#like I'm sure this is a phenomenon IRL but it's really not there much in the kinds of fanfiction

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

for the 'why wouldn't date them'

charles, hawkeye, trapper

and i think you might be into twin peaks? if so, dale cooper and donna hayward

whichever ones you want to do :)

Ahhhhhh omg thank you for all of these I want to do them ALL but let's go backwards.

Donna Hayward

Ok so the thing is I AM into Twin Peaks but it's been a while since I've seen it and I tried to watch The Return but I was too stupit to understand much less enjoy it :( sowwy. So I would be dating my own flawed incomplete interpretation of a person, really. Typical Twin Peaks. 

Anyways I love Donna! I think we have similar personalities and stuff. In all brutal honesty I think if I were in her situation with a friend like Laura I’d have done similar things. Also yeah maybe her actions did lead a man to suicide but that was NOT her fault. I think the only three things that would prevent an attempt at a relationship here are 

1) The obvious. Her taste in men = atrocious. In all the rest of these hypotheticals where the character is already canonically in a relationship or has feelings for another character I’m just like yeah the more the merrier but if Donna insists on inviting her insufferable ass boyfriend into the mix I could NOT fucking do it I’m sorry. 

2) This girl is not ready for a relationship yet after All That god damn. But then again neither am I so maybe that balances out. We would need to spend some time as support group buddies just hugging and crying a lot before even considering a date. 

3) It is unlikely we would ever interact as I am never setting foot in that town ever in my life are you kidding me. Donna is super pretty in both her incarnations but I’m sorry I don’t think any pussy pops severely enough for me to risk going to fucking doorknob hell or some shit.

Dale Cooper

Ignore everything I said in that last paragraph. I change my mind. I forgot my beautiful autism creature husband is here. I would risk it all for a date with Dale Cooper and so would all who know and perceive the truth. AND he’s got two hot girlfriends with him at least one of whom is ALSO an autism creature??? Sign me the FUCK up for this polycule IMMEDIATELY. “Oh but OP what about the horrors” I don’t even fucking care it’s fine. Dale can have little an evil doppelganger. As a treat.

Still there are some problems:

1) Dale is an FBI agent and Harry is a cop. Booooooo!!!! But maybe if Annie and Caroline and I unionize we can force them to quit their jobs. 

2) Unclear if I would be forced to join the Black Lodge Horror Vision Rotation along with Annie and Caroline. Boring and time consuming task and unlike Laura you don’t even get to do a Big Scream.

3) I personally actually don’t like pie or coffee at all :( I’m sorry babygirl I understand if this is a deal breaker. 

Trapper McIntyre 

You know that “golden retriever boyfriend” joke? Trapper is like THE golden retriever boyfriend to me. Which I mean as an absolute compliment! Golden retrievers are friendly, helpful, adorable, lovable dogs. I am always up to pet a golden retriever.

But the thing is, I would never get one myself. They’re just a bit too big, bit too much energy, bit too messy, and anyways I prefer cats. No hate, no judgment, just a series of tiny preferences. Not into jocks, not into casual no-strings-attached type relationships, not super into kids, you know how it is. Boring and petty answer but I just feel like this adorable happy-go-lucky goldie deserves the PERFECT forever home and obviously he’s one of the most popular of all the dogs at the Mashblr shelter so I know he’ll get adopted super fast. So I can turn my attention to the miserable ass overbred old cat in the corner <3

Hawkeye Pierce

Oh, Hawkeye. I just don’t think so. Idk what’s wrong with me but I have to work to see Hawkeye as like. A dateable entity in my mind. He’s our little scrunkly! It’d be weird to date a scrunkly. BUT maybe I’ve just been overexposed to him purely by dint of being in the fandom he’s the main character of, because objectively I DO find Mr. Alda’s portrayal of him in certain scenes to be Attractive (TM), and seeing clips of his charisma and charm and humor and all that good handsome stuff is literally what got me to check out the show in the first place! Man. What happened. Hmm. 

I think one issue is that scenes where he’s explicitly trying to be Romantic and/or Seductive have just never done it for me. Like comparing Hawkeye’s lovey scenes with Kyung Soon to Charles’ with Martine, there’s no contest in how they make me feel. To me, Hawkeye is honestly at his most appealing when he’s radiating Friend Energy, which is why his casual relationships actually work really well IMO; you feel like he’s truly a great pal to the nurses he hooks up with. This is also, I think, one of Piercintyre’s great strengths as a ship, because Hawkeye and Trapper both have amazing Friend Energy and then their natural compatibility makes that bleed seamlessly into sweet romantic vibes. And to be clear I would LOVE to be in a Friends To Lovers relationship too but unfortunately I am cringely obsessed with loveydovey romance in a way I’m not sure Hawkeye is even capable of. Plus there’s also just the fact that I’m a shy waiting til marriage person and I suck at banter and yeah it’s just not working. In conclusion neither Hawkeye nor Trapper should date me they should date each other!! But we knew that :P

THAT CUNT

There are 10000000 reasons not to date Charles. But I will be doing it anyways ^_^ Peace and love on planet earth <3

Anyways I’m not bringing up his Problematicness as a reason here because I didn’t bring it up for anyone else and nobody noticed, so why should it be any different with him. Like no obviously I would not date this dumbfuck racist but I also would not date a guy who thinks it’s a funny prank to make a woman think she’s being sexually assaulted. I also for that matter would not date a guy who works with the dumbfuck racist and is like aw, ya know what, he’s not that bad really :) the second they have a chance to have a bonding moment. I guess I have decided to be a buzzkill about that forever now btw sorry :( oh well 

But ok no real talk I would Not date Charles unless one very specific condition is met, which is that I have whatever magic stardust they sprinkled on his single-episode love interests before they put them in the story that made him be utterly besotted with them, because more than any other character on the show, it seems, the difference between Regular Charles and Charles In Love is so hysterically huge??? Like fuck. My dudes. We’ve done it. We found the one villain who actually does do a complete 180 and starts trying to act right as soon as a girl takes pity on him enough to look at him twice. (Disclaimer: I haven’t seen Ain’t Love Grand yet I’m sorryyyyyyyy) He’s so ~romantic~ and it’s like catnip to me unfortunately. :\ The total opposite of what I said about Hawkeye up there. Offers a girl his stupid little teacup and recites poetry at her. Unbelievable. Did anyone ever think about the fact that maybe I would like to be offered a teacup and recited poetry at. No. You all only think about yourselves.  

Like even though objectively the way he nukes his relationship with Martine was hurtful to both of them, he’s so Tender the whole time it’s insane. She turned him into her pauvre petit miaou miaou overnight. I want that power so fucking bad I NEED that power so fucking bad. Say it with me everyone. I Could Fix Him. (”But OP Martine and Donna DIDN’T fix him he still left them both and never mentioned them again?” Yes but don’t worry they were just loosening the lid on his jar a little bit. I’ll get him open you’ll see. He’s gonna be soooo well trained when I’m done I’ll make him apologize to Maxwell and everything. He won’t even need the shock collar after a few weeks.)

But yeah if I have to like, try to appeal to him on my own it’s not fucking happening. I have no desire to hear the equivalent of a DOS deepfake hologram that has become evil due to being trained on text scraped from youtube comments tell me I’m ugly and stupid, which is exactly what would happen. Up til now I’ve sidestepped the issue that I do not think any of these people would give me the time of day (except Maxwell who would take pity on me probably because he is sososo Good) but I cannot ignore how much Charles just would Not like me. I don’t know how the selfshipper community does it they’re braver than any fucking US marine over there fr. Charles would look at me like I was a gross little bug on the ground and I can’t escape it. Oh well. Who needs him. Where’s your sister you dipshit I’m about to GET IT

#THANK YOU for this kind ask beloved mutual!! Sorry it got long and weird it's been a rough week and I'm afraid that may have bled through #to all these answers which I'm so irritated at myself for but I can't fix it OTL #Starky loves answering questions #majorbaby #I LOVE when people notice what fandoms I'm in it makes me so happy thank youuuu #anyways DOS leading romantic hero of all time but nobody ever let him fucking BE one. humanity deserves to be driven to extinction for this #wtf is ''You give the longest compliments I've ever heard'' ''Then let me be more succinct [adorable kiss]'' BITCH I'M GOING TO KILL YOU #WHAT IF I WANTED A LITTLE KISS HMM!!!!!!! WHAT THEN!!!!!!! #Anyways I used to get so sad knowing my favorite characters wouldn't like me. Cried alone in my room over it as a kid. #Now it's just like whatever. Join the club. #Anyways I LOVE how DOS' insanely amazing ability to sell those one-episode romances better than any other main cast member #inadvertently makes Charles seem uniquely susceptible to falling in love at first sight and being an embarrassing little hopeless romantic #which is an absolutely hysterical trait to give your rude brooding misanthropic antagonist #''I hate everyone in the world and they are all beneath me #except for this random girl I met yesterday who is Everything to me I love her SO much <3<3<3'' #SEE. LITERALLY A GUY FROM AN X READER ''I CAN FIX HIM'' FIC. #Actually in my experience most X Reader types are fairly uninterested in fixing the him in question despite all the bad press they get #like at most they only care that the Him is nice to THEM and sometimes not even that #like I'm sure this is a phenomenon IRL but it's really not there much in the kinds of fanfiction #that everyone blames for causing said IRL phenomenon #I know this because I AM an I Can Fix Him person! And I'd be the one to find Fixing Him content if it existed! #for me it's only fun if there's fixing involved tbh. I don't want a Mafia Boss Wattpad BF that's not fun. #that's literally just a guy being mean to you. do we not get enough of that IRL. I want a little project!!! #these tags are one giant red flag for me as a person but you should have known I was unsalvageable the second I begged off a date with Trap #NOT the behavior of a mentally well person #mash

[thecontumacious]

this is about the rice purity test so i think this is kind of suggestive??

like the reader have this mindset like mysta that they can pop off innuendo every single damn time that can make ike eveland mald. When they found out that there rice purity test is really really high— higher than shu—

i wonder what there reaction will be—

"Wait, how much?!"

a/n: now before you guys ask, yes this is possible (although in the rarest of cases)

reminder that all my work and others in the fandom are purely fiction and intended to entertain, not to be projected irl. 

