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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Poemosexual: Poe-try to Our Ears.

I thought I was being all clever and cute when I thought up Poemosexual, but a quick search proved that--once again--people on the Internet are always more clever and cute than I'll ever be.

Seems like a lot of people reference or hashtag "poemosexual" in reference to either poetry, or less frequently, Edgar Allen Poe. But those brainiacs are doing it wrong. Obviously, it's much more hilarious and timely to use it in reference to the Poe-tential (it's only going to get worse, buckle in) that Poe Dameron is gay--or more commonly, in reference to shipping Poe and Finn.

A search for poemosexual on Twitter shows that poemosexual was first used in reference to Poe's sexuality on opening day, 12/18, in a Tweet by user @twelvicity in response to this fan art:


There have only been a handful of the poemosexual hashtag on Twitter since then.

Meanwhile, over on the Instagrams, I could only find one posting. I fully support and endorse @chrispan91 and his proclamation of his poemosexuality.

By now, Poemos are literally Poe-ing out of the woodwork--as of this entry, there are over 700 slash fic entries in the Archive Of Our Own.

!!!!

Time to start reading--and to start hashtagging "poemosexual" with wild abandon!