Wow we have @theacecouple.com back again with us tonight!! We forgot to advertise that, like, at all! But we're playing Tavern Talk again and that means it's ANDU TIME!! And let's be real, Andu is the real star of the show tonight. Ok let's go!

You can listen to this week's interview with @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/eza4ctPrnLk?... our website theacecouple.com/episode171/ or any of your favorite podcast platforms to hear about her Ace in the UK report, her many "controversies" and an exciting announcement!

An excellent interview with Yasmin Benoit, who I consider the only ace activist who cares about actual issues and not "ur valid uwu" bullshit. She talks actual concerns, mangled creative efforts, & online hate. Also, it's a reminder that RS's EJ Dickson is a hateful hack. youtu.be/eza4ctPrnLk?...

Happy New Year! We're kicking 2025 off strong with an interview with @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social PLUS, she'll be back with us in a couple of weeks for a Q&A and to share the latest project she's been working on. If you have any questions for part 2, drop them below! 👇

"Ace just means you want a trophy for being ugly" Sir, I've quite literally gotten a trophy for being attractive. Now, if you'll excuse me, my new sword just arrived and I simply must go break it in.

It's hilarious when someone comes to us saying "you aren't asexual, you're just ugly". We've both been scouted for modelling at multiple points in our lives. The only time anyone calls us ugly is immediately after we refuse to sleep with them or if they're just being acephobic.

The recent episode is especially good. I love this podcast. #161: Marriage Equality is a Myth youtu.be/BY8bEc_G4NQ

Wow, we just charted in our 60th country. Happy Ace Week to us! Thank you listeners 💜 (Now we just need about 50 more people to subscribe to us on YouTube to hit 10K 🎉)

#AceWeek continues! It's #DisabledAceDay! And @theacecouple.bsky.social is joining stream tonight!! So seeing as they are apparently THE Asexual Dungeon Masters, who have coincidentally also enjoyed Coffee Talk, it's only right we play @taverntalkgame.bsky.social, right?

Today is #DisabledAceDay - days like today are an important reminder of the importance of intersectionality. Statements such as “Aces aren’t broken or disabled” can be extremely harmful to Disabled Aces, because it erases their experience, however well intentioned it may be.

Thank you to Courtney @theacecouple.bsky.social for creating a day for talking about the intersection between #asexuality and #disability and being a disabled ace and ableism in ace spaces. #AceWeek must include disabled aces to include all ace experiences. #DisabledAceDay

It's #DisabledAceDay today! This day was founded by Courtney Lane, who is from the @theacecouple.bsky.social, to raise the visibility of disabled aces and the discrimination they face. Courtney has done amazing work for the ace community and I'm so proud of her 💜

and before i get too far in the thread, in case you don't know, you can check out the marketplACE curated by @theacecouple.bsky.social to find the shops and comms of aspec creators including myself!! :) theacecouple.com/marketplace/

happy ace week!! 💖 i'll be reposting some of my ace art in this thread this week! :) you can also check out my pride stuff (including these and other designs as stickers) in my shop! vidramon.bigcartel.com

TOMORROW! October 23rd, 2024 is the 4th annual #DisabledAceDay We'll be discussing marriage inequality for Disabled people, for Asexual & Aromantic people, and for Black Americans on the podcast We encourage all Disabled Aces to talk about your own experiences & raise awareness this Ace Week.

If you are an Ace and/or Aro small business owner and would like to be featured on our website with a chance to get a shout out on a future episode of our podcast, simply fill out this shop entry form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #AceWeek #AsexualAwarenessWeek #AceWeek2024 #Asexual #Aromantic

From Oct 20-26, we celebrate Asexual Awareness Week by spotlighting Ace creators in gaming! @symphonyhorror.bsky.social brings horror gaming, @starvingsoubrette.bsky.social for safe gaming spaces, @theacecouple.bsky.social has a podcast, & @rookandrasp.bsky.social fosdters community w Rook & Rasp.

HEY YOU! I'm sure you're looking to support Asexual-owned businesses this #AceWeek RIGHT?? Well, lucky for you, we have a MarketplACE with 165 of 'em! Find Pride merch, video games, books, artwork in every medium, & more. Whatever you like, there's a shop for you! theacecouple.com/marketplace/

It's #AceWeek kickoff time! Today, Satan is joined by our ever wonderful and amazing friends, @miktastic.bsky.social and @theacecouple.bsky.social for another route of Ace In Space 🚀 Happy Ace Week!!!! www.twitch.tv/acesplayinga...

this was the first @theacecouple.bsky.social episode i decided to listen to—about juvenoia and the ways suggestions about sex are used in rhetoric to dismiss and control people—and it was absolutely worth it. link is to the show notes, the audio and the transcript. theacecouple.com/episode137/

This new episode from @theacecouple.bsky.social on the 2nd part of their review of Big Mouth's much-hyped "ace character" is great, because it both is & isn't more of the same kind of "give a PSA and then evaporate" rep we always get. youtu.be/z1hurM24eKE?...

