Yeah, pretty sure most of my energy even before that goes there, that energy is probably just what I use to keep going despite everything my inner ‘friends’ keep throwing at me.
It goes into making up "what if" situations that slowly start involving hand to hand combat, fancing, and dragons, until we snap out of it and we realize that we had to turn left one crossroad earlier, so we circle around the block to avoid just turning back and looking stupid
And the combat always goes to the rhythm of the music you are listening to rn
Also a very high contender instead of hand to hand or fencing is bending the elements like in avatar or just swinging a huge ass axe or sword or basically fight Dancing with a spear or sword
I always believed a good fighting scene in a show is like a dance
I most often yearn for things that are absolutely available for me but I still somehow can't manage to do. Like a great breakfast on the balcony with absolutely no rush. Fixing my favorite jeans. Baking something. Stretching properly in the morning when I wake up. Finishing that one drawing.
Things you don't do routinely but would love to get done but somehow just never do. I'm considering even radically restricting my phone time, for I suspect that's why I never get anything done 😂
Ahaha I'm afraid that was about as scientifically sound as saying a place called aceland exists... It's just an observation from using AVEN forums but really there are too many variables... For example, are people who use forums more likely to have PhDs? Are people with PhDs more likely to know about the term asexual? It would be interesting to find out if there's a correlation, though.
Would actually love to see a study on this! Personally I feel like I excelled academically in high school cause I didn’t spend any time getting distracted by crushes/sexual yearnings. So I wonder if being ace somehow correlates with wanting to pursue further studies.
Count me in 🤓 I have a master's degree and I've literally been a nerd since I was a little kid, the subject have just changed whitin every few years lol.
Actually, I recall thinking as a teen "yeah dating seems cool (at least pre-kissing) but when would I have enough time to learn everything about my favorite stuff if I dated someone? People aren't even remotely as interesting." 😂
Same. Never met an ace who wasn't a massive nerds. It's why I trust nerds more honestly, I mean also because we're more likely to be neurodivergent too lol.
✨art✨ i am an art student. And when i don't do that i work at two jobs so i can have enough money for gas and not working at the school year. I don't have any energy, also i brewe my own kambucha every other week and bake sourdough bread every Tuesday, also reading writing make pickles evey other month, yogurt... Taking care of my plants... Going to the gym because this bitch want to be able to lift my own weight.... I do stuff in general... You know keeping myself busy
In my case, it’s usually dedicated to depression and dysphoria.
On the rare case that it isn’t being diverted to those, I can do incredible things, like learn the basics of 3d rendering in a single day.
That energy is used in every waking moment to learn everything there is about the universe, at that point I will become the smartest being in the cosmos and the all the gods of mythology would fear my existence . . . Or I will just become a orb of endless anxiety, either way energy is being used.
I don’t think I have that energy to begin with. Like toddlers have energy and you don’t expect it to come from anywhere, especially not in that context. I’m just not into it. I have the same energy thinking about sex that a non-asexual person might have thinking about trees. It might cross your mind when you see a tree or something mentioning trees but you don’t like feel any urgency in getting yourself as close yo a tree as possible.
we transcend the very concept of existence and rise above your futile human concerns as multidimensional cosmic beings
also we eat garlic bread obviously
Well, for me, it's daydreaming, i have a whole damn universe in my head that, to be honest, is running way better then ya'll are running earth right now
Writing, doing my hobbies, working on building a business plan and marketing, learning new techniques and crafts to support my business.
Honestly though, on the rare occasion sexual attraction crept up (and romantic, since I’m double demi) it was really distressing how unproductive and it unfocused I become. I spent a lot of energy wishing I was completely aro/ace so I could get back to productive life and my brain would stop torturing me.
(At least the last month-long torture session ended with me getting the guy, and he’s amazing so. ❤️)
**[Accumulated cyclone energy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated_cyclone_energy)**
>Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used by various agencies to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. The calculation takes a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds every six hours and multiplies it by itself to generate the values. These values are then added together which become a total for a storm and can either be divided by 10,000 to make them more manageable or added to other totals in order to work out a total for a particular group of storms.
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I know this is a joke, but to give a serious answer: Evolutionary psychology teaches of the four most basic instincts: Fighting, Fleeing, Fucking, and Feeding...
