#All are aspec now! :P

[dootznbootz]

Every character is aspec if you're not a coward 🤷

#They're married and have children? Aspec! #They have and like sex? Aspec! #All are aspec now! :P #asexual #aspec #ace #demisexual #lgbtqia #asexuality #Mad rambles

[rockalillygirl]

Murderbot Holding Hands

(Minor spoilers alert for Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy pls check the tags)

First real post because I’m shy. Don’t know why it’s going to be a hyper-specific murderbot meta but here we go:

I’ve been rereading all the books after finishing System Collapse <3 and I want to talk about a small moment in Artificial Condition that I’d never noticed before. It’s near the end of the book when Tapan is in ART’s medsystem after nearly dying, and SecUnit says that when Tapan wakes up it’s holding her hand.

When Tapan woke, I was sitting on the MedSystem’s platform holding her hand. (Artificial Condition, p. 155 in my ebook)

I thought it was a really sweet moment, but it also kind of puzzled me because of SecUnit’s aversion to touch. Later when I was reading Exit Strategy, I noticed a similar moment when SecUnit holds hands with Mensah to help disguise them as they’re trying to escape TranRollinHyfa.

[Mensah] took a deep breath and looked up at me. “We can look calm. We’re good at that.” Yeah, we were. I did a quick review to make sure I was running all my not-a-SecUnit code, then I thought of one more thing I could do. As we stepped out of the pod, I took Mensah’s hand. (Exit Strategy, p. 87)

Reading these scenes felt different in a couple ways. In my opinion, SecUnit taking Mensah’s hand in Exit Strategy seemed like more of a big deal because it was a part of SecUnit’s reunion with Mensah, and we see its thoughts and emotions leading up to it. And it tracks that SecUnit might feel ok holding Mensah’s hand in that situation because of their close friendship. But the moment in Artificial Condition is more mysterious. We don’t get any of SecUnit’s internal monologue at the beginning because the scene opens when Tapan wakes up. And even though it’s clear in the book that SecUnit likes Tapan along with Rami and Maro, I wouldn’t say their relationship is anywhere near as close as its bond with Mensah. So why did it hold her hand?

I think it’s a neat moment that’s fun to ponder! And I have some vague ideas I’d like to share about it. (Some of this is based on the books and some is my speculation as an ace/aspec person dealing with touch aversion.) (Also none of these thoughts are mutually exclusive!)

Maybe SecUnit saw holding Tapan’s hand as a form of first aid after her traumatic experience and didn’t want her to panic waking up in a strange ship’s medsystem. This fits with SecUnit bracing itself to hug Mensah in Exit Strategy. (The memes of this moment are perfect lol)

But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. “Uh, you can hug me if you need to.” She started to laugh, then her face did something complicated and she hugged me. I upped the temperature in my chest and told myself it was like first aid. (Exit Strategy, pp. 82-3)

But I feel like SecUnit might not care as much about comforting Tapan in a similar way if it hadn’t already built up some kind of trust with her? Which brings me to Thought 2:

I think SecUnit might have felt safe holding Tapan’s hand because of the moment in Artificial Condition in the second transient hostel when Tapan laid down next to it. (Ofc I think rescuing Tapan from Tlacey’s ship was also a factor, trauma-bonding and all. But to me this moment in the hostel is more important.)

Thirty-two minutes later, I heard movement. I thought Tapan was getting up to go to the restroom facility, but then she settled on the pad behind me, not quite touching my back… I had never had a human touch me, or almost touch me, like this before and it was deeply, deeply weird. (Artificial Condition, pp. 136-7)

This is one of my favorite sequences in Artificial Condition (which is also my favorite book in the series because of ART! And because I find it quiet, reflective, and weirdly cozy even though objectively few cozy things happen now that I think about it). The scene is pretty mundane with a lot of fun bits like SecUnit pretending to need to use the restroom, be on a diet, etc. And we usually don’t get to see SecUnit hanging out with only one person. So it gives room for some small, but important feelings that I don’t think SecUnit has time to explore when it’s busy saving the day. Like how it feels about physical contact with humans.

(idk it reminds me of how like in ghibli films there’s usually at least one scene with the characters eating a meal or something because it sort of grounds everything else. I just like it!)

Tapan being close to SecUnit seems to throw if off-guard, but the context of the scene feels non-threatening and pretty mellow. So I think this gives SecUnit the opportunity to check-in with itself about this new experience. It still feels weird about it, but not in a scary or upsetting way. I think it’s almost this mutual vulnerability (Tapan feeling vulnerable and seeking comfort and SecUnit feeling vulnerable about her closeness and its own boundaries) that creates a bond between them, and that’s why SecUnit reaches out to Tapan to comfort her when she wakes up onboard ART.

That scene has become really special to me. And I would argue that it’s an important moment to SecUnit too because it brings it up again in Exit Strategy, along with a later moment in Rogue Protocol, thinking about times when it’s experienced physical contact with humans in a non-traumatizing way.

