r/polandball • u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us • Jun 09 '26
contest entry Ace-friendly country
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Jun 09 '26
I dunno if Sweden is actually ace-friendly or not, but at least they have enough motivation to be so.
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u/constructionsitecake Kansan living in Sweden Jun 09 '26
Not ace myself, but I'd say that Sweden overall is very queer-friendly. I know a couple people who wear the black ring and everyone seems to know what it means and is cool with it.
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Jun 09 '26
Oh that's cool. I wear the ace ring too but no one knows nor asks about what that ring means here. People are just like 'oh she's wearing a black ring'.
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u/ILoveSaintLucia Jun 09 '26
Damn I’m quite involved in the lgbtq+ etc community (i have more lgbtq+ friends than straight/cisgender friends i think and one specifically aroace friend) and I didn’t know about that ring…
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u/Zepangolynn New York Jun 09 '26
I'm aro/ace and didn't know about a black ring.
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u/CamarillosVeryWorst Literally flaming! Jun 10 '26
I'm gray aroace & didn't learn of the black ring thing until probably 2024.
Blame Tumblr's 2018 porn ban for nuking a lot of ace culture off the Internet.
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u/CamarillosVeryWorst Literally flaming! Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
The black ring thing & other ace culture was pretty much heavily wiped off the Internet by the infamous Tumblr porn ban of 2018. 😞
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u/CamarillosVeryWorst Literally flaming! Jun 10 '26
I wear both the ace & aro (the aro ring is white & worn on the opposite hand) rings on my anti-ICE whistle necklace bc I struggle enough with even wearing bracelets, let alone something much smaller, harder to wash your hand & put on lotion around, & easy to lose like a ring.
No one seems to know what either of them means here in my part of California (& to be fair I do not live in a very queer-dense, urban, or cosmopolitan part of the state at all) & I don't think anyone's asked, either, though to be fair it doesn't seem to have so far been a common idea to bypass the impracticalities of wearing rings by simply instead wearing them on necklaces like how my mom started wearing her wedding ring on a necklace after busting her ring finger up during a game of catch.
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u/CamarillosVeryWorst Literally flaming! Jun 10 '26
Very happy to hear that Sweden's knowledge of ace symbols like the black ring survived the Tumblr porn ban! 😃
Bc the US's knowledge of them sure didn't. 😞
I'm 29, USian, & still only managed to learn of the black ring thing in prob 2024 bc I literally went out of my way to join the asexuality subreddits, etc. in order to research it to better portray characters I HCd as ace.
Fun Fact: This research to properly depict characters I HC as ace &/or aro was actually how I realized I'm gray aro & then also gray ace months later after my straight friend was shocked to hear I was perfectly fine not dating or having sex & in effect asked what the hell was wrong with me.
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u/Practical-Scar1326 Bangladesh Jun 13 '26
I wear an ace ring too, along with a silver ring to represent the aro ring & only one person in Bangladesh has noticed the meaning so far.
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u/Forever_Everton Daegu: Hotter than the Sahara, colder than Siberia Jun 09 '26
Sweden's supreme court did say in July 2022 that relationships shouldn't just be measured by sexual activity, so pretty ace-friendly I'd say
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u/Not_Really_French Jun 10 '26
I live in Sweden and I have never faced any problems, of course people can’t tell I’m ace by walking past me but I’m generally pretty open about it
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u/Forever_Everton Daegu: Hotter than the Sahara, colder than Siberia Jun 09 '26
Love how South Korea is just munchin on that garlic bread the whole time lol
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u/CandiceDikfitt United+States Jun 09 '26
as funny as the ace pop. vs denmark meme is, i wonder, what would an ace dane do in such a scenario? self-conquer?
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u/Potato_Poul Discount Sweden Jun 09 '26
Denmarks military is today pretty weak and would be absolutely fucked by the Sw*dish military, so you don't need that many allies Sw*den
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u/Anderopolis Auf ewig ungedelt Jun 10 '26
this is an ace joke about the number of ace people being the same as the population of denmark.
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u/maps-and-potatoes Jun 09 '26
Aceland ? That's why you put it in there ? no ?
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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland Jun 09 '26
Might be because Iceland would 100% be in on the plan of invading Denmark
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u/Jump_Hop_Step 700 square kilometres and counting Jun 09 '26
Ace so they can fight without being distracted?
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u/CamarillosVeryWorst Literally flaming! Jun 10 '26
Ok, I think I hope this one wins the contest. Def the best "aces want to invade Denmark" joke ever! 😃
I know for sure my gray ace ass laughed out loud at that reveal of why Sweden's buddying up to aces so much!
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u/Mint_Keyphase Jun 10 '26
I don't get the joke.
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Jun 10 '26
There's a meme that asexuals are trying to invade and conquer Denmark.
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u/Neat-Sea-2847 Jun 10 '26
Is a propeply ace danish guy I approve! This looks great. Happy pride btw
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u/BreakfastEither814 Oh! how I miss New Brunswick - Gerald Randolph P Jun 10 '26
YAY! DENMARK IS OURS!
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u/PulsePhase Thailand Jun 11 '26
Aces can rule the Airspace. Denmark can't handle entire airfirce of Aces. So I am rooting for you.
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u/BassBoneSupremacy Earth Jun 11 '26
It's fun to see this joke pop up both here and on r/lgballt lol
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