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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Explicit, Zooble/Gangle, 3.8k oneshot.
“I would, y’know,” Zooble said, very close to casual but not quite. “If we could.” “You would…?” “With you. If you were down, obviously.” “Will you tell me,” Gangle whispered, “about that?”
when the sex is a character analysis
many uses for a snugstone
Haiiiii! same name!!!! ^w^
Same name!! 🤝
Idk if anyone else has posted about this yet but like 4 hours ago Gooseworx just went on a transfem Jax spree
this joke has probably been made before but idc
Mamadoll coming through
normally I would post an uncensored version on bluesky but I actually think it’s funnier with the censor bar
I just like… watched this episode and went ‘someone must have drawn that right’ but idk where the hell people post nsfw art these days so I just did it too
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some more sketches I've draw today
More of him going through The Horrors and trying to figure out how I want to draw his anatomy, plus some fun 4 armed poses.
i'm finding a lot of fits i even forgot i had
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That dial has been taunting me from my wips for over 6 months.
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I gotta draw more so this blog isn’t just me being cranky but
Happy Valentine's Day!
I finally decided to finish this Sakuraoi comic I've had in my desk for a year or two <3 I hope you enjoy!
A sequel of sorts to these older Sakuraoi comics:
What We're Supposed to Be
Old Wounds
and if you want to see more Sakuraoi from me, I've got my old artbook, pin and stickers still up on my etsy
Okay but like, unironically I have Theories(tm) about this, as an ace-as-fuck prose writer, and the theories all essentially boil down to: fish don't have a word for water.
Like, the allos just take a look at something and KNOW it's hot, but the aces have to fucking DISSECT the thing to figure out wtf people are even going on about with calling it "hot", and funny story, turns out when you write a whole-ass 10k of PWP explaining what's hot about the thing in a way that makes sense to you personally, you are a whole lot likelier to make that thing read AS hot to people who normally would not think it was even remotely appealing ( and also, like, to take anybody who was already into the thing out at the knee ).
( see: everyone who has ever told me "I HATE this kink/that kink/this pairing/this genre/this trend, but when YOU write it--" )
And especially in prose, the dissection-explanation gets you into the mood of the scene/head of the character a lot better, while if you DON'T have the dissection worked out but also don't have the crutch of any visual aids to point to, well, then people are a lot less likely to instinctively understand what YOU instinctively understand, even if everyone in the conversation is the same sexuality/has the same tastes/etc etc etc.
So basically, if you're an allo, you probably have not actually HAD to spend that much time breaking down "why is this person/behavior/situation hot to me" unless you just felt like doing it; if you don't bother, though, you don't stop being able to look at something and go "that's hot". Because you just KNOW it's hot; it's like an instinct or a talent, and it's just immediately THERE, before you even necessarily fully know what it really is or develop it at all. You KNOW it's hot, and you don't get why anyone else would need that explained to them when it is just so damn OBVIOUS. You're immediately good at understanding it in yourself, but you don't necessarily understand it in a way where you can explain it to someone else; you haven't put in the practice or developed the thoughts, because you didn't need to, they were already just THERE.
But the thing with prose is you can't just point at the thing and be like "SEE?!??"; you've gotta figure out how to actually EXPLAIN the thing to people, and I feel like that can be a longer process for an allosexual person because they don't necessarily get what it is that they have to explain in the same way an asexual who's starting from ground zero does. The ace person already knows they don't know any of this shit, and knows there's other people who won't get it either, both ace AND allo. The natural talent, meanwhile, is just like "but it's so OBVIOUS, why don't you just GET it??" THEY get it, after all; it's OBVIOUS!!
So yeah, I would like to present, again, my hypothesis/thesis: fish don't have a word for water, but you are currently addressing a semi-aquatic mammal, and man, let me tell you about the water CYCLE.
[Screenshot of a video with the caption, "Smut so good it could only be written by an asexual." The rest of the video is covered up by a comments tab which informs us there are 525 comments. We see one by galacteddy, saying, "coaches don't play."
End ID.]
As a rampantly bisexual autist, this actually makes sense because I too have had to create a PowerPoint presentation on the fly EVERY GODDAMN DAY to explain why I like (or dislike) something to my NT and/or Heterosexual (TM) friends, relatives and colleagues. It's almost always perfectly banal things like "yes Jessica, food has texture and to myself and many people, that is just as if not more important than the seasoning." Or "okay Jason, so the thing about workshop lights is that more is not necessarily better. There's very much an upper limit on how much light the human eye can be exposed to before it starts to hurt, and in the case of myself and our colleagues with migraine disorders, that threshold can be very, very low. So no, I don't think the ten billion lumen search and rescue spotlights are a good choice for a props warehouse."
That kind of self-justification is exhausting and shouldn't be necessary to be treated like a human, but alas, I live in a society that demands it, and if there is one marginal silver lining to this, it's that it's made me Very Good At Words.
I think it's yet another shared experience of the ace and bi communities (and every marginalized community tbh) to have to examine our experiences because they don't match the 'default' and come up with a working theory of why those are different and both valid to maintain our place in the world. The farther afield your experience, the more detailed and nuanced that understanding is likely to be.
To continue your fish metaphor, fish might not have a word for water but fish from the ocean don't have as nuanced a vocabulary for salinity as a freshwater fish who is much more vulnerable to changes in salinity does, and God help you if you're from an estuary.
rewatching She-Ra and remembered how goddamn attractive this mercenary motherfucker is. Icon. (Full version on bluesky)
