wherein Liz considers earrings and identity
A couple years ago, I bought a pair of earrings that are kind of stealth asexual jewelry -- that is, each earring is a chain of three glittery origami stars, with the top one black, the middle silver, and the bottom purple. So, asexual colors, but also just pretty glittery paper stars, you know?
I like them a lot, but paper's kind of fragile, the middle stars are slowly tinting violet, and also I wanted a slightly dressier option.
So last month I bought a new set of stealth asexual earrings. This pair has a large, bell-shaped violet flower as the main focus, with three dangling silver stamens (one tipped with a black bead, one with a grey bead, and one with a clear bead). Above the large violet flower is a small black bead, and above that a spray of three tiny flowers -- one black, one violet, and one clear -- and a silver leaf. They are very pretty, they make satisfying click-rustle noises when I turn my head, and I love them just as much as the paper stars.
Yesterday I was poking around Etsy again, and found four additional pairs of asexual earrings (in varying degrees of stealth, and also varying degrees of classy and/or cute). Impulse purchases are not the best idea, so I let them sit for a day and tonight I asked myself if I really wanted to buy any of them.
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I bought all four.
Something about asexual jewelry just makes me really happy, you know? It has to be a certain degree of aesthetically pleasing -- I understand the symbolism behind a lot of grungier stuff, and also the purpose of making an in-your-face statement, but that is not my personal taste in earrings. But it's nice to be able to walk around with a quiet statement of "this is who I am" that other people can recognize or not as they have the relevant knowledge. It adds something to the general background effect of "these are pretty and/or cute and/or striking and I look good wearing them" that I get from earrings in general. :)
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To be blunt, it also helps that I really like purple, black, and gray/silver in general. There are some other pride color combos that I find aesthetically unpleasant, but fortunately the ace community chose a good set. I am retroactively proud of somebody's color sense. *wry* If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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I like them a lot, but paper's kind of fragile, the middle stars are slowly tinting violet, and also I wanted a slightly dressier option.
So last month I bought a new set of stealth asexual earrings. This pair has a large, bell-shaped violet flower as the main focus, with three dangling silver stamens (one tipped with a black bead, one with a grey bead, and one with a clear bead). Above the large violet flower is a small black bead, and above that a spray of three tiny flowers -- one black, one violet, and one clear -- and a silver leaf. They are very pretty, they make satisfying click-rustle noises when I turn my head, and I love them just as much as the paper stars.
Yesterday I was poking around Etsy again, and found four additional pairs of asexual earrings (in varying degrees of stealth, and also varying degrees of classy and/or cute). Impulse purchases are not the best idea, so I let them sit for a day and tonight I asked myself if I really wanted to buy any of them.
...
I bought all four.
Something about asexual jewelry just makes me really happy, you know? It has to be a certain degree of aesthetically pleasing -- I understand the symbolism behind a lot of grungier stuff, and also the purpose of making an in-your-face statement, but that is not my personal taste in earrings. But it's nice to be able to walk around with a quiet statement of "this is who I am" that other people can recognize or not as they have the relevant knowledge. It adds something to the general background effect of "these are pretty and/or cute and/or striking and I look good wearing them" that I get from earrings in general. :)
...
To be blunt, it also helps that I really like purple, black, and gray/silver in general. There are some other pride color combos that I find aesthetically unpleasant, but fortunately the ace community chose a good set. I am retroactively proud of somebody's color sense. *wry* If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)