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"... and almost everyone mimicked the New Science Sentries' more formal posture. That last reaction was the strangest of all, since Lodestar was never one to harp on formality."

I mean. When the audiobook narrator's Lodestar voice came through my headphones I reflexively started to salute, and not only do I not work for her, I'm at a different level of reality so there's no chance of her ever knowing what I do or don't do. Sometimes it's just about the person and the situation, not about what the person wants.

(And in case the author reads this: yes, reflexively. It's a learned response, not something dictated by ancestral instinct.)

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... ... Even given that these are all protagonists in a superhero universe, what are the odds that all three groups of these friends independently picked the same day, and roughly the same time, to go to the same set of outlet stores? I mean really.

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

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30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

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D&D 5.5, Warlock with Pact of the Blade. Summoning a weapon takes a bonus action, so there's no difficulty doing it the same turn as an attack. She swings her hand, empty at the start of the move, but by the time her arm is pointed at the enemy there's a sword in it.

If I had money I would absolutely be commissioning a short animation.

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I never experienced the (apparently) common asexual phase of "I'm bisexual, right?"

I currently suspect that the reason is related to the reason it took me so long to find a spot under the ace umbrella where I could be comfortable: because I experience, so to speak, directionless attraction.

(Please note that I will be using "male" and "female" imprecisely; things get extremely complicated re: trans or visibly intersex people.)

There is a feeling I get that I think of as attraction, but not attraction toward any action. This feeling is elicited by seeing/imagining (some) female bodies, but not male bodies (thus no 'am I bi'). It doesn't feel non-sexual, to the extent I know how to discern that kind of thing, but it also doesn't involve any apparent decrease in my sex-repulsion.

It just... it matches the impression I get when allo people try to describe their feelings, but... I don't know. I can see myself staring, perhaps requesting that the person do particular poses or actions (though nothing, e.g., masturbatory)... but I can't see myself impulsively leaning over for a kiss, or (outside extremely specific situations related to an uncommon kink) trying to grab, or any of the other things people in "romance" plots always find themselves doing.

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enough preg let's litigate a new fetish. step right up who's got a good one

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Okay. Okay, I get it. There's a popular trans headcanon about this character. I have seen and understood many of the reasons people hold that headcanon.

Now that I've said that "out loud", may I see some examination of how this other character, from the same source material, might experience transness? I'm certain people must have made some; I saw the character being popular on tumblr back in the day, and I'm like 80% sure their bisexuality wasn't canonized until the last few episodes. (Which is to say both that they're already queer, and that there were years in which making them trans wouldn't have been stepping on any known other representation, even at a stretch.)

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I realize it's neither canonical nor statistically likely, but: imagine "Farewell, My Turnabout" (the Matt Engarde case) if Adrian Andrews is a transmasc egg.

"You met Adrian Andrews at a bar [...] and that's when you thought 'he' was trustworthy..."

Huh, something about that feels...

"If you had ever met Adrian Andrews in person... one look would have told you that she is a woman!"

Ow. Why does that hurt to hear?

(We could go the other direction, make her a trans woman and it would be affirming - wow, I really pass that well? - but people don't get good outcomes like that in Ace Attorney.)

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It is! This is straight-up a lesbian Hallmark Christmas movie in book form. What even.

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Thing is...

I have absolutely no idea how to revise, improve, or otherwise write a second draft.

See, all through middle school, high school, college, I'd put assignments off until the last minute, write them quickly, turn in the first draft, and usually get a B or better. The high grades meant that I never got told to do it again but better. But this is a thing I'm writing for my own pleasure, with no deadline. And I can tell that it can be improved, and even some of which parts are weaker, but I don't know what to do about it.

(I should probably also figure out how to get over my "no one may see it until I post it for all the world to see" issue, but one thing at a time.)