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Celebrate Your Identity #1
You Are Asexual
IT'S ORIENTATION DAY!
You're a student at The Consortium's Facility 4, and you've been waiting for this day for years. It's the day you will be given your sexual orientation! But something happens during the procedure... You feel nothing as spontaneous amorous cavorting breaks out all around you. You flee the room, dodging attempted kisses and parrying awkward hugs, barely managing to keep your jumpsuit fully zipped. You catch your breath in the hall outside...
...and what happens next is up to you!
A floating sky city! A magical ring! An army of crows! A dragon-riding, vengeance-seeking Lesbian! A cake themed asexual speakeasy! A fatal car chase! And the nefarious Consortium, hiding the truth behind Orientation Day! You get to choose! Where will your journey take you?
You're a student at The Consortium's Facility 4, and you've been waiting for this day for years. It's the day you will be given your sexual orientation! But something happens during the procedure... You feel nothing as spontaneous amorous cavorting breaks out all around you. You flee the room, dodging attempted kisses and parrying awkward hugs, barely managing to keep your jumpsuit fully zipped. You catch your breath in the hall outside...
...and what happens next is up to you!
A floating sky city! A magical ring! An army of crows! A dragon-riding, vengeance-seeking Lesbian! A cake themed asexual speakeasy! A fatal car chase! And the nefarious Consortium, hiding the truth behind Orientation Day! You get to choose! Where will your journey take you?
140 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 11, 2021
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January 3, 2022
Asked for this for Christmas and then spent the afternoon reading through to every single ending. I never knew where any of the paths would lead, and they had so many styles of story including fantasy and dystopian heroic depending on which way you go. Very entertaining!
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February 14, 2023DNF because I've died twice I guess, and this is the most stupid thing ever.
December 4, 2021
This book is so much fun! Not really sure when I will be able to finish it though, so many options! (Loved the one with p.123 <3)
November 18, 2025
CW: Acephobia, Implied Death, Sexual Content, Implied Conversion Therapy
4 / 5 Stars
This is a choose your own adventure type book and some endings are action filled, some magical, some hopefull(including you ending in a QPR with someone) and some just sad. (See CW)
I really loved these types of stories when I was younger and I think this does a really well job, too. Will hold myself back from saying more because each route isn’t very long in and off itself so I dont wanna spoil it. But this was nice. ♡
4 / 5 Stars
This is a choose your own adventure type book and some endings are action filled, some magical, some hopefull(including you ending in a QPR with someone) and some just sad. (See CW)
I really loved these types of stories when I was younger and I think this does a really well job, too. Will hold myself back from saying more because each route isn’t very long in and off itself so I dont wanna spoil it. But this was nice. ♡
January 4, 2023
You Are Asexual is a light and silly branching novel about everybody suddenly getting their orientation on Orientation Day. Except it didn’t seem to work on you. You’re not sure why, possibly because you haven’t yet read the title of the novel you star in.
From there it branches into 29 endings. Some of the endings are standard sudden deaths (which were a mainstay of the branching novels that I read as a kid). Other endings seem to touch on the many very real possibilities open to aces, from platonic roommates to finding community to engaging in activism. There are also a few endings that are honestly pretty dark, or possibly triggering if you have certain traumatic experiences (in particular, there’s one sex scene that’s there to be deliberately awkward).
In a way, the darker endings justify the literary value of making this a branching path story—it can explore dark outcomes while allowing you to immediately undo them with a mere flip of the page. You feel broken and confused? Maybe back up and read this other ending where you’re a dragon! But maybe it’s absurd to talk about the literary value of something so low brow. It was good for a short read on my hour-long flight.
On a technical note, I read an ebook version, even though that’s obviously not the classic experience. It did not work on Nook. But on the Kindle there are hyperlinks to send you to each page number and it was fine.
From there it branches into 29 endings. Some of the endings are standard sudden deaths (which were a mainstay of the branching novels that I read as a kid). Other endings seem to touch on the many very real possibilities open to aces, from platonic roommates to finding community to engaging in activism. There are also a few endings that are honestly pretty dark, or possibly triggering if you have certain traumatic experiences (in particular, there’s one sex scene that’s there to be deliberately awkward).
In a way, the darker endings justify the literary value of making this a branching path story—it can explore dark outcomes while allowing you to immediately undo them with a mere flip of the page. You feel broken and confused? Maybe back up and read this other ending where you’re a dragon! But maybe it’s absurd to talk about the literary value of something so low brow. It was good for a short read on my hour-long flight.
On a technical note, I read an ebook version, even though that’s obviously not the classic experience. It did not work on Nook. But on the Kindle there are hyperlinks to send you to each page number and it was fine.
July 14, 2024
"Kendi maceranı seç" türündeki kitaplara karşı hep bir zaafım vardır. Hikayenin nasıl da farklılaşabileceğini görmek, anlatının dallanıp budaklanmasını seyretmek ve aynı maceraya tekrar tekrar girişmek hoşuma gider. Bu kitabı konusu itibariyle "tadımlık bir şeyler" olarak algılamıştım ve sırf meraktan okumak istemiştim. İyi bir şeyle karşılaşacağımı düşünmemiştim. Muhtemelen okuduğum en iyi kendi maceranı seç kitbı çıktı.
