#gray-ace pride

The second novel ship for Pride Month this year, and the last one overall, we have Castor and Archer~ 💙💕

I wanted to draw these two again since I was low-key missing them, and I haven't drawn them for Pride Month before like I've done with some of my other TLR ships. I wasn't quite sure what to do for their piece, but I wanted to do some sort of embracing pose, and to make it special I decided to draw them in each other's fashion styles(since I always find that a cute couple idea)~ ^w^

Let’s be more intentional in our language. Defining anyone/anything as “in between x and y” is necessarily a comparison that invalidates the someoneness/somethingness of who/what you’re describing. As a color, gray isn’t “not quite black” or “not quite white”. It’s a spectrum of hues unto itself. Gray-asexuality isn’t uncertain or indecisive. Gray-asexuality is radical and distinct and valid and worthy. Happy pride gray-A lovelies. 

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[Image Description: A set of 2 square images, placed beside each other. All text is in lowercase letters. In both images the gray-asexual pride flag is used which is a striped flag made up of five colors in the following colors: Violet indigo, light gray, white, light grey, violet indigo.

Image 1: A single square image with an old lavender background and outlined by a thin black border. All text in this image is centered. At the top of the image in big, bold black letters it reads “happy”, followed by text featuring the colors of the gray-asexual pride flag which reads “gray-ace”, followed by black text which reads “pride.” Beneath the text is an enlarged polycule symbol with the gray-ace pride flag across the hearts. Under the polycule symbol is smaller, bold black text which reads “to polyamorists who experience sexual attraction rarely and/or with low intensity.” At the bottom of the image is the “@polyamproud” watermark in gray letters.

Image 2: A single square images with a white background. Most of the image is taken up by a big gray-asexual pride flag with a black polycule symbol in the top left of the flag. All text beneath the flag is left-aligned and lowercase letters. Directly beneath the flag in big, bold black letters it reads “gray-asexual pride,” followed by the text directly beneath it which is much smaller, thin text which reads “with polycule symbol”. Beneath this text is slightly bigger, bold black text which reads “celebrating gray-ace polyamorists.” At the bottom right of the image is the “@polyamproud” watermark in gray letters.

Pastel Plants/Magic based Gray-Ace and Gay moodboard! ^^ For an anon~ Hope you like this! :D

It’s Asexual Awareness Week and I want to try an experiment. 

Ever since June, this blog has been posting pictures of aces spotted at Pride events, in order to show that we exist and we belong.  Now I want to show where we exist, namely, that we’re everywhere.

Here’s what I want to do:  I’m going to start with some blank maps and I want to fill them in.  But I don’t just want to color in the states or countries when someone says “I’m in Nebraska!” or “I’m in Lichtenstein!” or wherever.  I want pictures of visible aceness in all of these places.  Ace flags at famous monuments, demi t-shirts on the street, gray-ace chalk markings at Pride, that sort of thing.

I’m going to need your help for this.

Here’s what I need you to do.

Grab an ace, gray-ace, or demi flag or acey clothing of some kind.  (It’s okay if the flag is printed or hand drawn!)

Go outside.  If you can go to a famous landmark or nice view of some sort, that would be great, but you don't have to.  A local park would be fine, even the sidewalk in front of your house would be okay in a pinch.  (If you already have a good picture, you can just send that in.  If you don’t have or can’t take a picture, an artist’s rendition of what it would be like to take an ace flag to someplace awesome in your local area will be suitable.)

Take a picture of the aceness wherever you are.  You don’t have to be in the picture if you don’t want to, but some visible ace symbol has to be.

Submit the picture to acespotting, putting your state/province/country in the caption.  You can do that here:  https://acespotting.tumblr.com/submit  And make sure you give me your location, since that’s the point of this experiment!  Province/Territory in Canada, State/District/Commonwealth/Territory in US, and Country anywhere else.  (If you’re logged in, your username will be associated with the picture, so if you don’t want that, you can either log out or use an “Incognito” or “Private” browser window to submit anonymously.)

I’m also going to need your help to track down aces in obscure places and convince them to participate.  California will be easy.  Nunavut will be hard.

I’m hoping that we can completely fill the Canada/USA/Mexico map by the end of Ace Week.  I’d also like to get at least half of Europe filled in.  And as amazing as it would be to get every single country on the world map represented, I think I’d be happy to get something on every continent.  (Who knows someone in Antarctica?)  And if your place isn’t really on the map (Like, say, Puerto Rico...), send something in anyway and I’ll get it added.

Enough talking.  Let’s get these maps filled in!

Omg yes of course!! And thank you; happy gray-ace pride day to you too!! I’m so so sorry to hear this (and unbelievably mad too)–people like that, who try to limit you to what they think is right, should definitely not be your friends– and it sucks that you’ve had to deal with that. Respect is key!!