Except it wasn’t entirely awful. It was like when Tapan had slept next to me at the hostel, or when Abene had leaned on me after I saved her; strange, but not as horrific as I would have thought. (Exit Strategy, p. 83)

These moments seem to lead up to SecUnit offering to comfort Mensah later on because it’s reached a point where it feels willing to do so for her sake, even if it doesn’t want to seek out that kind of comfort for itself. And it’s really cool to see SecUnit navigate this throughout the books.

SecUnit starts the series with a strong innate sense that it doesn’t want to be touched by humans, but it’s allowed to refine those feelings in light of its new experiences. It’s boundaries are situational and personal, and even well-meaning humans sometimes struggle to understand them at first. Other times, SecUnit finds it difficult to understand it’s own feelings regarding touch and even changes its mind. But, importantly, the narrative always presents this as valid and worthy of respect.

This is a much more nuanced and realistic portrayal of defining boundaries than I’ve seen in a lot of media- one where it’s a constant and sometimes confusing process of self-discovery.

And these might seem like obvious concepts to some people, but they weren’t for me growing up. I really wish I’d read these books when I was younger, and maybe I would’ve given myself more grace to define my comfort level, grow, and change. But I’m glad that I’m in a place now where I can see and appreciate these things in what’s become one of my favorite series.

Anyway, I don’t want to say "thanks for coming to my TedTalk” lol. But very grateful to anyone who reads this and hope it was thought-provoking. Would be interested to hear other people’s thoughts on these scenes!

#murderbot diaries #murderbot meta #murderbot #secunit #artificial condition #rogue protocol #exit strategy #murderbot spoilers #too many feelings

[scribblespirit]

Happy Valentine's Day!! 💝 (+ long personal ramble lmao)

Well I did intend on posting earlier than this, but I wanted to wish a big happy Valentine's to everyone who actually follows along with the random crap that I post on this site-- and an especially big hug to all of my fellow aspec, arospec, and aroace lovelies!! I've always valued the celebration of all forms of love on February 14th, whatever dumbass society that we live in who decided that it's strictly a holiday for romantic couples can show themselves out the mfing door. Romantic love, platonic love, familial love, s*xual love, queerplatonic love, polyamorous love, animal love, ALL types of feeling & showing love are so wonderful and deserve to be celebrated!! If you feel sad about being single on Valentine's Day, don't let our stupid economy blind you to how loved you are in many different ways by many different people!! 🫶

On that note, this year marks a very meaningful occasion for me personally. I'm currently 21 years old, I learned I was asexual when I was 16 and didn't understand that I was arospec too until I was 20. I've always been totally content either celebrating Valentine's Day with my close friends, or basically ignoring the day all together. But as of last summer, I am now in my first Queerplatonic relationship with my incredible partner @rubinaitoart (and our beloved @lovelucigoosey, who is always with us 🎗️🩵) and I thought that today would be a fitting day to finally proclaim my cheesiness online lol! Rubin, I love you so so much and I'm seriously so lucky to have you. Thank you for being my very first Valentine's Day partner, for making me feel so loved I nearly happy-cry every time, and for just always being your supportive, talented, caring, funny, amazing and beautiful self!! 💜💜💜 /p

My patience to see your smile and give you the biggest hug face-to-face is dwindling with every day, but also knowing that we will get there someday is one of my favourite things to think about :'D To my online besties, Checkmate or otherwise, thank you for being the best long-distance found family I could ever ask for!! Every one of you guys means the world to me, I'm so grateful that you all put your care and energy toward a little chatty bundle of emotions like me. My bucket list purely consists of a list of each of you guys, and I will not quit until I get to properly see and hug all of you or else your name is not getting checked off of the bucket list!! But yeah fr thank you guys I fuckin' love my friends I don't know how I got so lucky 🥹💕

To my kittens (not that I expect they'll be reading this), thank you for being such little fluffballs of joy and chaos. Thank you for coming upstairs and insisting to check on me when I have been face-deep in homework for 6 hours, and for dragging me away for cuddles whenever I need it. To my parents (who definitely won't be reading this XD), thanks for being some badass and wonderful parents.

To Luci, I mean I check in pretty often so you probably already know what I'm gonna say. I hope you're happy, I hope you're smiling, I hope you're running and I hope you're free of pain. Love you always boo 🩵

I just have so much love in my heart that I wish I could share as much as possible. I love my family and my kittens and my friends from university who help keep me somewhat sane. I love my Discord friends/found family who help keep me very sane, and are always there to make me laugh and to celebrate achievements together. I love my queerplatonic boyfriend/partner, I love his voice and his hair, I love his obsession passion for The Arcana, I love his fluffy puppy Aster, I love how he makes me smile and that I'm capable doing the same.

