Luke Gompertz
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Luke Gompertz
@asexuality-handbook.com
Author of the Asexuality Handbook (https://www.asexuality-handbook.com/) and lead moderator of r/asexuality. Previously known as "@GlasgowAce" in the other place.
You’re describing the Zelda 2 instruction booklet, not Zelda 1
December 10, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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.
December 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Oh no guilty as charged.

Wait am I doing it right now?
December 9, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Thank you. Whenever I occasionally get feedback like this it’s always nice to hear 💜
November 29, 2024 at 6:13 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
• 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)
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM