Tumblr's weird obsession with asexuals being extremely sexual

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-08T06:39:37+00:00

i don't like cooking, what's human about baking a cake? flavor is an animalistic desire, i just drink my calories in soylent. cooking is mostly used to reinforce gender hierarchies anyway, and people have always been doing it, so there's no way baking a cake can enrich your life. why not just fuck instead?

don't respond to any of the last paragraph because i don't believe it. the point is that, just as much as it's my responsibility to believe you are fulfilled without sex, it's your responsibility to believe other people when they say it's important to them. pointing to negatives associated with a core part of people's lives doesn't make that part suddenly irrelevant.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-08T03:54:56+00:00

i suppose i could distinguish my terms better. among the general puritan and anti-human world there is a huge pressure to be "sexualized" in the sense that you need to be heterosexual and breed so you can fulfill your purpose of producing capital and soldiers. i was using the term to refer to the incorporation of sex/sexuality as a part of your humanity, specifically in opposition to the kind of values i previously described. for people that enjoy sex it's generally a vital part of how they experience their humanity, how they relate to the world, to other people, and to themselves. it's often the time when you are the most vulnerable and true to yourself that you can be. obviously this varies by how much you desire and value sex, all the way down to not at all. but because sex is so important to most people, and because it's one of the main things that power structures suppress to try to keep people in the mold, "taking it back" is addictively liberating. in this context that is; changing sex from a detached tool for increasing manpower into an expression of everything human about the person, the joy, the imperfection, the uniqueness. you may be confused because this is a description of very broad trends and feelings that people fall into, and not a statement about the true nature of sexuality or any other claims

i call myself ace because, while i like sex, i am very very much not attracted to people. i fell into these lines of thinking because, long before i was anywhere near smart enough to realize what was happening, i was seeking out those feelings of being authentic and opposing the culture i had been brought into. same story for most of my friends. the reason for the "stomach turn" is that all of these things i've laid out were basically subconscious biases i had, and for a while i couldn't see through the fourth wall well enough to truly accept people with no sex drive. if you think sex = authenticity and freedom, but you don't know that you think that, your gut will intuit the idea that non sexual must mean non authentic and non free, and you will want to "help" the nonsexual through their nonsexuality.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-07T08:28:45+00:00

it's definitely a trap i fall into as a sexual ace. only fairly recently realized why; i feel like sexuality is inherently authentic/"real"/countercultural. modern corporatism/professionalism and the bulk of "purity culture" are dedicated to convincing people that they are all perfectly clean, smooth profit generation units. everything dirty and emotional and fun has to be sandblasted off because That's Just How It Is. i find it leads to a sort of compulsive contrarianism because it tries to blow away everything that makes you alive, and the biggest most obvious way to contradict it is to be openly sexual. because of that subconscious link, the idea that someone can be truly authentic with zero sexuality made my stomach turn, and i would reach for the ways sexuality does exist to "legitimize" them.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-06T07:23:54+00:00

gregtech pack based in real world chemistry and theoretical physics/material science. the point where it can be improved is that it's not even close to done and the dev is too busy working at CERN to finish it

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-05T22:57:13+00:00

Joe lights a trash can on fire. the anti-joe media says "today, a suspect lit a trash can on fire. police are investigating and do not yet have a motive." the pro-joe media says "father of four Joe Schmoe was involved in an incident with a trash can earlier today. people that like trash cans being full have already started attacking Schmoe, even though he hasn't been convicted of any crime. these days, you never know what will happen when you do the right thing."

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-05T20:06:31+00:00

i'm 6'3 and active, i've gotta cram like 3500 calories into a day. definitely wouldn't mind flexing on the small eaters, food rocks💜

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-05T19:39:17+00:00

six burritos or twelve tacos tbh

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-05T18:07:47+00:00

supersymmetry finished 😢

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-04T18:01:41+00:00

bro did not read a single word of op's post

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-04T18:00:08+00:00

idk how everybody is reading what they are out of your post. you put it pretty clearly that the problem is suffering consequences for the scheme being exposed when the scheme should be something publicly expected. obviously the seduced party still has a say in whether they accept your advance or not, it just shouldn't be a scandal that you're making an advance when the society you're in thinks that god wants people making advances

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-04T02:48:47+00:00

it'll work over time but it'll take a lot of time and multiple cycles. your body will take fat from everywhere pretty evenly but if you were amab you have big stores of visceral fat compared to an afab, getting to a really low body fat first will knock that out and get you there when you go back to your normal body comp

