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:
  • • • Was there a clear or typical path in life that you decided to diverge from, when others didn’t?
• My nest:
  • • • What life have you begun to build since your (a)sexual and (a)romantic orientations changed?
• Except me and you:
  • • • 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!
• Still waiting
  • • • What expectations for your life are you uncertain about or struggling with after having discovered your (a)sexual and/or (a)romantic orientations?

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)