Thanks guys. I really really love you all ❤️

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(Also I haven't slept in like 38 hours and I'm struggling to stay awake as I write this so I hope it is at all legible, it's probably too long but quite frankly if you read the entire thing and made it all the way down here then massive kudos to you. I did warn that I was chatty and emotional, those two traits never go well together 😂)

#scrambles #queerplatonic #aroace #aromantic #asexual #platonic love #valentines day #valentines day 2024

[rogueddie]

I just thought of this so if you already posted about it i either completely forgot or haven't seen it yet so i apologize if you have but all i have to say is

ARO/ACE ARGYLE who is very physically affectionate (/p obviously) with Jonathan and his friends n shit

Ok thank u have a nice day❤️

Ooo, aro Argyle is definitely a fun idea. I don't know why I've never considered aspec. Bonking myself on the head with a hammer. Aro/ace Argyle who's just vibing and having fun, my beloved.

But I'm afraid, like a spoilt child, I am latching my grubby lil hands onto asexual Argyle and I'm never letting go. It's canon to me now.

#ask #it feels like I've found a new sandbox to play in #especially considering canon #I am having. many thoughts.

[snakes-on-skates]

pin... uhh. the post.

down there. ⬇️

hi this is my blog :p im Snakes

i go by any and all pronouns idc. she he they it any neos you think id like idk. mirror pronouns are fun too you can do that. if you want.

im not too sure about my identity at the moment but arospec aspec biromantic/bisexual beast sounds about right for now. i dont feel real attraction to real people but sometimes im like ooh. as for gender i guess im. everything. im all of it. dw about misgendering me its all of the above 👍

i am a furry also. just so you know. probably otherkin too. if you have any questions abt that sorta stuff i usually dont mind answering

some of my general interests are art, video games, cartoons, etc.

i am definitely 100% normal about the antagonist Bill Cipher from gravity falls. totally. i do NOT think about him constantly because that would be abnormal. and im totally normal about him. (lying)

this blog is mostly reblogs but once in a blue moon ill post some art maybe (probably not fandom art tho i dont draw real characters very often)

spam liking/reblogging/interacting is always allowed. go nuts

i dont currently have any active sideblogs.

ill say it here: proshippers, homo/transphobes, terfs, MAPs, and anyone of the sort is not welcome. please leave. 👍

if theres anything specific you wanna know about me you can just shoot me an ask. unless its my address or something i wont give you that

mutuals if you are reading this: <3. yes that means you too. all of you. ur great.

yayy yippie wahoo yaaaay weeeeee

#pinned post

[deci-doodles]

Misc assortment of OC doodles from recently that I had no idea how to post individually so I’ll just compile them :p feat previously shown family members+Tiziri in some outfits besides her Eremite one, and also me attempting to design Itto’s parents coz why not

More info+rambling under the cut

Aight SO,

Tiziri’s the Eremite lady that Tesey’s head over heels for and can’t blame him, she’s very charming, very competent, and won’t hesitate to call him out lol. She’s also the current successor in place for the matriarch (Tizemt) of her adoptive tribe (the Ifri, named after the goddess not the demons lol). They don’t exist in lore since the other two main GoF worshipping tribes don’t really fit the area of influence I wanted to use and Tanit were also a definite no go so instead, the Ifri are a smaller tribe that had branched off from the Tanit but under their current matriarch, have been slowly trying to make themselves more self sufficient and independent, with Tiziri being taken in by them as a child. after they took down the raiding party which had targeted her original tribe and family.

As of current game events, Tesey had been trying to collaborate with the Ifri with textile trading since he believed their work could sell really well in a more international market, so Tiziri’s been assigned to keep an eye on him and also just get a grasp of what kind of a person he is before letting him into their territory and all that (luckily for him he’s long passed the vibe check but after Fontaine’s AQ he had to make an emergency trip back to Morepesok).

Anyways I thought it’d be fun to draw her in a modern Moroccan caftan, but also a Ukrainian folk outfit since she does eventually make a trip over to Morepesok to visit Tesey’s family when they get together. Anyways like Kirena, Tonia and their mother, Oksana (I’ll post their design eventually wsojcndwoc), I’ve based it off outfits from the Luhansk area (go check out these blogposts for references I used for the embroidery it’s such a life saver, but yeah their mum’s side would be from the Donbas irl, dad’s from Zaporizhzhia). Jewellery’s primarily based off Amazigh jewellery from southern Morocco, as well as some Tuareg ones and also a few strings of Ukrainian korali ehe (they’re a gift from Tesey later on as a sign of his intent to take things more seriously and his sincerity). I tried my best with the tattoos since I didn’t want to just trace someone else’s given how personal they are but if anyone has any sources on Moroccan Amazigh tattoos please let me know 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Next bit is just me realising that a good chunk of my labelled OCs (most aren’t) happen to be aspec, which I find absolutely hilarious (fyi I’m ace myself so this isn’t malicious I just think it’s funny how it keeps happening). Kageharu and Mingli are probs also some flavour of aro but I haven’t figured it out yet so they just have their ace labels for now

