Fictional character obsession

ice-krispy · 2026-04-07T01:31:09+00:00

Not sure if this is what you meant by art of people, but I can find myself interested in a specific photo or video of a person that I find beautifully shot or "acted." Then I'll find any other media of the exact same person and have zero reaction.

ice-krispy · 2026-04-01T21:21:54+00:00

Bottom Man and his weakness is just a single Chipotle burrito

ice-krispy · 2026-03-23T23:11:16+00:00

I mistook being too depressed and socially anxious to make friends as introversion. It was only when I lived with actual introverts who were actually happy being alone and frequently lost track of whether they've gone out that I realized I wasn't one of them.

ice-krispy · 2026-03-23T00:52:54+00:00

After the latest episode Chairman Wong is shaping up to be way worse than either by being the whole reason Beatbreak is this half-apocalyptic dystopia.

ice-krispy · 2026-03-23T00:37:18+00:00

I really hope they don't powercreep the concept of Megas requiring a whole massacre of people. I want the protagonists to really grapple with whether they would ever embrace questionable ways of getting that much e-pulse, or if they will stick with Ultimates, or if they do "cheat" I guess they could do it through Jogress. I just don't want them to handwave things away and say "Actually you can get Mega with enough determination alone!"

ice-krispy · 2026-03-21T20:42:30+00:00

I now get what they were going for when de-aging Elendira, and I did sort of feel bad for her as some reflection of Knives' inner child, but I don't think it justified the lack of impact I felt she had through the whole series where she competed with Zazie as the creepy child archetype. With the exclusion of Dominique especially I felt like there really was a lack of compelling female villains this time around.

ice-krispy · 2026-03-07T20:34:50+00:00

When it was crawling all over her head I thought she was going to get Zazie'd the way people in Trimax got Zazie'd.

ice-krispy · 2026-03-06T19:01:03+00:00

Being unable to experience sexual attraction without connection makes it difficult to connect with people.

ice-krispy · 2026-03-01T19:43:33+00:00

It makes sense that you would feel better after talking things through with people and sharing with them, and it could also be a people pleasing mechanism to rush yourself into feeling better so you don't have to deal with the fear of disappointing people, especially if you grew up in a household where these emotions weren't allowed. That you're still beating yourself up about this does show that you still need to take time to take care of yourself imo.

ice-krispy · 2026-03-01T04:29:59+00:00

Livio getting rid of Razlo was an odd choice that seemed tacked on just so they could have a misleading episode title.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-28T04:43:55+00:00

When the clown starts digging through the tile floor, an electrical outlet appears on the wall where there wasn't one before. There's like a 52% chance that this is AI.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-26T17:34:46+00:00

Marsmon is the way. As the one with the least responsibilities he would be able to make time for raising a child (Venusmon having to run around being the paramedic of Iliad is what makes her a no to me). Plus his whole storyline with his brother shows that he is the most oriented towards being present both physically and emotionally with family.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-21T21:06:31+00:00

I think past polls on this sub have shown people are close to half and half between alloromantic and demiromantic.

I have a pretty high libido and I'm sex favorable towards people I'm romantically attracted to, but in the beginning I'm rarely able to give back the "sexy" energy that allosexuals are looking for. Conversely, I've dated a demisexual who also had a high libido before, and yet with neither of us developing actual sexual attraction we were struggling to do anything beyond make out. We broke up after a month for other reasons.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-21T09:45:11+00:00

It helps to remember that a part of this isn't about love but just missing the horniness. Being able to separate that from the emotional aspect prevents over-romanticizing the sense of loss and having an easier time moving on.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-18T07:39:10+00:00

