Bevendre

adriofthedead:

adriofthedead:

Okay, I realize this hilariously late for Asexuality Awareness Week (which was last week), but due to unforeseen stressors, it didn’t really get done in time.

Anyway! I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while, and I’m proud of myself of actually getting a six page comic done within a week. (Not that it’s really anything super fancy, but it’s better than nothing lol) I do apologize for the massive ugly text wall that is page four but I had a hard time figuring out how to convey it visually while being kind of pressed for time. oh and the occasional copy/paste, I’m sorry for that too

Enjoy! Click on the separate pictures if the text is hard to read.

Today marks the first day of this year’s Asexuality Awareness Week, and the first anniversary of posting this comic! One year, nearly 100,000 notes, and who-knows-how-many views later, this comic is still going strong. Between the support from Tumblr and being featured to sites such as Upworthy and Everyday Feminism, I never would have imagined that my info-comic would have become so widespread. I seriously cannot thank you all enough for sharing this.

A lot has changed in a year, and I am still learning and growing as a person—and that includes as an asexual-identifying person. I’ve made many new discoveries about myself and my orientation, and I wanted to take a moment to clear up a few inconsistencies in this comic, in the hopes that those who’ve read it before or are just now reading it for the first time can be better informed. I’m not an authority nor a spokesperson on asexuality or the asexual community; I do not speak for the majority, only as one who wishes to spread better awareness.

1. The correct term for a non-asexual person is allosexual, not “sexual”. The term “sexual” carries with it many problematic connotations and contributes to erasure of queer people of differing orientations. (Source)
2. Using “trans*” (with an asterisk) when referring to trans people rather than simply “trans” is divisive and exclusionary, particularly of trans women and non binary people. (Source)
3. In the unedited version of this comic, I used autism as an example of a mental illness, when it is actually a neurotype.  I had removed it from the comic when someone brought it to my attention, but, unfortunately, the unedited version is still in circulation. I want to apologize again for my misstep. While there is an unfortunate overlapping stigma between ace people and people on the autism spectrum, they’re not correlated, and anyone of any neurotype can identify as asexual.
4. The claim that “many asexuals still have and enjoy sex” is a generalization and not fully accurate. While it is still true that there are people on the asexuality spectrum that can and are able to engage in sexual activity, that doesn’t mean it is true for everyone. No two asexual identifying people are exactly alike. Some are sex-repulsed/averse, some aren’t. Some have a high libido, some don’t. It’s unfair and sex-normative to compartmentalize people on the asexuality spectrum by those who choose to engage in sexual activity and those who do not, and I apologize for that. It was never my intention to exclude anybody; only to dismantle the popular notion that asexuality is just a “buzzword” for being sex-repulsed/averse.

I hope that about covers everything. Again, I want to thank you all so much for all of your support. It makes me so glad to know that this comic has helped people learn more about themselves and others, and I sincerely hope that it continues to do so. <3

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carrotcatmd:

STORY:

On my way home from work, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. 

I have a $50 bill and a $2 bill. I figure with the $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about irritating anyone for trying to break a $50 bill. 

Me: ‘Hi, I’d like one seven-layer burrito please, to go.’ Server: ‘That’ll be $1.04. Eat in?’ 
Me: ‘No, it’s to go.’ At this point, I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny. 
Server: ‘Uh, hang on a sec, I’ll be right back.’ He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within my earshot.

The following conversation occurs between the two of them:

Server: ‘Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?’ 
Manager: ‘No. A what?’ 
Server: ‘A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me…’ 
Manager: ‘Ask for something else. There’s no such thing as a $2 bill.’ 
Server: ‘Yeah, thought so.’ 

He comes back to me and says, ‘We don’t take these.

Do you have anything else?’ 

Me: ‘Just this fifty. You don’t take $2 bills? Why? 
Server: ‘I don’t know.’ 
Me: ‘See here where it says legal tender?’ 
Server: ‘Yeah.’ 
Me: ‘So, why won’t you take it?’ 
Server: ‘Well, hang on a sec.’ 

He goes back to his manager, who has been watching me like I’m a shoplifter, and says to him, ‘He says I have to take it.’