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And, finally, Arataki Natsuki (荒瀧凪月) and Arataki Takenosuke (荒瀧岳之輔). Apparently I felt like revisiting old ideas from 2021 again weciswnjdsq, but still was fun to do. I’m aware it’s more likely Itto’s mother was also an oni (judging by his troubles voiceline regarding Granny Oni) but I thought it’d be interesting to explore what it could be like for humans given how prevalent oni discrimination is, both towards them but also towards humans who are close to them (again: see the voiceline on Granny Oni), as well as people learning to look past assumptions and all that fun stuff. They could’ve lived out a nice cottagecore life with their son if it weren’t for those damned robberies they got blamed for smh

Bonus concept portrait of Natsuki while I’m at it. Tbh one of my biggest pet peeves in designing related characters is making any character too similar to whichever canon character they’re related too and I just really wanted to show that yes, Itto does have quite a few of his mother’s features. It’d be more helpful if I actually drew him to compare ofc, but motivation do be funky like that and my brain wants me to draw Oksana next 😔

#deci doodles #genshin impact #genshin oc #genshin ocs #tiziri #tesey neschadymenko #Kirena Neschadymenko #kaedehara kageharu #Kaedehara Suzuka #Cheng Mingli #Arataki Natsuki #Arataki Takenosuke

[cha0ticr0b0tic]

Pink Floyd’s The Wall

was my favorite album from roughly 2015–2017: peak teenage angst years for me. I watched the 1982 movie for the first time in September-ish of my junior year of high school and just got through revisiting it, probably for the first time since 2016 or so.

VERY different experience now that the teen angst is behind me. It’s still pretty weird and abstract, but not as much as something like Eraserhead. The explicit (read: sexual) content made me real uncomfortable as an aspec teen who was still deeply in the closet, but I’ve grown up a little since then, haha.

This film is about navigating and dealing with both personal trauma, but also national trauma. Roger Waters grew up in the immediate post-war years without a dad (he died in Anzio). When the film is not exploring the main character Pink and his isolation, it’s thinking about the effects of WWII on Britain: the physical destruction & reconstruction, and also the fears of fascism appearing in England (did I mention this film came out in the 80s?).

What got me this time was, in fact, the fascism. Which is not to say that the fascism didn’t get me as a teenager – I’d cite this as one of the first anti-fascist texts I exposed myself to – but holy shit, guys. When I watched this for the first time, we were still in the Obama years. Watching the last third of the film with its fascist rally segments, I was thinking, “I’ve definitely seen footage like this on Twitter, of Fox News clips.” And that is chilling, how normalized seeing shit like this online really is. 

Roger Waters is not a perfect human, but he is profoundly anti-fascist, and The Wall is not subtle about its political leanings. He’s using fascist imagery, iconography, and rhetoric to show how absolutely destructive it is – and also how easy it can be to get sucked into it if you’re alone, disillusioned, and under the belief that you’re owed something. There’s a whole segment of the film that’s just dedicated to how awful a society under fascism gets. And this was, of course, before the Internet and QAnon and all these online alt-right social media groups. 

Waters is blending celebrity culture (rock star culture and playing in giant stadiums) with this idea of an untouchable fascist leader. Is that not what we just lived through? The blind obedience, the singling out of those deemed “Other?” Shit, I’m in Florida right now and things aren’t looking too hot. 

It all hit just a little too close to home. I don’t really know where this is going, but it all felt just a little too heavy in the moment. It’s still an incredible piece of art, and has a lot to say about the importance of connection and maintaining humanity in the face of dangerous systems. Anyway. Thanks for listening to this little rant I guess :P 

#pink floyd #roger waters #the wall #antifascist #socialist

[seahydra]

Hiya heya! Nice to meet you, I just gave you a follow :) (I'm shadowbanned, so you probably just got a ghost note :P sorry about that!) Your ship with Leviathan is so sweet! Having more aspec people in my circle of mutuals is always welcome hehe <3

~ @qilinkisser

SO TJATS WHAT THE MYSTERIOUS NOTIF WAS. OKAY. I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING NOW. Also THANK YOUUUU WAAHHHH I'M HAPPY TO HEAR YOU THINK SO... + YES finding other aspec people in the self ship community is like discovering an angel out in the wild. I love you all

#✉ msg recieved #HEEHEE You seemed really sweet from your promo post too I'm excited to be mutuals w ya :D !!!

