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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I will no longer update this BlueSky account. Unlikely I'll ever write a post for the blog again. ICYMI, I have terminal cancer and wish to use whatever writing time I have left for my fiction. I write mixed genre horror and fantasy. Follow me over at @chaoticauthor.online

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Tyger Songbird 💜♠️🏹🂡 @tygersongbird.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Today begins Asexual Awareness Week, my favorite week. Finding out I'm asexual was a godsend. When I discovered I'm asexual at age 26, I finally felt like the puzzle pieces fit together. The Ace community helped give me the words to understand myself. I'm forever grateful to the Ace Community!

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ALT: a person holding a purple and black flag in a grassy field

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Vanessa Perry @vanessaperrywrites.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

So important! We all get along better when we understand and empathize with the complexity of humans versus trying to shove people in little boxes they don’t fit in.

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Reptilefan2 @reptilefan2.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

For #aceweek, I would like people to know that demisexuals are ace-spec. I have only liked two people (that I knew for two years before attraction started) in my entire life. Outside of that, I don't really get attraction and have always felt out of place. Why shouldn't I count as ace then?

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

#AceWeek Men's voices are often overlooked in this community. I write about my own experiences to show other men out there who are ace/demi or think they might be ace/demi, that they are not alone. They are not broken or weird for not feeling what the men around them seem to feel. Society 1/2

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Hey it’s #AceWeek! 🖤🩶🤍💜 More people should realize that asexual advocacy isn’t just “people trying so hard to be oppressed becauss they’re loudly single.” 🧵 🪡 1 / 7

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

For those who don't follow my main account... 🧵 TL;DR version is that I was hospitalised on Monday with suspected appendicitis. But I have cancer of the pancreas

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

For almost 25 years, AVEN has been working to help ace and aro people across the globe understand themselves and promote open, honest public understanding of our experience. In that time we've had a tremendous impact, and we're asking for your support to fund the next two years of our work.

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

At long last, here is my take on Interview with the Vampire, queer time, and the existential horrors of asexual yearning. It also happens to be my 50th blog post (though it’s become a full-length essay)! 🩸🍷💀 🖤 🧛‍♀️ worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/i...

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Interview with the Vampire and Asexual Loneliness

“I can tell you about it, enclose it with words that will make the value of it to me evident to you. But I can’t tell you exactly, any more than I could tell you exactly what is the exp…

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I love this thorough review of Being Demi from @aspiraldance.bsky.social! Thank you so much, Amanda. This poetry and essay collection chronicles my demisexual coming out journey. Five days until release... 🌈🖊️💻 aspiraldance.com/ad-review-of-being-demi-by-mg-mason/

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AD| Review of Being Demi by MG Mason - A Spiral Dance

Being Demi is a short but powerful read full of poems and essays about coming out as demisexual later in life.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My poetry and essay collection is out today! Check out the buying links...

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 30/09/2025

Eep! I have a new book out tomorrow 😍 This one is available wide from the start. Will also be available on Ko-Fi and Itch.

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Love this! And wow I resonate deeply with that last takeaway about punishing self for crushes even if they’re queerplatonic, about wanting closeness with friends in a world that reduces and restricts what affection is allowed. Thanks for sharing! Keeping an eye out for when this book comes out!

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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AD| Review of Being Demi by MG Mason - A Spiral Dance

Being Demi is a short but powerful read full of poems and essays about coming out as demisexual later in life.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

My article criticising Charlie Kirk's narrow definition of masculinity got 100 views overnight (I wrote it following his debates with Oxford and Cambridge students). The reason why the article is now popular is unfortunate, because the subject (harmful social expectations placed on men) is the 1/2

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Charlie Kirk’s Definition of Masculinity is Everything That’s Wrong With It

Charlie Kirk was recently in Britain and given free reign to spout whatever nonsense came into his head.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Peter Capaldi's Doctor being an asexual icon. Doctor: "You look taller." Clara, all dolled up for a date: "I'm wearing heels." Doctor: "Do you need to reach something on a high shelf?" Clara, walking out the door: "Must go or I'll be late" Doctor: "Late for a shelf?" [TIME HEIST]

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

My demisexual poetry and essays collection is now available for preorder...