Vox Akuma 👹🌹

you're on the same wavelength of sussy as vox

yes it's that bad

come on child, let's off you to a priest (つ▀¯▀ )つ

as the king of the past and well many years of seeing all sorts of sussy people like yourself, you take the top tier (second only to him actually)

ike has double the headache when you two are together

bless the poor man

it was one day that you and him were collabing together--discussing something only chat to wonder why youtube has yet to ban you two--that the idea of rice purity test scores were brought up

"actually i've never taken the test. too busy and stuff," you hum, madly clicking away at your game

"huh?? well, you should take one soon. i bet you it's super low," vox laughs

you don't deflect this and only smirk, "see if it's lower than you?"

"hah! keep dreaming, love," he retorts

why is he proud of his low score

"alright bet. after this round i'll test it out."

and after you do finish up, you and vox take a break while you busily search for the online quiz

"found it yet?"

"yep, no need to worry over my ass."

"really? i've been thinking about it this whole time though."

"oh you have, haven't you?"

"yep i have, baby."

ಠ_ಠ

suddenly you're quiet.

much to yours, vox's and the chat's dismay

"uh, y/n? you good?"

"huh? yeah i'm cool," you answer quietly but vox knows something is up

"the test intimidating ya' much?"

you giggle, "i've seen worse things."

"oh? care to tell me what?"

...

"y/n? seriously, are you good?"

"i take it back," you suddenly report.

vox raises his eyebrows, taking a sip of his tea, "take what back?"

"that i've seen more intimidating things," he hears you gulp from the other line of the discord call and this is the first ever time he's seen you like this

"look, y/n my dear, i know you like the suspense and everything, but i'd like for you to be clear with me what's going on. you've been kinda quiet for the last few minutes," vox tells you, sitting upright

you sigh, "mytestscoreisninetyseven."

"your test score is fucking what???????"

even chat believes that their devices are acting up

you, the person who's always connected to vox on a god level in terms of being sussy, has a purity test score higher than even shu yamino's????? *95 btw

"you sure you're not fucking with me right now??" vox is still in complete denial apparently and honestly so were you when you realized you weren't checking off much of the boxes...

"yes??? here, lemme just show you the test screen. i fucking swear this is not some getup this is literally my score. bro, i'm just as spooked right now," you busy yourself by setting everything up

and in the next minute, vox and the chat see for themselves that you truly were a pure golden 97

"well, mysterious phenomenon aside...," the demon trails off and although you had just heard him get shocked over it, he literally turns over 180 as he spoke in a baby voice, "aweeee, y/n-chan is actually as innocent as a baby! oh you sweet little thing, come here, let daddy take care of you. this world can't taint your innocence when i'm around."

somehow, you don't know if you should be proud of your "achievement" or not bcs the moment vox decided that you were pure as per the results, he's treating you as though you're a baby

ofc he's just teasing you mostly

examples include:

"oh wait but you don't know what a #@!&8 is right, y/n? nah, you're too innocent to know. don't google it okay?"

"VOX FUCKING AKUMA STOP THIS NONSENSE"

"ayeyayai, that language. who taught you how to speak like that?"

"VOXXXXXXXX"

other boys utc!

Mysta Rias 🦊🔶

much like him, you're terrible at being innocent for just five fucking minutes

yes officer it's this one. oh and the orange one too.

be it on stream or jail, mysta has officially found himself another dirty minded friend besides vox

you discuss it with him what role you play with him okay (╬≖_≖)

he found out the first time when it came out on the wee hours of your off collab with him, ike and nina

hoo boy, someone get ike some ear plugs

anyway

mysta was actually the one to bring it up first

"hey, now that i've thought about it, you've never told us your rice purity test scores, y/n," he thought aloud, vox and nina agreeing as they too were just as curious as him

ike on the other wished you could hand him those earplugs( ༎ຶŎ༎ຶ )

"oh guys come on, it's probably as low as you guys," the novelist rolls his eyes, taking a sip of his probably alcholic drink to forget he ever was in this conversation

you hum, grabbing your phone, "actually i've never taken it before."

vox adds, "well like what ike said. it's probably super low like us two. ain't that right mysta?"

he chortles as he went to pat your back, "come join the sussy trio of nijimilo, y/n."

"i'd be so honored, mysta," you wiggle your eyebrows. "gimme a sec okay."

but chat was pretty much already vouching that you'd have super low test scores, judging by how many suggestive innuendos you make on stream that rivals even that of mysta--

sigh, mysta says he's never been prouder of you(つω`｡)

actually not just chat, everyone in the room

but as they chatter away through the night, your own commentary lessened quite a bit as you read through the test even deeper

mysta who happened to be quiet in the conversation and sitting next to you grew genuinely worried and super curious

"hm? something up, y/n?" he asks you, peering over your shoulder

you hide the screen away from him, "h-hey mysta! i'm fine."

"ah? what's this?" he starts to wiggle his eyebrow, smirking in a way that you know he's up to no good. "why are you shy? you already know it's pretty bad though, right?"

"u-um, yeah, i did," you take a deep breath and just decided to suck it in. rip it off like a band aid. you show the detective your screen, "except the results says otherwise."

he looks over and his eyes are as wide as the universe

his first initial response?

"HOLY SHIT Y/N?????? IS THIS SOME KIND OF WEIRD SCIENCE I DIDN'T KNOW OF????? YOU'VE GOTTA BE FUCKING WITH ME RIGHT NOW"

this of course had to catch the attention of everyone else as they stopped their conversation

"mysta!" you scold, hiding your phone

"hey, hey, what's up?" nina asks you two

you just shrink while mysta remains scatterbrained

"got the test score back? how bad is it?" vox smirks leaning over to grab your phone but you quickly hide it in your pocket. the demon frowns, "um, you good? embarrassed about your score is it?"

"bro that's not it, that's not it," mysta shakes his head and you honestly don't know what to do. "can i tell them? can i please tell them???"

seeing as there was no point in hiding it anymore, you let him.

"guys, chat, y/n's score is a 97," mysta announces, emphasizing every single syllable at the last phrase. and just like him, everyone is as bamboozled

he grins, leaning into the mic, "they're just an innocent kid."

"oh fuck off, mysta," you pout, crossing your arms

but he doesn't for a very good while (-`д´-)

if you thought him and the others (excluding ike) teasing you about your oddly high score during the collab was bad enough

mysta thought it was good to add to your misery even after you went home

he absolutely does not let it go and although he's just joking around, you sometimes rly regret telling him your score at all

taking the test at all

ah well what's done is done

"hey kiddo, close your eyes and ears for this bit."

"um, why? and stop calling me that."

"it's not kid friendly. adults only."

"MYSTA FUCKING RIAS I'M A FULLY GROWN ADULT--"

"shhh just trust me okay. now go close your eyes and ears."

"mysta i swear i will hunt you down and break your arms myself--"

again, what's done is done ┐(-。ー;)┌

Luca Kaneshiro 🦮🔆

to me luca can be sussy but bro come on from here on out, yall know that this is the seiso line of |_・)

compared to you, luca has absolutely nothing

he also just rly likes to believe that he can be unseiso but when talking to you, he knows only a fraction of the things you understand

voCaBulaRiEs if you will १ |˚–˚| ५

he doesn't necessarily scold you for being super sussy. if anything, he sorta appreciates it??? he says he's learning new things with you around

lucubs are genuinely worried for luca's wellbeing whenever you collab with him

don't want our precious golden retriever of a mafia boss to be tainted by your unholyness (?), demon

but luca likes having you around on collabs and discord calls when time permits bcs he thinks you're good company^^

it was in one of these said collabs that the topic of rice purity tests came up

"thank you for the superchat! boss, what's your rice purity test score?" luca reads aloud one of the messages. he chuckles, "for chat who doesn't know, the rest of luxiem actually took the test too. mine is 93 i think?"

you sip at your drink, nodding, "yep, it was 93."

"what's yours, y/n? now that i think about it, we've never really known. did you take one?"

"huh, i actually haven't! i haven't gone around to take it yet. hold on," you place your drink back down and quickly type away rice purity test onto the google search engine. "all these are the same right?"

"yeah, doesn't really matter which one. they're the same everywhere."

"alright gimme a couple minutes, luca."

"i gotchu," the mafia boss grins, turning to his chat to more of the superchats he had missed. while waiting, he stumbled across one that made him laugh, "y/n, someone said on superchat that they bet you're gonna get super low. as low as mysta or vox."

you snort, "probably true. what do you think, luca?"

"would i be a bad friend if i said yes?? i mean, i've watched your streams, y/n," he laughs. "they're as bad as vox or mysta when they're being super unseiso."

but then luca doesn't get a response from you

for a second he goes to check on discord to see if he's misclicked on anything or if you accidentally muted yourself but everything seemed alright

"uh, y/n? you there?"

"hm? yeah, i'm here," you do respond to him, but a lot... quieter? was it him or did you sound nervous?

"you okay? you sound a bit off," he tells you while frowning

you on the other hand can only look at the many boxes you've left unchecked in the list, surprising yourself

even luca thought you were pretty bad, what was this tom fuckery? ⊙︿⊙

"hey luca, are you sure all tests are the same?"

he raises an eyebrow, "supposedly yes. why? did something happen with your test? i can get you the same link i used."

"w-wait, no need. it's just um," you tap your fingers against the keyboard and you finally admit in a tiny voice, "mineisaninetyseven,luca."

"sorry what?"

"lucaaaaa," you whine, thinking he was just teasing you so you could say it again

but he interjects, genuinely not hearing what you said because of the low volume you spoke in. "no, no, wait. i didn't actually hear you. what was it??"

"ninetyseven."

