sexuality and lack thereof

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allons-brie:

AU where we’re all well rested and everyone loves their job

So, one of those mass-mind-control plots by well-intentioned extremists.

#Watch where you’re pointing those universals; you’ll shoot someone’s I out. (tag via comparativelysuperlative)

Reblogging for that superlative tagging.

Wow I’m sure this is not a coincidence but I was not consciously aware of using the term “superlative” when reblogging from comparativelysuperlative

YESSSSS, my plot to control everyone’s subconscious is finally coming to fruition! Once this post achieves a mere forty-seven thousand notes, everyone will be well-rested and love their job! Muahahahaha!

 
 
 
 
 

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #it got better #(it’s up to 47.5k notes) #(and I am not well-rested) #(your mind control is not powerful enough to overcome the effects of having to share a sofa bed with my brother)

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allons-brie:

AU where we’re all well rested and everyone loves their job

So, one of those mass-mind-control plots by well-intentioned extremists.

(comparativelysuperlative)

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #puns

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allons-brie:

AU where we’re all well rested and everyone loves their job

So, one of those mass-mind-control plots by well-intentioned extremists.

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#overly literal interpretations #(well okay maybe not *literal*) #(but it seems like it would go well with the other stuff in that tag) #look it’s not *my* fault that when I considered the phrase ‘well rested’ #the second thing that came to mind (after the intended meaning) was the Man with the Red Eyes describing IT’s embrace

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heartsalonelyhunter:

As long as the character is smart and is well written- That’s why I didn’t have a problem with Seven of Nine’s skin tight suit on Voyager that a lot of people had a hard time with, because the character was not that. The character was the antithesis of what that physical appearance was. So for me if she was a ditz and she was portrayed like that then yea, that is incredibly gratuitous to me. But I don’t want half nudity, that to me no, that is gratuitous no matter what. There are very few reasons that I could see in a story that make nudity a necessity. But, skimpy costumes or tight costumes or showing your body and being sexy in that way as long as the character is smart and strong and a good portrayal of a woman, then I don’t necessarily have a problem with it.

Jeri Ryan

 

frontier001:

You know, I was a teenage boy in 1997 (barely) and I began watching “Voyager” because of the introduction of Seven of Nine.

But it was not because of boobs or an outfit.

No, because when they first added her, it was the concept of a Borg on board Voyager.

A freaking Borg drone! On the ship! All the time!

This was 8 months after “First Contact” had come out and totally enthralled me and swept me full well into being a fan of 24th century Trek. I was barely just dipping my big toe into things and I hear Voyager’s adding a Borg drone crewmember. Woah.

I remember talking with the only geeky friend in school I had about it. I remember taking in the issue of TVGuide to school to show him, with the first photos of the Borgified (no catsuit in sight) Jeri Ryan. The whole concept was just so brilliant and daring, in our 12-year-old opinions.

I remember being disappointed when I saw “The Gift” and how she was being de-Borged.

And while yes, I have to admit there was obviously some sexual appeal once all was said and done, I to this day still wish they had left her fully Borg for at least that first year. Gradually reducing the Borg tech maybe? But not just wham-bam, one episode and she’s a human with one or two remaining vestiges of drone left.

– frontier001

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#Star Trek #Voyager #pretty much #there was a lot of wasted potential in making her so human so quickly #that isn’t about sex appeal #(though tbqh I think she lost all her sex appeal when she stopped threatening to assimilate people) #(and I frequently forget that human!Seven is even supposed to be sexy) #(but apart from that it was still a mistake)

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kerkevik replied to your post:I found the thing. You couldn’t have known what it…

I’d be interested to see the original post.

Thank you so much for expressing interest, Kerk. Whenever I talk about sex, I worry that nobody cares, or that people only care in that it makes them uncomfortable.

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#kerkevik #replies #part of me is worried by the way you said ‘original post’ without mentioning my response to it #but then I think about how you reblogged my Sleepwalkers review-thing #and I figure the generous interpretation is probably the correct one

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Related to the previous post, but seemed just different enough to merit its own thing:

Sometimes I think I should write a bit of sex-ed article. Something in that kind of style. Something that treats my experience as normative, with lots of false-inclusive “we”s and “you”s, and expressions of diversity and its greatness that don’t extend far enough to cover the reader.

“The most obvious sign that you’re experiencing sexual arousal is a sharp, twinging feeling. This can occur anywhere along an imaginary line down the middle of your torso. Most people feel it in the chest or stomach area, some in the genitals, and a few at the base of the neck. There are also some people who can feel it in any or all of these areas at different times, sometimes depending on what they’re responding to. These are all fine: all bodies are different, and all bodies are okay!”

There would be no mention of people who perceive this sensation as heat. Depending on what level of alternate-universe I was going for, I might replace all instances of “hot” with “sharp”.

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#sexuality and lack thereof #oh look an original post #TMI

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autumnone:

Now that I look at it, it seems such a tiny thing. Without the broader context, the other straws on the camel’s back, it wouldn’t even be noticeable. It almost still wasn’t noticeable.

And yet…and yet there’s that word. “Stimulating”. Sex ought to be stimulating.

It’s a reminder of everything I hate about the kind of sex-positive sex-ed that’s standard in this subculture. I feel bad about hating it. I shouldn’t hate it. It’s the greatest good for the greatest number.

And yet.

And yet I’m sick of being excluded at every turn. I resent the way the kind of sex-ed epitomised by (though by no means exclusive to) Scarleteen stunted my sexual self-understanding, fed me information and advice consisting mostly of stuff that didn’t apply to me (sometimes the exact opposite of which applied to me) and told me it applied to everyone. I hate knowing that they didn’t even do anything wrong, because I’m such a fucking snowflake that I don’t deserve to expect anyone to ever acknowledge my existence.

(It isn’t my sexuality itself that I have a problem with. I like who I am. It’s the way it interacts with who everyone else is that gets to me.)

(Sexual pleasure is not a stimulant. It is a sedative. If I find a sexual act stimulating, that’s a sure sign that something has gone wrong and I need to change course.)

(addendum here)

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#sexuality and lack thereof #rants #TMI

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I found the thing. You couldn’t have known what it was: I read it maybe a week ago, but it was a year-old post in a kink blog archive I was reading.

I’m thinking I’ll reblog it from the source. I’ve never interacted with the blogger I was reading before, and I don’t think this is how I want to introduce myself.

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#sexuality and lack thereof #oh look an original post #don’t you hate when you can’t track down a thing you read? #isn’t it great when you finally manage to find it?

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Hey followers, were any of you the one who reblogged that image with something like “Sex is whatever the people involved find stimulating” on it? (I’m not 100% sure on the phrasing, but that was the gist of it and it definitely involved an inflection of the word “stimulate”.) I remember seeing it…I dunno, maybe a couple weeks ago, and today I was quietly fuming about it, and I thought I’d vent. Thing is, now I can’t find it, and I don’t want to vent about it without being able to point to it.

P.S. I don’t blame you, by the way. The problem is easily missed. (Hell, I was only just fuming about it now.)

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#sexuality and lack thereof #oh look an original post #don’t you hate when you can’t track down a thing you read?

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