#admin robin

I, Admin Robin, am back from the dead with new ideas for a story I want to do. Essentially it will be individual stories for each member following the theme Koi No Yokan. The Japanese term refers to the sense one can have upon first meeting a person that you are going to fall in love, and that they are going to fall in love with you. It differs from “love at first sight” as it does not imply that the feeling of love exists, only the knowledge that a future love is inevitable. I want to create a prologue and then write the stories. It is undecided whether it will be a long one-shot or several chapters per member. However, I will make sure to alert you readers as I begin to write them. 

Hello!

We will try to wrap everything until next Wednesday, so that we can announce the new mod/s along with a new topic!

We’re going to have to say that we require MAIN blogs, sorry. The dash of a side blog is often difficult to differentiate, and we need to make sure that you see each and every post of your fellow RPers - they can’t be swallowed up by unrelated posts. 

Thank you!

In my opinion, asexuals belong in the lgbt+ community. People like to say we don’t unless we’re also bi, gay, pan, poly or whatever. But we do. We just do. We’re not straight, no matter what you may think.

Saying we don’t because we’re straightpassing is like saying bisexuals only belong in the lgbt+ community if they’re dating someone of the same sex. It’s bullshit. Straightpassing is no privilege, it just means our sexual orientation is being erased. Saying otherwise is just awful.

You’re saying that bisexual aces belong in the community, but only if they date someone of the same sex. Asexuality belongs in the community. No matter the romantic orientation, we just do.

-Tess

As someone who soooomehow identifies with being on the ace spectrum but isn’t fully sure, I can speak mostly as an ace ally here. I can understand allo LGBT+ people who say that LGBT+ spaces are supposed to be safe from cishets and only for LGBT+ people. That’s like, very obvious. The LGBT+ community is made of LGBT+ people. Full stop.

But now; where do we draw the line, is the question. Are only people who experience homo-, bi- and transphobia allowed to enter those spaces? Are aro / ace people “”more straight”“ or “”more queer”“? While I understand both sides of the discourse, I am personally convinced that the LGBT+ community is defined more by being not straight and cis than by being made of certain identities; hence I think asexuality/aromanticism and those spectrums are part of it. I think the structures of beforementioned phobias and ace/arophobia are similar - ace/aro people and LGBT+ people have similar ‘enemies’.

I think that it is way more healthy for the community to fight things together and to have similar opinions on phobias and cishets than to examine the groups within the LGBT+ community and form borders inside. Things I am personally not sure about is the distinction between those who have other LGBT+ identities or not; I really understand both sides here. What I can say for myself though is that I am not offended by the thought of letting aro/ace people into the community - like; they are part of it anyway. Especially because most aro/ace people do not think of themselves as straight. The tone of the ace discourse frightens me a little. Why are we fighting? Why are we tearing each other apart? Where did the “the A stands for aro/ace not for ally” posts go? Where did this sudden aggression come from?

Hello!

Intersex means by definition that somebody’s reproductive or sexual anatomy / traits (as genitalia, hormones, chromosomes, outern anatomy (as in bones structure) etc.) don’t fit the typical definitions of the female or male sex. There are many variations as to where intersex people differentiate in their anatomy from dyadic (non-intersex) people. For example, somebody may appear very masculine, but lack a fully-formed penis, or someone’s testosterone or estrogen hormone rates do not match their chromosomes.

There is also a huge diversity within intersex people and their experiences - sometimes they are being diagnosed already at birth (and at times forced to undergo surgeries shortly afterwards), sometimes it becomes apparent throughout puberty when some secondary or primary sexual characteristics evolve differently than expected. But there are also intersex people who notice very late that they are so, or that live their entire lives without finding out.

It should also be not forgotten about how not only gender but also sex is a social construct! Intersex people exist, and they are not as rare as one would think - sex binary is often used by supporters of the gender binary to underline their arguments, but it is fragile as well. The sex anatomy displays on a huge spectrum, sexual characteristics come in all shapes and sizes, and humans force all the differences to fit into two categories (three, if you count intersex as well). But that is not exactly necessary, as nature doesn’t really distinct strictly between two sexes. Still most societies do it to fit into traditions and to order things, which is obviously highly problematic and harmful.

I’d also like to add that I as far as I know, I am dyadic and am only yet learning about intersex identities! If you’d like to know more, there are some helpful Tumblr blogs on the topic:

@fuckyeahintersex

@actuallyintersex (you’re only supposed to enage when you are intersex, but you are allowed to follow if you are dyadic)

@drcknowledgeandpower (check the tag /intersex)

Of course, there are also other recources on the internet, don’t be afraid to google around!

Whatever you decide for, you can either send us things right to the blog or tag them with #queery potter - we keep track of the tag.

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Thank you! A happy new year to you (and everybody else) as well! Tess is already very keen on doing good and is very interested in things, and I don’t think that it will go wrong with her once the challenges get started. ;)

A little post off-schedule because I feel like saying this: Thank you a lot for following us. We gained almost 50 followers last month, and are now at 244 followers! It is great to see that more and more people care about this blog!

We have a lot planned out for 2016; new challenges and a slightly different structure to make following this blog a bit more interesting for you.

Thank you to everyone who keeps sending in headcanons, photo sets or art, we really appreciate all of of it! Don’t be shy. If there is anything you want to tell us, don’t hesitate to drop my our ask box, we’d be glad to answer you (also privately).