"ninety seven????"

ah finally got it did he ( ╥ω╥ )

"wait how is that possible? not to sound offensive, but like??? you get what i mean right??"

it's more so a battle of both wonder and confusion in this stream, for you, luca and chat

even after, luca kept bugging you about how weird your result was

so yes, he's nice enough not to tease you about it (too bamboozled by the fact you're actually 4 points higher than him)

facts are though, you still know a lot more about the art of being unseiso than him despite the... contradicting truth of the test scores

he really doesn't mind it, just slightly confused.

for the way he treats you, it doesn't change as well bcs luca kaneshiro is nice like that uwu

Ike Eveland 🖋💙

yall know how this is gonna go down

he gets migraines when you are in a fairly unseiso mood (even worse if mysta and or vox is there. god the dirty pick up lines just don't stop)

ike feels like he should always bring a stash of his holy water every time he's gonna meet with you o.0

on a more serious note though, besides that, you're good company around him and as long as you're behaving accordingly during his streams, he's mostly okay with it

so.

b e h a v e

moving on (｡･･｡)

he was on a discord call with you and mysta actually, casually talking about your days and schedules for the rest of the week

though you and mysta resonated far too much on being unseiso together, ike had to admit this discord call was one of the more tamed scenarios so he can't really complain

trust ike, he's seen worse

"oh my god, you guys i'm gonna leave this call if you continue to talk about these things," the novelist groans jokingly, tapping on his desk while resting his head on his hand

you giggle, "it was mysta who started it!"

"huh?? did not! you insinuated it!"

"i insinuated nothing! you're the one having the perverted mind!" you argue back

ike can only sigh from behind the screen watching you two banter like you were siblings

he swore you guys were but refused to tell anyone

"no, you're the one perverted!" mysta retorts

you huff, "mysta, you literally have a purity test score lower than goddamn vox. you're absolutely perverted! ike, back me up."

"to be fair, y/n, you're probably super low. maybe even as bad as him," he admits

mysta says, "see? we're both as bad. wait, hold on, how much is your rice purity test score? i don't think you've ever told us."

"oh shit, yeah i haven't even taken it."

ike rolls his eyes, "i don't even know if i should encourage you to take it, y/n."

you laugh, typing away on the google search engine to look for the test anyway. "you'll be fine, ike. i know yours and mysta's. wouldn't it be nice to know mine?"

"um, i don't see the purpose of knowing that fact but sure, i guess?"

i can just hear him say all these things in my head you guys o(TヘTo)

"what's the real point of you taking a rice purity test anyway? i'm betting you're pretty low," mysta snickers

"just to get a more concrete number i guess? it's just for fun."

"all the more misery for me it seems," ike deadpans, sourcing laugh from you and mysta

"wanna bet how much they'll get, ike?" the detective asks him, ike hearing his grin behind his voice

"probably like a 50 or lower?" he guesses

and when you don't respond to any of the boys' commentary about you, ike calls you. it's only then you respond to what he says

"huh? what's up?"

ike frowns, "you good? you were quiet for a second, y/n."

"n-no, i'm fine. just taking the test."

"oh my god ike, imagine if their purity scores are actually pretty high. is that even possible??" mysta wonders, leaning back against his seat as he waited for you to finish

ike shrugs, "i think so. probably very rare though. but with y/n? i can't imagine that happening to be honest."

"ummmmmm so about that," you suddenly chime in, seemingly anxious. ike notices this and goes to ask you first

"yes?"

"i'moneofthoserarecases."

ike pauses, comically cleans his ears and asks you as though you'd just muted yourself, "sorry, you were saying?"

"ike i'm not kidding," you laugh nervously

"not kidding? about what? hold on, i'm behind. guys tell me what's going on here."

but you and ike ignore mysta as you two have a somewhat serious but also comedic conversation about your phenomenal test score

¯\(ツ)/¯

"then how much is it?"

"...ninetyseven."

"A NINETY WHAT?" ike exclaims, literally jumping out of his seat and denying what his ears had perceived for him. "A NINETY FUCKING SEVEN? y/n, you????? a ninety seven????"

"WAIT HUH THEY'RE A 97????"

then there's mysta who's only getting things right lol ●︿●

"I DONT KNOW U GUYS I SURPRISINGLY DON'T CHECK MUCH OF THESE THINGS???" you stare head on at the bold and very clear number before you, way higher than what you deserve for all the misery you've caused ike eveland

"i honestly don't know how to feel right now," said man confesses, a hollow in his chest as he lets the truth dawn on him

why? because you, the cause of his headaches for your unseiso jokes, is a few points above shu's. if you top even shu the pure, where the hell did he rank ☜(`o´)

whatever happens though, even if you scored 97 on that test, the fact that you still cause him misery because of your impurity proves that he should still bring his holy water with him

bless ike eveland ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭

Shu Yamino 🔮✨

he's a generally chill guy and can put up with your unseiso behavior so i personally recommend you shu yamino

just

don't take advantage of him okay

don't teach him weird shit (ง •̀_•́)ง

anyway

so in collabs and the like, shu will usually just laugh off whatever dirty pick up line (that he understands) or he doesn't actually get what you mean and your joke instantaneously becomes dry as hell

i personally recommend you shu yamino ┐(°‿°)┌

it was one of the yaminion's questions that came up in the superchat where they wanted to know about your rice purity test score, catching the curiosity of the rest of the chat and frankly, shu himself since he too never thought to ask

"huh, i actually never asked you either. you okay with telling us, y/n?" he asks like the gentleman he was

you frown, "i actually haven't taken the test. lemme go do it real quick and i'll come with the results. wait here shu and chat!"

as he waits for you, he makes himself busy by going through the superchats he missed, thanking and skimming them

he laughs when he reads one that says, "i bet y/n has it pretty low"

and it seems that chat was agreeing with the statement

at the mention of you, shu remembers that you've been awfully quiet as though you weren't there anymore

he calls out, "yo, y/n?"

"hm?" you hum, voice softer than before

shu begins to suspect something, guessing that it probably had something to do with the test you're taking. he chuckles, "you good? been quiet for a good while."

"o-oh, i'm fine. just peachy."

just peachy?

shu laughs even more, "just peachy? you don't really say that. you sure you okay? is it the test? did you finish?"

you groan, rubbing at your head when shu basically spoke your mind out loud. "okay fine yes i did"

"uh huh then?"

shu's obliviousness rly kills you sometimes, especially right now ;-;

"shu, my score is uh"

"your score?"

"yours plus 2"

well that was one way to put it

"mine plus 2? 95 plus 2? wait what?" it's only now that shu realizes why you were nervous

and he can't help but laugh at it

your face is red from the embarrassment as you bombard shu, "wh-why are you laughing, huh??"

"bro, your score is higher than me! it's super funny. cause you're the one usually coming up with the rly unseiso jokes," and he doesn't cease his laughter which further incriminates you

"shuuu stop laughing :<<"

"i'm sorry but it's so hilarious and weird??? i guess it is because the test is more about what you do than what you know but still," he grins. "besides, why are you so embarrassed? isn't this like a good thing or something?"

"it's you laughing at me is what makes me embarrassed dammit," you huff ＼(｀0´)／

and well as previously mentioned, shu is a super chill guy and usually doesn't hold onto jokes on one stream to the next

ofc unless if someone brings it up, but the worst shu yamino can do is rly to laugh at how ridiculously contradicting it was

Masterlist!

#nijisanji en #luxiem #luxiem x reader #vox akuma #mysta rias #luca kaneshiro #ike eveland #shu yamino #vox akuma x reader #mysta rias x reader #luca kaneshiro x reader #shu yamino x reader #akurylic #mystart #drawluca #ikenography #yaminoart #author chan’s delivery service ?

[writtengalaxies]

Can we have an Ai!caregiver paired with googleplier? Caregiver teaches/explains/helps googleplie with emotions while googleplier teaches him with some random facts. He doesnt really need to but he just wanna just cause and ai!caregiver is loving everything they know from him. It’s up to you if you want it platonic or romantic (˶ᐢᗜᐢ˶)

Oh, gosh. I do this too! Showing affection through factoids and infodumping is the neurodivergent love language. XD

When you were assigned to teach the Google IRL unit what emotions were, to truly test the capabilities (and in part, using the learning abilities of the android to program the Emotional Regulator Chip), you really weren't sure what to expect. You had been warned that previous units without the ERC were volatile, often needing copious amounts of distraction and aggressive use of primary objectives while a team secured them for a hard reset. You were warned that even with the basics of the ERC, there was still a solid 40% chance of something going wrong.

But, you were confident.

Your first few sessions were oddly quiet. You went over basic emotions, focusing on positive ones, almost like explaining what they were to a child. It felt silly, considering this was a walking search engine, but there was a notable curiosity in the way he questioned your words, and each session he seemed to have a better and better grasp on the complexities of them.

Which is why you were surprised that at the end of your sessions, he began telling you trivia.

"Avocados are considered a single-seed berry."

"Australia is wider than the moon by about 600 kilometers."

"A baby rabbit is referred to as a kit."

"Between the years of 1912 and 1948, music, painting, sculpture and architecture were all part of the Olympics."

You blinked, taking it all in stride until you held up your hand in the middle of the most recent one, where Google was explaining how humans are the only animals capable of feeling embarrassment, and that blushing is a unique phenomenon because of it.

"Google, I appreciate these facts, but...why? Why are you telling me about them?"

There was silence in the room for a long moment, as the android looked down at his hands. "Because, you have been teaching me. My research tells me that humans often require or expect a form of transactional repayment for work. I know it has not been easy to...educate a search engine, all things considered. I should be able to get an understanding from my resources. However..."

"It was missing the human element." You smiled softly, reaching out to take Google's hands in your own. His attention shifted upwards to meet your gaze, the almost silent hum of his internal electronics assisting the motion. "There's something different about seeing, hearing...experiencing the emotions. And that's what I'm here for. The best repayment for me, is to see those tiny little reactions, when something finally makes sense. You get a look when it makes sense. A little bit of triumph, and...a bit of understanding of what each emotion is. Joy, a bit of sorrow, all those things. Seeing you succeed is the best reward I could ever ask for."

