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SwankiVY sings "Daniel" by Bat For Lashes
SwankiVY sings "Daniel" by Bat For Lashes
1,277 views - 4 months ago
Asexuality: An introduction
Asexuality: An introduction
9,756 views - 1 year ago
Letters to an Asexual #1
Letters to an Asexual #1
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The Last Hour
The Last Hour
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The Asexuality Top Ten (12)
Asexuality: An introduction
Asexuality: An introduction
swankivy - 9,756 views
Asexuality Top 10: Number 10
Asexuality Top 10: Number 10
swankivy - 1,695 views
Asexuality Top 10: Number 9
Asexuality Top 10: Number 9
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Name:
swankivy
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Age:
31
Joined:
September 26, 2006
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About Me:
 
I'm a pretty good writer, a sorta semi-decent pencil artist, and a singer when it suits me. I like to write novels (mostly fantasy or sf), draw my webcomic, read, make Web pages . . . and sometimes I just plain like to argue with people. Fun.
Country:
United States
Hobbies:
Writing, drawing, art, fantasy, anime, sf, science fiction, religion, atheism, Paganism, creativity, asexuality, Web page-making, baking, singing, karaoke, and DDR.
Movies:
My favorite movies are 12 Monkeys, Adaptation, Anastasia, Arise! (a Subgenius video), Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovitch, Benny & Joon, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (though I didn't like the first one, there was just something about this one), The Brave Little Toaster (haha, you say? It's great!), The Breakfast Club, Chicago, Clerks, A Clockwork Orange, Contact, The Dark Crystal, Dead Poets Society, Dogma, Dragon Half, Drop Dead Fred, Dune, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Flight of the Navigator, The Forbidden Zone, The Goonies, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Harriet the Spy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit (the animated movie), Holes, Hook, Jeffrey, Kung Pow, Labyrinth, The Last Unicorn, A League of Their Own, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Lord of the Rings, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Matilda, Monsters, Inc., Monty Python's Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge, The Neverending Story, Newsies, Phenomenon, The Point, Rainman, Robin Hood (the cartoon), Rocky Horror Picture Show, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Stranger Than Fiction, Tank Girl, Team America, Tenchi Forever, The Tune, UHF (starring Weird Al), Unbreakable, and Zoolander. My favorite shows are Monty Python's Flying Circus, Red Dwarf, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Da Ali G Show, Father Ted, Animaniacs, Ren and Stimpy, Spaceghost Coast to Coast, Invader Zim, The Tick, The Simpsons, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Home Movies, The Powerpuff Girls, Earthworm Jim, Samurai Jack, and lots of anime.
Music:
My favorite music is Ween, TMBG, Suzanne Vega, For Squirrels, Tori Amos, Ookla the Mok, Moxy Früvous, Björk, Kate Bush, Poe, Belly, Frente!, The Breeders, Blind Melon, Edie Brickell, 4 Non Blondes, The Cranberries, Dar Williams, Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, Madonna, Alanis Morissette, Sinéad O'Connor, Sarah McLachlan, Cyndi Lauper, Phil Collins, R.E.M., MC Chris, George Clinton, Simon and Garfunkel, Queen, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Mediæval Bæbes, David Lanz & Paul Speer, Adiemus, Benjamin Britten, Gabriel Fauré, Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, Mozart, John Rutter, Blümchen, t.A.T.u., The Residents, KLF, Negativland, Enigma, Jan Hammer, Era, Max Raabe, Tenacious D, Arrogant Worms, Weird Al, Bloodhound Gang, Dr. Demento, Stephen Lynch, Adam Sandler, Wesley Willis, Philip Riley & Jayne Elleson, Annwn, Seven 13, Gypsy, Gwydion Pendderwen, Moving Breath, Avalon Rising, Michelle Mays, Dreamtrybe, Kenny Klein, Kathy Mar, and . . . musicals like Man of La Mancha, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables, Rent, Chess, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Shop, Chicago, Rocky Horror, Phantom, Into the Woods, Wicked, and Avenue Q.
Books:
My favorite books are by Joan D. Vinge, Francesca Lia Block, Vanna Bonta, Douglas Adams, Diane Duane, Katherine Dunn, Octavia E. Butler, Tom Stoppard, Ivan Stang, Rebecca Wells, Eoin Colfer, Lemony Snicket, Philip Pullman, K. A. Applegate, Neil Gaiman, and Jhonen Vasquez.
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Channel Comments (64)
swankivy (3 weeks ago)
To keli (part 3):
