#Aroace Sam… a concept…

[quietwingsinthesky]

fuck u *queerplatonics your samifer*

[krislgfox]

So, here's quick concepts of Sam, Jade and User from my Farm au! :_]

Some facts about Jade and User(since I already made info about Sam) under below↓

Jade:

-In this au she's mechanic

-She's 30 years old

-As it's already written she's 6'2ft tall(188cm)

-She's lesbian and ace

-Usually she's the one who's very busy right when something special happens

-Knitting is her hobby

User:

-They're decided to live with this gang bcz yes

-The text on the head is able to change to other texts, like "bruh", "ouch", "hehe", "damn" and ect

-The "hair clips" can change its color to Users fav color(I just use my fav color, okie?)

-Can't really hold anything with their "hands"

-As it's already written, they're 5'11ft tall(179cm)

-They're sizeshifter

-They're nonbinary and aroace

-Is it shorts or skirt?

-No shoes only socks

[remidyal]

Game Changer Season 6 episodes, ranked by my personal enjoyment

Because I also enjoy arbitrarily ranking things! If you disagree... I mean, that's fine? I liked every episode this season, just.. I liked some episodes better than others. I'm grouping the Ratfish episodes together, so we've got eight entries. Spoilers for, um, every game changer episode this season, obviously.

#8 Pencils Down:

I'm not as into drawings and all as I am a lot of the other stuff, though this was probably the most wholesome episode of this season. I'm, naturally, opposed to wholesomeness too.

Favorite bit:

The proposed tattoos were a lot of fun.

#7 Ratfish (parts 1 and 2):

I think this one got hurt for me by a couple things - I know absolutely nothing about the show they're mimicking, unlike Survivor or the Bachelor, and I did not particularly enjoy anything directly to do with the Ratfish or understand why I should care about his opinions and arbitrary decisions. I assumed that the cast would recognize who this person was and we'd get some kind of payoff there, but nope. Everything just between the cast was great, though.

Favorite bit:

Honestly there's a ton of quick moments to choose from here, but I think my favorite is Brennan incorrectly going for the seat marked Brennan Lee Mulligan at the end.

#6 The Newlyweb Game:

This one was gentle good fun, I enjoyed everyone involved, there were just more standout moments in some of the later episodes on this list. This is fighting with Pencils Down for the most wholesome episode, or at least the one that would least fit into a saw trap. In spite of that this would be the episode all time of Game Changer I would least be willing to be on, even in the world where I'm not firmly aroace and have a partner - I think I would sooner light myself on fire than let someone I know have full access to my phone.

Favorite bit:

Revealing how many unread emails people had and the shock and judgement at totally reasonable numbers, as someone with around forty thousand unread emails in my primary gmail account dating back to 2004.

#5 Bingo

We're really into tough competition now! I loved this episode, and that it somehow turned into a tormenting Brennan episode even though he wasn't even supposed to be there. This was obviously slightly rigged so that the players in the third set of Bingo were most likely to win (and it was actually impossible for the people on stage) but honestly pulling it off was so good.

Favorite Bit:

I mean, it's the reveal to Trapp and everyone of the existence of the third group of course.

#4 Second Place

First, I know that for meta reasons this should be second, but it's not. Oh well. Sam alleges that this episode wasn't intentionally meant to torment Brennan; I do not believe Sam's lies. Everyone in the world saw the twist at the end coming and it's still funny.

Favorite bit:

Ally declaring that Brennan can ring the gong the loudest and Brennan's brain breaking harder than anything that Sam had actually planned.

#3 Sam Says 3

I can't believe this one's only third. If this is how Sam Says ends - and I have a hard time seeing how a fourth edition can escalate, even outside of the BTS claiming that they see three times as the limit for the same premise most of the time - then what an ending. I'm not sure any other game concept has managed to make the players so consistently tricked. My only critique of it is that I think I like the first couple times at this well just a little bit more, with nothing in this quite matching Ally flying to New York or the Something We'll Have To Bleep energy for me.

Favorite Bit:

It's hard to top the fake Sam body dropping from the ceiling.

#2 Beat the Buzzer

Every episode with the Seven cast is always incredible, and production-wise this seems like the craziest thing they've ever pulled off. Any episode where they break out of just the stage is always good, and I think this is the most extensive use of that they've ever done. Incredible variety, great cameos from Aabria and Persephone, complete manic energy from all three contestants. A+ episode.

Favorite Bit:

There's so much here, but I think mine as someone who worked as a pizza delivery driver was the entire exchange where Rehka just ends up getting the bag with the buzzer and a bunch of loose oreos. Was production prepared with everything that was on that menu or would they have actually ordered breadsticks somewhere to use as a prop?

