Also available in gift packaging, which includes a small poster of ‘Artemis Soap’ advertisement, a bio-card of Artemis the deity, gift wrapping, and optional custom message!
Maybe this wouldn’t feel so fuckin hollow and like you actually supported asexuals if we all didn’t know it was made in response to Artemis being called a lesbian.
buddy i am literally an ace inclusionist that made my way across shitty blocklists and trash like that, im a mod on fuckyeahasexual, this isnt the first ace art ive ever made
and yes, this soap deity was made in full awareness of this weird deity discourse, literally everything in my soap series is made with awareness including the skintone of this model
Yeah look man it feels hollow and like ur trying to be spiteful to lesbians like I’m just really questioning if you made this specifically for aces or for the purpose of trying to rub it in the faces of lesbians/people who worship her as a lesbian
this soap was made first by painstakenly crafting a master from sculpty, then casting it in liquid silicone. the soaps themselves are made to order on a backlist because every bar takes 5-6 days to emulsify and undergo proper saponification before curing into proper soap, all materials cost me hefty amounts of money i definitely wouldnt make on a whim, the accompanying poster alone took 8-9 hours to paint, and this times x4 because ive got three/four other pride-themed soap types alongside
so no, i did not make this soap because ‘lmao lesbians’
its of vital importance to me, a brown trans neurodivergent and shit-poor ace, to bring aspec visibility far and wide. why did i choose artemis? no real huge discourse-y reason, but if i was gonna base the design after some art-deco-esque posterchild it’d be some classist beauty that everyone and their mother has a hardon for bc ‘classy’, and no symbol is popularized more in the aspec community than our very dear original aroace
how entitled does one person gotta be before they see someone’s hard work and think ‘this person obviously created these soaps because they hate lesbians’
The choice of Artemis was literally to say she’s aroace and be spiteful to lesbians is what I’m hearing
I’m losing my mind cuz not only is this petty and nasty as hell but the soap looks fucking ugly
I’m laughing so hard this soap is so fucking ugly. if you touch it it gives you a skin disease that’s how ugly it is. my 10 year old sister could do better in art class. like what is it even supposed to be it’s so ugly
I don’t think it’s ugly, just very poorly made, like a kindergartener’s first try. But otherwise I agree with the others, its made for awful reasons, and would it kill people to read their sources before making such conclusions about this goddess?
Hey @ all of you assholes, maybe don’t insult someone’s hard work when they tell you they are a trans ace poc who is in need of money and just trying to sell some soap so they can survive. Like, how fucking shitty do you have to be to tell someone that something they made is ugly after they told you all the effort they put in to it.
And no, they didn’t make it for awful reasons. You guys twisted their words and intentions around because you guys are pissed off that they used Artemis, a well known a-spec symbol, for a soap made for a-specs. It doesn’t matter if there was some ridiculous discourse about her, Artemis is an a-spec symbol and always will be. You can headcanon her as a lesbian all you want, there’s nothing wrong with that, but you cannot steal her from the a-spec community. You all got pissed off about the moon and fucking purple of all things, so I’m sure you know how it feels when suddenly you think a symbol for your community might be getting stolen. I don’t care what your headcanons for Artemis are, just don’t turn everything involving her and the a-spec community, like this soap, into discourse when it isn’t.
^^^^^^^God bless.
–Mod Mercy
I think I get it now. Aphobes literally think that aces (and aros) only exist as a “counter force” to otherwise lgbt+ people.
Please let that sink in. They literally believe that a whole spectrum of sexualities is willingly homo- and transphobic (because apparently there’s no in-between /s) to counter them.
What. The fuck. I finally understand aphobes and it’s even scarier than I imagined.
“It’s about cishet aces” – say aphobes, as they attack and mock a trans poc who is just trying to make money by selling homemade soaps.
If you align yourself with REGs or exclusionists of any kind, I hope you know what kind of people you’re supporting.
Because they aren’t good people.
Person: *Makes an a-spec Artemis themed bar soap.*
Aphobes: “I’m sure this is homophobic somehow.”
The first half of this post chain gets the official seal:
@ all the shitty assholes rambling about the cast being low quality:
Have y’all ever made a fucking soap? In fact, have y’all ever even SEEN A GODDAMN DECO SOAP IN YOUR SHITSCREAMING LIVES?
See this?
This is a pretty bog standard cast soap.
See how it has no details? So how it’s so shapeless that it’s more like the implication of a flower that your mind fills in the blanks?
See how it’s a single color with no differentiation?
That’s because THAT’S WHAT CASTING LOOKS LIKE.
And here is OP, making some next level soap. You look at that soap, and you don’t have the vague implication of a huntress, you have a completely defined woman with a bow and a hound over a floral backdrop.
Do y’all have any fuckign idea what kind of commitment it takes to cast something with that many fucking details in it?
And for OP to have made the mold, instead of bought it or hired it out?
To have made the fucking master ?????
Fuck all of y’all and your total fuckign disrespect for a fuckign artisal goddamn product that takes fuckign week sto fuckign produce.
Go get yourself a shitty bottle of fuckin SoftSoap and dry your fuckign skin out with it until your hands split and your face is so covered in oil from all the overcompensation that you start to fucking drip.
It’s about all you fuckign deserve, you little shits.
@OP I’m gonna need a minute to figure out if you’re using any of my multitudinous allergens in your soaps, but you bet your ass I’m buying one
one day i will expand my business and become a worldwide label competing with lush and crabtree&evelyn combined and then u will get so beautiful Gay soaps
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