He/ze/star
Very disabled
Magnus archives fan
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
I also like Junoverse, wolf 359, splatoon, cassette beasts, pathetic little gay men, the owl house, Steven universe, anything monkey king as I've discovered, many other things that I won't remember to list, and I cannot for the life of me type! there's been seven typos just this sentence.
in terms of original work I have: fantasy bird woman and her rabbitboy girlfriend,
martians, regular school children, school children but they're rats and they solve ghost crimes, technically I have a super hero comic thing but I haven't touched it in years. rip that gay water guy 🙏.
y'know, one thing i don't see get talked about much in regards to asexuality is how it feels to never be 'sexually motivated' by anything
and not just when it comes to advertisements using 'sexy' models to try and sell you stuff, but like. in general
sex as a favor, sex as a bribe, sex in exchange for whatever
casual sex, 'friends with benefits' situations, even simple flirting
it all looks a whole lot different from the perspective of someone who's immune to manipulation via sex appeal, who has virtually no understanding as to why sex would motivate someone to cheat on their partner, etc. etc.
sex is worthless to me
i mean, it's useful as a story element in fiction, but it genuinely perplexes me that sex is such a driving force behind so many aspects of irl society & of people's individual lives, for better or for worse
and that it's so deeply ingrained into how the average person views the world & various situations, because the average person feels sexual attraction, whereas i do not
i think the barrier between aces & allos is actually even deeper than it seems on the surface at times, because it's more than just the grating expectation that everyone must want to 'settle down' and have kids, it's also the fact that the majority of the world is sort of 'in' on a joke that aces will never truly be a part of
The main reason I love this interpretation of Zelda is because her agency is tied to her growth as a character.
In Breath of the Wild her agency was taken away from her by her dad. She wanted to go out and explore and make plans, but her dad refused and forced her (at an extremely young age I might add) to focus all her energies on unlocking her sage powers. All of the time she could’ve been spending on creating plans to defeat Calamity Ganon were wasted on pointless trips to the goddess springs and only contributed to making her feel like she was an abject failure. And even when she does unlock her powers she isn’t able to enact a plan and can only force a 100 year stalemate with Ganon.
But in Tears of the Kingdom she is allowed to just enjoy looking up old information and trying to come up with solutions to really abstract problems. She’s allowed to concoct a crazy ass plan to save the world and she chooses to sacrifice herself to enact it. Ganon doesn’t force her to become the light dragon, she does that on her own. Ganon doesn’t send her to the past, she does that in her own. She is not kidnapped or locked in a cage against her will, and when she does finally sacrifice herself she is in full control of her agency. And she succeeds! Her plan works and she helps Link defeat Ganon!
Breath of the Wild was a great game for imbuing Zelda with much needed depth and personality, but it works even better in conjunction with the events of Tears of the Kingdom.
Yes it's a beautiful metaphor for being aspec and the alienation and self hatred that comes with that, but it's also about a girl who explodes people with her mind
So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)