[moraygrotto]

actually. first and foremost "moray rambles" is now going to be my tag for longer posts usually About kink that aren't fully meant to be kinky in and of themselves. such as the post im about to make. feel free to blacklist idm i just have so much fun thinking & hypothesizing about kink stuff

but. that ask got me thinking about my writing style, and i think it does come down to preferences and/or sub-kinks. like okay:

this is a whole ass paragraph that could have been like . an onomatopoeia. or i could have just described reader-chan's reaction. or i could have done so many things!!

but like,, i think i tend to focus on qualitative stuff, body language, similes & metaphors, etc. in my writing bc that's what interests me by far the most—i've seen length/volume/size/etc get emphasized a lot, and ik measuring/size kinks are common in general. focus on power/effect also seems like it could be an orgasm metaphor or overstimulation/loss of control thing. (writers here if any of this applies to you please know i am bringing it up bc it fascinates me and i love you; your contributions to this site r so so valuable never stop being you & writing for yourself ur perfect ur style is perfect mwah ok back to the actual post)

and like . im aspec and tmi but i was super duper sex repulsed for a lot of my formative years and even tho im not anymore, i still have that partiality towards *the little stuff* u can do to be sexy without being too physical, so i tend to extrapolate on lil details that make an image/action fun. like in the above example, jade burping gets a few descriptive phrases, and then when he grabs reader-chan it's a whole Thing, even though others in particular allosexual writers might choose to mention the grab only briefly :0

and yeah this is all speculation; i'm just a nerd who likes analyzing things for fun :P

#moray rambles #and might as well analyze one of the most fun things there is!!!!

[achilleslyre]

🅱️lease tell us more about jobie paulinho and carlito im very interested 🥺🥺🥺

EEEEHEHEE :3333 okie okieee… u don’t know the can of worms u just opened……. this is gonna be long ajshsjsh i’m gonna put everything under the cut

an overarching simple intro into what’s going on in my ocs world (so that some things i say about paulinho carlito and jobie make sense) is that it’s about this group of young adults that go to a specialized university together— jobie doesn’t actually attend the university, but she does live relatively near and she did go to high school with the rest of the main/side characters (plus she doesn’t lose any importance by not being there ☝️☝️ the whole crew would have been screwed without her ajhsjshsjs). i’d go into detail about the uni and high school but hehe maybe i will another timee :pp so this isn’t such a hugee info dump. to simplify though so you can get a rough idea, kids from around the world are given the option to take a “test” of sorts in order to see if they’ll be accepted into the high school. IF they are accepted into the high school then once they graduate they are hand selected by the uni funder to attend his university (i plan on changing his name ajhsjsjjs so for now i’m just calling him the funder). so that’s your quick background information hehee

paulinho and carlito are twin brothers! they’re around 23-24 when the story takes place :pp (they age throughout so when they’re introduced they’re 23 but the story goes thru their birthdays). they’re afro indigenous and they live in brazil. their dad is black and was born and raised in brazil, and their mom is also afro indigenous— she’s taíno and was born in cuba, but moved to brazil at a young age. paulinho is cishet (srry 😔😔) and carlito is gay + trans. they also have 4 other siblings apart from each other— their older sister (24-25) clara, their adopted younger sibling (15-16) salome, their youngest sister (10-11) márcia, and their younger brother (5-6) murilo.

paulinho is studying chemistry (i *think* specifically biochem but i have to do some more research into that to make sure… i was not into science so i don’t know enough about the specifics… but off my basic knowledge of it i’m p sure he’s going for a biochem major). he’s not in a relationship by choice, he’s not aspec but he kinda just would rather to get through school first before finding someone he actually cares enough for to be in a relationship. so he doesn’t get into anything serious while at uni. the story ends within roughly a yearish from introduction, but i kinda know how they all live thru the rest of their lives anywayss and tbh.. i don’t particularly see him getting into a long term relationship. he definitely doesn’t get married but i feel like most of his partners are just flings or last a handful of months. i see him living with his parents for quite a while tbh— i think he moves out in his 30s but moves back in with them once they’re really old and need some help with keeping up the house n daily activities :’) paulinho is a very family-oriented guy, he loves his parents and loves his siblings. they’re the most important thing to him c: the whole story kinda kickstarts as a way to protect his sister clara, if that situation never happened the whole story would have just been pablo and mawiyah ajsjhssj. but uhh yea, paulinho has aspd (given to him, not born with), when he’s not in school he works two jobs at a grocery store and a restaurant, he’s heavily into boxing— both watching and practicing— and likes to do matches with his dad!

carlito is studying graphic design and fine arts/illustration. he’s autistic and gets into a relationship with another autist throughout the storyy :p “spoilers” ig lol. his main special interest is apples lol— the different types and history and how each type came to be ect ect. he’s also suuuuper into musicals as well— i don’t listen to many but based off vibes i think west side story and newsies would be a fave of his. altho this may change if i ever decide to listen to them hehe. he has a part time job on a boat as a fisherman with some other guys, he doesn’t dislike nor love it but he definitely prefers it over anything retail. he rlly likes video games and movies in general, and he spends a lot if time with his mom c: they are very very close. she’s who he typically likes to watch stuff with, and he enjoys learning recipes from her and just following her around/helping her with daily activities. he definitely moves out once he’s done w uni, he looves his fam as well but it’s a very busy household so it’s v overstimulating for him.