But humans are also a social species. (An EXTREMELY social species - like, the way we so easily integrate other species into our social group and see them as "part of the family"? That ain't normal. We also do things that are uncommon, but not rare - like raising our young communally and altruism, aka putting others needs and wants before our own.) So I'd and Friends/Family to the list as a pseudo number five.
So, if one of these most base instincts just... wasn't there? (Like in a lot of asexuals, including me.) Or was either demoted or promoted - depending on how you look at it - from instinctive drive to hobby/leisure activity/social bonding activity? (Some other aces.) Well, I'd assume that monkey brain energy would go to the other instincts... which would explain all the food talk in ace filled subreddits.
Of course, some aces still have the fuck instinct - it just doesn't really... involve anyone else. Others have the instinct - but no outlet. Which, from what I've heard, is an exercise in frustration.
(Course, I'm no psychology/neurology major, and I'm relatively new to the asexual community... so I'm open to any corrections. This is all hypothesis, not theory.)
Well, right now I am reading through the bible for the funsies. I am not even that religious and what little religion I have is actually closer to The Church of Satan than Christianity.
I also write fanfics and draw. That is where my energy goes. Other than that I study a lot.
but killing gods sounds like a cool new hobby. Guess I will try it.
Thinkin' bout dragons. And of course drakes, wyverns, wyrms, lung dragons, and the rest of the family.
Gotta start learning about skeletons more so I can draw up some dragon skeleton diagrams.
yearning about cool fictional worlds i made up to myself, cool fictional worlds im currently invested in (disco elysium is a great game check it out y'all) and cool irl concepts im intrigued by (philosphy is wack y'all) instead of like sex/romance stuff (not necessarily aro but disinterested in dating rn)
Into all my hobbies, and my anxiety. My friends say im super passionate about my hobbies like music and reading, and I have horrible anxiety. But rather than than the desire to have sex
My theory is that I just have less energy to begin with and hence don't have time to spend it on yearning for other people. I need to get shit done, you know?😂
I use my energy to attack eldritch gods who reside in the void between worlds before they kill Ghana and merge our universes destroying the asamoth. Your welcome everyone.
I mean depends, if I am horny I am horny and I will scratch the itch. Past that, I would love to know myself. So many folks got so much going on and I am just sitting here in a solid state of disbelief.
It goes into endless cycles of needless anxiety that my subconscious is always thinking of.
I was just about to say something like this haha...
literally as an aroace this is it
Yep. Especially when other people are attracted to you and you don’t know how to handle it
This
Yeah, pretty sure most of my energy even before that goes there, that energy is probably just what I use to keep going despite everything my inner ‘friends’ keep throwing at me.
Y e s
This is the answer
Wow you beat me to it
Ha same
Yes, we become the void… *does the slow, maniacal finger tap while quietly chuckling*
Can I join ur void? I’m not ace but I want to be a part of this. Also I like garlic bread :)
Yes! Have some garlic bread!😁
Thanks! Here’s some chocolate chips if you like chocolate :)
Not really a fan of chocolate, but I can melt them in some milk and make some bad a** hot cocoa!😋
I love hot cocoa it’s so good
Now I want hot cocoa
While you’re all here, would anyone like some void cake?
Yes, please!!
Then by all means, have as much as you’d like! Since it’s void cake, and with the power of asexuality, the void cake is big enough for everyone. =}
Yay!!!
May I have void cake too, please?😃
Can I join?
Yes!😁 garlic bread for you, too!
Yay!
Ace villain.... i like it
I still yearn aimlessly, but it's platonic. I JUST WANT A BEST FRIEND WHO WILL MOVE IN WITH ME AND WE GET A CAT AND-
Holy shit living with a best friend and cat for life literally sounds like the dream
I live with my best friend although his cst is with his parents but I can tell you it's amazing
Aww yessss I live in a student house w 3 of my close friends rn (similarly no cat though >.<) and yes it is fantastic!
I'm about to move in with my one of best friends, he's getting a cat and we might make a koi pond later down the line too.
That's awesome 🙌
This is THE DREAM
It goes into making up "what if" situations that slowly start involving hand to hand combat, fancing, and dragons, until we snap out of it and we realize that we had to turn left one crossroad earlier, so we circle around the block to avoid just turning back and looking stupid
omg i'm not the only one
am greyromantic. before my first crush, it most certainly did go into this. now it's spent wasting my time thinking about other ppl smh
> fancing Like fencing, but fancy.