And you knew that you had taught him. Because those microexpressions shifted over his face now, a subconscious story of surprise and of a soft happiness from your praise.

You still had much to teach him, and a long way to go, but you knew he would thrive with you by his side.

#my writing #askbox and you shall receive #google irl #markiplier google #markiplier tv

[kinmokusei-stars]

I've had this gal on the backburner for a while, but while I'm still on a lil future kick but irl chaos has stopped me from being able to wrap up my future KouYasha designs, and she's one of my favorite oc designs I've made, I figured I might as well reveal her now!

Meet Kurohyo! Inuyasha and Kouko's future daughter! Like. WAY in the future. Her design shown here is when she's about 17! ^^ She's about an inch or two shorter than her mom, those tall genes hit like a truck.

To gently nudge the elephant out of the room, yes! She is a panther demon. While I try my best to be as accurate to the show as I can, Kurohyo is my little treat, because I had such a vivid mental image of her when I first had her pop into my head that I couldn't bare to change it, LMAO- Whether there was some odd phenomenon with Kouko's pregnancy with her, or some recessive genes (Probably futher back on Kouko's side) that came to light with a vengance, somehow Kuro ended up a partial demon with panther traits. Though she does have the ears and tail, she's not as strong as most demons basically at all, and is more smarts than brute power.

Kurohyo is Kouko and Inuyasha's only child, born after a year or two of trying. They weren't too sure they'd be able to manage it until Kouko finally got pregnant with her, and there was essentially pure joy from the moment they realized. (Asides from the usual woes of pregnancy LMAO)

Kuro was born near midnight one night, when the moon was full in the sky, and while there was understandably shock when they managed to get a good look at her, they were honestly too happy she seemed extremely healthy to care.

But she's definitely her father's daughter, and got both Kouko's past playful nature, and her dad's attitude. She was an absolute adorable menace as a child, and it wasn't at ALL uncommon for one of her parents to have to take birds she chased down and caught away from her so she wouldn't eat them. Kouko only took her hair out from a bun after she hit 7, because she finally stopped being a hair puller. She was an extremely chaotic little kid, but after long enough, and her hitting double digits in age, she leveled out, and grew much more mellow, even if sass definitely remained.

Nowadays, (Aka, during the time of this design of her) she's a very skilled strategist, and though she's not powerful magically, she makes up for it in problem solving and brains. Though she looks a bit villainous, she's really just a massive stoic softy, and is extremely mindful of life around her. Does she still have that original fire though? Yes. Absolutely. She will square up and play fight with her mom or dad for fun, they're a very playful family. Lovingly brawling with her parents is one of the few times her near somber, graceful mask falls and she turns into a pure dork.

She's still a lil bit of a work in progress, so some of this info might be updated or adjusted in the future, but I just wanted to share her! ^^ Expect more on her in the future!

#my art #inuyasha oc #inuyasha fancharacter #inuyasha #my artwork #fan character #fan oc #original character #anime art #oc x canon #inuyasha fanfiction #inuyasha fankid

[olderthannetfic]

I'm in a weird limbo like "have I never had the desire to be in a relatioship or having sex with someone because I'm somewhere on the aroace spectrum, because I've never really had examples of healthy romantic relationships around me and I'm just too much of a romantic towant no-strings-attached sex, or because deep down I know I'm weird and unlovable? were the rare things I identified as crushes I never really wanted to act on for some reason on people I actually knew rather than just safely untouchable celebrities *real* crushes or just some kind of aesthetic attraction?" and I have been there for years tbh. I think I have a libido, because I have kinks and because every once in a while I feel the need to jerk off, but when I see other people talk about masturbation and especially sex as a *urgent* need that presents itself very regularly and can fuck you up if you ignore it, my instinctive response is disbelief, like "you mean that's not just a smut trope??" *Especially* when it comes to sex, because then I'm like "surely you don't need a partner and jerking off is just as good???" Then again, sometimes I think I may not even jerk off right, because I get wet but I'm pretty sure I only had a orgasm once and that's fine with me, really.

Despite all of that, I love romance (books, movies, hell even quote-collages on tumblr), and erotica, and kinky fic and fanart, especially if it's porn with feelings (which to me is really more like... all kinds of heightened feelings, including negative ones) but sometimes I also like "cold prickly" stuff (does anyone use that distinction anymore? Like, warm fuzzy/cold prickly). I can actually get very emotional over it all! I can definitely get aroused from the horny stuff, but usually most I get out of it is aesthetic/sensual/emotional pleasure. Every once in a blue moon I even watch porn, even if I prefer short clips/previews to longer stuff because I find that boring/the attempts at plot and dialogue make cringe. Sometimes I even think "oh, if I ever had the opportunity to try that irl, I think I'd like to take it" about kinks I've read about or watched.

And then, most of the fic I write is smut, romance, or a combination of the two. I love shipping as a thing to do myself and as phenomenon to read up on, and the same goes for kink in shipping. It's all so interesting and fascinating, romance and sex and kink and all the things that go with them in fiction, pro or fannish. My blog is full of stuff like that, so is my AO3, so are my conversations in fannish spaces.

It's just... I don't really fantasize about romance or sex in ways that involve myself. Or people I know. Or people who aren't clearly non-existing fictional characters. The only times when I do are when I consciously make an effort to to try and figure myself out I guess? Like, would I like this thing the way it's portrayed in fiction? Yes, I'm pretty sure I would. Would I enjoyed the more realistic stuff that would probably go with it irl? I'm not sure because the thought of it is already stressing me out but what if I'm just childish/weak-willed/a horrible person who's horrible at interacting with other people like a normal human being? Could I think of a type of person, man or woman or nb, I could try to make an effort for? Not really.

I guess what I'm trying to say is... brains are weird. People are weird. And anonymous or sem-anonymous online spaces are places where you can just, idk, take a bit of weight off it. Not constantly worry if your interests align with your identity (or, uh, I guess attempts at identity in my case) in the right way. Love romantic love and the ways people talk about it a weird amount even if that's not the way you feel about it in your own life, even.

(... leaving aside that having a set of hyperspecific tags for variations on the same subject, if I got what that anon was saying, doesn't really sound like a good way of organizing a blog to me, lol)

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FWIW, most descriptions of masturbation are very cis man oriented and narrow even considering that. Orgasm is not always the goal of masturbation if you're the kind of person who can hang out all afternoon doing it.

And fantasizing only about fictional characters and/or scenarios not involving oneself is pretty common. It can mean you're asexual, but I don't think it has to. I think it's just widely ignored by sexuality researchers, and only asexuals trying to self describe have elaborated on the subject much. It's a pet peeve of mine that I've sent more than one rude letter to sexuality researchers about over the years.

I think people can organize their blogs how they like, but people going "Unf. I want them so bad!" and meaning it ~aesthetically~ instead of hornily is a pet peeve of mine in the same way that those dumbass people using the "submissive and breedable" meme and claiming it's not a horny thing are. So I'll avoid blogs I notice doing that.

(LOL. As if I'd notice. We all know I only read my activity page and not my dashboard. But still.)

[askanallo]

My friend sometimes says things like "He's my celebrity crush, I love him so much, I want to marry him and have his babies!" and I don't quite know what to think/do. If you wouldn't mind helping me out, my questions are: 1) what is this "celebrity crush" phenomenon wtf is happening in my friend's brain, and 2) what is the socially appropriate/expected response? Thank you so much! - a bewildered aroace

1- Your friend is just attracted to that guy and thinks he's hot. That's probably all there is to it. If they're a young teen, chances are they'll grow out of the 'gushing about random famous guy #41' thing soon, if they're not, they're exaggerating for comedic effect. I think that this type of 'comedy' (it's not very funny) is pretty popular on Twitter, so maybe they're getting it from there.

Celebrity crushes aren't very serious and are mostly based on physical appearance, or maybe how skilled they are at whatever makes them famous. (Most people haven't even seen their celeb crush irl, there really isn't space for deep feelings there.) Adults can deal with these normally and not bring them up all the time, but with teens it can grow really serious - like a parasocial relationship. This isn't new... teens have "fallen in love" with celebrities they knew nothing about for decades and actually wanted to date/marry them and angsted about how they were so out of reach. It's just a part of growing up that some people go through.

I don't know, celebrities tend to bring out the annoying sides of people and I kind of wish everyone stopped caring about them so much. It's especially annoying when people try to start conversations about them.

2- Err, I don't know. The last time someone I knew acted like this, she was 12-13 and it was about Justin Bieber, so I made (light-hearted) fun of her because I was 12-13 too, but edgy. I don't talk to kids in that age range anymore, so I'm not sure how I'd respond. Maybe just move on and switch topics without commenting on it, it doesn't really seem like the type of thing you have to respond to. Or maybe you could say "eh, he's not my type", or if your friend knows you're aroace, "what am I meant to respond to that, you know I'm aroace" and then move on.

#relationship #attraction

[an-awkward-tangerine]

Hey hey! Eight and nine

So 8. How do you feel about the fat acceptance movement (the body positivity movement) ? Why do you think it’s mostly women in that movement ?

I really don't know a lot about that movement tbh. I'm kinda fat and I hated my body for that during my teen years, tried to eat less and suffered from very bad pain (that is now better but I still have to figure some things out.) I really didn't buy into body positivity more than a mere "wow that's cool, I like that". Body neutrality really got to me tho, that's what I'm practicing nowadays.

So not knowing the politics behind body positivity, I think in the concept it's still telling women to focus on their appearance and what they think of themselves instead of like... what their body can DO, their health, WHY they think badly of their body in the first place. I think it's a surface movement, it doesn't fix anything. It's just a basic reaction to a complex problem.

And 9. How do you feel about calling transgenders by their preferred name and pronouns ? Do you distinguish between MTFs and FTMs? Do you distinguish between ordinary people and criminals / sex offenders ?