annnnnd best for last is some jobieee info :3c she’s 23-24 as well and she’s bi+cis (she has a gf charlie who goes to uni w the others. they met in high school). she’s inuk (specifically inuinnait) and lives in a house with her mother, grandmother and her best friend barrys family! her father passed away young and her brother has been missing for several years, so that’s why it’s just her mom/grandma. as i mentioned she doesn’t attend the uni with paulinho+others, she doesn’t end up going to uni at all. she did attend high school with them and had been focusing on history before she decided not to attend uni. she was in a really bad car crash in high school and has a permanent limp bc of it (so when you see me making jokes about jobies driving that’s why T.T), she works as a carpenter (altho this mayyy be subject to change— it’s the idea i’ve had for her the longest tho). she’s also very much into crotchet (and knitting but she crotchets more) and she sells some of her work :p she like’s to bead with her mom but she doesn’t sell her stuff, she normally makes for herself or gifts them to those she cares about (her mom sells though!). she’s super community based and she also goes fishing and hunting with barry a lot (and his older sister sometimes) to be able to get stuff for her fam and some of the other families around her—specially for the elders. she’s a very busy person but she rlly enjoys anime and she watches stuff with her best friend elio (she’s a two best friend kinda gal) whenever she cannn :DD oh and between her fam and barry they have 5 dogs 😳😳

i’ll stop there cause otherwise i could go on about jobie forever and ever T.T i mean the others too but jobie is my fave so i think about her the most hehe. srry this is kinda vague/random and not story based— i just really do hope to someday publish a graphic novel about them so i don’t want to give away much of the story 😳😳 uhhhh this was so long but if you enjoyed reading about them n stuff i’m gonna be self indulgent and link my oc moodboards and spotify playlist. don’t feel like u have to look/listen tho lol i’ll never know ajshjshs

my moodboards are right here, it’ll take you to the whole board but there’s specific sections for each of them (so if u want to look at it u can pick out the ones you wanna see hehe)

and here’s paulinhos playlist, here’s carlitos, and here’s jobies. the songs added all remind me of them plus each song is from a genre/artist they like :D carlitos is the least finished of these three but i’ll get around to adding more stuff to his in the future lol.

#thank youuu for asking :333 #🫶🫶🫶🫶 #eventually i’ll try to figure out a way to talk about them during the story without giving too much away #at least publicly.. i’m more open to talking about the story in messages n stuff LOL #idk its not like im worried anything will happen if i talk about stuff in the story but i still feel nervous about it lol

[ladyimaginarium]

Restarting this because the previous posts lost traction.

Hi, my& name's Arcana& / Angel&, and I& am the core / host / singletsona of The Imaginarians Galaxy. If you want to help support a local queer, trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, intersex, mspec, aspec, autistic, disabled, neurodivergent, hoh, chronically ill, psychotic spoonie witch two spirited mixed native and ashkenazi jewish bodied multigenic DID system who's an aspiring activist, fashion model, voice & film actrex, ASMRtist, youtuber/vtuber, polyglot & writer, it'd be greatly appreciated. For the past three months, it was Pride Month, Indigenous History Month, Two Spirit Awareness Day, Disability Pride Month, my& birthday, and Canadian Pride Month and now the Jewish High Holidays — Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — are quickly approaching all back to back and i& still didnt get anything, not even a single cent despite the reblogs & shows of support, which as much as I& appreciate the support from those who did it's still incredibly frustrating, so if y'all wanna help out a queer disabled mixed native, y'all can help me& out, especially because we're& also saving because we're& likely gonna be moving out for the first time next year as well as for our& future service dog and we're& relatively low on 💵 for the time being because we're& taking a course, we& can't work due to our& multiple disabilities and neurodivergencies & just being an overall madcripple so it'd be greatly appreciated, especially if you like what we& do and our& content.

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[aspecpplarebeautiful]

Figuring out if I'm aspec really is a wild ride :p Started with 'am i a prude for being uncomfortable when people talk about sex?', then 'is it just because i have never been in a relationship that i think i don't want to have sex?', now it's 'am i just so touch starved that i think i want a relationship?'... I'm still unsure, but i wanted to thank you for this blog! Have a nice day :)

Yeah, these things can definitely be a journey. And no problem! Thanks for sharing!

All the best!

[firbetmakes]

I posted 113 times in 2022

97 posts created (86%)

16 posts reblogged (14%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@firbetmakes

@aspecjournal

@fandom

@ygocookbookzine

I tagged 111 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#artists on tumblr - 100 posts

#illustration - 99 posts

#art - 92 posts

#cute - 83 posts

#kawaii - 83 posts

#digital art - 59 posts

#oc - 53 posts

#original character - 48 posts

#traditional art - 39 posts

#artist - 35 posts

Longest Tag: 90 characters

#i read all the tags and comments on my posts and they never fail to make me absurdly happy

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Here’s the boy! A-Spectrum Cleric Wolf is here to support you all!!