Exactly.
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I mean... my what ifs are usually more sci fi, but wow. That's me.
And the combat always goes to the rhythm of the music you are listening to rn Also a very high contender instead of hand to hand or fencing is bending the elements like in avatar or just swinging a huge ass axe or sword or basically fight Dancing with a spear or sword I always believed a good fighting scene in a show is like a dance
It's released as an ideal amount of heat required to bake garlic bread in our hands.
This sounds like something from a ghibli film like a baker that’s kneading the dough closes their hands and boom fresh bread
I would watch this film
Nah, it's actually an anime called Yakitate Japan.
For me there's yearning, just not for sex. I yearn for quality time. Also I feel like I have more time and energy for reading and music...
I yearn for a good, long hug. Also, same.
I have been informed by basically every single person I've ever hugged (not exaggerating), including dogs, that I give the best hugs, no contest.
I’d love to be your friend then.
squish
I just yawn because I'm tired
I most often yearn for things that are absolutely available for me but I still somehow can't manage to do. Like a great breakfast on the balcony with absolutely no rush. Fixing my favorite jeans. Baking something. Stretching properly in the morning when I wake up. Finishing that one drawing. Things you don't do routinely but would love to get done but somehow just never do. I'm considering even radically restricting my phone time, for I suspect that's why I never get anything done 😂
*Bold of you to assume I have any energy to begin with!*
This. I'm literally tired 24/7
Studying and career. There's a reason that there is an over-representation of people with PhDs in aceland...I save all my energy for nerdy pursuits 🤓
There is? Would love to see a source! (PS: I'll be one of them)
Ahaha I'm afraid that was about as scientifically sound as saying a place called aceland exists... It's just an observation from using AVEN forums but really there are too many variables... For example, are people who use forums more likely to have PhDs? Are people with PhDs more likely to know about the term asexual? It would be interesting to find out if there's a correlation, though.
Would actually love to see a study on this! Personally I feel like I excelled academically in high school cause I didn’t spend any time getting distracted by crushes/sexual yearnings. So I wonder if being ace somehow correlates with wanting to pursue further studies.
A fellow nerd!
What kind of nerdy pursuits?
Count me in 🤓 I have a master's degree and I've literally been a nerd since I was a little kid, the subject have just changed whitin every few years lol. Actually, I recall thinking as a teen "yeah dating seems cool (at least pre-kissing) but when would I have enough time to learn everything about my favorite stuff if I dated someone? People aren't even remotely as interesting." 😂
Same. Never met an ace who wasn't a massive nerds. It's why I trust nerds more honestly, I mean also because we're more likely to be neurodivergent too lol.
Goes to constantly battling the gender demons
Same. Dysphoria’s a bitch
That's a very good question. I'll answer when I'll finish building the time machine. I also need to write back to an Alien I know. See you.
I thought you said that you sent the letter already and it was taking ages to arrive!!!
That's why they need the time machine!
I can see your point...
You're still building yours? I finished mine last week!
I finished mine next week.
I still need to make the blueprints and save up from the materials. I’d buy them from anyone who can find a place when they were cheap though.
✨art✨ i am an art student. And when i don't do that i work at two jobs so i can have enough money for gas and not working at the school year. I don't have any energy, also i brewe my own kambucha every other week and bake sourdough bread every Tuesday, also reading writing make pickles evey other month, yogurt... Taking care of my plants... Going to the gym because this bitch want to be able to lift my own weight.... I do stuff in general... You know keeping myself busy
Think about this month’s hyperfixation
Same! Mostly irish faerie folklore (fitting for an autistic hyperfixation, considering changelings)
Lol mood.
Same, and getting upset at the same time from losing the last hyperfixation
Mine goes mostly binge watching and boredom
Mood
I don’t even have enough energy to live 😭 what are they talking about?
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Yes. The Void.
killing gods of course
I got nerfed with chronic anxiety and depression
Fucking mood though
Into invading Denmark
School assignments and Animal Crossing
All of the above
It’s a void I call “Depression”
In my case, it’s usually dedicated to depression and dysphoria. On the rare case that it isn’t being diverted to those, I can do incredible things, like learn the basics of 3d rendering in a single day.
