Happy New Year to you and the rest of House TinLex!

Hello from the cold and distant past...! 2026 sure looks cozy from your point of view~

Sadly, I'm the "need sound directly beamed into my brain" kind of Autistic(TM) and headphones (at least the ones I've tried so far) just don't do it for me.

Also, you mentioning headphones makes me think of your Z-A player character. 😄

Sat down and watched this finally and just...this. All this. It's a big part of why I've stopped consuming mainstream media and prefer independent storytelling.

Oh, man, I could write an entire fucking novel about all this. tl;dr I'm so over the cis white male normative-centrism both in mainstream fiction and in real-life queer spaces and I'm too tired to write anything more coherent at the moment but also thank you for showing up here, Carlo. ✨

bsky.app/profile/stop... New Alex lore just dropped, and BlueSky counts every single interaction on every single post in a thread as a separate notif. 😆

- the situationships, FWB, hookups, flirting etiquette, polyamory, open relationships, what does or doesn't count as thirsting, etc. - when I haven't even begun to understand my own generation's queer dynamics.

And honestly? The more I look into it, the more intimidated I get.

...once had an intimate connection with another person, no kissing, no sex, not even so much as holding hands or at least a confession of something beyond friendship. I find myself in a world where I have to navigate the seemingly labyrinthine dynamics of queer interpersonal connections -

This has led to a very unusual situation wherein I feel like I'm well into a lifelong journey, but am hopelessly naive and inexperienced at the same time. While both my exes and I often RP'd sex and lighter forms of intimacy, again, those relationships were completely online - IRL, I've never...

...like the plague, it also means that I haven't been able to meet other queer people IRL who might be closer to me in interests and personality. This also holds true online: I do okay (I think) in 1-on-1 convos with a few people, but I fall apart in Discord servers.

...the aforementioned social anxiety: when I moved off campus after uni and couldn't find a job, that meant that I spent pretty much every waking moment physically alone, something that continues to this day outside of work. While I never enjoyed the whole partying/clubbing scene and avoided it...