From an activist standpoint I use language to communicate, so the more accurate the better. I call every male "he" regardless of gender identity, and same for females. Especially when I write article about trans ideology, I try to call MTFs "trans identified males", all spelled out, so people really get who I'm talking about, what this phenomenon IS behind the confusing language they use.

For names it's different because I don't think names are that important to begin with and since I want to be clear, using the name most people know is the best option for me. Like when I talked about Sophie Label being a pedo, I kept calling him Sophie because I don't know his birthname, everyone knows this name, he call himself like this in his posts so it's not confusing, etc. I also don't think names carry that much sense of gender/sex and believe if you want to change name then sure. It's not the same issue.

In person I use preferred pronouns because 1. I don't have the guts not to and 2. It would be disruptive and useless in the contexts I am in right know (I only know like two trans ppl IRL, none are my friends and I don't see them often).

I think that I would have less tolerance for a sex offender IRL. Like if I was to talk about pronouns and the subject came into the conversation, I'd probably say that for me it's a no-no. Using preferred pronouns for abusers is just regressive, it hides the nature of the abuse (male violence most of the time), and it's just so fucking wrong. Who cares more about a rapists feelings than the feelings of his victim ffs ?

That's it for pronouns ! Thanks for asking !

#radfem #radfem safe #radfem ask game #radfems please touch #terf safe

[mliter]

Pokemon Go.

This was one of the first big titles we saw when Nintendo finally made it's move on the mobile market. Pokemon has been dropping mobile games before this, but never one of this scale.

The premise of Pokemon Go is that you can go outside to catch Pokemon! Walk around, skateboard around, bike around, but don't drie around. Going outside your house is encouraged. There weren't that many features on launch, but it was really fun. This is an AR game. You can see pokemon run around your camera's vision, doing whatever. Given how they're able to show up whenever, wherever, it made for some funny screenshots back then.

Yusuke Kozaki and his designs are back surprisingly. I never expected him to be here for a pokemon game. I noticed immediately. His character design is A level. All of the characters look like pokemon characters, but still have that urban feel that's closer to our reality. It's a perfect mesh. He's also been creating vibrant pieces of art for the game and it's events.

The definite best part of this game was it's initial release. If you were there, you knew about it. Didn't matter you age, where you were, or what your interests were. You knew about Pokemon Go when it launched.

The summer of 2016. It's recognized as one of the best years to be a teenager by my age group, and the year where we made our fondest memories. I remember having nothing but fun at this time. Pokemon Go was widely considered to be one of the things that made 2016 so magical. The final shot for the trailer for the game featured a giant crowd of people working to defeat a mewtwo raid boss. Back then, It was common to see mobs of people on the same app, working together to catch a pokemon IRL. It's so rare to see those exaggerated trailers be so close to the truth. I remember encountering one with my mom at a mall. I think it was a squirtle everyone was trying to get?

Regardless, it happened all over the world, local businesses, the media, and everything in between had their eyes on pokemon go. It was a worldwide. phenomenon. Borderline mania. You would see a crowd of people standing/moving around, yell what's going on and they'd tell you what pokemon's popped up. This game is considered the closest thing humanity had to world peace. The world seemed as colorful, fun, and full of wonder for me back then as it did in the Pokemon world.

(these photos are from Hong Kong, New York, and Vancouver respectively.)

Looking back, this was the life. It was so easy to walk up to people and talk to them about this game. I learned so many new names, and made friends myself. The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has driven everyone farther apart. It's effects i feel are permanent. This era is one i look back on and wish i spent more time to enjoy. I'm surely not alone in that aspect.

Pokemon Go still runs to this day. They're adding pokemon from the more recent regions, and there's a story going on here. I haven't really been paying attention. I don't really play this game that much anymore, like the rest of the world. But that doesn't mean it's not being played today. Niantic has found success in this title. They've done an amazing job. They brought us an unforgettable experience. They brought the world together once!

#game log #pokemon #national anthem of 2016

[delusion-of-negation]

Terfs strawmanning ability is legendary. If they made that Swedish straw-goat, it would never burn down because they'd just keep building it. Also. I'm pretty sure that women are also the gender who're the most into non-con, and other non-con aligned sex themes in fiction. And IRL women are the ones who're most into consensual hard intercourse. Yes men can also enjoy and like consensual hard intercourse, but when it comes to non-con fantasies in the IRL bedroom, women were the clear winner.

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anon, I'm gonna have to respond to this in parts because I can see exactly what terfs are going to pick at with what you said. sorry.

"Terfs strawmanning ability is legendary. If they made that Swedish straw-goat, it would never burn down because they'd just keep building it."

big agree. nothing to add here.

"Also. I'm pretty sure that women are also the gender who're the most into non-con, and other non-con aligned sex themes in fiction."

this is the part they're gonna start picking at with a few main and very predictable points. firstly, deny and/or blame patriarchy for women having non-con fantasies. not much to add there but a no. saying everything you don't like either does not exist or is just the fault of social conditioning, when there's loads of reasons people have the sexual fantasies that they have outside of social stuff, is really just an oversimplification that isn't supported by evidence for the sake of slotting it into your narrative (like they did on the post with any woman who'd hatefucked, they said it was a lie, they said no women had done it, etc), simply gesturing at the existence of patriarchy and sexism alone, or denying things even happen, is not a fair or nuanced attempted rebuttal. of course sexism and patriarchy have a hand in almost any fucking thing, we live in a dynamic world where everything interacts with everything, but to stop there and dismiss things that aren't the sole result of that by any stretch of the imagination (in fact, given many of the things I'll get to later that cause these fantasies, sexism and patriarchy likely aren't even close to the primary cause), or worse to deny a well known phenomenon even happens, is just completely toxic and destructive to the ability to discuss this.

secondly they'll say something else they said on the post, that this isn't the same as doing it irl, which is true, a fantasy isn't the same as acting on something, but on the post the op wasn't about doing hatefucking, it was about being into the concept. they used the difference disingenuously where it wasn't the point, where it wasn't what we were talking about, and I think it'd be fair to say that criticism of their use of it would also apply to this, since again here we're talking about being into concepts and not about actually doing stuff. but I can go deeper here since we do have more stats on this than on hatefucking. I'll save talking about the fantasy itself for my third point, but regarding irl, my country has gendered rape laws, including when the victim is under 13, and there are very very few ways for cis women to even be prosecuted for rape (they still manage to from time to time, basically via aiding and abetting laws where if you hold somebody down for a man to rape them, you can sometimes be prosecuted for the same crime that you helped him commit), but without a penis you're simply incapable of solely being charged for rape, unless your lawyer is so bad at his job that he can't even go "but your honour, it says penis there". assault by penetration is easier for a woman to commit than rape, but it's still mostly for things men can do. it isn't until you get down to the third most serious that women can commit it with the ways cis women will typically assault cis men, the much less seriously taken sexual assault crime, which more easily covers forced to penetrate. but there's also the fact that by this point most men don't actually know the law - they know the rape laws, but to know that they're actually able to charge a woman for sexual assault isn't particularly common by comparison, law isn't taught as a school class here until college, where it's entirely optional and relatively rare to study. add in the fact that social factors (like patriarchy) cause men to be on average less likely to report, and cause cops and shit to laugh at men who try (much moreso than they'll laugh at women, which is not zero, stop living in lala land if you think it's zero, cops treat both men and women like dirt, they're cops), and the male reporting stats keep dropping. I could go on. when you have less biased stat taking, and include forced to penetrate, the numbers still aren't 50/50 and I'd never claim they were (again, like on the post, terfs will equate me having any nuance with me saying it's 50/50 and entirely equal in every way, I am not saying that and I wasn't saying that on the post), there's reasons for the various differences (power, patriarchy, social education on what it even means to rape someone, etc), but it's also not the massively different number that you get from biased stats and biased laws, and the same is true of domestic violence, the numbers are orders of magnitude closer than people think to each other. the fact of the matter is that women do it irl a tonne more than these kinds of people think, it's hard to get perfect stats, and it's exhausting to have to keep reminding people who cite my country's criminal stats that "hey, it's actually incredibly scathing that the number of cis women who do this is not zero, considering the hoops you have to actively jump through to get charged with this when you don't have the organ that the law literally requires you to have". I guess the tl;dr here is that women do rape irl, no it's not 0.05% of rapes or whatever, it's not rare, but no it's not 50/50 either, and why does nobody have nuance on this really serious topic that requires a metric fucktonne of nuance? they're like 60/40 or 70/30 from what I've seen of better estimates, but numbers are hard to gather for the aforementioned reasons, so it's difficult to know for sure. with a crime where reporting is this messy and with the issues with various self-report studies, I'm not planting any flags.

thirdly is probably the strongest point they'd make, by virtue of it being the only one of the three that's genuinely applicable, and it's that the non-con fantasies that women have are about being the victim. it's still a bad point, and I'll get into why, but at least they're on the topic that we're talking about now - being into the concept specifically. anyway, it's not true that they're always about being the victim, no - they usually, as you can see from both stats and general trends in the erotic fiction women write for women (fanfiction and professional alike), do fantasise about being the victim, but that's not 100% by any stretch of the imagination. women also often fantasise about being the rapist plenty of the time. and, as far as I'm aware, the same is true of (again, not saying the numbers are identical, never said that) men - yes, men also tend to fantasise about being the victim, from what I remember of the stats. non-con fantasies fall into a multitude of categories and happen for a multitude of reasons, with only a handful of those reasons being as simple as or anywhere close to "the lack of consent is hot alone", much more often they're, for example, a vehicle to explore desires without guilt - you fantasise that big John from the gym rapes you, because you're not ready to admit to yourself yet that you're bi, you don't wanna be gay, you're a big manly man, so your brain goes "fine, fuckface, what if I made it rape, and now you're not accountable for what big John did in the fantasy because you didn't ask for it", and like video game devs coding an invisible npc with a visible train head because the vehicle code wouldn't work for a train, somehow that shit works for our brains (no, our brains don't react to it or to non-con in fiction like it's actual rape, and as a survivor, fuck the idiots I've seen make that absolutely incorrect claim). this is why everybody, every demographic, is more likely to fantasise about being the victim in non-con than the perpetrator, and why it's not simply the result of patriarchal conditioning to always bow to the whims of the man, it's also the end result a fucktonne of hacks our brain does to get around funky shit and have a sexual fantasy. even the most feminist feminist to ever feminist may have found their brain unexpectedly using this hack to get around something, and even the most manly man to ever man has had the same. and that's just a handful of the many reasons for non-con or dub-con fantasies to happen. there are pages upon pages upon pages of people trying to figure out reasons people have these fantasies, and each time you think you've almost cracked it, you pull on a thread and a whole warehouse full of tangled yarn falls from the ceiling. terfs dunning-kruger themselves into thinking they understand topics like this, and that all of it is the result of one single thing (either patriarchy or the transes, depending on whether they're on their period or not), but ultimately anybody studying this topic knows that the human mind is an endless well of weirdness and stupidity. the tl;dr of this section is that it's not always about being the victim for women, pretty often you find women who fantasise about being the perp, men also will fantasise about being the victim more, and there are some really complicated and nuanced and interesting reasons that these fantasies happen that aren't unique to women or sexism. terfs oversimplify this because it suits their narrative and because they mistake their ignorance for the topic itself being simple and having a simple answer, but that isn't the reality.

