As An Aroace Person With Limited Sexual Experience, No Interest In Watching Porn, And Poor Sex Ed As

as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

I dunno if y’all have read the Malevolent fanfic series A Universe That Doesn’t Care and People Who Do by Supposedtobewriting but ya should it’s incredible. Awesome characterisations, very rich side characters, awesome plots. I’m having a whale of a time.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3073359

Finally, after at LEAST a month of puttering around with it, my design for the King In Yellow!

Heck, maybe I’ll write it

Ok this isn’t gonna be coherent at all but I have been thinking about Arthur being resurrected. Obviously he’s gonna come back messed up but I’m wondering about the physical aspects as well.

The amulet was also used to bring the prince back, and although it isn’t clear how long after his death it was used, that guy was in full zombie mode by that point. He could speak a little bit, but he attacked Arthur almost immediately, doing the classic zombie things.

So… is Arthur effectively a zombie now? Or did he manage to escape that due to only being dead for what half an hour? Does he still need to eat, sleep, ect? Will he get zombie like throughout the season, putting a time limit on the season? Like how John started forgetting things and drifting off cause of the presence of KiY, will Arthur start forgetting things, losing focus, maybe even becoming more aggressive while John is frantically trying to figure out what he did wrong, what is happening to his friend.

On a somewhat darker element, would he pick up the zombie diet? That would not be good, considering their “seeing death” power.

Would John not be able to touch Arthur at any point otherwise he would see his death again?

On a lighter note, could yorick walk him around like he did with the witch? That would be funny… and probably useful when John’s narration isn’t enough for a difficult task.

But also! Does he need to eat an sleep now? John has expressed annoyance, if only mild, at Arthur’s need to eat and sleep. It’s a part of being human John can’t access. And it’s part of being human no one would EVER expect to lose. Arthur losing a physical aspect of being human (rather than psychological) would be an interesting element to explore. It would also put Arthur in John’s position: without being literally human anymore, he will only be human in his emotions and psych.

Probably Kayne with reverse it if it does happen, but who knows?

So so tempted to write a character analysis about John experiencing and managing negative emotions like jealously and fear because those are just as important on his path to humanity as any other one. And they are the kind of emotions that he would have NEVER experienced as the King. Cause the King is an all powerful being who can basically have whatever he wants. And when he doesn’t he goes for bones.

Will include Yellow of course because of the whole “Why does he care about you?” thing

I was sort of avoiding doing human John but now that I’ve done him as part of my obsession over this fic I guess this is my human John.