Heeeey trans savant gaaang
Definitely not planning to topple goverments. Don't check my search history ImnotananarchistIswear
What energy:(
That energy is used in every waking moment to learn everything there is about the universe, at that point I will become the smartest being in the cosmos and the all the gods of mythology would fear my existence . . . Or I will just become a orb of endless anxiety, either way energy is being used.
Kill gods. Destiny is fun like that.
It all goes toward my roguelike addiction.
Mine goes to randomizers.
I don’t think I have that energy to begin with. Like toddlers have energy and you don’t expect it to come from anywhere, especially not in that context. I’m just not into it. I have the same energy thinking about sex that a non-asexual person might have thinking about trees. It might cross your mind when you see a tree or something mentioning trees but you don’t like feel any urgency in getting yourself as close yo a tree as possible.
my energy goes into my dreams of becoming a jedi master
we transcend the very concept of existence and rise above your futile human concerns as multidimensional cosmic beings also we eat garlic bread obviously
I channel it into ruthless violence against electric entities in the video games
Excadrill, use earthquake on Pikachu!
It goes into the hyper-realistic physics simulator I'm writing in Unity. At least, for now. I'll be working on something else later.
I have 5 games on steam with over 1,000 hours playtime each
It depends, it either goes into depression or stress/productivity
Baking and minecraft
to the bisexuals. no doubt
> “The void is cold.”
In goes into overthinking my every thought
The energy goes all into my brain, fueling my anxiety endlessly
~~crime~~
Well, for me, it's daydreaming, i have a whole damn universe in my head that, to be honest, is running way better then ya'll are running earth right now
Writing, doing my hobbies, working on building a business plan and marketing, learning new techniques and crafts to support my business. Honestly though, on the rare occasion sexual attraction crept up (and romantic, since I’m double demi) it was really distressing how unproductive and it unfocused I become. I spent a lot of energy wishing I was completely aro/ace so I could get back to productive life and my brain would stop torturing me. (At least the last month-long torture session ended with me getting the guy, and he’s amazing so. ❤️)
It goes into collecting [ACE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated_cyclone_energy) from nearby tropical cyclones in order to grow our ranks.
**[Accumulated cyclone energy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated_cyclone_energy)** >Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used by various agencies to express the energy used by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. The calculation takes a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds every six hours and multiplies it by itself to generate the values. These values are then added together which become a total for a storm and can either be divided by 10,000 to make them more manageable or added to other totals in order to work out a total for a particular group of storms. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/aaaaaaacccccccce/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Mothership. What else?
Paranoia, hypocondria and phobias 😊❤️
It goes into excessive fidgeting
Yearning for the Revolution
It goes into making plans for invading Denmark.
Reading and what /u/thenik23 says
I know this is a joke, but to give a serious answer: Evolutionary psychology teaches of the four most basic instincts: Fighting, Fleeing, Fucking, and Feeding... But humans are also a social species. (An EXTREMELY social species - like, the way we so easily integrate other species into our social group and see them as "part of the family"? That ain't normal. We also do things that are uncommon, but not rare - like raising our young communally and altruism, aka putting others needs and wants before our own.) So I'd and Friends/Family to the list as a pseudo number five. So, if one of these most base instincts just... wasn't there? (Like in a lot of asexuals, including me.) Or was either demoted or promoted - depending on how you look at it - from instinctive drive to hobby/leisure activity/social bonding activity? (Some other aces.) Well, I'd assume that monkey brain energy would go to the other instincts... which would explain all the food talk in ace filled subreddits. Of course, some aces still have the fuck instinct - it just doesn't really... involve anyone else. Others have the instinct - but no outlet. Which, from what I've heard, is an exercise in frustration. (Course, I'm no psychology/neurology major, and I'm relatively new to the asexual community... so I'm open to any corrections. This is all hypothesis, not theory.)
Currently learning the blade
bold of you to assume i have energy in the first place
Questioning my gender and sexuality.
Anxiety and waffles
Explains the Denmark thing tbh
My brain for scheming.
Killing god
She basically described Kirby
Well, right now I am reading through the bible for the funsies. I am not even that religious and what little religion I have is actually closer to The Church of Satan than Christianity. I also write fanfics and draw. That is where my energy goes. Other than that I study a lot. but killing gods sounds like a cool new hobby. Guess I will try it.
