Author Archives: dictionaryjane

About dictionaryjane

Historian. Writer. Boy-band and lipstick enthusiast.

Sometimes I dream in Western.

I have some pretty crazy dreams. They tend to follow plot lines like tv shows, each one a continuation (or sometimes flashback) of the last. This “season” seems to be an alternate history of my time in high school. The … Continue reading

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A quick musing on my disabilities

Sometimes, as a disabled person, I feel like I don’t have the brain power and don’t function at a high enough rate to keep up with the Ace Blogging Community here on WordPress. That’s not to say that they have … Continue reading

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Aromanticism and Me

This is, unsurprisingly, a little late for the February Carnival of Aros and Carnival of Aces. But it should be examined by myself either way. When someone asks how I identify the answer will vary depending on how I know … Continue reading

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I work customer service. It’s weird.

The thing about customer service jobs is that people ask you the wildest questions. Like, for instance, asking the associate in an art museum gift shop (aka, me) how to get a travelling exhibit into the museum. Trying for a … Continue reading

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Regarding The Discourse™

(I’m assuming here that you have seen the trouble over on tumblr about ace discourse. If you haven’t feel free to drop me a message or check out the post mentioned below for links) Recently, over at The Asexual Agenda, … Continue reading

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An Update

I’m alive. I’ve not been writing, but I’m alive. In a year of insanity I have found myself hiding from anything creative in the name of not feeling more than I have to. There have been some amazing things that … Continue reading

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A Re-dedication

As anyone who has ever tried to write according to facts knows, research is the hardest part. It is especially difficult when the materials you need are right out of reach, a hair’s breadth away from your fingers. A treasure … Continue reading

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James and the Giant Klutz

This is how I broke my foot Sunday night. It’s kind of a funny story. Do you ever feel like things are going really well? Maybe too well? That’s how I felt Sunday night. I was out for the first … Continue reading

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My experience with Asexuality in Fandom: Carnival of Aces October 2017

One of the greatest things about creating fanwork is the ability to tailor the content to something that corresponds to one’s life and way of thinking. This allows for greater freedom to create and imagine, to play with a universe … Continue reading

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Why I broke up with Academia.

If you read my May 2016 Carnival of Aces post, then you will have seen that I withdrew from my MA program. It was a shocking move to most who know me, which makes sense. For more than a decade … Continue reading

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