#ace safe place

[acesafeplace]

i wish it was more acceptable to be asexual, sex repulsed (sometimes), and still be a hopeless romantic who craves affection

[greenlaut]

bitter tea & oranges

sequel -> tea & dates

[damconcha]

One of my favorite things about the ASL Brothers is the fact that Ace was the one brought out the sake and proposed becoming brothers.

Not Luffy or Sabo but Ace.

Ace, who believes he is unlovable, Ace who believes that his blood is dirty, Ace who believes that he didn’t deserve to be born, Ace who thinks that his life is worthless, Ace who believes that his mere existence is a crime.

And yet Ace saw these two boys and approached them without apprehension or fear of rejection even though he was proposing something as irrevocable, something as bonding as brotherhood

[mystiquedrops]

DRDT fandom, I have a question

In your opinion? Which character GENUINELY has the scariest/intimidating fans?

Like so intimidating, they seem unapproachable, and you want ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with them. And even if you somehow become friends with one, It'll take some time for you to ACTUALLY trust that they won't immediately jump at you for having.. opinions or jokingly belittling their favorite, and assuming you're not a good person blah blah blah

You can say from experience If you want, or you can say a completely random one !

[andorerso]

sissi i totally agree with you about the current state of romantasy books! i love a classic fantasy book, where romance is much more of a subplot. but sometimes i'm really craving a romance forward fantasy, but actually finding a good one nowadays is abysmal. i know it's partially a personal taste thing, but there is so much insta-love/attraction in romantasy books and i'm like where is the yearning! where is the pining! there's no build up of tension and it's such a bummer. and then also the plot is usually completely thrown out the window to focus on the romance. which i get romantasy is meant to be romance heavy, but i would like a little plot please 😭

no, honestly!! there is literally NO plot, it's just romance in a fantasy setting. except even romance books should have a plot, so it's just vibes and vague worldbuilding with some magical elements. that's it. everyone is super hot and extra badass and they're the most in love to ever be in love. YAWN

and it's a fucking shame because on paper, I should love romantasy. I like fantasy books, and I like it when they're romance-heavy (not the main or sole focus, but I don't mind if it's a large part of it) but the romance should be GOOD! ugh it makes me so mad/sad because I wanna like romantasy so bad!! I just can't 😔

(side note: if you have any romantasy books that are good, please let me know!! I'll gladly take some recs from anyone <3)

[ineffabeatlemindpalace]

Will you know it when you see it?

[theyheoftheapocalypse]

as an aroace person, i love the Good Place SO MUCH. it feels so normal, so real, because of the varied approach to happiness that actually feels like it includes me.

michael and tahani especially. michael says things that are casually aroace - “kissing is gross” “i have no real ability to gauge physical attractiveness” (even when other eternal beings are apparently able to - ie the judge) etc - but also his whole arc revolves around becoming friends with people and wanting to experience mundane human life. he finds so much joy in normal things. yes, he’s a demon, and that can be a stereotype of aroace coded characters - but the good place is all about subverting those cliches!!! michael’s human and that’s the whole point!

and tahani reads very much as an alloaro. her romantic relationships read as more of a casual or platonic emotional investment though she’s certainly sexually attracted. but she generally treats her friends and lovers the same and her happy ending is to be self reliant, to cross of her bucket list, to make peace with her family, to help others and stand on her own. at one point she says that her ideal good place is living forever with the gang “all in separate houses, of course” and i dunno what’s more aro than that.

but best of all they're all just normal. these are brilliant and wonderfully broken and flawed human beings and that is so unbelievably rare for aspec rep. i feel like the world was meant for me in this show and i’m so incredibly grateful.

[i-will-change-this-someday]

I started listening to Midnight Burger (on ep 20) here are some of my thoughts (in no particular order):

I like all the characters, but I'd say my favorite character is Caspar.

I totally thought it was going to turn out that Caspar was a child when he first found the diner, and the Mucklewains (No clue how to spell that) where kinda his psuedo parents and that's why he was so distressed when the channel changed, and why he was so defensive of them.

also thought that the "Management" that Caspar mentioned in ep 1 was who took him after the diner wasn't open for 3 days.

