Invisibility means not being able to connect with others like you. It means being very likely to come to the conclusion that you are broken. It means seeing no boxes to check and being filled with fear or shame or frustration. It means
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“Flu made who,” Fran said bleakly. “Pardon?” “Never mind,” Fran said. Her father was amazingly broad-minded, but an AC/DC fan he was not.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“• Maybe it confuses you when people’s ultimate fantasies include sex. Your thoughts on getting three wishes, fulfilling a bucket list, or having your last Earthly experiences on Doomsday would not involve sex.”
― The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
― The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
“60 There were challenges, though, with going once more unto the breach. “Jason says, ‘Okay, you guys, hop up now,’” Aykroyd recalled of one take. “Yeah, there will be no ‘hopping up’ here. There will be a slow climb to one knee, a hefting of the pack, both hands grasping the automobile as a leverage point, and pulling myself up to my feet. That’s the ‘hop’ that you’re going to get.”61”
― A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever
― A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever
“First, though, I made my 1978 sci-fi epic Laserblast.”
― Confessions of a Puppetmaster: A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking – The Wild, Candid Story of Exploitation Cinema and a Fortune Made and Lost
― Confessions of a Puppetmaster: A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking – The Wild, Candid Story of Exploitation Cinema and a Fortune Made and Lost
“People are taught that they’re expected to like cross-sex partners. When asexual people find themselves not feeling heterosexual attraction, they look at the orientations available to them and sometimes think being gay is the only other option. They may also think they are bisexual, polysexual, or pansexual. Observing that their interest in one gender is the same as any other, they may pick up one of the terms that seems to describe that, without realizing asexuality is a possibility.”
― The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
― The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
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