#ace tings

[leikeliscomet]

When it comes to asexual allyship a lot of people wanna have their cake and eat it too (pun unintended). People like a lil 'aces are valid' moment but don't actually unpack compulsory sexuality. People see sexless queer representation and always clock puritanism before they ever clock asexuality. No one's actually reading the ace theory and texts coming out. Everyone keeps doing surprised Pikachu faces whenever a conservative or TERF says they're against asexuality despite the fact ace activists have been saying since day conservatives are not anti sex but anti sexual autonomy. 'Aces are queer' until we actually are. Even ace support posts keep ending with some expectation or condition that asexuality is #valid as long as asexuals still perform a small quota of sex/sexual activity. I'm so over 'Aces still have sex!' 'Aces are hot' Aces are sexy' 'Aces aren't virgin vanilla prude sexless puritans!' disguised as support.

Like no. Sorry. Until you accept that some asexual people's no is permanent, that some asexual's singleness is permanent, that some asexual's childless-ness is permanent, that some asexuals are the 'no' in little to no sexual attraction and i'd say most importantly, that queer sexlessness isn't a biological, social or moral failing, I don't believe you'll ever genuinely support asexuality. (In reverse, I also feel similar about aromanticism and romance).

Like a lot of u haven't gone beyond 'the a isn't for ally' and it shows. I don't want people to support asexuals just because we're soooo hot or because we write the best smut apparently or because we could have hypothetical sex or because we could do hypothetical kink or because our minds are soooo dirty actually or because we'd do romance reallllyyyy well or because we can still have kids or because asexuals hand out water bottles at the orgy or some shit. I want people to support asexuality because no sexuality is deviant and it's basic human decency.

[the-siren-in-your-fridge]

Man I’d love to be kissed but mouths are so gross. The very thing I desire repulses me. I am nothing but a thing for god to laugh at when he gets bored

[littleplantfreak]

Calling my F/O by their first name constantly as if we’ve been married for years unless I’m mad at them for something EYE made them do in my daydreams

[caffeiiine]

i fear the Ace Attorney pun names have followed me to mock trial, i haven’t even gone through the full case yet and ive found 3 pun names.

[fliesandtherainfall]

Amazon: expected delivery April 02

me already at my window:

[kafkaoftherubble]

Here's your reward for that wall of text. It's general Godot! I think he'd been like a trickster crossed with a dark mage. Low speed, high defense, dark magic and the cool bonus of a sword. I drew this yesterday and kinda regret not giving him a two handed sword though. He deserves one.

Said wall of text is this magnificent piece.

[doubleedgemode]

I've always hated my room, it's so gloomy and dreary. Always the dark, for the windows just face the back yard.

You seemed so far away, though you were standing near.

Phew I finally finished this! Here's the version with no lighting effects. Dramatic lighting does make a difference sometimes.

[altruistic-meme]

how is it that, for all the fucking times i have bleached my hair, it is only NOW that my mom went "huh. ya know. maybe the reason that your hair goes strawberry blond when we bleach it is because you have fucking red in your hair." like YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S KIND OF OBVIOUS ISN'T IT. WHY DID I LITERALLY NOT EVEN CONSIDER THAT BEFORE.

[katspause]

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I suspect David & Michael’s personalities being opposite to the characters they play on Good Omens brings added depth. Crowley gets to be loveable and Aziraphale gets to be bitchy and they're both pure delight to watch

[inspector-montoya-fox]

Lol

[leikeliscomet]

The aspec community REALLY needs to add intersecting identities to these analysis' instead of making general statements. How helpful is 'ace women are seen as pure because everyone thinks all women are asexual' when we look at the sexualisation of Black women and the Jezebel, the idea Black girls are 'fast' and the general sexualisation of women of colour e.g. spicy latina trope? Are we factoring in how the desexualization of women of colour e.g. the Mammy, the 'submissive' East Asian women trope, the virginity myth isn't acceptance of female asexuality? Does 'ace men are expected to be more sexual' factor in the sexualisation of Black men and other men of colour e.g. 'savage' Arab trope and the antiblack trope that they're inherently predatory? Or the desexualisation of East Asian men? How easily can we define the ace men v ace women experience at all if trans and non-binary aces are missing from most ace representation despite facing the brunt of anti ace discrimination? If we're solely defining these experiences by cis aces? How easily can aroallos 'just have sex' when you factor in the demonisation of gay sex, HIV/AIDS crisis and seraphobia and how this affects gay, lesbian, bi and pan aros? How easily can alloaces 'just partner up' when you factor in the ban of gay marriage that is still in many countries across the globe and the historical policing of 'homosexual behaviours' and this impacts gay, lesbian, bi and pan aces? And this isn't even getting into disability, religion etc. yet. When there's SO many factors that play into how an individual participates in sex and romance, or if they're even allowed to participate at all, how much can we clearly cut the aspec experience into alloace v aroace v aroallo. Or sex favourable v sex indifferent v sex repulsed. There's A LOT we can learn from each other.