Making these aspec pride wolves is always a joy and challenge >-<. Deciding to only use the flags colours for this year’s really was a choice.. got me to try some new shading and colouring methods tho.

This guy’s available on a hoodie if that’s your thing -> firbetshop.com

｜LGBT｜A-Spec｜Ace｜Aro｜Pride Art｜

133 notes - Posted June 4, 2022

#4

🌻  Hope stands tall despite an uncertain future

204 notes - Posted March 1, 2022

#3

Fruity Dinos for a pattern I’ll make at some point. They’re so cute!!!

Went a bit of a roundabout way of drawing these. First I drew them with promarkers in my sketchbook, and then redrew them digitally to clean the lines up.

315 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

#2

The illustrated cover I drew up for @aspecjournal​ that I’m so proud of! It’s up for preorders right now till March 10th :D

It took so long to get all the colours right as I wanted to get as many aspec colours as I could into the piece. purple for ace // green for aro // yellow and blue for aroace // and black and white for aspec. Plus some red to represent the bonds of fate’s connection (being broken).

I illustrated Fenrir and his two sons Sköll and Hati from norse mythology. Fenrir has always hit something within me, with the theme of destroying the world to be released from bonds forced upon you, and having two children with no reference to another parent.

I’ve always enjoyed reinterpreting monsters and villains stories into something positive, so it should be no surprise I read into his themes with a bit of a cathartic aspec lens.

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374 notes - Posted January 3, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Congrats Jaiden!! I’m so proud that she was able to come out publicly :0

And to anyone who found out about Aros and Aces through her video, Welcome!

The a-spectrum has been pretty looked over for a long time with many not even knowing we exist. It’s a very common story for aspecs, even I only discovered the identity a few years ago!

I’m so glad such a large youtuber (and one of my favourites) has been public with their aspec identity. Hopefully this will lead to many more aspecs discovering a refuge in this community. I mean the aromantic tag was in the top 5 for a while, everyone say thank you to Jaiden :P

The aspec community is here to welcome anyone who needs a refuge, even if you do find a different label later down the line.

There’s lots to discover and learn in this community so if you’re interested have a look around and learn something new :D

772 notes - Posted March 22, 2022

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10, 11, 22, 26, 29 & 35 for the pride asks? 💕🌈

10 When did you realize you weren’t cishet? - I definitely remember questioning if I might be a lesbian around 14 because I didn't like boys the way other people apparently do so to me that was the logical conclusion (cause ace representation who?) but then I just. kinda forgot about it. 😅 had lots of suspicion reappear at around 17-19 and actually realised it when i was 19 (literal lightbulb moment while at uni waiting for the next class xD)

11 Do you like your flag(s)? - I think the ace flag is really pretty, those colours really are a vibe (and fun to dress in together ^^), and the aro one is neat too :) also I kinda feel like bi is also somewhat accurate and that's also a very cute flag!

22 Favorite LGBT+ celebrity or historical figure? - rn I gotta go with Gerard Way here, it just makes me happy to see what they’re up to now and how much better they seem to be. Also Lil Nas X, barely know anything about him but his Vibes.

26 Some characters you headcanon as LGBT+? - all of them okay definitely at least 80% of the drei ??? characters (Justus? aspec. Peter? bi. Bob? pan. Skinny? bi. Cotta? gay. the girls? all wlw. even Brittany, the only straight she is is a straight up bitch.). Veronica Mars and her friend Mac. Elle Woods.

29 Any fictional crushes? - oh. SO MANY but I’ll make a choice here. I will honestly never get over Norris Marshall from the Bone Garden. then there’s Benny Lafitte from SPN. Kat *and* Patrick from 10 Things I Hate About You. Constance Fairchild and (even more so) her half-sister Izzy from James Oswald’s book series. Shego from Kim Possible. Bucky Barnes. Skinny Norris (duh.)

35 If you’re not straight, who was your first same-gender crush? - if we’re talking real people here, either P!nk or Avril Lavigne - P!nk was earlier but I so wanted to be like in hinsight definitely date Avril a lot more so yeah xD

Pride asks

#thank you 😘😘😘 #i was so hungry i had to have dinner first #yes i know norris is vanilla but i love him so much #does young cotta count as fictional crush too cause i am far more obsessed with him than canon cotta atm ngl but like. #he's technically *my* interpretation #apparently i like me ficitonal men to either be mostly soft and cuddly and hands-on or utter psychological disasters #and women who could kick my ass. absolutely no surprise there. #personal #ask game

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Pancake’s Pride Month Book Recs!

The Delightful Romance Novels

These three books are heavy on the romance and read like the best fanfiction, with plenty of humor and heartbreak before the (spoiler alert) happy ending!