Good for Effie and Zebulon on being the Hot Ones.

Also thought that Caspar was somehow what made the diner be able to time travel

I will admit, I honestly didn't like Gloria's Ted rebellion, mainly cause I feel like the diner is a neutral party, just that being that active in conflicts felt antithetical to what it is. Not that it would necessarily help the Teds, but like it just wouldn't be such an active opposing force. (I don't know what I'm trying to say here, it just felt off to me.)

no offense to Chuck, but their voice creeps me out.

I know this is going to be a long rant, but honestly, Caspar shouldn’t have been the only one to apologize.

He never would have tossed her into space if she hadn’t put them all in that situation. Like, what Ava did was, to me, way worse.

Caspar told her what his plan was, Ava gave absolutely no warning.

Caspar gave her a choice to do it willingly, Ava didn’t give anyone a choice.

Caspar checked that it was safe, Ava had no idea if she was putting everyone in danger.

Maybe I’m being too harsh, and I know I am biased towards Caspar, but Ava is honestly being such a hypocrite.

“No. I’m not going to forgive you. I’m also not going to apologize for betraying your trust and doing the one thing you asked me not to do. Yeah, you were right, the suit was safe, but I’m still not going to forgive you for making my actions have actual consequences for me.

Actually, I’m even going to insult you, and say that you’re being a selfish asshole for having feelings, and insinuate that you always get your way, never mind the fact that I, Ava, almost always make everyone go along with what I say, because I’m smart and the rest of you are idiots.

And now I’m even going to insult you further by basically telling you to your face that you’re useless and nobody even likes you, we only tolerate you.”

Honestly, if you ask me, Caspar didn’t need to tell Ava about his son, he doesn’t need to justify his place at the diner. The diner is a place for people who need it, and no one should have to tell the others why.

Sure, Caspar knows the others’ reasons, because he’s been at the diner the longest, but he’s not prying, or demanding they tell him.

I felt the same about Effie and Zebulon not wanting to tell them about why people left their church. They clearly didn’t want to talk about it, (I think they might have said that word for word) the others should have just dropped the subject.

Like sure, eventually Caspar should have told them about his son, but it should have been because he trusts them and wanted to share it. Not because he was made to justify his place at the diner.

I know I just bashed Ava a lot, but I don’t hate her, I just think she’s in the wrong here, but the narrative kinda makes it seem she’s right.

I know Caspar calls her out, but he’s the only one to do so, and he folds on the point pretty quickly.

[jumioxox]

some ways the cast attempts to care for teruko in the safe place au + occ comic read tags

[trappedinmymind]

I think the worst thing about being aro/ace for me is that we, as a society, are not in a place of ace and aro awareness/acceptance where I (an open and proud aroace) can make a aphobic joke in a public space without someone wholeheartedly agreeing with me

[enjomo-arch]

y'all be honest is it too much if I develop an entirely new island in op world based off western / 1900s years / maybe some visual inspo from RDR which was originally ace's home island before he got moved to goa kingdom and also an island ace settles in during post timeskip to stay low

[probablygayattorneys]

So, I’ve recently been undergoing therapy involving psychedelics and I had a session today that, on my way to, @vaptainhammer sent me these screenshots and as a result

While under the influence of those psychedelics, with this in my mind, I had an epiphany that related to the principal of Chekhov’s gun

But I then had a vision of Chuunosuke

Fucking Chuunosuke

In an ornately decorated room

Climbing ontop of a dresser

And then the Susato plushie (unsure what her name is) reaching up and handing him a literal gun and him hanging it on the wall

And it was so fucking visceral and like

Don’t do drugs, kids

[realboutfatalfury]

finally finished zero escape 999

[garpond]

i want to cry i dont know how im going to get through work or class tomorrow if i cant sleep tonight my head already hurt really bad today im fucking sick of it i just want to sleep

[yagikidd57]

The misconception that ALL aces are sex repulsed or have negative feelings about sex has erased ace spec people from safe sex spaces.

[adore-gregor]

ugh there it goes