[the-siren-in-your-fridge]

Being aroace with a squish is really like. You look so nice and cute and pretty (not like that), I’d like to snuggle up in bed with you (not like that) and play with your hair (not like that) and lay there for a while (not like that) and hold your hand all the time (not like that) and hang out with you one-on-one (not like that) and get to you know you on a deep and personal level (not like that)

[missacensnakelover]

The Gangreen Gang all on a boat while enjoying ice cream cookie sandwiches here!

Made by me! (x)

[kafkaoftherubble]

I expect you to look up names as you read this so that you're not entirely confused. I'll also write a timeline, starting with pre canon.

Event 1

15 years before the story, three little commoner boys (Phoenix, Miles and Larry) from the capital city were good friends. One day, Miles stops showing up for school. Phoenix and Larry don't really know why, but a year later it's announced king Manfred Von Karma adopted a son called Miles. So that's weird.

Event 2

About 10 years before the story begins, there is a problem between the two main countries. Japanifornia (the one Manfred is king of) and Khurain (manakete country ruled by Morgan Fey) are neighbors but have always been cold towards each other. Now, there's a manakete lady who has been terrorizing the citizens of Japanifornia. Neither country wants to make a big stink of it because they have other priorities right now, so they each send one elite knight to investigate. Japanifornia sends Diego Armando (Diego later changes his name to Godot, we'll get into that later) and Khurain sends Mia Fey (queen Morgan's niece).

While Diego and Mia are investigating this lady, she catches them off guard and poisons Diego so now he's in a coma, Byleth style!

Morgan called off the investigation and ordered Mia to come home, but Mia (who grew to love Diego during the investigation) refused and continued alone. This made Manfred very angry, so he orders an assassin named Redd White to kill her. Mia had also gotten some dirt on several nobles in Japanifornia during this investigation, so that's part of why Manfred wants her dead.

Skip to the present day, or the beginning of the story!

Event 3

Phoenix has just been knighted and now serves king Manfred. At the same time though, tensions are getting worse between Japanifornia and Khurain. To the general public, it's just another pointless conflict about the position of the border. Secretly though, nobles of both countries are still livid about the manakete lady incident and the following little string of blackmailing and assassinations that both countries did in revenge for losing both Diego and Mia.

So Phoenix, obnoxious as he is, protests. He is sent to the front lines but convinces general Will Powers to stand down and instead negotiate. The negotiation goes amazingly well because princess Maya Fey of Khurain hates the conflict too. She agrees to help Phoenix's cause and negotiate with Manfred.

Event 4

Along the way back to the capital of Japanifornia, the gang is stopped by prince Miles. He's leading his own little army, meant to stop Phoenix. Phoenix, in true fire emblem lord fashion, talks to him. Miles left 15 years ago because his father had been killed, but Phoenix did some snooping around and figured out it was Manfred who killed him. After this, Miles thinks for a bit before telling his soldiers to follow all of Phoenix's orders, while he goes off to take care of "business" (refuses to elaborate). Odd interaction but at least it went well.

Between this and the next event, a full year passes. No one has heard anything from Miles and most believe him to be dead. Manfred put a pause on inciting war with Khurain cause it'd be weird if he didn't (to outsiders, it seems like his beloved son is gone and likely dead). So it's a kinda uneventful year. Phoenix takes care of some bandits n stuff, nothing too interesting happens. Oh yeah also Will Powers stepped down and nominated Phoenix as his successor and he got the job, so Phoenix now leads the army.

Event 5

Now, Phoenix advances further to the capital, with Maya as his bestest buddy. He does this cause Manfred is acting up again. Yet another little army stops them, but this time it's princess Franziska. Her group is much smaller than an army and you can hardly even call it platoon. This isn't official business at all, just her and her very unofficial rage.

She's here on the grounds that she believes Phoenix caused Miles to kill himself and she's just angry. No specific emotions, just vague rage. They fight a few times. At their final battle, Miles shows up at the last second.

