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Dear fellow Arcane and Trigun fans...

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the romance repulsed allo aro feeling of "we can fuck and be affectionate so long as you're not romantically interested, but for the love of god don't hug me or kiss me if you're romantically interested in me, I feel like I want to run away and I can never wash the feeling off"

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As we grew up my cousin and I would steal eachothers hyperfixations.

However this escalated drastically when she stole all of my romantic attraction smh

What made y’all aroallo, wrong answers only

{do not tag as ace or aroace}

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I just wanted to talk somewhere about how much the relationships in Trigun and specifically Vashwood mean to me as an aromantic person.

I want to start out by saying that I have seen that for some aromantic people the term « queer platonic relationship » still doesn’t perfectly define what our close relationships are like, and I also feel this way, but I will be using that term in this for now since it’s the closest we have for the moment.

I say this because to me the relationship between Vash, Wolfwood, Meryl and Millie feels like what I would want in a qpr. They all obviously love and care about each other deeply in a way that can be interpreted as more than friends but isn’t exactly romantic either. And I love that Nightow never explicitly confirms any of the possible romantic relationships in the story to be such, because that means it is totally possible that these characters love each other this deeply without any romantic attraction.

Vashwood specifically is so incredibly important to me in this way. I was discovering I was aromantic at the exact same time as I was reading Trigun Maximum, and Vash and Wolfwood’s relationship honestly helped me realize I was aro because I realized it was possible to love in the same way as these two do without it being romantic. Nightow wrote them in such a way that the reader can choose to interpret whether they are platonic or romantic but that either way they love each other deeply, to the point that I have seen many describe them as soulmates. I personally describe their relationship as something deeper than friends but not necessarily romantic.

Reading about their relationship reminded me of exactly how I experience love for the people in my life and helped me a lot in not feeling sad when I finally realized I don’t experience romantic attraction. Because I already experience a lot of love that falls into this category and I don’t need romance to be happy.

On the more headcanon side, since the relationship is open to interpretation, I have kind of taken to imagining Vashwood/just the whole team as my ideal qpr where they are all platonic but sometimes have sex about it. I don’t often feel like the shipping communities in fandom are friendly enough for me to talk about a headcanon like this, but with Trigun I have found so many of the shippers to be so friendly and accepting of specifically the multishipping and the trans headcanons for the characters that I hope that maybe my qpr headcanon would be accepted as well.

So if you’ve made it to the end of this post, thanks for reading and if you’re queer haven’t watched and read Trigun I highly suggest it. It has such amazing writing, themes and a canon trans woman! (Elendira ❤️)

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No, but let’s talk about how they sell us romance.

Let’s talk about how romance is packaged as Friendship But Better. Let’s talk about how getting into a relationship is always seen as a positive, and not an if, but a when. Romantic partners are supposed to be caretakers, best friends, personal chefs, cleaners, mothers, lovers. Who wouldn’t want one?

I put myself through terrible, stressful relationships, because no one taught me that romance wasn’t the quest everyone was tasked with at conception. Had I known that my warped perception of romance wasn’t truly romance, I would have realized I was aromantic sooner. I wanted the romance society sold me. That romance isn’t real.

We often blame ourselves for not seeing the signs of our aromanticism, but how could we? When love is packaged as the one thing we can all relate to and experience, of course we would bend definitions to fit.

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I only figured out I was aromantic recently after my last partner ended our relationship. It was ended for their mental health, and our time together had felt so ordinary that I was confused at why I felt so relieved that the relationship had ended.

I looked back at my past relationships and realized a pattern. I would go in with interest but that interest would fade the longer I was with them. It left me feeling inadequate and like I wasn’t giving them the attention they deserved, especially since they were giving me that attention I felt I couldn’t return.

I then found out you can hyperfixate on people and realized that that was what I was mistaking for romantic attraction. It sent me down a rabbit hole of research where I learned about the split attraction model and discovered the reason I had so much trouble figuring out my sexuality was because I assumed aromantic and asexual had to go together. I am aromantic but I’m not at all asexual and I didn’t know that was an option.

But I’m glad I know now because it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I don’t need to try and force myself into a romantic relationship just because I’m « supposed to ».

storytime invitation?? i guess thats what youd call it

how did you know you were aromantic/asexual/aroace?

i knew i was ace from the moment i learned what sex was, like ummm!!! you can keep that to yourself actually

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actually when period cramps happen to trans folks that’s because the uterus knows it isn’t wanted. it’s trying to chef boyardee it’s way over to a trans woman who will cherish it.

girl come get your dog it is biting me from the inside.

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Reuploading my Vash art (my account was deleted) so I'd appreciate some reblogs to get the word out.

