Luke Gompertz

You’re describing the Zelda 2 instruction booklet, not Zelda 1

In Zelda 1 Link is just a passer-by who ends up on a military campaign. Zelda 2 involves him discovering a magical destiny, achieving personal growth, and ultimately overcoming his personal demons. It's very much about Link in the way Zelda 1 simply wasn't.

Oh no guilty as charged.

Wait am I doing it right now?

Did you know? Individuals with a persistently low interest in sex have been observed many mammal species, including rats, gerbils, rabbits, sheep, goats, cows, and rhesus monkeys

While we shouldn't ascribe orientation to animals, such findings do debunk the idea #asexuality is 'unnatural'.

Did you know? Asexuality was mentioned in 1907 by US activist Carl Schlegel who said – “Let the same laws for all the intermediate stages of sexual life: the homosexuals, heterosexuals, bisexuals, asexuals, be legal as they are now in existence for the heterosexuals”

#asexuality

Studies almost always find that asexual men are much less common than asexual women (sometimes at a ratio of 10:1!). Do you think this is a real effect, or just men facing greater barriers to identifying as ace?

To me it seems like probably both.

Thank you. Whenever I occasionally get feedback like this it’s always nice to hear 💜

Taking place Friday 29th November and Saturday 30th November at Camden People’s Theatre in London, Too Hot Too Cold Just Right is a play exploring the spectrum of asexual and aromantic identities,

• thinking you're just a late bloomer (or picky) and waiting for the moment that sexual attraction comes to you but it never does;
• feeling aesthetic or platonic attraction and mistakenly labelling it sexual attraction.
(16/16)

• thinking "I'd know if I were gay so I must be straight";
• thinking "I'm not attracted to the opposite gender, so I must be gay";
• thinking "I feel the same way about both men and women so I must be bi/pan";
(15/16)

• missing or not understanding sexual innuendos;
• not realising that sex dreams are real or happen as often as they do;
• not realising that it's normal to think of other people while masturbating;
• thinking that people only involve others in sex because of social expectations;
(14/16)

• thinking that everyone is exaggerating or ironic or being immature about sex and that really they all see it the same way you do;
• not understanding / thinking it's a joke when people say they would have sex with a certain stranger (especially when based only on appearances);
(13/16)

• appearances of sex in fiction often seeming random, out of place, or uninteresting -- perhaps you prefer genres that tend to avoid the topic (e.g. children's media); perhaps regularly averting your eyes or skipping sex scenes even when watching/reading on your own;
(12/16)

• not understanding why kissing is seen as non-sexual (e.g. acceptable to do in public)
• thinking kissing is strange and not understanding why people would want to do it
• wondering how people would have first come up with the idea of sex before modern society existed to tell them about it;
(11/16)

• not understanding why people seem to think romance can only happen if it involves sex;
• not seeing why people act as if cuddling and /or sleeping in the same bed implies a sexual relationship;
• not understanding why kissing is seen as sexual;
(10/16)

• not understanding what it is about sex that makes cheating in a relationship particularly frowned upon compared to other activities with another person outside the relationship;
• finding flirting confusing or failing to even notice it;
(9/16)

• wondering why people pursue sex when it seems to just be messy and something that complicates relationships;
• feeling like people place too much emphasis on sex in relationships - for example, perhaps you would use dating apps for a relationship when other people are mostly looking for sex
(8/16)

• finding yourself unable to relate to the idea that someone could need sex;
• not understanding why people find abstinence difficult;
• not understanding what would ever motivate someone to cheat in a relationship;
(7/16)

• wondering why everyone else seems to find sex so interesting, and hence feeling like the odd one out;
• being confused when other people’s fantasies include sex;
• forgetting or not realising that other people think about sex;
(6/16)

• pretending to find people attractive when a friend asks;
• saying who you think is attractive by guessing what other people would think;
• not minding that you don’t feel attraction but being made to feel inadequate by society for it;
(5/16)

• pursuing sex as an intellectual curiosity rather than due to attraction
• feeling like you could go the rest of your life without sex
• not feeling that sex is much different to masturbation
• not really understanding why sex is supposed to be better
when it involves another person
(4/16)

• deciding that you would ‘put up’ with sex because it seems like a requirement to have an intimate relation- ship;
• feeling your ideal relationship would be one that doesn’t include sex;
• having sex but ‘not getting what all the fuss is about’;
• being repulsed by the idea of sex;
(3/16)

• finding people aesthetically appealing, but that’s as far as that feeling goes;
• the idea of sex never occurring to you on its own;
• finding conversations of a sexual nature especially boring;
• finding yourself consistently not initiating or suggesting sex with your partners;
(2/16)

I often hear from questioning people the most useful thing to see is a list of common ace experiences – so here is one such list. (Please use this with care. These experiences aren't universal and non-asexuals will relate to some of them.)

🧵(1/16) #asexuality

"I do not want to be thought of as 'unhealthy' or 'abnormal.' I am living in the way that is right for me."

– Quote from a self-described asexual in a Dear Abby letter from 1981.

You could also just save the link to a post as a browser bookmark.

A flag consisting of 5 horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: green, light green, white, grey, black.

Did you know? The colour green was originally chosen for the aromanticism flag since it's the opposite of red on a colour wheel. (And red is the colour most commonly associated with romantic love.)

A scan of a paragraph on a newspaper or magazine page. A title reads "SENSUALITY" under which there is one paragraph reading "As in the Asexual Manifesto, I knew that I liked, that I needed, physical contact with other humans. Since I took all sexual conotations out of this, I picked up on the concept of sensuality; simply enjoying physical pleasure in one's body."

Scan from an 1976 article in an gay magazine which discusses asexuality in some depth [1]. It's interesting to see how the Asexual Manifesto has echoed through time up to the present day. #asexualhistory

[1]: Turner, Greg (1976). Sexual identity. Gay Liberator, issue 48, 1976, p. 6.

That makes a lot of sense – so one might argue that "read" applies to audio books as a way of automatically getting the value/credibility of that word.

My own view is that "read" has always applied to audio books. I've only heard people contest this online, and never for an interesting reason.

Nothing new sadly