Phoenix and Franziska are both momentarily distracted from their fight. They take turns yelling at Miles, Phoenix even punching him. Finally, when they've calmed down, Miles explains that he left because he felt lost. While gone, he learned of the manakete lady situation for the first time and decided he had to come back to do something about it. Miles and Franziska now join the party and they can *finally* confront Manfred.

Event 6

At the capital, they kill Manfred. Sure it isn't *technically* necessary but Miles kinda wants revenge and also it is necessary cause Manfred pulled some Lyon type crap so he's a real hazard now and needs to die. There'd be some neat chapters leading up to it n stuff.

Afterwards, Franziska is crowned queen of Japanifornia.

Event 7

Phoenix and his posse continue on their journey to kill the manakete lady. Early on, they learn her name is Dahlia. Phoenix thinks this is a little odd but whatever. They investigate and find a zombie monster thing, very quickly killing it.

They run into a general with no allegiance named Godot. He's pissed that Phoenix, local cool revolutionary, let Manfred and Redd White kill Mia. Phoenix is confused at first, then remembers he met Mia. She briefly worked alongside the Japanifornian knights, though she pretended to be human. She taught Phoenix some of what he knows about fighting and planted the first little seeds in his mind that Khurain isn't evil.

Godot fights him once but then scrams. Before Phoenix can do his classic negotiation trick. Continuing, they kill more weird zombie monsters.

Eventually, they find the manakete lady. Except, her name is Iris. She, at first, tries to run too but Phoenix catches up to her.

They talk and here's what they find out:

This mysterious Dahlia is Iris' identical twin sister. And Phoenix also briefly dated Dahlia because she lied about being a human. Iris says Dahlia has been dead for a few months (was just killed in some random ass skirmish, very boring and anticlimactic death) but she's still doing damage.

In attempts to become immortal, Dahlia created zombie like monsters. Though she's dead, she's able to temporarily possess these monsters and does so to find a way to bring herself back to life. Her secondary, minor goal is that Dahlia was asked by Morgan Fey to kill Maya.

This is because Maya is next in line for the Khurain throne, but Morgan would rather have her daughter, Pearl, become queen.

So Iris joins the army and helps find and kill these zombie dragons.

When they find the last and strongest one, they find Godot fighting it alone. Godot and Iris have been working since he woke up from his poison induced coma (woke up, found out Mia was dead and got angry so he's working with Iris to get rid of the last remnants of Dahlia and end the conflict between Japanifornia and Khurain) so they talk. She convinces him to join Phoenix's army, but only on the condition that they duel first.

So they kill the zombie dragon, then Godot duels with Phoenix. After a bit, Godot loses and says he just misses Mia and some strange little part of him believed he could bring her back if he did everything right. Whatever. Miserable dude. Godot joins and they head to the capital of Khurain, where evil queen Morgan is waiting.

She's got her own little army of manakete zombies, but they kill her in the end. Maya is made queen of Khurain and because her and Franziska are friends, they make quick work of fixing the relations between both countries.

Phoenix returns home to continue training more knights, Miles helps Franziska rule and Diego (now changing his name back because he no longer feels like he has to hide) becomes Maya's advisor.

This, shockingly, doesn't have too much plot relevance but Dahlia and Iris are both Morgan's daughters but were stolen from her as young children. Dahlia became a horrible nuisance to the continent while Iris simply lived in a temple helping people.

At the end, when the dust has settled, Iris goes with Maya and Godot to Khurain. She helps Maya rule too and finally meets her little sister Pearl for the first time.

Sorry if this story isn't that good or it's incoherent, you know well that I am sick.

Bro. You told me you'd be sending slop to my inbox but

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SLOP?!

This is just fucking Michelin level course and I don't even know the AA half of your materials. Shit just works even without context. It's a legit Fire Emblem game with a plot more engaging than Engage.

Sorry if this story isn't that good or it's incoherent, you know well that I am sick.

Bruh this^ legits reads like "sorry I was only using 1% of my true power, I'm shackled by a power limiter right now." HOW IS THIS MAGNIFICENT THING ONLY 1% OF YOUR POWER.

What are you, god of cooking?

Also, companion art piece: here.

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

so in case you didn't notice by my recent reblog spree

i finished reading Loveless by Alice Oseman

[altruistic-meme]

i was asked to provide an "estimated final word count" like i'd be able to actually give an accurate estimate