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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜

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“AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN” MA Thesis & WIP. She/they. Aro/Ace horror writer. 🦑🌈🖤 ✨Loves film, folklore, fantasy. Published in 140+ venues. eXvangelical. Queer. Jesus follower. Not…whatever this is. worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 11d

Esteemed guests, it is my pleasure to present my reflection on Interview with the Vampire and asexuality.

Here I explore themes of Queer Time through an ace lens in Anne Rice’s novel, the 1994 film, & the 2022 TV series. #HorrorWritersChat

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 4h

+ I have to add this: this ace story by @debbieurbanski.bsky.social is so vulnerable, precise, earnest, & vivid. So many moments are beautifully described, even in pain or horror. There is a true sense of honesty, longing, knowing, & emotional intimacy too, down to the end. 🌺 🦌🪻🌾 I see myself.

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 4h

“A lot of people feel sorry for Midwesterners because they don’t have oceans but who needs them if you have a lake like this. Likewise a lot of people feel sorry for somebody who hasn’t been kissed as if they cannot imagine other possibilities.”

Wow. This story by @debbieurbanski.bsky.social HITS.❤️

21 Definitions of Like (and One Aside) — AZE

Let’s begin with the boy in Latin class who writes you a note, in proper Latin no less, asking you to attend the homecoming dance with him. At least this is what you think the note says, and also that...

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 5h

This is just to say this poem reminds me of the plums in the icebox.

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 5h

“What a miracle it is to sit back and recline in the bird’s eye —
[. . .] For a few minutes,
I like remembering
That, like the infant in row 19,
More of us should be screeching.”

I feel this poem. We really take for granted that we’re FLYING places.

Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · Sep 2

🪿POEM🪿

I LOVE when smart people write smart poems!

IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT by #NatalieKoopman

“I understand the white knuckles / And the well-placed distrust in the math and / The metal behind man’s god-defying sky bus.”

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In-Flight Entertainment — SillyGoosePress

on mobile? turn phone sideways!

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 5h

“‘Goodbye, mother,’ Jorge whimpered. ‘I, too, will become an island.’”

Enjoyed this absurdist and whimsical journey of a rock named Jorge and his new religion!

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Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social · 21h

I went to the catacombs beneath Paris.

It's a strange place.

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Alma Katsu (FIEND is out now) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 1d

At a party last night at a friend's barn, and found this in a back room

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 5h

I hope people do it with real life costumes instead. We’re halfway there and the world is watching.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Despite my own personal lack of faith, I am not sympathetic to people harassing other folks for believing in the supernatural/godly. I’m especially not sympathetic to ignorant atheists who are so Christiancentric that they assume all religions work the way evangelical Christianity does.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 5h

5 events that defined your childhood?

1. 9/11. I was in kindergarten and thought it was an accident.
2. Columbine. Ppl learned the wrong lesson and taught me martyrdom.
3. Prop 8 and gay marriage debates
4. Watching Coraline, my gateway to horror
5. Also Scholastic book fairs. Book orders. LOVE.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17h

5 events that defined your childhood?

1. 9/11 and the “war on terror”.
2. Y2K.
3. Columbine.
4. Moving from my inclusive, beautiful hometown to a conservative Christian suburb because that’s what we were “supposed” to do
5. Scholastic book fairs.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 20h

5 events that defined your childhood?
- HIV & queerphobia & public health response
- Clinton & childhood insight that he was shitty
- MTV's influence on music access (especially things like Headbanger's Ball, Yo Mtv Raps & Nirvana)
- "end" of the Soviet Union
- home computers (internet was later)

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 6h

That’s fair. I think a lot has changed in the past 15 years with how exponentially asexuality & aromanticism has grown in visibility. I think a lot of it’s for the better bc how many more ppl now can feel seen and live authentically, and specific language helps! It just also gets hostile sometimes.