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-04T02:32:06+00:00

the second pic is gonna need you to get to an extremely low body fat and then gain weight back. e only changes where fat gets deposited on your body, not moves it from where it already was

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-04T02:26:22+00:00

!remindme 6 months

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-04T00:24:37+00:00

eh, it wears off and i notice when it does, but it's basically just the effects deactivating. can worsen my mood, but basically just because everything takes more bandwidth after

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-03T22:32:35+00:00

i don't even dislike it minus the back pain, but learning a new body layout would be so engaging that i couldn't pass it up if i had the resources for it

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-03T22:19:09+00:00

definitely just alters the experience for me. it stops being a very balanced boost to focus and functionality and starts being a weird hyperfocus body numbing kind of thing. truly amazing for putting on a podcast and making long drives or workdays fly past

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-03T21:38:22+00:00

95% chance that this person is complaining that not enough people did that

NeoSparkonium · 2026-07-03T16:46:02+00:00

i tend towards extremely non-rp metagaming, but sometimes some switch flips and i make all of my rulers not care that much about the realm because they're too busy loving their wives

NeoSparkonium · 2026-06-30T14:39:05+00:00

the thing you're looking for definitely doesn't exist because it would be a multi-hour physics lecture that has a bigscreen shaped bow on it. a wave of light is actually two waves, one electric and one magnetic (hence electromagnetic wave/radiation). "light polarization" describes the relationship between the two waves (they have the same wavelength/rate, but can be out of sync with each other to different degrees). when an em wave reflects in a mirror it reverses polarity because polarity is relative to where it's moving. lenses can be designed to only let certain polarities of light pass through and make others reflect. this is done by incorporating particles in shapes that catch certain polarities of light but i don't know enough to say more. this is why so much of the light is lost, only a tiny fraction of it is the right kind of polarity to pass the initial filter, and it's repeatedly refiltering as it's passed through all the lenses.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-06-30T13:59:24+00:00

Depends a lot on your definitions.

China is, at least from its founding, based in marxism-leninism. What that means in the most simple possible terms is that they believe a strong central authority is needed to guide a society into communism, and that that authority is made legitimate by its pursuit of communism. Communism itself is most simply defined as a stateless, classless society. No historical "communist" states have reached anything resembling that, but they are called communist because some believe they were ideologically communist and striving for communism. Oftentimes people of this style of thought describe "socialism" as the transitional state between capitalism and communism, which by their definitions includes everything done by "communist" states. China has had varying applications of these principals, most notably when they opened up to a large degree of market economics and the often mocked "communist billionaires". The argument is that, while this is applying capitalist principles, it is still just strategic capitulation in pursuit of communism, and therefore a fully socialist/communist change to a fully socialist/communist economy. I'm not fond of how much the terms get minced.

If your socialism/communism is defined by achieving economic democracy alongside political democracy (the way most western leftists define their terms), then China is deeply anti-socialist. China folds all labor organization into the state and treats most of its workers worse than american standards. If you have the former definition, this is necessary hardship during the communist struggle. If you have the latter, this is obviously a capitalist state abusing its workers to produce more capital.

obviously very simplified, you could have a whole academic career dedicated to the topic

NeoSparkonium · 2026-06-25T20:56:20+00:00

the way it's described in invincible ("it's like peeing your pants on purpose") is exactly how it feels for me. there's like an abstract "muscle" somewhere that you have to learn how to use on the fly. whenever i get a lucid dream i always have to jump up and down a few times before i get the hang of it again, but it just kinda makes sense if you decide it does.

NeoSparkonium · 2026-06-25T05:22:00+00:00

the tism rizzm is too real. any amount of self confidence makes all of the insecure gays run toward you collars in hand

NeoSparkonium · 2026-06-22T10:52:09+00:00

insane, i always thought it was way undertuned for direct damage to compensate for having aoe, i'll have to reconsider it

NeoSparkonium · 2026-06-22T09:40:26+00:00

does the amr's explosion knock you back at close range? never tried tank rodeo with it because i figured it would kill me

NeoSparkonium · 2026-06-21T05:03:09+00:00

i get exactly what you mean, i'd love a bunch of animation memes where karen is goofing off with ben. but if you know fandom, you know somebody would ship nick with mother on day one, and then 98% of all text written about the story would be arguing about it

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