#just running around offering people free ace and aro rings...
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Okay I have recently learned about asexual rings and I thought ‘hey I’ll make a post about it on my main why not’
So apparently ace rings are black (or mostly black) rings that you wear specifically on the middle finger of your right hand. It’s like a subtle way of telling people you’re ace and I think that’s really cool!
There’s another ring that’s literally the opposite, a white (or mostly white) ring worn on the middle finger of your left hand that signifies being aromantic. I’d literally never heard of this one ever but had come across the ace one a few times in passing so it’s getting mentioned here too
I’m not entirely sure what the history of these things are (if anyone knows I’d be really interested to find out) but ya know. Since I’m ace and I love cool adjustable rings guess what I’m gonna start a collection of now and guess who’s dashboards I’m gonna clog up with it when I get started on it :)
I also learned a bunch of other stuff on the wiki looking this up! Apparently lemon bars are a big thing in the bisexual community and the Blahaj shark has an entire paragraph dedicated to it and how it’s a symbol of the trans community! And the high five was possibly invented by openly gay athletes which is cool and that the green carnation is associated with gay men because of Oscar Wilde (who was apparently gay?? I feel like my literature teacher should have mentioned that) wearing one. And violets? Represent lesbian and bisexual women because of Sapphos who I unfortunately know much less about. I didn’t see anything on asexuals and the dragons, space or cake associations but again, I’ve only seen these vaguely mentioned in Tumblr posts about how these things have declined because of exclusionists or something, I don’t really know much about it. There’s also apparently talk of comets being symbols for nonbinary folk, though it doesn’t look all too prevalent if the wiki is much to go on. It’s unfortunate I couldn’t see anything like the ace ring or the bi lemon bars thing for nonbinary folk like me but hey! I’m sure we will at some point! It’s not like this stuff can’t be added to, I mean look at Blahaj. I’d say that’s pretty recent
Anyway, if you haven’t already, go look at the wiki for LGBTQ+ symbols and shit there’s some fun stuff in there!
#asexual#lgbtq+#not sure I want to tag all of these but I'll tag those#aromantic#and that one for the ring thing#ya know just in case anyone wants to throw any history or symbols my way 👀#nonbinary#AND THAT ONE TOO OF COURSE#SAME APPLIES#I'm interested in all of it but those are the ones I'm currently looking into so they get tagges#ANYWAY#yes I'm going to go crazy looking for black rings now#I've already seen a few#and my mum loves making resin stuff so I'm gonna ask her for a little resin ring with purple gliter in it#:D#she won't understand what the fuck I'm talking about but she never does anyway she'll just be like 'ohhh okay' and then forget#she's great like that lmao#maybe I can take a bunch to the next pride event I didn't see a single thing for these rings when I was at it#just running around offering people free ace and aro rings...#community!#I'll have to get mum to show me how to do the resin stuff for that though hm#or maybe if we nonbinaries wanna start a thing about wearing those cool thread bracelets or something 👀#just sayin' they look nice#and it sucks we don't seem to have anything 👀#could be fun#anyway I have rings to search for#bubye
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Flashwave week - Proposal
Warning: there be crack!fic ahead.
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“- and that’s why I’d like to get married at Pride this year,” Barry concludes, and smiles hopefully at his captive audience.
“…can we get out of the cell now?” Len asks.
“Oh, sure, yeah,” Barry says, and hits the button to release the door. “Sorry. Just wanted to be sure you’d listen the whole way through.”
“You need to stop solving all your problems with illegal imprisonment,” Mick grunts.
Barry shrugs.
“I second Mick,” Len says. “But – and let me get this straight –”
“Or not straight,” Barry chirps.
Len smirks.
Mick groans.