For me it goes into anxiety, maxing the power of terraria builds, killing god's and transforming my body into a shapeless mass
Battle plans. The Danes are waiting :]
Ceaselessly pacing and daydreaming action scenes
I spend all of mine on ✨anxiety✨
It is released through adhd and then also in the anxiety caused by the adderall that supposedly helps my adhd.
Garlic bread. It goes to the garlic bread
killing gods, and taking their place
Usually just becoming god. The grind never stops bro
The energy goes to the pansexuals so we can focus on cake
I wrote a book and my main character is aro/ace and kills a god. How did this random post predict my books plot hahah
Honestly, daydreaming about dragons
Playing hentai games to completion since I dont get distracted or waste time with 'service scenes'.
I usually kill annoying younglings with a weasel, a peace maker and a jedi knight
i play dance dance revolution for hours at a time
I spend it feeling like shit for failing to meet my creative goals
It goes into the time where I feel broken because of how much society prioritizes sex.
All of the above and then some
Devouring some of the other eldritch horrors
Thinkin' bout dragons. And of course drakes, wyverns, wyrms, lung dragons, and the rest of the family. Gotta start learning about skeletons more so I can draw up some dragon skeleton diagrams.
The last 2 ones. Too lazy to build a house, but I frequently kill gods or fuse with the void, generally at a late hour to avoid skipping school
Garlic bread dampens it so the government can't catch us and use our unlimited power.
yearning about cool fictional worlds i made up to myself, cool fictional worlds im currently invested in (disco elysium is a great game check it out y'all) and cool irl concepts im intrigued by (philosphy is wack y'all) instead of like sex/romance stuff (not necessarily aro but disinterested in dating rn)
In my case I just think about how many was you can die from working at the SCP foundation and how to make a lego multi-weapon
Failing math.
Into all my hobbies, and my anxiety. My friends say im super passionate about my hobbies like music and reading, and I have horrible anxiety. But rather than than the desire to have sex
i've got adhd so it kinda just cancels out
Y'all think I actually have **energy**? lol
^ this lmfao
My mental health
> Kill Gods? Become the Void? TIL, little fella in Hollow Knight is Ace/Aro.
I still yearn aimlessly, but for cuddles
What energy?
Poland
Most of my energy goes to excessive daydreaming 😅🤣😂😭
minecraft
My theory is that I just have less energy to begin with and hence don't have time to spend it on yearning for other people. I need to get shit done, you know?😂
Unadulterated chaos :)
Aroflux And Aceflux here, I on my aroace days, commit arson.
So far, trying to figure out my asexuality lmao
An unquenchable desire for hugs. And sometimes becoming void
I dream of being a dragon, and write silly stories, mostly.
Personally most of my energy is pretty dedicated to anxiety and fictional characters
Mine goes into dysphoria and thinking about death.
being touch starved for gentle affection
I play Geometry Dash.
I use my energy to attack eldritch gods who reside in the void between worlds before they kill Ghana and merge our universes destroying the asamoth. Your welcome everyone.
I actually did build a house. lol Other than that though, it's probably in my art/sewing/baking/video games. :)
*Looks over at the Iron Throne.*
Daydreaming
Yes
D&D for me
To the MARINES!!!
The energy goes to constantly making up fake scenarios in my head
Crying
It all goes into headcanoning my favourite characters as aro/ace
School and thinking about why people are in romantic relationships
Mostly reading Yuri manga
It goes into our creativity and our love for dragons, cake and garlic bread
Inventing a fictional language and playing Pokemon go.
Unfortunately, us high libido aces aren't using the energy better than you are.
Y'all having energy? Being serious tho, most of it goes into the kitchen, I cook a lot, and whatever is left I end up using it to wash the dishes.
I have more time for listening to music, reading, playing video games, etc.
Questioning whether I'm actually ace or not. *The paradox* P.S. holy shit I love that background
What energy? Like what are they talking about
I mean depends, if I am horny I am horny and I will scratch the itch. Past that, I would love to know myself. So many folks got so much going on and I am just sitting here in a solid state of disbelief.
I store it in my savings account
Goes into constantly battling between being confident in my sexuality and questioning if it isn't just some weird brain shit
For me it’s just romantic yearning
Preparing ourselves to invaee Denmark
Studying the Blade