✦ @booksociety​​’s Villains And Antiheroes Event: The Folk Of The Air By Holly Black “Cardan,”

I cannot overstate the importance of yelena being aroace for the aspec community

The importance of representation

Because we have next to no one

You can almost count aro characters on one hand and there are just very few more ace characters

Go look at the Wikipedia lists of ace and aro characters and compare it to the lists with lesbian, gay or bi characters

That's not great either but the difference is enormous

Our representation is stated afterwards at most and always, always debated

We don't even get side characters

Even the characters who are explicitly confirmed aren't safe from erasure (look up jughead Jones)

That's why every character matters to us

Every character that is explicitly aspec makes people realize that they are aspec

We cherish every character we have and we fight for them because how else can we ever get the representation we deserve

Even just an aroace-coded hero is so important

Because the characters that are aro-coded the most are villains

And they aren't just aro-coded and villains

They are shown to be villains because they are aro

Because they don't understand love, because they can't feel love

The only others are either not human or depicted as childish and naive

Do I have to tell you what this does to you

Even if you aren't told that you're broken or evil

It's always there in the subtext, all around you

So a hero

That means so freaking much

Because we can be heros to

We are people

And yes, we all need more representation

We are all so starved of it and yes, we will take every little sign

Because what else do we have

But this character, yelena, means so much to so many of us

Because this character was enough to get aromantic trending

Because people are learning about us because of her

Because people talking about it made people realize they are aspec

That they aren't broken

Because maybe we can get more than just a hidden statement in an interview this time

Because we need this

And we deserve her

I- SO IT WAS A DARE?

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TARA HELLO HI BLAME TUMBLR USER VEE CHETICHETI

is anyone on tumblr ok?

OH COME ON I ALREADY TOLD YOU I WOULD

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Also I'm changing my tracked tag to #userastro

moots sb pleaseee

listened to Bohemian Rhapsody today… i’m so very sorry

Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”

Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.

Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.

When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.” 

- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof

i- what?

tagging anyone who wants to lol

ok new tag game search your name in the gifs and the fourth one is how your years gonna go (i saw this on facebook)

Oh- thanks for the tag @lord-of-the-weird

Tagging: @visfar-the-101 @lost-highwayy @nikkisqueenofsleaze @kurtsnirvanabrother @novemberslashhx @axysbbygurl @adlersrose @rocknrollsoul76 @pinkpatiencecreepers @hungercityhellhound 🤍

i dotn have green flasgs i HAVE PINK flagd

Understandable, have a nice day

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TARA HELLO HI BLAME TUMBLR USER VEE CHETICHETI

happy new yearrrrr~ how are you?

shatttt hiiii

hii tara :) happy new year <3