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Potential reasons to identify as asexual:
Little or no sexual attraction
Little or no sexual desire
Little or no libido
You don’t want to have sex and that’s significant to how you navigate the world
When you do feel attraction, you have no desire to act on it
When you feel sexually aroused, you don’t want to involve another person in it
A disconnect from expectations and narratives of “normative” sexuality
Any combination of the above
A lot of people identify as asexual based on sexual attraction. And that’s good and valuable. I just want other, or intersecting, reasons people identify as asexual to be respected too.
If you experience these things you don’t have to identify as asexual, and if you identify as asexual you certainly don’t have to experience all of these. But these are all real and significant reasons various people come to the asexual identity.
I think part of my fascination with self-insert fanfiction comes from finding the canon characters somehow un-relatable. Like, damn dude, I would never. Whether it's whatever cover story they came up with or how they got themselves into a SituationTM or how they respond to drama or even just the way they react to an awkward crush. So having someone wandering around with a framework for morality and similar knowledge of media as me instantly ranks them higher than whatever poor soul was originally in the script.
That said, I've seen too many fanfic where they SI becomes either the main character or an extremely OP side character. Which is fine, if you're looking for someone to rehash the story with more sensible decision making, or a power fantasy. The power fantasy can also occur with an SI that has encyclopedic knowledge of canon, and authors can go a variety of directions with that, but it's more hit or miss for me as a reader. The ones I enjoy most are when the SI knows nothing about the story they're in and has to get through on vibes and common sense. Bonus points if they don't even know what genre this is supposed to be. The ones that deviate from canon most tend to be the most interesting.
But the kind that absolutely kill me dead, are when some poor uninformed soul with no knowledge of the story is essentially isekai-d into a lower-level antagonist or even just someone really annoying. I'm not talking like Final Boss level antagonist, I'm talking about someone whose more of an inconvenience to the protagonist. Someone petty or fundamentally at odds with them for their own reasons. The Big Bad usually wants to accomplish something terrible, That One Asshole just wants to do their own thing. I want to see the domino effects on the story as the SI tries to do their own thing but for some reason (justified, in their opinion) keeps butting heads with the protagonist.
A lot of these sorts of characters are making decisions that do make sense within the framework of the story and the background they come from. I want to see what happens when a generally reasonable person with better coping mechanisms is put in the role. I don't want them to be suddenly best friends with the protagonist. I want them to be deeply inconvenienced by them. I want this to be the person holding a grudge about paperwork not being filed on time, personally annoyed by someone's immaturity, or completely done with the inefficient way someone is trying to solve a problem. I want someone who thought they were in a slice of life or a period drama to get bitch slapped by the magical girl genre or a superhero story and refuse.
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here’s to all the things you survived quietly and privately this year
unfortunate realization: i am exactly the type of person who could see a picture of Clark Kent next to a picture of Superman and not put together that they are the same person. A college friend showed me a pic of him in highschool and it could have been a completely different person. A half decent fake mustache would work on me. My coworker shaved his beard and for a solid fifteen seconds I had no idea who he was. As a child, my uncle changed his facial hair and I spent that Christmas trying to subtly figure out who the new guy was. It's not that i'm like actually medically face blind, but it is something that takes a few introductions to stick in my head. Conversely, I sometimes miss obvious similarities. People say my mom and my aunt and I look alike and I'm all ????
Which explains why I gravitate to animation over live action. Animation by its nature allows more variation in 2D, especially in the wilder color schemes of anime. But something about the way a screen takes the depth out of a real face is a struggle for me. The Hollywood Chris or Toms? Could maybe get fifty-fifty in a line up if they weren't in a costume I'm familiar with. Genuinely did not pick up on Agent Coulson being in all the early Avengers movies at first, I though it was a placeholder name for SHIELD guy in a suit. Genuinly saw the Indiana Jones movies the first time and could not line up Harrison Ford dressed as a professor and Indiana Jones climbing through tombs. Also did not initially realize he was Han Solo.
With TV, I need at least four episodes before I can be trusted to get faces right. DMBJ is fantastic even with actors changing, the main trio: the big guy, the nerd, the babyface in all black. Guardian: excellent costuming did a lot of work for me and the scenes where the twin was pretending to be Shen Wei? that acting was so fucking good, even I got the vibes. Cop drama? there's always an old guy, a young guy, and a girl. If there's any more than that all bets are off. I survived early seasons of NCIS because Abby is fully goth, even with the labcoat. Numb3rs was fantastic but if Charlie and Don had the same haircut I would not have made it.
lord of the rings really was lightning in a bottle. it shouldn’t have worked but by god it did. peter jackson, who had no filmmaking education and was mostly known for making low budget splatter movies, had no business going out and changing the movie industry like that but he did. return of the king showed up at the oscars and became one of the most awarded movies of all time. to this day it holds the record for the highest clean sweep. hollywood will keep trying to recreate that magic with bigger budgets and high profile actors and they will keep failing. i look at the state of these blockbusters where everything is smoothed over by soulless cgi and actors are acting opposite tennis balls and they will never hold a candle to the pure heart and soul and craft of the lord of the rings. every single person involved in that project loved being part of it and it fucking shows. i’m so thankful the stars aligned the way they did for these movies to happen like that.
fun fact! peter jackson wasn't just known for splatter movies, he was known for, at the time, holding some sort of record for using the most fake blood at once; and not cleaning his sets up as much as people would have liked. Both were reasons New Zealand was not particularly enthusiastic about the initial filming project.
TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.
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Yep. It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime. One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility.
“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.
Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name
Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”
Patterson died 5 December 1995.
Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.
Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day!
Oh, hey, it’s almost Clair Cameron Patterson day!
Happy Low Opacity Elrond Day to those who observe.

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So i know we all like to hc that legolas knew at least aragorn before the quest, or the elves of imlardis.
But honestly, au in which legolas is genuinely just some random elf that showed up to deliver a message, was roped into the council and saw the most amazing oppurtunity to fuck with everyone and took the elf spot in the party?
Like, no-one knows who tf he is, he’s just a messenger (no one knows he’s thranduil’s son) and elrond gave him a seat at the council out of indulgence. And then this one motherfucker no one knows ends up joining one of, if not the most, important quest in ME.
Legolas, knowing damn well no one’s got a clue who tf he is: hold on, i sense an opportunity to do the funniest shit ever.
And after he volunteered himself, it’s not like elrond can just go: no, wait a minute.
Legolas has got the audacity. He’s sensing all the imlardis elves’ daggers in their eyes and is full on cackling in his head.
They are having a horrible time and legolas is thriving!
The walkers themselves don’t know untill after the quest.
this works really well with some of my personal headcanons/worldbuilding for Mirkwood and Legolas. Book!Legolas is kind of a goofy guy whose kind of just there to carry a message and ends up on the quest to pad out numbers and for subtlety reasons. "So about that freaky little creature Mithrandir and Aragorn dropped on our doorstep because you couldn't bring yourself to kill it and didn't want its info in enemy hands (valar forbid you bring it to Rivendell)... yeah its gone. whoops, our bad." "potential suicide quest to take out evil jewelry the enemy is obsessed with? yeah I got nothing better to do."
But also, Mirkwood is the only elven kingdom to have been actively holding out against the enemy in the last few centuries. Rivendell and Lothlorien are protected by magic rings, but all Mirkwood has is their own determination and probably spite. They're the elven equivalent of Gondor, basically. Holding out alone against an enemy everyone else is happy to say is not their problem. But they're also old, they've done this before, and they didn't believe it was over the first time. They're also private, trading with their one neighbor, not calling on allies for help but still lending it out when needed (trying to make sure the people of Laketown were compensated for it's destruction).
Yeah, the people of Mirkwood remember when it was Greenwood the Great. And they'll do what they have to in order to prevent it from getting worse and maybe someday getting back to that. But they also know the enemy is smart. The enemy keeps track of the big names and important people. The enemy can remember your name and the enemy can remember your family name too. So the wood elves aren't big names. They're 'more dangerous and less wise' remember? They don't appear in the histories. They aren't recognizable. Elves love naming and linguistics. If all the soldiers of Mirkwood use a sword-name instead of their parent-names, maybe that's just their custom. But maybe its for safety too.
For this, I'm leaning real heavy on Gandalf calling Legolas "Legolas Greenleaf". It's literally the middle earth version of "Moon Moon". But what if, in Greenwood, young or 'green' soldiers were called greenleaves? What if Legolas is young enough in a people that reproduce slowly, that he's essentially stuck getting called 'rookie'. And Gandalf, who is known to take the opportunity to full-name people, is working with what he's got. Gandalf probably knows Legolas' actual heritage, but he's not the sort to talk where the enemy can hear. Or he doesn't know, and the minute he figures it out, his (re)life flashes before his eyes as he imagines Thranduil's reaction to his son being involved on the suicide quest to dispose of cursed jewelry.
Also, I just think it would be really funny that Legolas, the guy who blows Aragorn's cover as the true king of Gondor during the council of Elrond, manages to hide that he's a prince for the entire quest.
People on here have covered the Tiffany Problem (that we've got such a strong impression of the past that our suspension of disbelief kicks in for historical facts; ie Tiffany was a nickname for an actual historical name, but it sounds too modern for an author to use in a historical setting without setting off the audience) pretty thoroughly, but one aspect in particular makes me sad.
They used to paint armor. It wasn't supposed to be shining and metallic. That's impractical for both protecting it from rusting, and probably tactical reasons but I don't know shit about that. It's the same as the marble statues from Greece/Rome: the paint faded/wore off, people cleaned up the remains and then assumed that's what they were supposed to look like. And medieval people especially used to wear very colorful identifying stuff, sometimes like a tunic over the armor, but also in their everyday. The past was colorful, not just browns and greys. Can we have fun with that? Can authors take the leap to make the armor painted and the clothes colorful?
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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!
Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).
Bookmarking this…

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that
i had to phone a taxi today, scary
every time i see this post i think of that person who posted on reddit that they wanted to go to subway for the first time but they were scared they would say the wrong thing so someone gave them step by step instructions for the entire process and what all the choices would be and when they would ask what question and i just think
someone will
someone out there will see you and say "yes. the world is scary. but let me hold your hand and show you how to do it anyways"
everyone needs that someone, and everyone can be that someone
The subreddit r/explainlikeimscared is a surprisingly good resource for this. People are always very kind and thorough from what I've seen, and I spend a decent amount of time there giving walkthroughs and answering questions when I know the process.
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