hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like
Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"
^ this is all from the wiki btw
I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.
Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.
Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.
With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.
He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.
So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.
Why would I lie about that? Here it is.
Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,
and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)
and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:
What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.
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ok so responding to something earlier i have had this hypothesis for a while and just want some anecdotal info:
sorry only for the AMAB transfemmes. maybe if this is interesting we can do an actual comprehensive survey at some point?
this is only for those that experience ASMR or finds it has an effect, either physical or just enjoyable:
I've experienced frisson since I was a child from so many things. Usually it's when someone else does something to me. (ex. Brushing against the back of my arm, scratching my wrist, scratching/light rubbing of my scalp, light blowing on my ears, light brushing of my neck. Probably more but I can't remember them rn.)
I also got it from specific people's voices (usually feminine but some masculine voices do it to me to). Hearing a crush's voice over voip set me down the ASMR (specifically) pipeline. Ear cleaning videos were my big tingle trigger.
Yep, about 10 years before hormones.
Haven't actually tried ASMR since starting, but frisson from the things I listed above have definitely increased. Especially the wrist and head scratching.
i'll start for myself: im not yet on hormones. just have some in storage lol so soon as i get some other medical stuff taken care of (yay decent health insurance now)
but i do experience it strongly since a child
I thought ASMR was more a thing for people on the autism spectrum than a trans thing? Like the actual nice feelings. I'll watch or listen to an ASMR, especially unintentional ASMR, but I'm not getting a physical sensation from it. It's just kind of... enrapturing and the personal attention is nice. I'm not into the repetitive sounds or lip smacking or whatever, cause I'm not getting any physical sensations.
I've got what people describe as ASMR sensations (tingling up and down the spine etc) from listening to or playing music. We called it SUDS (shivers up and down the spine) or frisson, but never from an ASMR video of someone talking or lip smacking or whatever.
yeah idk. never heard of the autism connection but it makes sense. personally i can't stand mouth sounds but love hair sounds and scratchy stuff and some visual triggers
theres an interpersonal element to ASMR vs frission. which im curious if its hormonally affected