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[shiveringfrogspawn]

If I get annoyed by normative and compulsive sexuality, I can only imagine Aziraphale and Crowley’s reactions. They’ve endured it in several societies throughout all of history! And the relief and pride they must feel at the asexual community and budding asexual awareness and visibility. Imagine Aziraphale finds a book called Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, and picks it up only to have Angela Chen blow his freakin mind. Imagine his pure delight at seeing humans who feel disconnected from the sexualized part of society are starting to talk about it now, we’re finally finding each other and realizing we aren’t alone or broken or wrong. Imagine his pure delight as he tells Crowley! He sees more and more asexual awareness and visibility both in and outside the LGBTQ community and thinks, “They’re learning!”

Whether you think of them as ace or not, I like to think they’d be proud of the aspec community and the space we are carving out for ourselves in the world.

#also imagine crowley fucking with aphobes #the possible mischief brings a smile to my face #good omens #good omens aziracrow #ineffable spouses #asexual positivity #asexual aziraphale #asexual crowley #asexual characters #acespec

[shiveringfrogspawn]

crowley and aziraphale being sexy is not mutually exclusive from them being asexual. y’all do realize that, right?

i’ve seen people say “i just want them to be ace icons, they’re an old gay couple they’re not meant to be sexy!!” and while that’s well intentioned and i can see where you’re coming from, i have to disagree.

don’t get me wrong, i don’t necessarily want a sex scene in canon. i did and still do read both of them as ace. the wanting them to be ace is not the issue.

i take issue with the reasoning some people are providing. let me put this bluntly: old people can and do have sex. old straight couples have sex, old queer couples have sex. being old is not synonymous with someone not being sexually active. and it says a lot about how you all view aging and old people when you act like old people can’t get it on.

secondly, aziraphale and crowley can be sexy and also never have sex. ANYBODY can be sexy and never actually have sex. because sexy is vibe, it’s a state of mind, it’s about your physicality and the way you carry yourself. you can think someone is sexy and never want to fuck them, you can think you yourself are sexy and not go any further than that.

so yeah, crowley can look hot and sexy in his turtlenecks and waistcoats. and aziraphale can look sexy in his waistcoats and button downs. you can look at david tennant’s jawline and be enamored and you can look at michael sheen’s nose and think it’s beautiful. and they never have to actually have sex with each other for any of that to be true. sexiness does not necessitate sex.

not to mention, every time i see the “they’re an old gay couple they don’t need to be sexy!!” argument it feels very much like sanitizing queer relationships and love for the sake of cishet comfortability. too often queer people are not allowed to be sexual, or for fucks sake, not just sexual but physical with their significant others. because physical manifestations and displays of queer love make the cishet world uncomfortable. and not allowing that kind of physical love to exist in media only serves to further perpetuate the issue.

queer love and queer people don’t have to be palatable to a cishet audience. queer love should get to exist authentically and queer people should get to exist and present in however way they see fit.

and in the context of good omens i think that means letting aziraphale and crowley be sexy even if they never have sex. that means letting them be physical in their love. because queer people deserve that, especially old queer people

#i don’t even know if this makes sense but here ya go #can’t believe i (an asexual) unironically wrote ‘sexy is a state of mind’ in an otherwise serious tumblr post #anyways let aziraphale and crowley be sexy even if they never have sex #asexual crowley #asexual aziraphale #asexual aziracrow #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable wives #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens meta

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when I read good omens I fully interpreted ineffable husbands as an asexual couple because like.... they're supernatural beings that don't really jibe with human sex

but in the show they have so much sexual tension and I think that's because Michael Sheen always looks like he's ready to jump David Tennent's bones at any given moment and he's so real for that

#good omens #ineffable husbands #asexual aziraphale #asexual crowley #honestly i prefer asexual aziracrow #aziracrow

[shiveringfrogspawn]

Being loved  (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃

#gosh this is beautiful #the hands #the embraceee #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #good omens fanart #reblog

[shiveringfrogspawn]

Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

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For a while, I’d look in the mirror and see someone I barely knew, or better yet see someone I wish I never had known in the first place. My reflection was nothing more than an inconvenience, another negative in a sea of pain.

And then I met you. And you called me pretty, called me handsome, called me yours… and suddenly the person looking back at me was someone I didn’t mind being around. Because you liked being around them. And if you liked them, then why couldn’t I give them a chance as well?

It’s silly to think that my view of myself is based on how you view me, but I don’t see it that way. I see it like this:

I never thought anyone could love me. Not the way you do. So why should I love myself? If there’s no one else there to lift me up, what’s another person to drag me down? It doesn’t make a difference.

But I do love myself, and you showed me that. Told me I was worthy of the love you give, told me I deserved to feel that way about myself. And it changed me. Like one flower in a garden turned to two, and suddenly?

I bloomed.

#writers on tumblr

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After Leigh Bardugo's appearance on Good Morning America to discuss her new book, The Familiar, the Sun US have released an article discussing her wishes to bring back the Shadow and Bone show after its cancellation.

"It was true magic to see that happen," Leigh responded.

The author went on to say that the series was also heartbreaking because she felt that they had so much more story left to tell before it was canceled.

"I'm grateful everyday for our incredible cast and incredible writers and I hope that it will find a place someplace else," she said.

You can read the full article here.

#grishaverse #shadow and bone #shadow and bone netflix #six of crows #article #fuck netflix #leigh bardugo

[shiveringfrogspawn]

Hi pookie what is your favourite gen z slang ?

Probably "pookie".

#nice #neil gaiman

[shiveringfrogspawn]

co-captain cuddles

#AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH #CUUUUTEEEE #ofmd fanart #ed and stede <3 #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ed teach #edward teach #stede bonnet #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2

[shiveringfrogspawn]

I'm not going anywhere, hbo max wants to forget about the gay pirates so fuck that, I'm never going to stop talking about them and appreciating what we got, this show was revolutionary for so many of us.

#ofmd #our flag means death

[shiveringfrogspawn]

don't mind me...i'm just crying in the corner over here because i only have two more episodes with amy and rory...my pond babies...

#doctor who #eleventh doctor #dw #amy pond #rory williams #amelia pond #11th doctor #the ponds #i just finished #a town called mercy #and i'm REALLY not prepared for #the angels take manhattan #matt smith #karen gillan #arthur darvill #the eleventh doctor #new who #nuwho #s7 nuwho

[shiveringfrogspawn]

Viola the circus elephant didn't escape, she politely removed herself from an uncomfortable situation. role model to us all

#she went on a CALM AND CASUAL STROLL. she pursued EXERCISE AND FRESH AIR #'escaped circus elephant disrupts traffic' the fact that american roads are so hostile to pedestrians is NOT👏HER👏RESPONSIBILITY👏👏👏 #god forbid women do anything

[shiveringfrogspawn]

Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

[shiveringfrogspawn]

make a girl smile today.

give her a sword.

[shiveringfrogspawn]

you can do more than one of these if you want

actually, you can do anything you want

live unapologetically and without restraint

[shiveringfrogspawn]

god I fucking love strawberries

[shiveringfrogspawn]

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.