Welcome to my blog!
This is technically a side blog because the main one is a Shadouge blog but I use this one the most. I basically post whatever I feel like. Sometimes I’ll yap about my fanfics and whatnot. I mainly repost art and fun stuff I like. My username came from Rayla from TDP and Zuko from ATLA. I don’t watch TDP anymore and forget where I stopped, LOL. Still love ATLA.
My name is Riah and I’m an 02 baby. Putting my age will just get outdated. I have autism, ADHD, and GAD, and I can be very inconsistent with posting anywhere. Sometimes I go through hyperactive periods and sometimes intense burnout. I’m in college, English major, soc minor, and currently kind of between a junior and senior. When I’m home I live with family but I have my own space so to speak. I’m also asexual and agender and use they/them pronouns. I guess I’m panromantic? I’m open to trying to date again in the future irl but right now I need to focus on other stuff and also I wouldn’t wanna online date or be long distance so please do not try to hit on me or ask me out, LOL.
BYF:
-This blog isn’t child friendly. I’m not your mom and can’t police what you do on this site to make you not look at it but please don’t message me if you’re under 18. I don’t post p0rn but I might repost slightly NSWF art or art with gore or something, not like excessive. Also a lot of my own writing deals with heavy topics like violence and trauma. I also cuss a lot.
-I have strong opinions. I will share them.
-I try to stay out of politics for my own sanity. I have my opinions and believe in human rights. I’m queer and neurodivergent myself and am affected by it. But I had to delete insta and facebook because it made me too anxious. I have family to keep me updated on news stuff. But if you’re one of those people who goes like “if you don’t talk about X issue you’re a bad person!!” Then this blog isn’t for you.
-that said if I find something particularly pertinent, I WILL post about it. Like when I told people to vote for Harris and right wing jerks who would never follow my blog to begin with got mad at me. But yeah if it’s like an important election I’ll tell people to vote against fascists, yeah.
-I think ship discourse is stupid. P3do and inc3st ships give me the ick but I’m not gonna harass people over fiction. I also think censorship on a site like Ao3 is more trouble than it’s worth (like sure I’d LIKE really gross p3dophilic stuff to get banned but also in order to do that you’d have to have a staff of hundreds of people reading through everything to moderate and it would be impossible, or you’d have to have AI moderation which will falsely flag things). Also historically censorship just doesn’t work and is usually bad. I hate the terms pro and anti ship because their coloquial meanings are different than their purely linguistic ones. I sort of see shipping as a form of endorsement (I get the appeal of toxic relationship ships but to me it’s like if you wanna show a messed up relationship and say it’s bad idk if I’d call that shipping). I think it’s weird to make fics endorsing super problematic behavior. I get people have fantasies tho of stuff they wouldn’t do irl. So I’ll leave them to it. But I will usually just block/mute if I see a ship I don’t like. I also might do it for certain other kinks I’m just not into or super lewd stuff. Please don’t take it personally, if I just don’t wanna see your stuff on my feed I’ll mute.
-all that said I also think dark stuff should be in fiction and I write it too. I just don’t endorse the stuff. So like if I have racism in a fic, I write the racism as a bad thing but it exists in that world. Like it’s realistic but also showing it’s bad. I hope I’m making sense. I see some people get pearl clutching and be like “you shouldn’t talk about xyz at all”. As long as you’re not being super disrespectful or glorifying a bad topic then I think it’s fine/good.
-I don’t like generative AI for creative works, I also know it’s bad for the environment but I won’t get to that here. Also ChatGPT is not your therapist. And openAI donated to Trump so…yeah. I will block you if you promote AI slop and I don’t wanna have debates about this. I know I’m a hypocrite cuz I listen to kpop and play NTE, but I don’t endorse the AI useage in that. (But also I’m talking like full AI slop like AI images on art tags, not a game with a few AI assets even though I don’t endorse that either)
-I separate art from artist in the sense many music artists are problematic and I will listen to their stuff unless they cross a personal line for me. Or if they endorse the bad stuff in their music itself. But I wouldn’t put certain stuff on a tshirt you know. I also think there are cases where it really doesn’t work like JKR. She’s just too enmeshed in her art and specifically takes endorsement of her art as endorsement of her. That’s very different from someone getting .033 cents from a stream on Spotify.