URGENT referral needed PLEASE SHARE! A member of our community has been denied proper care or offered conversion therapy by 2 different psychiatrists and is in immediate need of an Asexual-affirming psychiatrist to see in the Houston area or virtually for a refill on vital meds.

Thanks to some very generous folks, the campaign for Rose and Jasmine Press has cracked $1000 and we are only on day two of the fundraiser! It's very good to know there are so many of you out there who believe in this small Palestinian-owned press. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ros...

I have created a webpage that compiles all my receipts and provides a detailed timeline of the events related to the British Museum's use of my translations of Chinese feminist Qiu Jin's poetry without permission, credit, or pay earlier this year. yilinwang.com/qiu-jin-tran...

@theacecouple.bsky.social Hello, I just today became aware of your podcast and found it quite interesting. I'm Demisexual and I don't have a lot of places or people to talk about it with. It's wonderful to see this podcast exist and it helps me feel like I'm not as alone as I once thought.

@theacecouple.bsky.social sorry I found you through The Controversy but happy to see more ace folks out there! I didn't even know there was an ace community on twitter, but hopefully that can grow and thrive again here 💜🖤🤍

Hello @theacecouple.bsky.social I was googling info about asexual marriages at work and your website got blocked as "adult/sexually explicit." It made me laugh and I immediately started listening to your podcast!

Thank you 💜

NEW EPISODE! You all asked for more Dead Bedrooms, so Happy Holidays! You get more Dead Bedrooms.

There are little pocket Ace communities ALL over the place if you know where to look! Welcome into ours 💜

To honor Dr. Refaat Alareer, here's my Chinese translation of his poem "If I must die." 💔 💔 💔 献丑了～

DYING 💀

I'm locked on twitter so I can't reply to your new episode over there but i just wanted to say that when Courtney talked about "cracking" what hotness means, the only thing i could think was "SHE CRACKED THE ALLO-GORITHM!!!"

NEW EPISODE! One of our favorite little unexpected nuggets of Ace Rep we've happened upon recently comes from the YouTube miniseries Rabbit by Kyle Prue. In only 5 short episodes, we fell in love! THIS is the kind of Ace story we want to see in mainstream media.

Oh no it’s a pic of my twenties

We are doctors now 🥼🏥💊 Thank you much for the lovely review! 🥰

NEW EPISODE! We had so many questions from our Disabled Ace Day panel this year that we didn't have time to get to, so today we're doing a Q&A (that is almost as long as the panel itself was) for Courtney to try to answer them all!

Friends, I am going to be short on money this month; the utilities were higher than I expected. Anything you can give would be much appreciated. Here's the link to my trusty tip jar: ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

We are back to validate! @miktastic.bsky.social is here and it has been a month since we last played so like.....what happened again? Where were we?

NEW EPISODE! Today, for the very first time, we're diving into the deep, dark Reddit depths of r/deadbedrooms... Pray for us.

Sorry we've been gone, we forgot bluesky existed for a minute.

it took me until the end of Ace Week, but here are some ace-spec characters from THE REMARKABLE RETIREMENT OF EDNA FISHER and GroundskeeperWIP! I only included characters who are described as ace on the page, but there are others *I* know are ace 😤 elizmanderson.com/books/remarkable-retirement

actually managed to finish my ace week art in time. go me! www.pillowfort.social/posts/3895595

Ace Week is always so cool and so validating in so many ways! We share joy, thoughts, experiences, perspectives—it is mighty. But I also see more acephobia. All of this is why we need this week. We have much to celebrate… and much more work to be done.

I haven't drawn anything new for ace week, so here's some previous ace week art and some DnD chars who identify as ace. I've been identifying as ace/demisexual since 2020, and everything just made even more sense. To my fellow acespecs, I love you all! You are valid 💖 [ #FFXIV, #DnD, #OC, #art ]

It's the last day of Ace week! I hope everyone has been having a good week. Remember that over on my twitch, the charity event is still live and will remain live even tomorrow. All money raised goes to the human rights campaign foundation to give back to the entire lgbtqia+ community as a whole.

Happy Ace Pride Week! Coincidentally I made this project and had this video scheduled to come out this week, so, enjoy! #acepride #lgbt #queerpride

Reminder this Ace Week that I'm an ace author writing ace characters! Most prominently, Kel of the Structural Integrity series, who is demi adjacent. The first book is a little novelette that can stand alone and is only 99 cents! Blurbs & links at tabithaoconnell.com/structural-i... 🌈📚 #AspecAuthors

The Ace Week 2023 stream schedule continues on with a rare Satan solo stream that's not at 2 am for once! Except for whoever is in the 2 am timezone. Um, sorry, those people. Anyway the emblem is on fire and the blade is blazing and the tutorial is endless. Okay, let's go!