You ask whether I want to "spend time" making videos and educating people or whether I just want to explain when it comes up, but here again you've assumed all I want is a comfortable existence for myself. Spreading awareness is nothing to laugh at. Partly through my efforts, people are seeing asexuality for what it is, and it's not up to people like you who think it doesn't matter to tell me it's not worth it. I decided it was worth it over a decade ago when I wrote my first article on the topic, and while of course I don't intend to spend my whole life or the majority of my time trying to "spread the word," it isn't necessary that I do so as long as my writings and videos on the topic are well placed. Based on the response from the public as well as the asexual community, I think I've done a very good job. Your suggestion that I just quit talking about it sounds very ignorant to me and it is not appreciated.
swankivy (3 weeks ago)
To keli (part 2):
You've also misunderstood my point if you think my intent is to "avoid questions." In case you haven't done your homework, I've been "out" about being asexual for over fifteen years, and being asked questions about it doesn't bother me if they want to understand. (Disrespect, however, is never okay, no matter what they're questioning me about.) Yes, I DO think I'm "going to educate people on this subject in a way they can understand," because I HAVE ALREADY DONE SO and have been contacted several thousand times with messages to that effect. I'm not under the delusion that I can reach everyone, but helping no one just because you can't help everyone makes you part of the problem and not part of the solution.
swankivy (3 weeks ago)
To keli:
I have more than one "letters to an asexual" video. You'll have to be more specific.
I know that asexuals are a minority. I also know that certain problems are common to all misunderstood minorities. But if you think the solution to being misunderstood is to just be quiet and let people misunderstood unless it matters personally to me, YOU have misunderstood my intent. I am making videos to spread awareness about asexuality so that our lesser-known orientation gets some attention and some understanding and some legitimacy. In case you aren't aware, my efforts are working. I get mail and comments every day thanking me for my efforts, and I was interviewed as one of the spokespeople for an upcoming documentary on the subject.
keli1989 (3 weeks ago)
I watched your video entitled letters to an asexual and the points you bring up are just something that comes with being a minority... no i am not joking. If you are different from other people, especially in a way that people haven't heard about or just don't care looking up then you are going to get questioned by it. For example if you are a asexual and people find out then at first you're likely to be bombarded with questions, almost always stupid questions like how you could do such a thing and then you're probably going to hear about how they could never do such a thing. The best way to avoid this is to not speak of it unless it is brought up. You are never going to educate people on such a subject in a way that they can understand, so the question is just this, do you want to spend a lot of time trying to educate all with gatherings and videos or would you rather spend a little time occasionally explaining it to people who just so happened to ask?
swankivy (4 weeks ago)
Evigool: If an apostrophe is in the word "game's," it would mean something belonging to the game. (Which in this case I suppose is its progress.) If an apostrophe is after the word "games," it would mean it indicated something belonging to more than one game. If there is more than one game whose progress is being described, use "games' progress." It seemed singular to me though. If you leave the apostrophe out totally, you have a plural, and no indication that anything is possessed by the games, incidentally.
Evigool (4 weeks ago)
Really? Would -s' be incorrect? What's the difference?
swankivy (1 month ago)
Evigool: There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that sentence. . . .
Evigool (1 month ago)
OK, wrong place to ask for punctuation help, but I'm desperate. Please read the following sentence and tell me if I used the apostrophe correctly.

Ask an administrator to ERASE everything not related to your game's progress.

Yeah... I need to read more.
cyberdaemon (1 month ago)
Altrough studing religion can be hobby , just like studing sexuality.Or in your case asexuality :P
swankivy (1 month ago)
To cyberdaemon: I seem to recall that at the time I filled this out it said "Hobbies and Interests." YouTube changes channels around a lot. Religion isn't a hobby either.
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