Manager: ‘Doesn’t he have anything else?’ 
Server: ‘Yeah, a fifty. I’ll get it and you can open the safe and get change. 
Manager: ‘I’m not opening the safe with him in here.’ 
Server: ‘What should I do?’ 
Manager: ‘Tell him to come back later when he has real money.’ 
Server: ‘I can’t tell him that! You tell him.’ 
Manager: ‘Just tell him.’ 
Server: ‘No way! This is weird. I’m going in back. 

The manager approaches me and says, ‘I’m sorry, but we don’t take big bills this time of night.’

Me: ‘It’s only seven o’clock! Well then, here’s a two dollar bill.’ 
Manager: ‘We don’t take those, either.’ 
Me: ‘Why not?’ 
Manager: ‘I think you know why.’ 
Me: ‘No really, tell me why.’ 
Manager ‘Please leave before I call mall security.’ 
Me: ‘Excuse me?’ 
Manager: ‘Please leave before I call mall security.’ 
Me: ‘What on earth for?’ 
Manager: ‘Please, sir..’ 
Me: ‘Uh, go ahead, call them.’ 
Manager: ‘Would you please just leave?’ 
Me: ‘No.’ 
Manager: ‘Fine — have it your way then.’ 
Me: ‘Hey, that’s Burger King, isn’t it?’ 

At this point, he backs away from me and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. I have two people staring at me from the dining area, and I begin laughing out loud, just for effect.

A few minutes later this 45-year-oldish guy comes in. 

Guard: ‘Yeah, Mike, what’s up?’ 
Manager (whispering): ‘This guy is trying to give me some (pause) funny money.’ 
Guard: ‘No kidding! What?’ 
Manager: ‘Get this. A two dollar bill.’ 
Guard (incredulous): ‘Why would a guy fake a two dollar bill?’ 
Manager: ‘I don’t know. He’s kinda weird. He says the only other thing he has is a fifty.’ 
Guard: ‘Oh, so the fifty’s fake!’ 
Manager: ‘No, the two dollar bill is.’ 
Guard: ‘Why would he fake a two dollar bill?’ 
Manager : ‘I don’t know! Can you talk to him, and get him out of here?’ 
Guard: ‘Yeah.’


Security Guard walks over to me and……

Guard: ‘Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you’re trying to use.’ 
Me: ‘Uh, no.’ 
Guard: ‘Lemme see ‘em.’ 
Me: ‘Why?’ 
Guard: ‘Do you want me to get the cops in here?’ 

At this point I’m ready to say, ‘Sure, please!’ but I want to eat, so I say, ‘I’m just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this two dollar bill. I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I’m taking a swing at him. He takes the bill turns it over a few times in his hands, and he says, 

Guard: ‘Hey, Mike, what’s wrong with this bill?’ 
Manager: ‘It’s fake.’ 
Guard: ‘It doesn’t look fake to me.’ 
Manager: ‘But it’s a two dollar bill.’ 
Guard: ‘Yeah? ‘ 
Manager: ‘Well, there’s no such thing, is there?’ 

The security guard and I both look at him like he’s an idiot and it dawns on the guy that he has no clue and is an idiot. So, it turns out that my burrito was free, and he threw in a small drink and some of those cinnamon thingies, too.

Made me want to get a whole stack of two dollar bills just to see what happens when I try to buy stuff. 

I LOVE $2 bills. I can hardly ever find them because of above reason. No one thinks they’re real.

My grandmother works at a bank, and every time she would visit my family she would give me and my siblings $2 bills.  I have actually had people spot me $2 on some purchases just because they didn’t want to see me use a $2 bill.

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rawiltshire103:

kaiserneko:

zenpencils:

KEVIN SMITH: It costs nothing to encourage an artist

Jesus Fucking Christ, this.

This. “Art class” in my elementary school both sucked and blowed, that’s how much it sucked. Got yelled at for coloring wrong. Who yells at a third grader for coloring wrong?
High school, couldn’t take art classes if you were in the Regent’s diploma track.
Trying to pick up some of these pieces again has been just painful. No wonder my stuff still looks like a third grader drew it, that’s where it stopped progressing.

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srfelicidad:

Asexuality by Tiny Dinosaur :)!

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