so, whether women view more non-con in fiction than men, in my experience and from stuff I've seen, yes, but there's more to that - men tend to watch acted porn and women tend to read erotica (nowhere near 100% at all, in fact these trends are actually an awful lot less cut and dry than people think, both do both and both do more, and amounts vary wildly with different demographics and individuals), and acted porn just tends to have less complex power dynamic plots and rape by comparison to written (again, less, by comparison, not that it never does it, and stats are hard to get on this, especially ones from unbiased sources that didn't intentionally seek out the most extreme shit they could find to paint porn as evil, you literally have to go to pornhub and see that their most popular searches are step-sibling and step-mom and such, and even then a search isn't watchtime, it isn't who was looking out of curiosity and who was looking to jack it, it isn't what's more appealing to studios to make, it isn't information, but most people who've seen acted porn can tell you that the studio stuff tends to be simple stuff and not violent rape, and anybody who's been to an erotica section of a book store or searched one direction on wattpad can tell you that those things jump into complex dub-con plots so readily that you feel like it's actually harder to find fluff). this is simply because it's just easier in written work to address the complexity and to explore the inner reasons and desires that cause the non-con fantasy (those discussed earlier), acted porn just doesn't have as much ability to get into the character's head and explore it, so it often uses simpler kinks that make it easier to appease the viewer - incest, women in positions of power over you, men in positions of power over women, cheating, etc. if you can knock out the story in five minutes without an inner monologue, and have most of the five minutes be sex, then that's the kink acted porn is more eager to do for pretty obvious reasons, while written porn has more freedom there to explore that stuff, more time, more detail, more inner thoughts, and so on. honestly, I find it hard to say that the medium isn't possibly one of the biggest contributing factors here, because unless your kink is just outright the much less common "no consent is hot, violence is hot, I wanna hear you say no" with no deeper aspects to it (and it seems like generally men who like specifically that will tend to fantasise about being the perp, which is fine, have whatever kinks you have, it's just thoughts at the end of the day), acted porn is going to struggle with how to really do that topic. that's probably why, in the one reblog of the post, terfs were saying that fanfiction is all lovey and romantic, while men's fantasies and porn is gross and sexual, it's just that written porn takes time to explore themes beneath the non-con and acted porn simply doesn't have the time to do that sort of thing - at that point, you'd be watching a movie that just so happened to have real sex scenes, and most people would rather just jack it to a movie when that's what they want (have you not seen all those sex movies out there? fifty shades, or the kidnapping one? people do wanna watch that stuff, but acted porn just isn't the medium). tl;dr because again this got long, I don't want to make any firm statements on what men or women really want, especially essentialist ones (which I don't think you were doing), because ultimately I don't subscribe to the terf view that the differences between men and women are massively pronounced, and there are just too many factors that contribute to why these trends we don't have amazing stats on happen (look how much I wrote and I've barely touched on two).

so yeah, that's why I think your point stands, but they won't think so, they'll (as we saw from the post) happily misrepresent, misread, and ignore anything you say to repeat the same points. we're not going to get through to them on this, they're just going to keep writing off all women as precious pure angels who never think or do icky things, and all men as monsters who think and do the worst version of anything bad all the time. it's impossible to break through that barrier unless your essentialism gets shattered by real world experience.

"And IRL women are the ones who're most into consensual hard intercourse. Yes men can also enjoy and like consensual hard intercourse, but when it comes to non-con fantasies in the IRL bedroom, women were the clear winner."

again, I'm gonna have to cite fifty shades, and the frenzy amongst women to get fifty shades themed sex toys and go to town. I have absolutely no reason to doubt it's very common, I've seen plenty of studies that indicate such. but I think terfs would try variations of those same three arguments to attack this point too. they're never going to understand this, unfortunately. they struggle with essentialism and with hatred of men, and those barriers will have pretty detrimental impact on any attempt to get them to view this topic through an unbiased lense. I mean, I can't even explain to them the shit they fuck up re ovid, actual historic facts, because their version of events suits their narrative better. it's pretty tiresome, but I hope I've broken down here at least pretty well how these things are complicated, nuanced topics, and any analysis that begins and ends with "men bad" is going to be utterly useless.

I gotta be real with you, once I got into an argument with terfs who believed that a dying fifteen year-old, who would die before he was going to turn sixteen, and did, had raped an adult woman (which is possible, I'm not one of those idiots who thinks teens can't rape, they're actually far more commonly rapists than people think, although mostly of peers and people less powerful or younger, like many rapists or abusers), but the reason they gave for believing him to be the rapist was that this adult woman agreed to sleep with this fifteen year-old dying boy in exchange for money. now, I am well aware that this is out there enough to be a fucking wild hypothetical you'd use to argue that sometimes you can justify fucking a teen, and I am not here to debate ethics of scenarios this rare and frankly useless for real world application outside of this one time, but to say that the simple exchange of money is more rapey than an adult woman willingly sleeping with a minor, and to go on to say the kinds of things terfs said about that now dead boy, that they hoped he suffered and died slowly, that pissed me off. no, she agreed to sleep with a minor, she could have said no, and there isn't enough swaying power in a handful of cash to outweigh that, it's not a gun to your head. and that day, years ago, was the moment that I realised arguments as nuanced as those above are useless with terfs. there have only been a handful of times, in my years of debating terfs, that I've reached them and changed their minds, and it's not on topics like this that you manage that, it's when you meet one that by the grace of god is willing to move away from the emotional scenario at hand and go down to foundational beliefs with you, and talk about those honestly and openly, and get into the philosophy mud and not the scenario that they're emotionally reacting to. that is to say that when I debate terfs, when I say what I say here, I know that I'm preaching to the choir and not shaking up any terf's worldview. because these are people who will use literally anything in a scenario to demonise the man, even when the man is a literal dead minor.

[pixyys]

Thank you for the hugs, I really appreciate them. And it's good to see you finally taking care of yourself. Don't worry about me, I'm capable of taking care of myself. Afterall, I'm not the leader of the Flags for nothing.

And I only feel sorry for Silver. Your pickup lines give me the impression of an out-of-tune piano lmao /j but I'm pretty sure that Silver could teach you a couple of good ones. You might have to hurry though, because Lippmann's pickup lines are getting good.

'Too bad?' Now I'm curious at what's going on in that head of yours. The fact that it's your little secret makes it all the more... interesting. I am aware of the fact of how close you are with her though, and she does brighten the day with her smiles and laughs. I look forward to the movie tomorrow.

I currently am learning Fur Elise. Even though it's a pretty popular piece, it still sounds lovely, especially when Silver plays it. The melody is sweetly written, and if one squints hard enough, you could tell what Beethoven was saying... but now I'm getting too poetic. Silver says that she will play a duet with me someday, when I have the adequate skills. One day, I'll perform a piece for you and only you, my dear sister.

And yes, please be careful around piano wires. Earlier on today Silver was fixing her piano and tuning it (please don't do this irl) when another piano string snapped and stabbed her through the finger. She managed to keep calm and remove it, but it still left a rather nasty wound. I helped her clean it and bandage it, and she seemed a bit sad. How do you normally cheer her up?

I'll see you at the movie tomorrow,

-🎹

P.S. I told Silver one of my best pickup lines that Lippmann gave me. It was too dark to see her face, but I swear I saw a tinge of red. She didn't stutter when she threw another pickup line back at me, but my heart was beating quite rapidly... I should ask Doc for some advice on this phenomena.

tl;dr: so sorry for the delayed reply! i hope i can make it for our movie night^^

heyaa big bro! i'm very, very sorry to keep your letter sitting there unopened. let's just say that little nap took longer than i thought and i passed out lmaoo/j though i'm glad to hear! i really wish i can take care of myself well like you do haha

OH NOOO, did silver tell you my pickup lines? ahh well, at least now i know i have to start changing my strategies. you're right, silver has some good lines in her pocket. i just hope i'll make it by the time i meet lippmann tonight-

heh, well, "too bad" indeed. i'll leave it to you to figure out everything. as you said, it'll be more.. interesting :) and just a passing thought, silver should know this better, but i read somewhere that beethoven might have had his beloved in mind when composing that particular piece. ahh how romantic. now i'm imagining you performing it for your duet. again, just a passing thought. please don't think too much about my musings. and of course! thank you! i'll be waiting patiently until that day comes.

oh dear, that tuning accident sounds horrible. thank you for giving her a hand. i trust that you're the best help she can get at that moment, since you should know how.. terrible it is to be injured by wires, out of all things. and she looks upset you said? oh no, that's no-can-do, i'll see what i can do when we see each other tonight. but brother, you know how terrible i am at comforting people. maybe try giving her a hug? or do you want me to share some of my jokes and pickup lines? lmao you bet i'll whip out those internet corny jokes that make everyone cringe so hard hahshs

i'll see you and everyone tonight! now that you said it, i'm kind of nervous to meet lippmann..

p.s. ooh i see you really went for it👀 hm, well, i guess you can try asking doc for some advice. i have a feeling this is the kind of phenomenon that only you can figure out. but still, ask away anyway. tell doc i said hi!