“Or not straight, right,” Len says. “So the idea is that because there’s a bunch of homophobic super-conservative assholes in Central, both influential radio hosts and actual politicians, who are running around talking about how superheroes represent the super-masculine America hoo-yah bullcrap and therefore men should be like you guys and not like – insert a long list of impolite words and stereotypes for gay people here –”
“It was bad,” Barry confirms. “The senator actually said all that.”
“–and to deal with this, you’ve decided that a fake marriage to one of your supervillains is the right response?”
“We wouldn’t have to be married long,” Barry points out. “Queer divorce is still a step forward in equal rights.”
Len closes his eyes as if in pain. “Scarlet,” he says. “Have you ever even heard a non-terrible plan, even once in your life?”
“...can I not answer that?”
“And I’m not even asking for a good plan,” Len continues. “Just not heart-stoppingly terrible. Anything. Gimme some hope for humanity here.”
Barry crosses his arms. “Will you do it or not?” he asks.
“Not,” Len says. “I don’t do romance, I don’t do sex, and I definitely don’t do marriage.”
Barry’s shoulders slump. “…oh.”
Mick sighs.
“He doesn’t,” he says, in the tone of someone who knows he’s going to regret this. “But I do.”
Barry blinks at him.
“I’m bisexual, single, and don’t object to marriage,” Mick clarifies.
“Really?” Barry says, smile returning to his face. “You mean it?”
“What the hell,” Mick says. “Why not? Hardly the stupidest decision I’ve ever made.”
“That’s not a nice way to react to a proposal.”
“You haven’t proposed yet. No ring.”
“Oh. Uh – gimme a second –”
“No, no,” Len interjects. “You can’t just go get some ring from a vending machine. You have to plan this out. I want to see some serious spectacle here.”
“Why do you get a say?” Barry ask.
“I’m the best man, obviously,” Len says. “Slash maid of honor. Ooooh, do I get to wear one of those hideous taupe-colored dresses with like weird puffs designed to make everyone look terrible so that the married couple looks better?”
“I mean,” Barry says, blinking, “if you want to, I guess?”
“Len’s never been invited to a real wedding,” Mick says with a sigh.
“…ever?”
“Ever. His sole experience is through watching shitty telenovelas on Mexican TV channels.”
Barry glances at Len. “…he knows that no one’s long-lost evil twin is going to show up at the last minute to declare that you secretly murdered their father, right?”
Len points at him. “Don’t ruin my dreams, Scarlet,” he says. “Or I’ll reconsider giving away my best friend in marriage to you.”
The wedding happens in the middle of the Pride parade, covered by gleeful CCPN correspondents and a million cameras. Mick volunteers to wear white and ends up in some sort of white-and-orange fireproof suit that Mercury Labs was working on as a prototype (he loves it and it’s totally going to be part of his supervillain outfit now). Barry is dressed in his most formal Flash outfit (which is to say, the normal one plus some extra gold threading Cisco worked in).
Len walks Mick down the aisle with his cold gun strapped to his thigh and a joint ace/aro flag dangling from the flagpole he’s got slung over his shoulder. (They convinced him not to wear taupe, but the skirt looks great on him.)
Barry would like to note that there was no way to predict that his Earth-36 doppelganger would pick that that exact moment to show up and declare that he was going to take over this Earth in order to enslave the population the way the speedsters of Earth-36 had their own, and then identified Mick as the leader of the resistance who had assassinated his father-figure less than a year earlier, and Len as the beautiful scientist that version of Barry had fallen madly in love with but who had betrayed him by working with the resistance.
Len ends up solving the entire thing by bonking Barry’s doppleganger on the head with his ace/aro flagpole and declaring that he always knew that weddings went like this.
(And also that he always knew romance was trouble.)
Mick is happy that he gets to light the tank Earth-36 Barry rode in with on fire.
Barry’s not a hundred percent sure his political message came through, but at least the wedding cakes (every bakery in town offered to make one for free! It's not his fault he said yes!) afterwards is delicious.
Mick and Barry forget to get divorced and start dating three months later.
Len will never stop gloating.
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