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@main-chip-data
"Your systems need a quick reboot..."
“コンピューターの再起動が必要だ。。”
Hello, welcome to my blog. I like many things, but this will usually have general stuff on it.
I like Wreck It Ralph :]
Adult.
He/him, they/them, bit/bits. Please use any of these for me.
What robot media have you recently enjoyed? Please submit robot media in my askbox if you wish to share.
academic writing these days is always like “be/longing” “re-membering” “(under)standing”
STEM academic writing is like "we present the results of the ACRONYM project (A ContRived mnemOnic is NecessarY Material)"
Excuse me in astronomy the ACRONYM project stands for: All-sky Co-moving Recovery Of Nearby Young Members
E.g. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AJ....154...69S/abstract
furthest we've ever been
close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see
Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step
Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum
Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:
“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”
“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”
Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”
“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”
“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”
“WHY QUESTION???”
chat is that good
Life cycle
BALLIN'
Way too funny not to share
Trust Gru
I feel like sometimes I am forced to play the role of the middleman when it comes to conversations between aspec and allo people. I am not aro, but ace, and because of that I kind of feel like I have my feet placed on both sides of a line.
In a sense I sometimes feel like I am not “aspec enough” to be accepted. But I am not the same as allosexual people. Not by a long shot. This has become awfully clear to me as I engage irl with allo people.
I will say, I feel I see some issues. That being, people who are aspec can sometimes devalue romantic/sexual attraction as a “lesser” kind of attraction than “pure” platonic attraction.
But almost all the time, I find that allo people devalue anything that is NOT sexual/romantic attraction, INCLUDING when the attraction is NOT sexual but still romantic.
By that I mean, I love my partner very much. He is indeed the love of my life and I can trust him completely. Because I do not feel any sexual attraction, and thus do not want to have any, allo people will often express their pity for my partner To Me. They act as if I am functionally keeping him hostage. As if I am cruel for being ace.
While I still see the issue of aspec people devaluing romantic/sexual attraction, I feel this is a much smaller case, and sometimes done out of anger for what allosexual people say to us. There have been moments where I have wanted to say how dirty and gross sexual attraction is to me, whenever people pity my partner.
But I don’t say these things out loud, even when I feel them, because I do not want to contribute to the puritanical anti-sex rhetoric that has been pushed by a lot of people recently. That being, I do not want to contribute to the suppression of sex and sexual expression just because it gives me the ick, and because people who have sex keep devaluing my relationship.
It is not the sex that is the problem, nor is it the desire to have sex that is the problem. It is the way they cannot fathom not having sex that is the problem here. And I can’t dismantle such thinking by lashing out and calling them stupid or disgusting.
This all to say, I fear a lot of the talking point on aspec stuff has to do with “purity” and things around that. I want the aspec community to move away from these talking points. And I know. I know!! Maybe you don’t do this or it feels nice and cathartic to lash out. But we can’t keep talking like conservatives if we want sexual justice and freedom, WHICH INCLUDES THE FREEDOM OF US, TOO!! Sexual freedom includes aspec people!! We cannot be using terminology that fights against that.
…What I would like, really, is for allo people to think about why their platonic relationships begin at “sibling” and end at “parent” and why they HAVE to see platonic relationships as siblings or parent and child or something else of that sort. Why aroace characters are still put into ships rather than, at the very least, talking to aroace people in qpr and asking how that works. We have tags on tumblr, just make a post asking about things and someone will usually respond. It’s a wonderful thing to talk with people and learn!
Collectively, we (both allo and aspec) need to dismantle this common trend in fiction and fandom where the “found family” reflects the structure of the nuclear family, and why we want to have that in the first place.
We need to deconstruct the idea that romance is the default, especially for relationships involving men (whose relationships and interactions are frequently sexualized by default).
And even in romantic relationships, the ultimate end goal is not and should not be defaulted to marriage. There are many people who want to be in relationships but don’t want marriage. Please consider this, too, when writing a qpr.
This all to say, I find that there is this dissonance in the conversation between aspec and allo people in regards to relationships and sex that must be bridged in ways that aren’t “but it’s boring not to have my epic toxic yaoi” and “but sex is disgusting and gross and ugly” because we are getting nowhere. Common ground must be found for us to figure things out. And I think talking to each other about our SPECIFIC experiences is important! That way we can understand each other. Even if the answers are “I like sex because it feels good” and “I like strictly platonic relationships because I find more interest in not being distracted by sex”
Because then the conversation might instead go: “I don’t find sex distracting, but an enhancer of my relationship with my partner” and “Interesting, I find a similar thing by cooking with my friends.”
"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense
one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(
i’m home sick with the flu and i just received this email from my father
STOP REBLOGGING THIS MY DAD THINKS HE’S SOME INTERNET SENSATION AND HE WON’T SHUT UP ABOUT IT
still Hangin with Yo frienz one year later
quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog
People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.
Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)
