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Here's one of my favorite YouTube videos (from Way-ay-ay back in 2013) where an allosexual sex educator person talks about how she was educated about ace-ness: 5 Asexuality Experiences. And she has another good one, from just three years ago, about Demisexuality. Both of these are properly closed captioned in English, BTW.

You know, since most of my queer identity is defined by what I don't feel, I don't really feel very Queer at all (just a little bit queer, if I bother to stop and think about it).

But then, last March (2020), in her video "Artists and Fandoms,"* Abigail Thorn (writer and presenter of Philosophy Tube) said:

"Also, it is fun, and I enjoy being desired."


And my brain went: "Nope! nope-nope-nope! Nope! Do not Want! You can have mine, if you want seconds." I was surprised by the strength of my reaction, and I thought: "Gee! I guess I really am Not Straight. Huh. Whatcha know?"

Do I want to be loved? Absolutely! Do I want to be desired? No. Unfortunately, in most philosophical and aesthetic discussions, desire and love are almost synonymous. So it's hard to talk about.

Anyway -- happy Ace Week!

*This was before she came out as trans, and she was still using her deadname in public. So that may make it an uncomfortable watch. But it's still a good video, if you're up for it.
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Phew, okay! I've got our community tags up. Or, well, as many as I can think of, at any rate. I'm sure there's a bunch I missed, and fandom tags in particular I'll have to add as we go.

Anyone who wants to is welcome to look over the tag list and request that I add something to it, especially if it's something I missed. This was just everything I could come up with off the top of my head, and while it covers a lot of stuff, I know I'm not perfect and didn't think of everything or everyone. Please also let me know if you spot any spelling mistakes or typos; I'm still not entirely used to the keyboard on my new laptop, which will account for some slipups, but definitely not all of them.

Let's see here, what else. Oh! CW is short for Content Warning, and warns for types of content that people might not want to deal with or, in the case of NSFW (literally: Not Safe For Work), is the type of thing they might get in trouble for having a record of on a work computer. Media is for reviews and shoutouts about various forms of media that have representation of us, good and bad. Everything else should be fairly self-explanatory, I think.

Since Dreamwidth has a tag limit of 1000 for free accounts (1500 for paid, 2000 for premium paid), there may come a time when I have to combine some lesser-used tags in order to preserve some more-used tags. We've still got close to 900 tags to go before reaching the free account limit, though, so I'm pretty sure we'll be okay for a while.

Thanks to everyone who's joined so far, and if you have any feedback, I would be very interested in it!

Edit: It looks like I have tags hidden somehow at the moment? Lemme go take a look around, see how I need to fix that.

Edit 2: Apparently all unused tags were marked as "private" in the tag management thing. There's probably a better way to fix that, but it's late and I'm tired, so my current workaround is: Literally tag this post with every single tag available. (For the record, I tried doing that and then untagging everything, but the tags went right back to being private, so that shortcut is a no-go.)

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