Oh Tra La La Lally! Here Down In The Valley!

Silly elf, avid LOTRO player (main server is Peregrin, but can be found on Angmar). obsessed with Corunir. can't stop making Loremaster alts. draws (rarely). Meneldir apologist. Asexual and Demiromantic. Call me Taz, she/her.

[lunae4876]

Spoilers for Lord of the Rings Online: Before the Shadow: Book 3

I know I was expecting Meneldir to be killed, seeing as how Before the Shadow was an intro sequence added after release, but they just made it cruel. First, he is afflicted with the Grey Fear that drives him mad, which forces him to relive his worst memories—allowing a group of trolls to slip by him that ended in a family dying under his watch. Then when Gorwen tells the Grey Fear to release him, and the Grey Fear kills him as a twisted fulfillment of the command. After he's killed, I have to watch his friend Halbarad mourn; and to top it all off, Halbarad tells me that Meneldir wasn't exiled after the incident, but drove himself away in shame. I expected a quick jab with his death to segway into the main story, but not the knife being driven into my chest, twisted, and brick thrown at me while I was on the ground.

[thehelplessmortals]

Vengeance against @thalion71 of Sileär Seasheen

[what-even-is-thiss]

Online spaces have almost always been where asexual and aromantic people meet each other and organize. This is why the major online campaigns against us around ten years ago were so destructive.

It’s easy to say that cyber bullying doesn’t matter in the real world or whatever but targeted online bullying campaigns have the power to wreck entire communities and support networks.

It’s difficult to just turn off your computer when all the people who relate to this aspect of your life are in there.

I’ve definitely met other asexual and arospec people irl but it’s quite rare. And real life queer spaces are in fact often bars or kink spaces. And like bully for you if you like kink or alcohol or romance but when your entire identity is based around not feeling the feelings often associated with romance and/or sex that’s not always super fun.

And people got relentlessly mocked for bringing up this issue. Shut down. Called childish. Like okay. Fuck us for wanting a sober non sexual spot to meet other queers, right? So childish for wanting options.

I’ve been involved in the online asexual community and doing education about asexuality and aromanticism in both irl and online queer spaces for almost fourteen years now and that short period of time around 2016-2018 took a wrecking ball to my people that I feel like we’ve still barely recovered from and I’m still angry about it.

I think asexual pirates should come back. This time they’re here for your ass. And not sexually.

[what-even-is-thiss]

They killed our dragon and cake memes. The aro and ace dragon hoards are dead. But you know what? I survived and I’m the online version of a cockroach after a nuclear blast. I never forget.

[ubuyo]

liking a character from a thing you don’t like

[a-lonely-dunadan]

*Replaces the Straw with a Paper one*

*Puddin still steals it regardless*

[a-lonely-dunadan]

Hey guys can you watch my plastic straw for a sec? Thanks

[a-lonely-dunadan]

Careful, looks like he's about to Pounce on the above post!

[elcorhamletlive]

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[primaius]

[konoko]

[natequarter]

listen, sometimes it's more powerful for a fictional relationship to be a friendship precisely because friendship is devalued in comparison to romance. anyone can sacrifice themself for the love of their life. but for a friend? if anything, that kind of devotion can be even more moving than if the relationship is romantic. there's a real dramatic power to prioritising friendship in your narratives sometimes.

[rabbitebooks]

You'll notice that people do this in multiplayer games for much the same reason!

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 5 days 6 hours

[anarlossethedunadan]

ArtFight friendly fire ~ I throw a brooding Iarothmir on a night ride at @thehelplessmortals!

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[indolentjellyfish]

tiny glass aphid

[oblivionloading]

Bretons gain bonus damage to Daedra if they’ve remembered their email password on the first try within the past six hours.

[speedlimit15]

In my dream you could order your coffee with a bunch of decorative flavorless tiny white flowers sprinkled on top and they were called ooh lala blossoms