-I have demand avoidance and if you demand me to care about a cause it will make me more detached. Like it’s one thing to inform someone about an issue and a completely different thing to jump to demands and accusations. Like I said this blog isn’t for reposting every issue I see.
-I use save states and rewind when I play video games that have it available. I do not care. The “git gud” crowd are ableist, full stop. Also sometimes people wanna experience certain older games without flying into a rage. Archaic design is archaic. Also Majora’s Mask gives me severe anxiety and I won’t elaborate.
-I know I mentioned shipping earlier. I consider Diluc and Kaeya foster siblings. I consider Shadow and Maria sibling-like. I’ll mute/block any art of them romantically.
-also, I don’t really care if a character is 500 and dating a 25 year old. If they’re both physically and mentally adults, idc. We could have debates about age/maturity gaps if such a thing was possible irl but it isn’t.
-I said this in the intro but I use they/them pronouns and prefer neutral honorifics when they are available. If neutral ones don’t exist use masculine ones. Please do not misgender me on purpose if you do that on purpose I’ll block you right away.
-I’ll also block you if you’re bigoted in any way. Or try to convert me to a religion/belief.
-if you hate on me inherently for liking gacha games/genshin, if you get tribalistic about your favorite games and attack me for liking them, I don’t want any part in that drama. Blocked. Respectful criticism is totally valid. In fact we should consume critically. I don’t glaze Genshin or anything else I like unreasonably so. Some criticisms are stupid and ppl looking for reasons to complain. But others are valid.
-same with any of my other interests, if you attack me for them please just fuck off.
-also if you’re ableist in any way, get out of here.
I think I have adequately filtered people out. Now I’ll move on to other stuff.
My interest/hobbies: world history, writing, reading/listening to audiobooks, listening to and talking about music, kpop, dance, video games, urban planning, sociology (esp. gender and class issues), highways (I’m weird and have highway autism rather than train autism. Trains are cool tho. I also don’t drive. Just find highway systems interesting.), cats and rabbits, cults/religious extremism (like learning about them and people escaping from them), the Cold War (weird special interest)
Shows I like: I don’t watch many shows. TADC, ATLA, and Sonic Prime is kinda it.
Movies I like: Encanto, Zootopia, Nimona, Kpop Demon Hunters, Spiderverse, GOTG, Star Wars, Thor Ragnarok, Superman 2025, everything everywhere all at once, bullet train, most Disney classics (Pixar too) and prolly more stuff I’m forgetting.
Games I play: Genshin, NTE, Just Dance, MKWorld, Sonic Crossworlds, Zelda BOTW/TOTK, Ocarina of Time Randomizer, Super Metroid (I wanna try the randomizer for this too), Sonic series, Mega Man series (so far only classic but wanna try X/Zero), Super Mario series (Galaxy 1/2, 3D World and Odyssey are my favs) and open to trying other stuff. Not an RPG guy as Scott the Woz would say. (For those saying Genshin and Zelda are rpgs, I mean turn based)
YouTube: I watch a lot of Nintendo tubers (the non grifter ones) and Genshin Tubers. I watch some Ktubers. I like Reddit stories (Oz Vault and Vincey are my go-tos for that). Otherwise I just watch/listen to what interests me.
Books: The Outsiders, Motherless Brooklyn, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, The Hate U Give, Educated, I’m Glad My Mom Died, Beyond Belief, In the House of My Mother
Music: Taemin, Radiohead, Adèla, Blackpink, Atarashii Gakko, Dreamcatcher, Xdinary Heroes, Florence + the Machine, Portishead, Bjork, Gorillaz, Oasis, i-dle, NMIXX, Aespa, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Allie X, Jann, Mustii, JJ, Aiko, Paris Paloma, Hoyo-Mix, Sega Sound Team, Nintendo music, Madison Beer, Willow, Imogen Heap, Sara Bareilles, Regina Spektor+ more
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Riahlexuko
23, neurodivergent youtuber in many fandoms
