All the birds but us… – April Carnival of Aces Call for Submissions
Hail, brave content creators, welcome to the April edition of the Carnival of Aces. With the spring equinox behind us, Passover and Easter upon us and April Fool’s day tomorrow and everything around us blooming and reproducing… Well, no time like the present to feel melancholy. Or cheerful. One of the two.
This month’s theme’s inspired by a medieval Flemish-Dutch sentence:
Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hic enda thu[,] wat unbidan we nu[?]
All the birds have begun nests except me and you, what are we still waiting for?
Penned in the 1100 by a monk, probably to test his quill, it’s the oldest sample of my native language. It’s always struck a chord.
Rarely does a shift in orientation work out in a person’s life according to expectations. We wander into such wildly unexpected and unknown futures.
I think we need those stories.
So the question for this month:
How did your (a)sexual and (a)romantic orientations impact your (expected or imagined) future?
Prompts to help the creative juices flow (feel free to deviate):
- All the (other) birds:
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- Was there a clear or typical path in life that you decided to diverge from, when others didn’t?
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- My nest:
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- What life have you begun to build since your (a)sexual and (a)romantic orientations changed?
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- Except me and you:
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- If you had to sketch a potential life or partner or relationship or family, what are some of the ingredients that make it a good, safe, peaceful and/or joyful prospect?
- You’ve decided you do not wish for a partner and may find fulfilment in your life through alternative means, please share!
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- Still waiting
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- What expectations for your life are you uncertain about or struggling with after having discovered your (a)sexual and/or (a)romantic orientations?
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To submit:
- Leave a link to your contribution, be it post or vlog or art piece, in the comments.
- Send your contribution to my email: demiandproud@gmail.com so I can host it on my blog.
- Leave your thoughts on one of the prompts in the comments.
Please do let me know if you’ve contributed somehow, I do wish to honour all the awesomeness. If you have specific preferences for pronouns and/or descriptions for your submission, let me know those as well, please. Late submissions added throughout May.
Associated posts, links to be added as they appear:
- Parade of posts for April (on this blog)
- The March parade (luvtheheaven’s blog)
- The Call for submissions for May (hosted by Prismatic Entanglements)
- All of the Carnival of Aces parades! (Asexual agenda)
Posted on March 31, 2018, in carnival of aces and tagged asexual, asexual community, awareness, carnival of aces, demisexuality, modern family, relationships, romantic orientation, sexual orientation. Bookmark the permalink. 34 Comments.
Here’s my contribution! It’s my first time actually participating in the Carnival of Aces!
https://controlledabandon.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/april-2018-carnival-of-aces-all-the-birds-have-begun-nests-except-me-and-you-what-are-we-still-waiting-for/
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A very belated welcome! I hope you’ll become one of the regular’s, they usually have thoughtprovoking themes going on.
Thanks for your contribution. I really look forward to reading it.
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Here’s my submission in case it doesn’t pingback, Thanks! https://acubedblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/carnival-of-aces-april-2018-my-unexpected-future/
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Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.
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My submission: https://acefilmreviews.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/growing-up-platoniromantic-5/
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Looking forward to reading it, thanks!
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Here’s mine! https://asexualagenda.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/to-build-an-unimaginable-future-or-queenie-is-way-too-jazzed-about-queer-futurity/
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Yay! Thanks for contributing!
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Here’s my submission: https://betweenstarsunknown.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/stepping-stones-carnival-of-aces/
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Thanks for your submission!
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Here is my submission: http://adventures-in-asexuality.tumblr.com/post/173458518703/a-tale-of-two-futures
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Thank you!!
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I didn’t find out about this until today. https://appalachian-ace.tumblr.com/post/173467927084/carnival-of-aces-my-story-of-failing-at-doing-the
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Then I commend you on a quick turnaround.
We also don’t fine late submissions at this carnival 😉
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I finished a post just under the wire: https://luvtheheaven.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/i-cant-just-let-the-future-pass-me-by-alternatively-finding-the-twigs-for-my-nest/
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Whoop! Great!
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Got a submission just about to drop on my blog and TAA! You’ll probably get the pingbacks in a few minutes.
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Awesomeness 😀 😀
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I may have waited until the absolute last possible second, but here’s my submission! https://nextstepcake.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/milestones-and-priorities/
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Great!
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