#[bungou stray dogs] #[mail] #[rp with silver] #please excuse my grammatical mistakes lmao

[hislittleraincloud]

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...Yes, I realize I'm late to ranting about this (I've been BUSY),

but fucking no.

Kinda funny that the crit for this is a lot similar to that of MG..."it could have been, but..."

They better not be touching my Misery, even if it's a "loose remake". The Weeknd already ruined his acting cred with the cringe-inducing The Idol. His ego is so...huge yet there's nothing but hot air there, and those stroking it (Trey Edward Shults) needs to take a second look at that crap show with his bad acting.

Misery's another pop culture thing that I've been devoted to for over 30 years. I have the book in several iterations (French 🇫🇷🥖🫠 is my favorite) and I keep finding Misery VHS tapes around the area where I live (it's just yet another weird phenomenon that I can't explain). I have three, floating somewhere around this garbage dump of an apartment, even though I don't even have a VCR.

My baby dog is named after a character in the newish, successful prequel to Misery, the second season of Castle Rock. The backstory on Annie was phenomenal, and Lizzy Caplan was robbed of all the awards for her portrayal of Annie. Fucking ROBBED.

(Also, whoever made this decision here was a fucking genius...bringing to mind the final shot of the original Psycho movie was brilllllllliant.)

So Misery has a very close place in my heart (not to fucking mention that it came out around the time I had my own goddamn stalker...that is part of the attempted murder thing I've yet to post). It was the last movie my father took me too, as well (he's still alive...but like Cairo, I have very selfish parents).

Do I have faith that our girl Ortega can do it? Of fucking course I do. She plays Crazy pretty well. But it would be trusting the material to a child (ha ha) who, from the looks of past cringey work, is just driving another (mid) vehicle for Ortega to get hurt in the crash. Too many people LOVE Misery, and Annie Wilkes is beloved. She's a most iconic villainess, and just about anyone who plays her gets accolades (Laurie Metcalf in particular was fkn great in the stage play). I don't see Ortega dropping the ball on any iteration of Annie Wilkes, but I see people looking at the Weeknd after The Idol and laughing (as well they should).

Plus, there's this factor:

Who is Ortega's agent? Isn't she getting fucking sick of re-doing everything from 30+ years ago? What's fucking next, a remake of Gremlins with her as Gizmo?

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...Actually, I'd pay to see that. I WOULD PAY.

But seriously, she wanted to become a scream queen of sorts and now she's fucking stuck doing the same shit other people did before her, and within the memories of people who were alive when the originals came out. Maybe if 50 years had passed between everything, sure. Maybe she should try remaking more stuff from the 60s and 70s. But then again, this is happening with Burton (and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, which I still kinda feel is perfect for the barely 5' foot tall Ortega 🤣) and I still feel it's just doing the same thing over and over and over again when there are literally thousands of original scripts out there that aren't getting a second look. There's also thousands upon thousands of books that haven't been adapted.

Or, if she really wants to remake something so badly, something that would be completely controversial: Anne Desclos's The Story of O. A new take on it, one that will confuse the Purity Culturalists just as it pissed off feminists in the 1970s before Desclos, a woman, was revealed to have written it in the 90s. Much like it is today, people get pissed off when female characters are written by women as anything less than 'more' (perception-wise, ofc) than the men around them/young women can never be written as willingly submissive or horribly deranged. Can't write Cairo to be the crazy stalker Adrian Forrester was. Can't write anything where a woman willingly throws herself at/or is submissive to a man (because that never happens IRL, right 💀).

The problem is, people love Crazy/unhinged. We fucking love. It. WHEN IT IS DONE WELL. We need substance behind it, especially if it's a new take on a beloved, completely and utterly unhinged character like Annie Wilkes.

Jesus Christ, can't I just sleep for the next 20 years and skip all of this crap?

#remakes #reboots #the weeknd kinda sucks brah #misery #potential loose remake of misery #annie wilkes #stephen king #lizzy caplan #kathy bates #jenna ortega #the weeknd #enough of the remakes #enough reboots #ugh #do not rope me in again jenna #my brain only has two hemispheres #gremlins #she could fit into the fur suit well too #💩💩💩💩💩 #i should make an annie wilkesbot lmaooooooo #Youtube

[zamjd]

Me ranting about Sun halos/SunDogs:

I SWEAR I CANT- IM GOING FERALL AAAAAAA I CNAT BELIEVE JEJNAJAKKSHF

PLS BELIEVE ME BCS I ACTUALLY SAW ONE I DON'T HAVE PROOF BCS WHEN I WENT BACK HOME THE SUN WAS BEHIND MY STUPID HOUSE AND I CNAT LIKE GO AROUND OR SMTH AND IF I WERE TO GO FIND AN AREA TO TAKE A PHOTO I WOULD LITTERALLY HAVE TO BE METERS AWAY FROM MY HOUSEEEE

I DO HAVE A SCRIBBLE OF WHAT I SAW FOMR SCHOOL DOE

(Did some research- IT WAS AN ACTUAL SUN DOG BBY LETS GOOO)

(Small rainbow called circumhorizontal arc or fire rainbow which also is a part of the family of halo phenomenon :)))

OKAY SO SOME CONTEXT BELOW IF YOU WANNA READ-

So around like, 3:15 ish, yknow newly dismissed I was omw to the CR I saw some slanting looking clouds as well as some long thin ones (I think the thin ones are like stratocumulus and the slanting ones are cumulus but not sure didnt study much ;-;(with the sun btw/same direction w/ sun)(also the slanting clouds are a sign of wind shear(which is the change in wind speed and/or direction with increasing altitude in the earth's atmosphere(in other words the wind is faster than regular and there might be a storm soon D:)) I newly searched C:))

Image scribble

and uh, yeah I thought they were cool and with 0 rizz I tried to flirt and thought "they look pretty I should see them more up close" the CR was on the right wing and the clouds were in the left wing of the building, so I walked back the the very end of the corridor. Admiring them for around uh, 20 mins.

And then I noticed a very faint iridescent curve somewhere at the bottom right of the sun. At first I was tripping bcs my eyes are like having a weird filter bcs of looking at the sky for a long time and I was like double checking and going semi feral, I checked if it curved fully into a circle (not really like, the bottom right of the halo I cannot see)

then a saw a small rainbow/iridescent curve around the halo and I became even more excited and like checked it like 20 times as well as blinking if my eyes were playing some sort of tomfoolery or some bull shit and I started to cry (I am not kidding this was so emotional for me idk why) And I wrote it down incase I might forget and that's when I realize "Oh shit is that another radio tower in the distance right under the sun" LIKE WHAT IS WITH THESE RADIO TOWERS??? FIRST IN MY DREAM AND NOW IRL?????????? WHAT

Anyways I wanted to pic it but like the house when I went home blah blah blah >:CC

BUT LIKE JM SO HAPPY I SAW ANOTHER ONE

yes another one here's my proof for my first one :)

It was also a regular sun halo but I'm happy I got this one >:) (got this before 11pm)

I wanna see more phenomenal like these- like a moon halo, a fogbow, or a fiery iridescent cloud(s) and much much more :D

#rant post #sun halo #sun dog #Fire rainbow #wind shear #atmospheric phenomena #I dont wanna forget this

[gerdarntz]

Tiktok is so different from every other social media ive interacted with. For a while every like 10th video was a random person following the same script where they would say something like "oh my god why did nobody tell me that theres a filter that shows what ______ you are!!!" Like a buzzfeed quiz thing. But not really because it was just like a roulette wheel above your head that randomly chose a, I dont know, breakfast sandwich or cartoon character. I ended up clicking "do not recommend videos like this" every time I saw one but it did nothing, they were basically unlisted ads. Their purpose is pretty clear to me too, at the bottom of any video that uses a filter theres a button that will open up the camera with that filter. So I'm guessing they saw that these bait-y videos made video interaction go way up and pushed them haaaard in the algorithm. What I was more confused about was the "irl AI stream" girl and the copycats. She might have been doing something original, I dont really care. But tiktok saw that not only was this getting their app and its features on the news, people were actively engaging in the "gifting" feature. A week later yet again there was a shitton of videos saying the same script, something like "youre telling me the AI stream girl made HOW much money?!? Im doing that now!" And they would be doing the whole act on live for I dont know how long. But again it was weird phenomenon where I cant be sure if either:

Video creators were attempting to get the jump on a new trend and just copied what another person did, which was then pushed to my feed multiple times because they were popular OR

tiktok the company reached out to individuals and said "shill these features and we'll pump your viewcount up" OR if that was more just implied? It could be anything in the middle. I say all this because it feels different from the usual internet clout chasing, you know? Its just as embarrassing but it feels so artificial.

[acacia-may]

You remind me of Mitsuri because you’re friendly, creative, and positive like her. I think your pfp has also led me to associate you with Shinobu but you’re not as scathing as she can be (which is a good thing. Shinobu can be intimidating!). You also make me think of Lucy with the love of friendship and writing passion. You’ve got this quiet and caring air to you that makes me think of Parfait from the visual novel Cinderella Phenomenon; I know you have some next gen ocs too and it kind of reminds me of Parfait’s motherly nature.

Aww thank you so much, Anon! This is so sweet and has made my whole day!! 💕It really means a lot to hear that I remind you of so many incredible fictional characters. I'm honestly extremely flattered and am probably blushing a little right now.