Hikaye yalnızca olaylar bağlamında değil, edebiyat türü olarak da farklılaşıyor. Buna rağmen, her seçimde bambaşka yerlere gidiyor olmamıza rağmen arka planda dönen settingin tutarlılığını korumayı da beceriyor. Üstelik, minik minik yerleştirilmiş "easter egg"ler ile mevzuya hakim kişilerin gönlünü de kazanıyor. Takdir ettiğim şeylerden bir diğeri de karakterin his ve tepkilerinin, kaderinin ve bakışının çok doğru yansıtılmış olması. "Aseksüellik nasıl bir şeydir?" sorusuna herhangi bir akademik metinden çok daha iyi cevap verdiğini düşünüyorum. Ha, bir sekans dışında neredeyse hiçbir yerde aseksüelliğin spektrum özelliğine değinmiyordu ama... Bir kitaptan hakikati sunmasını da bekleyemeyiz zaten.
Her bir yolu tek tek denedim, her bir kısmını inceledim ve hemen hemen hepsinden çok keyif aldım. Şiddetle öneririm. Lakin, minik bir uyarı, sex repulsed kişilerin gerilebileceği birkaç sekans içeriyor. Eğer dişinizi sıkarak da olsa ilerleyebiliyorsanız kitabı okumanızı öneririm. Değilse de sağlık olsun.
Hikaye yalnızca olaylar bağlamında değil, edebiyat türü olarak da farklılaşıyor. Buna rağmen, her seçimde bambaşka yerlere gidiyor olmamıza rağmen arka planda dönen settingin tutarlılığını korumayı da beceriyor. Üstelik, minik minik yerleştirilmiş "easter egg"ler ile mevzuya hakim kişilerin gönlünü de kazanıyor. Takdir ettiğim şeylerden bir diğeri de karakterin his ve tepkilerinin, kaderinin ve bakışının çok doğru yansıtılmış olması. "Aseksüellik nasıl bir şeydir?" sorusuna herhangi bir akademik metinden çok daha iyi cevap verdiğini düşünüyorum. Ha, bir sekans dışında neredeyse hiçbir yerde aseksüelliğin spektrum özelliğine değinmiyordu ama... Bir kitaptan hakikati sunmasını da bekleyemeyiz zaten.
Her bir yolu tek tek denedim, her bir kısmını inceledim ve hemen hemen hepsinden çok keyif aldım. Şiddetle öneririm. Lakin, minik bir uyarı, sex repulsed kişilerin gerilebileceği birkaç sekans içeriyor. Eğer dişinizi sıkarak da olsa ilerleyebiliyorsanız kitabı okumanızı öneririm. Değilse de sağlık olsun.
August 15, 2023
You wake up filled with excitement! Today is the day everyone's been waiting for! It's Orientation Day, the day everyone is given their sexual orientation.
Warnings: aphobia
Welcome my aspec friends to a choose your own adventure just for us. You make choices for an unnamed protagonist as they make their way through a centre for revealing people's sexualities on what is called Orientation Day the day that information is revealed to everyone. But something goes wrong. Your choices decide how our protagonist's day ends.
Think of the set-up as a little bit like a less extreme version of the factions from Divergent. Spoiler? a little... but your experience will not be the same as mine. I like it as a rather direct way to challenge heteronormality. Honestly, I am not sure what this is supposed to be. I like it, it seems to have an interesting premise. But something about it feels not quite complete, either that or I'm yet to make the right choices. Keep rereading and make different choices, there are so many endings each one gives you just that little bit more information. Just be aware of the aphobia, minor violence and potential conversion therapy.
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January 13, 2024
3 stars for the sheer variety of stories within.
Out of the possible endings there are:
There's amazing variety in the types of endings and journeys the main character can go on; however the characterization for the side characters is a little lacking and they show up often enough for my liking (especially Tariq!! I want to know more about him!) so it only gets a 3/5
Out of the possible endings there are:
There's amazing variety in the types of endings and journeys the main character can go on; however the characterization for the side characters is a little lacking and they show up often enough for my liking (especially Tariq!! I want to know more about him!) so it only gets a 3/5
August 14, 2022
This book is SO fun! I’m going to recommend it so often!
I only got through 5/29 of the endings, but I can’t wait to read them all.
I also feel like as someone who doesn’t identify as LGBTQIA+, this book helped me to understand people who are ACE. It was informative, fun, and the short pages made reading through it a breeze. I need more of these books!
I only got through 5/29 of the endings, but I can’t wait to read them all.
I also feel like as someone who doesn’t identify as LGBTQIA+, this book helped me to understand people who are ACE. It was informative, fun, and the short pages made reading through it a breeze. I need more of these books!
February 13, 2022
I am aro ace and I love Choose Your Own Adventure style books, so seeing this book felt like it was made for me. It definitely wasn't perfect, but it was a fun little read!
August 11, 2022
An interesting take on a CYOA book! Goes from mundane endings to really out there endings really quickly 😂
December 14, 2022
lmao this was fun!
first run-through i turned out to be a martyr for the asexual revolution 🤺 did not expect that haha
first run-through i turned out to be a martyr for the asexual revolution 🤺 did not expect that haha
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