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 6h

Me: ppl get so weird about demanding that you as a minority represent everyone all of a sudden, demanding “where’s the abcdefg???”

Roommate: and you can’t represent everyone, not everyone is abcdefg

Me: no…but they are lgbtqia

Roommate: ayyyy

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Asexual does not necessarily mean no sex ever. It absolutely can. It can mean being meh about it, or even enjoying it while not experiencing an impetus to do it.

Hot tip: do not ask a newly out asexual where they fall on this spectrum. If you need to know, they’ll tell you.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Think about how welcoming you’ve been to people who don’t fit neatly in expected containers. Especially if you’re queer.

If you find yourself feeling threatened by someone else’s orientation or presentation, I would encourage you to think about why.

Generally, it’s not about that other person.

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Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social · Sep 28

I started to wonder if I would *ever* find readers (kidlit or otherwise) if I kept writing asexual, agender characters with unexpected arcs.

Then I got it. I would *have* to lean into that.

The world now has an asexual, Autistic contemporary realistic (a)romance which it didn't have before.

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Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social · Sep 28

I thought, "Should I hint at a sexual awakening?" Of course I *can* write that, just like I can write a murder scene despite never having murdered anyone.

But I understood that Sam is asexual and agender, like me.

Also, 99% of writers can write that. "I'll leave it to them!"

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Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social · Sep 28

Of course, that is a terrible plot for a children's story 😆

A few men in my critique group said they were expecting a 'sexual awakening'.

I can't write that. I never had one. But that's what the story seemed to be building towards.

I put the story aside, but the character of Sam never went away.

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Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social · Sep 28

In the 2010s I wrote a short novel for children (never published). Eventually I realised it wasn't a children's story after all, and rewrote it for adults.

But when it was still #kidlit I did some illustrations for it, inspired by John Burningham. I'll share some below.

First, the adult cover:

Full paperback cover for The Space Ace of Mangleby Flat by Larre Bildeston. The colour scheme is mostly purple, like the asexual flag. The illustration on the back is a falling-down shack in the Australian Outback. It is night time and the moon is full and prominent. There's green shade cloth hanging from the veranda. Chickens walk around the yard. A very old utility vehicle is parked next to the shack.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 6h

I think *especially* in something so subjective & personal like storytelling, poetry, fiction, film—an a-spec character doesn’t have to explain. If they’re describing their own experience of attraction, it’s not “misinformation” if they identify in a way that doesn’t purely separate romance & sex.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 6h

THANK YOU.

I think it can be a useful tool and great that we have specific language that helps many people. But I don’t like when it becomes externally imposed. I’m confused why they HAVE to be separate and not fluid experiences. Straight people don’t get scrutinized like this.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 6h

Oh my godddddd 😑 “let me rewrite and explain YOUR experience to you. and if you don’t take MY definition of YOU, that’s like, against the rules of feminism!”

a woman wearing sunglasses and a hooded jacket is sitting in a crowd of people and says she does nt even go here

Alt: person in a hooded jacke and sunglasses sitting in a crowd of people, saying, “she doesn’t even go here” (Mean Girls meme)

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 7h

In all complete honesty, I don’t understand the complete, “pure” separation of the asexual and aromantic communities.

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 7h

The community cannibalizes itself so many times it’s ridiculous. Every time a new ace book, film, YouTube video, tiktok, podcast, or other piece of media comes out, the “well actually *I* don’t feel represented bc it’s not exactly like ME or a textbook!” reviews just come flooding in.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah my hot take is…it’s very human for people to conflate asexual and aromantic, and it’s weird to be clinically corrective of how ppl describe their own lived experiences

Aspecs don’t owe their audience an exact split attraction model/microlabels, any more than nonbinary ppl owe an exact gender

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 7h

allos to aros/aces:

𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖞𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 🕯️ @warmyellowlight.bsky.social · 7h

life is simple if you just change your entire relationship with everything and all your thought patterns and everything you do

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