If I do liveblog, I will tag all my posts with “GoT spoilers,” so tumblr saviour it, kk?

c:

Why, Aces aren’t queer! We are not allowed to identify as queer! Not even the non-binary ones. What are you talking about, there’s no trans*/genderqueer Aces! ell oh ell.

Yes, I’m sure we can just run down to the nearest marriage license office or whatever and say, “OHNO, WE’RE NOT HOMOSEXUALS, WE’RE ASEXUALS. WE’RE JUST HOMOROMANTIC. IN FACT, WE ARE ALSO ZUCHINNIS. WE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GET MARRIED.”

Yupp. They would totally allow it. As long as no gay sex is involved, you are free to marry whomever you wish, didn’t you know?

And it’s not queer, either!

willowdoor:

For me, love is like a basket full of circles.

When I meet someone, we exchange circles. I give them fragile ones at first. If they want to take care of my circles they keep them in their own circle basket, then give me some of their own to put in my basket. 

As time goes on we exchange stronger and stronger circles. 

And I’m happy.

I’m content.

This is love to me. 

But-

As time goes on, the person I love usually takes me by surprise and reveals another basket. This one is full of squares. They want to give me squares along with their circles. To them- this is only natural. They have a square basket, so they naturally want squares. 

I’ve screached myself many, many times in the past. But I don’t have a square basket or any squares. I have no squares to give and no place to put any.

This is the part where my love becomes frustrated with me. “How can you not have squares?” they ask. “What’s wrong with you?” they ask. In the past I’ve tried to shape my circles as squares- but I can never keep up the charade for long. 

A circle simply isn’t a square. 

And not matter how much I love this person, I cannot give something I just don’t have. 

This metaphor appeals to me.

It also reminds me too much of my last argument with my squish, so now I feel a bit sad.

lukemonaco replied to your post: poetry

Excellent writing. Well done.

Thank you!

I am so sick of your arguments.

“I’ve never heard that before; you’re the only one who takes offence.”

“I have plenty of black/hispanic/gay/female friends who’ve never taken offence at that word.”

“This is me. I’m not going to change who I am just because someone gets offended now and then.”

“Why do I have to censor myself? Don’t you appreciate me for the individual I am?”

“I don’t have to agree with you.”

They are so old. You don’t have to agree with me, but you are a racist/homophobic/sexist douchefuck and that doesn’t make you fucking unique, believe it or not.　

So I wrote this for my wife. It’s supposed to be calling out the misogyny in Islam towards the sisters, but it can double as a lament of my wife (because she left Islam), but I do not wish to presume to speak on her behalf, so let’s just go with the first interpretation. 

Anywho, it’s untitled so far.

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My baby sister is trying to get my older one to guess the word miniskirt.

“Girls wear it in the summer. It shows off their knees. It’s haram.”

My brother is trying to get us to guess the word BLT.

“It’s something we can’t eat. It’s haram.”

My older sister tries to get my brother to guess the word grandfather clock.

“It’s a circle with numbers on it that tells the hour. Yes, it’s a clock, now put the word jidee in front of it. No, the English meaning of jidee.”

Gonna play Taboo with the sibkids. bbl.　

strawberreli:

A list of my new tags that I’ve found amusing so far…

Random (in reverse alphabetical order):

• willow smith
• unf
• quotes
• pokemon
• perfection
• Nymeria, my kitten, formerly known as Benny
• nsfw
• lgbt *
• révolution (Arab Spring) 
• replies (all my replies to replies)
• reminder
• my porn
• infographics
• gpoys
• food
• favourite people
• Disney
• cute
• clothes
• beauty
• Batman
• baby sister
• awwww
• asks (all the asks I’ve ever been asked)
• art
• androgyny (which can fall under beauty. lol)
• ALL OF THE MUSIC EVER ON MY BLOG
• ace porn

Some how-to tags

• tutorial
• reference
• recipes
• how-to

Fandoms

• SPN
• SH
• Scott Pilgrim
• MLP
• Mcfassy
• LOTR
• HP
• House
• Homestuck (tho that’s more recent, because I waited to read more before reblogging actual homestuck posts)
• Hetalia
• GOT
• FMA
• DW
• Death Note
• Creamsicle
• Avengers

Then of course, I have my wife (Safia) tags, my shane tag, and then the entire whine blog series.

Keep in mind that posts can overlap (tagged as more than one keyword, sometimes).

If you’re looking for something particular SJ-y (keep in mind this is NOT an SJ blog; it merely deals with my interests which occasionally run parallel to SJ), search the keyword, such as “abortion,” “santorum,” “rape,” “kony 2012,” “racism,” “islam,” or “cultural appropriation.”

Then you type it in yourself: strawberreli.tumblr.com/tagged/insertkeywordhere

Also, the tags you will find at the top of my tumblr go in this order:

• Eli (me)
• wife (Safia. Her account is deactivated. No, I will not remove this link.)
• here (personal)
• Sean (anachronisticaddendum)
• united (Sean and Eli UNITE!)
• DLS Award (awarded to me by Deerie)
• childhood (movies)
• here (this post)
• These (photography)
• these (writing)
• this (most important post)
• tidbits (ask)
• these (FAQ)

Added at least 12 new tags. Enjoy!

Apparently there’s trouble in the ace tag tonight?

I haven’t checked, but a few posts have made their way across my dash.

Just.

Don’t feed the trolls, guise.　

bye 4 nao

Dude, nothing kills a boner quite like hearing your father’s angry voice and shit slamming everywhere.

His room door just opened again. I hope this means he’s planning on going to work to get away from all of us.

iamnotharaam:

Thank you to Eli, aka Strawberreli, for allowing us to share these personal answers and experiences. As you can see from some of the questions asked below, genderqueer people face a lot of different challenges to LGB people, especially where people feel as if they have the right be to know the answer to extremely personal information and are extremely disrespectful. We hope that sharing these experiences, will raise awareness about the issues that genderqueer and asexual people face. 

For the sake of ease, I have summarised the gist of each post/ask and linked it to the post on Eli’s blog.

Click here to read Eli’s post about coming out to friends as asexual
Question: How do you balance being genderqueer with being Muslim
Question: Are your parents ok with you being gay and Muslim
Question about genitals
Question about the hijab, and how Eli presents themselves
Questions about Eli’s gender identity 1, 2, 3, 4
Message about coming out

Credit for all posts go to Eli at strawberreli.tumblr.com

Thank you again to Eli, who is most certainly NOT Haraam.