Combo of Stampede and Trimax Vash ...this version of him has my heart racing.

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I need you all to see my vision

Vash and Wolfwood in these

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Listen, I am aromantic, but it's getting cold and dark and I so desperately want somebody who I can cuddle under my covers with, somebody I can teach to dance, somebody I can drag outside at night when we're supposed to be inside, and it's so cold that it could start snowing any minute, or maybe already be snowing, and then we would go and sit in the dark at the lake with the lights while listening to Taylor Swift and sharing my headphones, and then dancing around outside to mirrorball and not caring who sees us because we are so madly platonically in love with each other that we only care about the other. I want somebody to drag around charity shops while I plan my Halloween costume, and my birthday outfit, and the outfit for the various Christmas parties I will take them too- even the one hosted by the church that I usually end up just sitting in a side room watching whatever Nativity movie they put on for the entire time. The kids would ask if we were dating, and we'd just look at each other and giggle, while my parents and grandparents who are watching us bicker over an Uno game are thinking about how pure our love is. Kisses are always an option, but never pushed for, and even if the other person liked me romantically they would be okay with and understand how I don't feel the exact same way, but I still love them so so much. Like a platonic soulmate. We would share clothes, and I'd save them a piece of my birthday cake, if they weren't already there for it. We would go on walks together, and they would be one of the first people I call when the cold weather is affecting my mood or my health, and then they would come over unprompted with something sweet and a hoodie. We would both chill on my bed, not caring about how cramped it is or the fact that my bed is a high rise so we can't sit up straight, because we don't have any trouble with being close to the other, and on days where it may be hard to be physically close to someone, they would sit back patiently and read me a chapter of whatever book we had picked up, pausing to add their own witty comments and applauding me when I guess what will happen next accurately. We wouldn't even necessarily be 'dating'- and we wouldn't label what we had as romantic, despite the dates and the kisses and the cuddles, and we'd both be fine with it. We would just exist together, in the same space, comfortably.

I want to be wanted.

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Here’s my Vash is so Transgender presentation:

Pls reblog this with more ideas/pictures to add to it! I wanna make this the best Vash the stampede presentation ever!!!

People I said I’d tag under the cut

@fjfjrjrhfj @touyubesposts @tophamhat-kyo @gaycowboyjesus @tryg-n-tyra @pompompotato @closedrop @lee-the-yeen @aro-ace-anarchy @genderbendqueen @lozkathy017 @teleplort @luranana @aspensews @boilinghotsoupandcrackers @avragesimp @rosesandzircon @denalisecho @athaerys @coralwastelandzombie @letsrevince @roses-n-stars @drewpydream @babushka-pirata @nico-the-overlord

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I’m making a presentation on how trans Vash the stampede for my gay club meeting please reblog with pictures and reasons why he is just so trans

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Gays of the trigun fandom. I have a question.

So I know it's been a joke among the fandom (or at least the corner of it I hang out in) that LGBTQ+ people love trigun in particular. Cishets may like trigun, but we LOVE it. And I wanted to ask if any of you had any idea as to why. I love it when theories get thrown around, and I have some ideas but nothing solid.

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For me the answer is twofold. One side is the different depictions of love that others have mentioned in their reposts and such. I love that not all the love depicted is strictly romantic and that it’s messy sometimes. And especially that the gender of the characters almost doesn’t even matter to their love, they love the person specifically and to me that feels a lot like how queer folk love, especially in trans spaces.

The other side is just to me a lot of the characters just give me each a different trans vibe. Like I saw someone on twitter describe the Trigun characters as Schrödinger’s transgender, because depending on the fanwork, they could be depicted as trans or cis and you don’t know unless they take their clothes off. And I think there is a reason this has occurred because all of the characters just kinda give off a vibe that feels queer to me as a fellow queer human. Like, Vash, Knives, Elendira and Zazie feel like the most obvious characters that give trans vibes/are canonically trans, but Wolfwood, Livio, Merl and Milly also tend to give me these vibes too. Like WW and Livio’s whole thing about the disconnect between the self and their physical body feels very trans to me. I know I got trans vibes from Meryl and Millie too but I haven’t had a chance to reread and define what caused me to get those vibes yet since I kind of attached more to the masc characters on my first read since I tend to get more gender envy from masc characters.

That is a plan in my future tho. I find the fact that so many queer folk have attached to this story very interesting. I feel like I could write a whole thesis on this I swear.

Gays of the trigun fandom. I have a question.

So I know it's been a joke among the fandom (or at least the corner of it I hang out in) that LGBTQ+ people love trigun in particular. Cishets may like trigun, but we LOVE it. And I wanted to ask if any of you had any idea as to why. I love it when theories get thrown around, and I have some ideas but nothing solid.