the stick ball down!

-The entire thing about how Neil came to Palmetto

Like we have sports scholarships so the idea of someone getting into a university because a coach picked him out isn’t that wild. But it still baffles me especially cause unlike in America (at least from what I’ve seen) they’re not fully funded here.

Although it could’ve been an interesting thing with Neil secretly paying the rest of that himself and then hiding he’s not secretly rich and hasn’t got one hell of a paper trail now.

But I digress.

Also Neil not knowing what he was gonna study despite attending university confused the hell out of me. There was this whole thing about him picking and choosing his classes from a catalogue and that’s not a thing here.

You apply to a course within a university and then you take that course and that’s it.

-The lack of M16 or other such organisations

I know the whole focus was on the FBI and everything but you’re telling me a British Crime family was involved in some international conspiracy and our lot just went eh not our problem,

Dr. Ryland Grace was arguably the perfect backup candidate for his mission. Stratt got that right. He had no children, no life partner, no family, not even a dog. All he had was his students and that was enough for him, but that made him replaceable.

Right?

Not only were Grace’s wishes completely ignored, his life and his value as a person was undermined. Simply because he had no one but his students to care for his wellbeing, because he wouldn’t have someone at home waiting for him to come back.

Aroace people deal with similar treatment simply because romance and sex are seen as essential to the human experience, completely disregarding any and all other types of connection. One’s inherent value as a person is not lost when they choose to live life without romantic or sexual relationships. One’s value is simply in existing.

Aroace people know this well, which is why so many have become so attached to Ryland as a character. Many of us see his way of life as the end goal for ourselves, so any one of us would have been seen as just as dispensable, by Stratt and by society as a whole.

I thought of an issue with the new flag that I haven't seen anyone mention.

The change in meaning of the black stripe. The sentiment is great sure, but where did the lack of attraction part go? This new flag does not mention the lack of attraction anywhere at all. Isn't that the most important part of asexuality and its spectrum? The black stripe was supposed to be there to represent the lack of attraction and loveless people.

Then gray stripe change too, I believe it meant the weak, fluctuating or otherwise 'foggy' attraction that demi and gray aces are a part of. In the new flag this meaning is completely lost. I see that it is supposed to represent microlabels and the spectrum, but it's just not the same. Considering that the whole flag is a blanket for others, it already represents the microlabels. There's no need for a specific stripe. Gray was meant to encapsulate the gray areas between allo and ace spectrums, the gray and demi and aego and abro and flux and all others that are not specifically or fully asexual. In this flag this meaning is lost.

Instead, we get TWO stripes that represent love and intimacy. While yes, asexual people experience intimacy and experience love, the white and pink stripe should be folded into simply white because the love is already part of the intimacy. It's just redundant. And makes a way bigger than necessary focus on love in a flag that is designed for people who do not experience one type of love.

THIS is the main reason I don't feel represented by this flag at all. I am simply asexual, I do not experience sexual attraction at all point blank period. I am practically excluded from my own flag.

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

Seeing that performance recognized on one of Canada’s biggest stages feels incredibly rewarding. Williams’ win is also historic in its own right. At just 25 years old, he became the youngest performer ever to win Best Lead Performer, Drama, at the Canadian Screen Awards, accomplishing the feat on his very first nomination.”

- Q+ Magazine

If you are someone who sees the ace pride flag and cringes away from it, I need you to stop and examine why that is. Is it really because of the colors, or the (honestly kind of obscure) meanings of the stripes? Or is it because you associate that flag with a stereotype of ace people as boring / cringe / grumpy / etc?

Because, newsflash: Maybe you're too new to know this, but we as a community kind of went through this four fucking year long hate campaign called 'Ace Discourse' where people specifically crafted that stereotype to discredit us and exclude us from the queer community.

Changing the colors or design of the ace flag won't change that. It won't undo the harm we suffered to our community. It won't bring back the aces who went back in the closet and abandoned the community to save their mental health. It won't repair the damage done to our reputation by that stereotype, that continues to be perpetuated by bad actors fighting to keep the 'discourse' alive in 20-fucking-26

Like it or not, THIS is our flag. This is the most widely known symbol of our community. We can either continue to stay divided and obfuscate our identities under a dozen different color schemes, hoping against all reason that one of them will be the bandaid that fixes everything, or we can hold up OUR flag with pride and finally rebuild our community as a united front

When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can't do that with GEN AI.

Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here's 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!