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Happy Bi Visibility Month! I don't know if I will ever consider myself bi. I'm attracted to more than one gender, but feel the need to be more specific that I'm aesthetically attracted to femininity and androgyny with the capacity for romantic and sexual attraction (subject to the usual demi bond)

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm now offering ARCs (advanced review copies) of my collection of poems and essays "Being Demi". This chronicles my demisexual coming out journey, from feeling awkward and different in adolescence through to coming out and being welcomed into the community three years ago.

Paper grey background of scrunched up paper. Book cover shows the same backgrround overlain with a black triangle pointing down, and inside are three ace of spades: one white, one grey, one purple.

Being demi. Acrostic poetry and essays on life before and after coming out.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Being Demi now has a Good Reads page! No pressure and no obligation, but I'd appreciate it if some feedback readers would be kind enough to pen some early reviews (no pressure, however!). www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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Lacrima Mundi - Indie Book Reviews [requests closed][hiatus]📚✍ @lacrimamundi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I've read quite a bit of Matt's acrostic poetry under Luana's @luanagiunta.bsky.social daily acrostic challenge # LuaViEr and I'm absolutely sure that this will be great. Matt has a knack for it (although it took him a while to realise that 😄). If #poetry is your thing, give it a bash. 👀📚💙🌈📚♠️📚🌈📚📢

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Further details of my upcoming project "Being Demi", my life coming to demisexuality told through acrostic poetry and essays. This project has come out of nowhere, and I'm excited to release it in just over a month. 🌈🖊️💻

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Announcement: Being Demi, a Collection of Poems and Essays

Announcing a new poetry and non-fiction project to be released in October.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Attention! My demisexual poetry and essays book will be released in October. Have submitted it for pre-order.

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

the tightrope of writing an awareness of sex while writing an asexual novel while watching sex education documentaries while being personally sex-repulsed while deconstructing purity culture while questioning why purity culture and sexual liberation both express such disdain for asexuals

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

One of my books with demisexual rep is on sale this weekend!

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Cody Daigle-Orians @dadstoyevsky.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

"Measure the success of your life by how well you try to and ultimately use what you’ve got. Leave everything outside of that to the people those things were intended for."

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"How do I stop grieving what I won't experience because I'm aspec?"

We shouldn't punish ourselves for the things we were never built for.

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 21/08/2025

Resharing for the late crowd. I'm at a stage in this journey where I've come to realise how withdrawn I was when younger because I didn't fit in. And, of course, all the trying to fit in (masking, essentially) and I want to undo all of it.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Announcement: Later this year I'm releasing a collection of acrostic poems and essays about being demisexual. Working title (I still haven't decided), and here is the cover reveal.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I've had ease off from the blog and the BlueSky account for the last couple of months, but hoping to get back to it soon.

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Chance Hess @thechancehess.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

God, this! Y'all seriously have no idea how much it bugs me that aros and aces got branded as the "boring" orientations. I don't find anger is a productive emotion for me, so I'll leave this as is, but *incoherent mumbled cussing*.

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Periodic reminder that sex negativity and sex aversion are vastly different scales. The first is this 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻. The latter is personal preference for your own life.

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Was anyone fooled by Starmer's publicity stunt?

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Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

My wonderful friend is doing this research and is still looking for more people to take part! Please share 😊

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Yes, all this. We are a whole experience and identity of our own. Just like enbies aren't "woman lite", we aren't "lite" versions of our attraction orientation (as in hetero, gay, bi, pan etc)

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 21/07/2025

There is no "one neat trick" for winning at BlueSky. But I am having my best ever year for book sales. I surpassed last year's tally a month ago. My one piece of advice is: talk to people, engage, and be authentic. But BlueSky has a few tools and features you might not know #WritingCommunity

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James-Finn @james-finn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This week in Prism & Pen, we bring you Barbara Walters and Harvey Fierstein, a #gay kid booted from summer camp, women’s sports bars as a trend, a Muslim #lesbian ’s joyful #Pride, and a #transgender woman's superhero childhood. Plus more #LGBTQ, #queer #storytelling! medium.com/prismnpen/ea...

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Easily Offended Queer People, an Exiled Queer Kid, and Queer Farmers

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 20 July 2025

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The Grey Rainbow @thegreyrainbow.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A reminder: if you're a queer blogger, I set up a feed some time ago. To appear in this feed you need the emoji string that's listed here, and a link to a blog post (not your main site). There are a lot of 🌈 bloggers here, so let's support each other! bsky.app/profile/chao...

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