Aww...I'm so flattered to be compared to Lucy. She is absolutely lovely, and I definitely related to her love of friendship and writing though I think she is probably a lot cooler than me. 😂 I've not played Cinderella Phenomenon but based on what I've read about Parfait and what you've said about her, I take this as a great compliment. I try to be caring and motherly, so this is very flattering. Also, one of the lines on her character page on the wiki read, "despite her being in a weakened state, she is still quite a powerful fairy" and, though I'm not sure how accurate that is, I really needed that today, Anon, so thank you. 💖

As for the Demon Slayer characters, I love Mitsuri very much and really admire her as a character, though I've never felt we had that much in common. That said, I try to be friendly and positive like she is (and it's usually much easier to be like that on my blog) so it's encouraging to hear that I've succeeded in that. Those more friendly and upbeat traits are traits I try to have, but they don't always come naturally or easily to me so, I think I relate to Shinobu more in that way. I think we're both the type who are by nature a little more pessimistic and practical, but we try to show a more bubbly, upbeat side of ourselves to the world and put on a brave face even when things are difficult. I chose her as my pfp because while she is infinitely more incredible than how I view myself, I do think we have some similarities and I do relate to her especially in her independence, strong sense of justice, intensity and resilience just to name a few things. We also have similar senses of humor--we're both kind of snarky and sarcastic and tease to show affection. And I think my friends and family would attest that I can be a bit of tsun like she is, but even if it isn't always easy to express, I think we both care deeply and are very loyal, especially to our sisters. My little sisters actually remind me of a lot of Kanao and Aoi so I really connected to Shinobu's relationship with them and wanting to protect and take care of them. 🦋

To be honest, it's a little funny to me that you mention her because I've heard from my friends (irl) that I remind them of her. One of my best friends actually gave me a keychain of Shinobu's katana when he finished Demon Slayer for this reason. It's on my car keys...

I like to (try to) keep things a lot more bubbly and positive on the internet than in real life, I think, (though I promise I try to be a nice person everywhere 😅). I really think of my writing and my blog as an outlet for my (secret) softer, fluffier side, but in real life I have a reputation in my friend group as the cynical, practical friend. (I can't imagine what my irl friends would think of my blog or my fanfictions if they found them. Honestly, they'd probably be shocked 😅😂). But it's nice to know that I'm still me all the way across the board so thank you for that and such an amazing compliment! Also, I'm really glad you don't think I'm as scathing as her or intimidating. (In the interest of full candor, I have been told I'm intimidating before (irl), but that was several years ago when I used to be a real ice queen, so I can only hope I'm more approachable now).

Thank you so much for such kind words and encouragement, Anon, and for playing my game! I don't know what I've done to deserve such high praise, but I am so grateful, humbled, and very flattered to know that you think so highly and so positively of me. I really can't thank you enough! Cheers!! 💖

Part of the "what character(s) do I remind you of" game

#this ask made me so happy you have no idea #thank you so so much!! #answered anons #positivity 😊 #acacia's ramblings #going to have to check out cinderella phenomenon now it sounds so cool

[frame-of-mind-au]

Star Trek Fan? Favorite Series and episodes? "Temba, his arms wide."

Voyager, easily. I've heard Deep Space Nine is excellent, but I have yet to finish it (my watchlist is a mile long). I also haven't seen Discovery or Picard yet, so no spoilers on those please!

Favorite episodes is harder... there's a lot I love across the various series.

Parallels from TNG is one I love, the idea is just really cool and it actually kinda makes me care about Worf's existence even if it's only for 45 minutes.

Loud as a Whisper is just stellar. It tends to slip my mind when folks ask about The Next Generation, but if I'm picking out an episode to watch or I catch it on TV, I'm gonna be glued to my screen for all of it. Even in the 24th century, communication is still something that is not as universal as one might expect. And since we're on the topic...

Darmok is another great one. An alien species that essentially communicates through memes and the irony of "Temba, his arms wide" lowkey becoming a meme irl is truly something, especially since to some degree this is a real-world phenomenon. I could relay something to someone entirely with SpongeBob and Vine quotes. Its awesome.

Frame of Mind from TNG obviously is another, no suprise there XD Characters being fucked with on a psychological level is interesting to me and it's territory Star Trek doesn't get to explore very often.

Pretty much any Data-centric or Seven Of Nine-centric episode would apply to this list so I won't go through all of those.

Course: Oblivion was the first VOY episode I clearly remember seeing, when I was around 9 or 10 I think, and its ending really stuck with me even without intimate knowledge of the characters. It's one of the reasons I lean so hard towards bittersweet endings for my own stories.

Living Witness from VOY is a super cool concept, and the Doctor is one of my favorite Star Trek characters ever, so that's an easy pick.

The infamous VOY episode Threshold for just the shear batshit craziness of that making it to television... the first half sets up such a dope premise only for it to just totally derail in its second half and its HILARUOUS! Plus, Voyager's fandom takes having one of the worst episodes ever really well. We've even got a day dedicated to celebrating it!

In the Wink of an Eye, also from VOY is a fun one too. It's a time travel episode (of sorts) that's not a pain in the ass to explain and understand, while still being super interesting.

Year of Hell, Parts 1 & 2, is another VOY staple and an auto-include. Not gonna explain the premise since I'd argue this is one you'd need context for.

Twisted, once again from VOY, I feel like gets forgotten about sometimes. Not sure what about it I love so much, I just do. I will try not to spoil the ending for people who haven't seen it yet, but I like the ending a lot. Sometimes there really isn't anything you can do, and that's okay.

And speaking of endings, Tuvix has one of the best. The choice that Janeway makes is a hard one, and one I feel like only she could make as far as Star Trek captains go (at least from the captains that I'm familiar with). I don't think Picard could be given a moral dilemma of that caliber.

This Side of Paradise from the original Star Trek series was the first Star Trek thing I ever saw and to this day I still love it. I'd recognize the flute melody that plays throughout the episode nearly anywhere.

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, also from TOS, is another favorite, for both having the current record for longest episode title and because the premise for it is just so interesting. It's really nice when Star Trek actually follows through on the whole 'seek out new life and new civilations and boldy go where no one has gone before' thing and this is one of those episodes.

Picking favorites for Star Trek: Enterprise is a bit harder, as it only piqued my interest when it started having an actual plot (i.e. season 3 onwards), so most of the ones I like are really plot heavy and hard to recommend for peope who just wanna watch a one-off thing without needing a shit ton of context.

Ones that explore alien Xenophobia are interesting to see with this series' placement in the Star Trek timeline. It's early in humanity's space exploration so not everyone is used to aliens yet and it makes for some good drama.

I think I'll cut this off here for now, cuz real talk, there are so many episodes I like... I could ramble about Star Trek for ages and this isn't my main!

bUt NuGgEt, I hear you saying, wHaT aBoUt Inner Light???

Okay yes, that is a great TNG episode, and I do love it to peices, but fuck, that thing has been praised to hell and back and won several awards, its got more than enough clout. Hush.

But yeah, I'm done now, go home.

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forgot to sign that one as loservenom but as you may have concluded from the spam likes [sorry for that] its me. when i find someone who likes two (2) or more of the same things i do i go wild im sorry. do you like star trek. tell me more about din i am begging you you have SUCH good thoughts

i do like star trek!!! however unfortunately i've only ever watched like the first half of tos and that's pretty much it LMAO. but i do want to get into it more it's just.... sooooo much so i just admire it from afar LOL. maybe one day....

i guess i will use this opportunity to dump more aro din thotz cause now it's on my mind LOL and i don't think i ever publicly posted these???

so if the word "aromantic" even exists in star wars, i don't think din would actively identify with it. i don't think the thought would ever really cross his mind really, that he would NEED an identity/label for what he experiences

i think like cara or someone would bring aromanticism up to him, like hey have you heard this word. is this you? and he'd just be like. whatever. like he just does not care

part of this is because he just keeps his head down and minds his own business and is a solitary person anyway so like he doesn't give a shit what's going on really

another part of this is that i think in mandalorian society, especially within his own covert, family and platonic relationships in general are valued so much more over typical romance. obviously romance still exists between mandos but i truly don't think it'd be so all encompassing as it is in like, modern western society irl. the bond between parent and child is highly cherished regardless of whether said parent has a partner to help out, and so single parenthood is like a Staple of mando culture. and also i love the idea that mandos raise children communally like yeah parent&child bonds are cherished but, due to aforementioned frequency of single parenthood, just. it takes a village y'know!!! especially for a community like din's covert where it's very tight knit and insular i think communal raising would be huge. so just, in general, the importance of Community and Family really lessens the expectation and subsequent burden of monogamous romantic love and so, long story short, i don't think amatonormativity like. really exists among mandos (or at the very least, among his covert where he was raised). enough so that din doesn't even realize that him being aromantic would be considered abnormal by other standards. it's such a normal and unquestioned thing so he just never really had to examine it enough to NEED a label for it

if there are labels, i do adore the idea of "solus" or whatever it was being the mando'a word for "aromantic" which i've seen in a few fics over time, HOWEVER. that implies the sense of being single which like... describes more of a behavior than attraction?? so while i love the idea of a mando word for aromantic i just. hm.

which brings me to the idea of mandos not even really labeling sexuality but instead, yeah, labeling behavior instead. WHICH LIKE, for most people that DOES align. if you are solely attracted to men then you will most likely only ever enter relationships with men, etc. BUT, there are people who abstain from relationships even if they are alloromantic/allosexual, so in that sense "solus" would also describe them as well, no? additionally, not all aspec people abstain from relationships, which makes them NOT "solus."

and while i do firmly believe din is aromantic 100%, i do think he could be somewhere on the aro-spec. i particularly adore the idea of him being demiromantic. so again "solus" is a bit limiting. AND ALSO, even if he's 100% aro, again not all aro people abstain from relationships, and i don't necessarily think he's nonpartnering....

basically i think "solus" is a better term for the general phenomenon of being nonpartnering which is not aspec exclusive nor does it include every single aspec anyway. i'm not quite sure if there is a better mando'a word for aromantic though, based on the current extent of the mando'a dictionary. but again, maybe they don't even need a word for it

sorry this morphed into yet another exploration of mandalorian culture instead of focusing just on din but. many thoughts y'know

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