Okay, for aro awareness week, I need you all to start recognizing that:
NOT EVERYONE IN THE ARO COMMUNITY IS FROM THE UNITED STATES OR EUROPE.
Please, when we're having discussions about aphobia, allonormativity amatonormativity, and other issues for the love of god STOP PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T EXIST AND LISTEN TO US!
We aren't just your token aros that exist in the other side of the world just for you to prove that we are everywhere or whatever point you're trying to make, we are living, breathing human beings and members of the aro community and we deserve respect and to be remembered not as a point in your discourse but as equals.
I am sick and tired of people just assuming that everyone in the community is either from the United States or Europe and only centering those voices in the discussion. We exist too.
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contacted the GIC yesterday to see where i'm at on the waiting list and was informed it would be approximately another four (4) years before my first appointment with a specialist. i initially got referred way back in 2020, so that's an eight year wait in total - and it'll be another year, possibly two, before i can get any kind of gender-affirming treatment or surgery on the NHS, so let's make it a round decade to be on the safe side. now tell me why every other month some trash newspaper publishes the same fucking scare-mongering article about how gender clinics are dangerous because they're "rushing" people into transitioning "before they're ready"
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Named my profile 'lady' the better part of a decade ago ago and with the profile update it's now
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ptj has some personal vendetta against short skinny men because WHERE did all the height difference go to???? all of them are slowly morphing into some 6ft beefy ten pack adonis and where's the flavour in that?? ptj please let your men be twinks. let them be short and lean and bite sized and I promise none of your readers will mind
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Okay, i see others getting frustrated that Essek, though actively mentioned, didn't show up. And while yes, I can understand the ire, consider this instead:
Essek was hanging out with Kingsley somewhere around Darktow. Kingsley is the new Plank King, and Essek found a lovely safe hiding spot with him and his crew in Darktow. They get along really well - Kingsley reminds Essek a bit of his brother, and it's nice to feel free.
But wait, I can make it funnier. What if both of them get the Donna Noble treatment. What if all of the solstice shit goes down and by the time the rest of the Nein find them they just straight up missed it all.
Nein: "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS ARE OKAY!!!!!"
Essek & Kingsley: "Yeah, we were just finishing our mai tais. Why, what's going on?"
Nein: "HAVE YOU SEEN THE FUCKING MOON IN THE SKY?????? THE SOLSTICE???? THE ALIENS?????"
Essek & Kingsley: "Huh, we haven't seen much around here. It's been all foggy and misty, which has actually been great for us. Kingsley used it as cover to sneak up on some rival ships so we could steal their cargo and....."
I just think it would be fucking hilarious if Essek & Kingsley were as clueless about the Solstice Shenanigans as Donna Noble was about the Cyberman invasion.
"I was scuba diving in Spain." = "We were having mai tais in Darktow."
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