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun:

Dev works as a producer on a Bachelor-like reality TV show and desperately wants his own happily ever after. Enter Charlie: this season’s Prince Charming, who’s anxious and afraid to let anyone in, but handsome as hell. Secret dating and strong mental health themes round it all out to make this mlm + aspec romance a wonderful read 😊

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston:

23yo August falls in love on the New York Subway when she sees the leather-jacket-clad Jane who’s quite literally stepped out of the 70s and into the modern day. Between the lovable queer community, drag queens, pancakes, and time travel mystery, this wlw book is so so great!

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

After landing a government job he knows nothing about, Robin finds himself embroiled in a magical side of London he also knew nothing about. In Edwardian England, he teams up with the incredibly smart but reserved magician Edwin to figure out what happened to his missing predecessor. There are libraries and labyrinths and countryside manors, spicy scenes and an inventive magic system in this mlm romance ✨ plus, a wlw sequel is coming out later this year 👀

The Sad Gays

Don’t expect a happy ending with these, but they’re gorgeous love stories that will stick in your mind and refuse to leave.

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

A retelling of the Illiad through Patroclus’s POV, as he and Achilles fall in love as young boys and become fiercely devoted to each other. But of course there’s war and glory and tragedy to be had… this one’s heart wrenching for sure! But oh it’s a beautiful read 💜

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

In a fictionalized old Hollywood, the beautiful young Evelyn Hugo does whatever it takes to become a star and goes through seven marriages in the process. Although that’s what she’s famous for, the book is actually about hiding queerness when coming out could have wrecked your career— I got wayyy more emotionally compromised from this book than I expected! (There’s wlw and mlm in it!)

The Magical Bisexuals

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

This one’s a retelling of The Great Gatsby, but from the POV of Daisy’s friend Jordan Baker. In this version, Jordan is a Vietnamese queer woman with a talent for magical paper craft. In fact, just about every character is now queer! It’s not a simple love story, but it’s certainly one to suck you into it’s hazy world of parties and poor choices. There’s one scene in particular that has stuck with me for months now.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

As a hopelessly lost 20-something this one really hit home for me— we quickly learn that the immortal Addie LaRue is forgotten by everyone she meets until she comes across Henry who somehow remembers her. The book alternates telling her 300 year history (beginning in France when she gets her curse) and their present day story. Both main characters are bi! This is one book I absolutely didn’t want to end.

The Fantasy Trilogies

The Shades of Magic Trilogy by V. E. Schwab:

This trilogy is mostly about the magic plot of parallel universe Londons and the struggles of its main characters, with a side of romance. While I’m p sure all the characters are bi, there is definitely a take-my-breath-away mlm romance. And oh! The characters! They’re wonderful— from the powerful but leashed magician Kell to the girl with all the knives Lilah to the charming but hurting prince Rhy. They simply don’t let go of your heart even after you’re done reading.

The Simon Snow Trilogy by Rainbow Rowell:

The mlm romance takes center stage in this trilogy!! They’re rivals at their magic school which is delicious in itself, but add to that an interesting breakdown of the chosen one trope, an amazing dive into how depression can affect your relationship, vampiric self-discovery, and downright hilarious writing and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to these audiobooks 😅

I think a lot of people have probably already read many of these books but eh, whatever— they’re my fave queer books I’ve read in the last few years! 💖💜💙

#pride #pride books #book recommendations #happy pride #pride book recs

[rolaplayor101]

4000 posts!

That's incredible! Well, i might as well do something special for post 4001! Wow, my 4000th post was Jim Hawkins wow wow what an honor

I've gained a bunch of followers recently, so thank you! If you guys see this, thank you!! Pls, first off, gotta say, please read my About Me and DNI before following me. That's a necessity!! Please make sure you're not in there! I block a lot, a LOTTTT

Second off, my commissions are open!! As of right now, June 28th, all 5 slots are open! If you go to my commissions page, there are instructions on how to email me with your idea! This is my main source of income!

Third, I'm accepting asks!! I have a lot of stuff im currently waiting to get asks about that I'm super excited for, so I'll put them right here:

Ask me about my Onward OC! Thinnakorn Niran!

Ask me about Queerplatonic BenRex headcanons!

Ask me about Queerplatonic Chadhime!

I do writing requests and commissions(although that's not set up yet), and depending on the request I might either write or draw something for it. I'd prefer to write, tho! Outside of the things ive listed, send me all kinds of aspec headcanons for characters you know I know, whether they're from media ive listed in my About Me or I've posted for the media before.

Fourth, and this is kinda a P. S. I have a Redbubble! So if you ever see me post art that's not on my redbubble and you'd like to buy it on Redbubble, just hit me up on a DM or Ask and I'll add it! It's not a bother at all

Also, tell me about your day. How are you doing? At the moment I'm doing really well. I've got some holiday stuff stocked up to post, I've been reading a lot, and I'm still working on my fanfics. Also, sorry if you're one of those people who are waiting for me to post the next chapter of my fanfics. I'm alive, just busy. ;;

Slot 1: OPEN

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Also, quick question: legit, how much would you pay for some artwork like this?(this is all mine btw in case you didnt know)

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