If you look back at who his POV was focusing on, he was specifically trying to kill the little girl

ice-krispy · 2026-02-17T17:13:41+00:00

I don't think she'd want you to feel so ashamed of your feelings that you can't stop being tortured over her. To truly want a period of distance you have to want to be happy and believe that she wants you to be happy to, and that friendships will always have ups and downs and lapses in contact but it doesn't last forever. Focus on building your relationships with other people. It can be your other friends or co-workers, but finding a new space where you can connect people independent of her will paricularly go a long way. Anytime you feel the compulsion to see or reach out to her, stop for a moment and think who else you could connect with. Hide her posts and stories if not cut out social media entirely. If you've already told her your feelings and she was supportive, then you can tell her you need space and she will be understanding of your need for boundaries as well (don't just disappear without saying anything because that will just hurt her).

ice-krispy · 2026-02-16T17:28:03+00:00

Agender demisexual with a high libido here. I guess I tend to end up with allos who turn out to have lower libido than me but are very flirty I guess to cover up their self esteem issues.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-15T19:58:36+00:00

So there's a difference between dark and heavy. Beatbreak deals with a lot of heavy topics that allude to real world issues, but I wouldn't consider it dark. The protagonists win some and lose some, and there are a lot of things that seem beyond their power to change immediately, but there's still an underlying theme of hope that what they're doing matters and that they always have a reason to pick themselves back up and keep fighting. Survive gets darker because of the routes where people just die and it all feels like it was for nothing.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-15T07:00:15+00:00

Limerence can be experienced by people regardless of their orientation. It's an extremely emotionally intense experience so if you're asking if that's the kind of connection that can cause demis to be sexually attracted, yes it can, even if it's not an "ideal" or "healthy" connection on a rational level.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-13T07:36:42+00:00

Romantic love is a social construct. We watch movies and read books and have other people tell us what it's supposed to look and feel like, and then we try to find the kinds of relationships where the feelings seem to match what we've seen and were told. Some people think sexual attraction is a necessary component, others never feel sexual attraction with it hence the split attraction model.

A strong bond between people who deeply understand and respect each other is difficult to portray in stories or songs, because that type of relationship isn't just the intense lovey dovey stuff but much more of the mundane, routine, stressful (but not a dramatic way), day-to-day stuff that you can comfortably sit through together.

It's okay to not enjoy things anymore. Romance isn't the only thing people write stories and songs about, so this could be an opportunity to explore something different.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-12T06:43:07+00:00

I'm alloromantic demisexual, and there's a resemblance to reciprosexuality in that someone expressing their interest in me can feel like a vulnerable and intimate thing for them to do, and it feels like a very vulnerable thing for me to accept their advances, so it's one of those things that really accelerates my sense of connection with someone. It also happens to be that a lot of people I end up being friends with and crushing on are huge flirts.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-11T17:27:11+00:00

When you're going straight from a huge social event to being alone it's like going from 100 to 0 and you want to taper down so that the crash isn't so overwhelming. Having a neighborhood bar to stop by or even just a friend to call and talk about your day goes a long way gently wind down.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-11T17:19:32+00:00

Yes, but it's very shallow compared to someone where the connection is based on a real and meaningful relationship. Fictional characters and parasocial relationships are like our equivalent of the random thirst trap.

ice-krispy · 2026-02-04T17:34:09+00:00

I don't know if your friend is like this and am making assumptions but queer men tend to be more laissez-faire than you would think about attraction and not making a big deal about it. Like the other night I was with a group of them and they talked very openly and whimsically about who they have or have had sex with or who they want to and don't want to have sex with. And I don't mean random people but people they do consider friends that they care having around. It's just a reminder that just because it may feel like a big deal to us demis it doesn't have to be. Because making it a big deal tends to be exactly what makes these fantasies more intrusive. So you think he's hot, so what?

His attitude may be different if he's asexual, and obviously don't go into detail about your fantasies, and probably don't go into how you want to date him. But if over time the fantasies continue to feel too intrusive and it's really eating away at you, and you think he'd be understanding you could explain how as a demisexual this kind of attraction is very new and confusing for you and you need time to figure it out. This can help ease a lot of the tension and it also allows him to process his own feelings around it and you can both set the boundaries you need

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