It's taken me a long time to find a term that actually describes me accurately without long-winded explanations, so when I chanced on "aegosexual", I had a real Bingo! moment. :)

I completely agree. To me, asexuality is about not feeling a compulsion to engage in sex yourself. If one wanted to make a point of aegosexuality belonging into the ace spectrum, I guess one could quote this description of the aegosexual flag: "The aegosexual flag is nearly identical to the asexual flag, but it possesses a triangle with an inverted order of colors. The triangle represents a 'reverse' of asexuality, as aegosexuals are likely to be initially perceived as sexual individuals." :)

Food is indeed bonding! Interestingly, my first ever and favourite fandom has food sharing, cooking and food porn of every kind all over it. I've added that PDF to my reading list; it looks very interesting, thanks!

Thanks for the invitation, but I think I've probably missed your Poetry Fishbowl by now, plus I'm down to 3 and 4 days, respectively, to get 2 stories finished for exchanges, and I'm dragging my feet a bit. It doesn't help that I've been procrastinating by doing friending memes and commenting on meet up posts. :) *facepalm*

I definitely stay quietly in my corner when I'm having one of those phases. There's more than enough negativity in the world, including on the internet, without adding to it by depressing someone else or risking blurting something out without a proper filter. I try to get through faster by writing happy things, if I can at all manage, because that also means that, once I'm more agreeable again, I'll be returning with gifts! :D