New Chapter Of Eating Alone (finally). I Hope You Guys Enjoy!

New chapter of Eating Alone (finally). I hope you guys enjoy!

Trying to figure out if you’re ace or aro can be so goddamn hard because it’s like, trying to find the absence of something. Imagine you’re at a pond and you want to know if there are any turtles, or fish. Say you find a turtle and you’re like “great! Now I know there are turtles.” Or a fish, now you know for sure there are fish. Or you find both, and now you know for a fact there are both turtles and fish in the pond.

But like, if you don’t find any turtles it might be that there are no turtles or maybe you’re just really shitty at looking for turtles and maybe you THINK you saw a turtle over there or maybe it was just a stick. Maybe there are only a few turtles. Maybe you need to do something special to find the turtles. Maybe a bunch of these rocks are actually turtles but you couldn’t tell them apart. Maybe there are no turtles. You have no idea. Meanwhile some people are saying “Oh there have to be turtles! You’ll find them eventually ;)” or “How many turtles have you found in your pond?” or “Try planting some vegetables at the shore to attract the turtles.” Or “Oh no! What disaster happened to your pond that there are no turtles?” And you’re just standing there wet with an empty net and a tired expression.

But whatever because whether there are turtles or fish or not your pond’s ecology works just fine without them because that’s what eco-communities do they form a system around what they have. You aren’t missing anything if you don’t have turtles you just have a pond system without turtles. If someone tried to change you by pouring a bunch of turtles into your pond it would probably fuck something up.

So you don’t have to be entirely sure. You don’t have to search every inch of the damn pond before you can decide there are probably no turtles. If you want to take the aro or ace label because you think it fits go for it. And if you do find your turtles you can rename the pond. That’s fine.

Not exclusively wheel of time, but I’m about to be tagging it a lot more often. I use wheel of time book spoilers and wot book spoilers

i want to follow more wheel of time blogs but i haven't read the books, so rb this if you tag for book spoilers and maybe tell me in the tags what you tag book spoilers as so i (and maybe other non-readers) can filter it? 🥺

Me: Hey brain?

Brain: yeah bitch what's up?

Me: I'm just wondering, things should be going pretty well, so why are you in a funk and keeping me from doing anything?

Brain: well uh you see-

I had a very long conversation last week with a couple of friends that I play Call of Cthulu with (there’s literally just the three of us). One has read all of the books and the other has never touched them, but we explained the basics of the ajahs without book spoilers (while also trying to make the reds sound reasonable). We argued the non-book reader would be Red if it was just evil channelers, but otherwise would 100% be green. My friend who has read all of them would be white, blue, or brown, but we settled on blue. She’s far too passionate about causes for her to be content with white and far too angry about injustice to just do nerd stuff. The real argument began on whether or not I would be yellow, grey, or brown (and I felt really proud that it was an actual debate). I also put in white, but they both said I didn’t argue enough for it. By the end of it, we settled on grey, but we’re putting it to a vote with the larger group (although I’m pretty sure at this point it’s just yellow or grey).

\I’d like to be brown ajah, but I’m pretty sure I’m gonna lose this.

Also I am aware that you pick your Ajahs, but we’re treating this as a “which one best fits your personality” thing.

A Brief Overview of the Ajahs

One of the long-term entertainments of WOT fandom is deciding which Ajah you’d be in (long before Hogwarts Houses were a glint in anybody’s eye) so, for the benefit of new show people, here is a brief summary of the seven Ajahs Aes Sedai can belong to, sans any other plot or character spoilers. However I guess by definition these are worldbuilding spoilers since we haven’t heard of all of them in the show yet. (This is, in case it’s not obvious, somewhat satirical but I hope not inaccurate in terms of ~vibes~.) 

Keep reading

I’m really enjoying the Wheel of Time show, so I figured I’d do a reread of the books. If anyone wants to do that with me and create an impromptu book club, please do. I’ll basically be posting my thoughts on each chapter as I go through them again. Um... I’m trying to decide how detailed I should be in case anyone reading my posts hasn’t read or isn’t planning to read the books. If anyone actually reads this, lemme know.

Honestly, either way half of the time it’ll probably be making ‘Rand/Perrin/Mat would know how to talk to girls’ or ‘Women probably find him attractive’ jokes.