#dr. spectrum

[cable-salamdr]

Sora “You are a great teacher and I couldn’t have gotten this far without your leadership” @ Lloyd vs Arin “You failed me not only by making promises you couldn’t keep, but also by your teachings not helping me whatsoever” @ Lloyd

[p1ercemyh34rt]

…Senku????

[shouts-into-the-void]

Either way more animes are about autistic people than I initially thought, or I have just somehow managed to keep watching all the ones that are

[draculovemp3]

I don’t have a silly caption for this house is a wacky man and these images are so cute I’m gonna wither away

[aurae-rori]

conducting a study that dr ratio will be proud of, because i've found it really funny how every ratio enjoyer i've talked with in depth is ace/acespec

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

I know my family loves me because they agreed to watch Granada Blue Carbuncle with me at 0:30 on 24 December

[jalluzas-ferney]

Gen for a moment I was conflicted if wether Wyldfire would actually say yes or not 😭 but then I thought ab it and my girl probably used to and still eats worms for dinner.

Btw I’m not actually sure if to add spoiler warnings for this or not cuz it really isn’t a spoiler it’s just a ship but since it contains roby…I dunno 😭

[bi-dykes]

She’s trying

Meme format made by @/moonflowerette

[the-agent-of-blight]

Aromanticism in Academic papers (day 1)

A few days ago, I posted wondering about aromanticism in academic research. Well after a search through google scholar and some institutional access (thank you wikipedia <2) I've found some papers. Since it's Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week this week, I'm gonna try posting about one paper I found each day this week.

So today's paper is The stability of singlehood: Limitations of the relationship status paradigm and a new theoretical framework for reimagining singlehood By Dr. Hannah Tessler (2022) [stable link]

To give a summary, this paper focuses on the idea that the general conceptualization of the term single is extremely limited within the standard definition of a person without a romantic partner. This assumes that a given person's relationship status is binary, that the individual is willing to be in a romantic partnership, that singlehood is a transitory state and not one that some people prefer to be in long term. Obviously, the implications of the term single does not accurately reflect the experiences of many people without romantic partners (like many aromantic people). The paper instead proposes a new framework for classifying singles on a graph of two axes, one for Openness to romance and one for desire for romance. This framework not only allows for the term single to encapsulate more than the normative assumption, but also shows how singlehood can be stable.

Tessler identifies seven populations of singles that subvert the standard assumption:

Singles that perfer singlehood

Aromantic and/or asexual singles

Heterosexual single women who elect to opt out of heteronormative relationships

MGTOWs and to an extent some incels

Singles committed to religion

People satisfied with single life but facing social pressure

and Single people after divorce/widowhood

The section on aromanticism itself is well written and accurate. It describes the state of many of us very well, while acknowledging that there are partnering aromantics out there. For future considerations, Tessler writes: "There is currently scant research on aromanticism, but more scholarship is necessary in order to better understand the intersections and boundaries between sex, romance, and relationships."

All in all, this paper is a wonderful insight that I hope future researchers in the area of romance take a look at and use ideas from. There's a lot of research out there on romance, but not as much on the lack of it. Tessler challenges the scientific community to help fill that gap.

[link to day 2]

[mattastr0phic]

Aspec A Major Chord for Ace Week! A bit late in, but I still wanted to get this out. Specifics under the cut!

[your-fav-is-hypermobile]

Dr. Boris Habit from Smile For Me is hypermobile !

requested by nobody ! self indulgent :-)

[nickfuryagentofsword]

Squadron Supreme 2 (2006) by J Michael Straczynski & Gary Frank

Cover: Gary Frank

[sssunflowersmiles]

Paul aron disqualified = D:

Dino promoted to podium = :D

[classickatze]

[wolfsbanesparks]

How do you like Billys relationships with the Sivana family? Like, everyone knows how he is with Dr. Sivana but how do you like his relationship and interactions with the rest of his family being like?

Ooh what a fun question!

So let's go person by person since I imagine he has very different relationships with all of them. (Under the cut because I had more thoughts on this than I thought I did so it got kind of long)

Beautia: I think that he really likes Beautia most of the time. She tries to be a good person, denounces her father's schemes, and is always kind and helpful when he's Billy (she's canonically been his tutor in school before) so he knows that out of all of the Sivana children she's the one that he can turn to. When her crush on Cap becomes obvious it makes things awkward (and leads to him avoiding her at times when he's Cap), but that doesn't make him think badly of her. He knows he's essentially her celebrity crush and that if she knew he was Billy she'd be mortified, so he keeps a lot of their interactions brief but friendly.

Thad Jr: He is someone that Billy has gotten used to fighting because he's always been one to follow in his father's footsteps, happy to help in his schemes, holding a grudge against Cap for all the times his dad was put behind bars. He's less of a threat on his own, young and impulsive, but still very much a follower. If he's not working for his dad, he'd be working for Georgia, but if left to his own devices he's less likely to cause trouble. Billy doesn't like him much, but would be happy to help him reform if he ever thought it would get through to him.

Georgia: She is the most like her father which makes her the one that Billy (and the other Marvels) would clash with the most. She's smart and she knows it, she's ambitious, she's angry, she's easily jealous, she wouldn't hesitate to take him out if she could. She's still a teenager and clearly has a chip on her shoulder about her dad, so Billy tries to give her the chance to do better like her older siblings, but he's doing it through gritted teeth and isn't really surprised that she doesn't take any olive branch that's offered to her. He's keeping an eye out for the day that she decides to branch out and become her own supervillain outside of her dad.

Magnificus: Honestly I think that he is the one Billy has the most neutral opinion on. He's rarely been an active participant of his father's schemes, more in line with Beautia but less outspoken, less involved in trying to fix things. He's a bit arrogant and self absorbed which would rub Billy the wrong way, but all in all he's not a bad guy.

[thedarktowerdames]

Art Edit Credit to Roberto Coltro