#1 Deja Vu

Time loop stuff is always a favorite of mine, and pulling one off as an episode is ALREADY a great premise before you even get into all of the other cast and the editing. (Shout out to Siobhan Thompson for being in exactly two Game Changer episodes and them being this one and Escape the Green Room; guess we know what pepper rating she puts down.) Great chemistry between the cast, a truly deranged display from Sam, and of course the Wenis. Genuinely the WEIRDEST episode of the season, too, always a good sign.

It's a shame they already repeated the premise too much to do a follow up to this one...

Favorite Bit(s):

I'm doing two for this one because it's my list and I can.

"This isn't fucking Um, Actually!" with sincere righteous anger.

Everything to do with Zac as Grant, most of all how easy it would have been to just make that Zac as Zac.

[h-didanart]

Question: How many AU Bloodmoons do you have?

BOY AINT THAT A GOOD QUESTION

*slams three notebooks, an iPad, and the phone on the table*

LET US FIND OUT!

Bloodmoons that I have written or drawn about in public platforms where their existences can be confirmed:

Five pairs and a single, these are:

Everyone is alive, for some reason- My takes on Bloodmoon I and Bloodmoon II that appear on a one shot I wrote and a concept I shared here; Dagger and Rifle (placeholder name, I don’t know what else to call him :(), Rabies and Bleed

The Moon and Sun show- The ones from my swap au, which I am still counting because Fang has exactly one line which was meant as foreshadowing tho I don’t know if it worked cuz no one mentioned it; Scythe and Fang

The Bloodmoon One- The ones from… that au (which for some reason I made an alternate timeline for where they’re humans); Bloody and Harvest

Get in losers- The ones from my more silly au where everyone joins the family; Hunter and Harvest

The bffs- The one that got separated and became Jack’s friend, or has Jack as his emotional support bot, and the root world of the Virus!Jack event; Original

Those are the guys you guys can figure out I made rather easily.

Now, having looked through my notebooks and writing spaces, and counting the six Bloodmoons we already have:

Sixteen pairs, two singles, one trio, and one quartet

That’s eleven pairs, one single, one trio, and one quartet more than what you guys know.

Let’s get into their lore, shall we?:

The tree at face value- I was experimenting with family set ups for the Celestials and decided to take things literally, Bloodmoon here would be the child of Eclipse. They were never named.

Creator sucks, deluxe edition- okay, okay, this one is weird, and I’ll admit I wasn’t really thinking it through when I made the concept, ergo it will probably come off as insensitive and weird, which is understandable because I was not thinking through what I was thinking. So, human au, Sun and Moon and Lunar have DID, both Bloodmoons are Lunar’s alters. That’s it. This is one of the two aus in which the twins are younger than 20. Lunar, Hunter, and Harvest.

The RaTc (pronounced ‘rats’)- short for ‘Redhead and traumatized club’, basically a place where I drop all my favorites//ocs that have so many things in common that I can refer to them as being ‘the same guy’. Bloodmoon II was the latest addition. Original and Adaptation

Uno-less afterlife- my take on the ghost versions of the dead SAMS characters, I’m planning to write a one shot for this one when Sun dies (or if, I guess). There’s the first Bloodmoon who’s half melted and kinda disintegrating, and the newer addition of a mutilated Adaptation II. Original and Adaptation, Copy Adaptation

This is what you wanted- that concept I shared sometime last month (?), Bloodmoon wanting to get reprogrammed and getting Eclipse to help them, and then getting amnesia. Ruby and Scarlet

DND mini phase- a simple doodle of Bloodmoon as a vampiric rogue, thing which I don’t even know if it’s possible. They weren’t named

Death game- … I may have watched a Danganronpa let’s play. Look, the concept is neat, and the character designs are cool as hell! That said, I did plan a whole au revolving around the SAMS characters being put in a death game, I’m pretty sure I planned to have the twins kill someone and get away with it because of a loop hole. Bloody and Harvest

Fantasy au- not restricted but definitely inspired by DnD, a magical world where there’s all sorts of creatures and places. The Bloodmoons were vampires that Eclipse got to work for him, and then got out of control. Ruin revived them as a demon on account of being a necromancer. Neither the first or second versions were named

Pure and utter regret- I… I might’ve… I might’ve shipped the twins and Jack at some point— It was a crackship and I don’t even ship them anymore, I‘ve adopted the ‘Bloodmoon is aroace’ headcanon, and y’know, canon is being canon for Jack. They’re really just friends now. Yet, I still have about three digital pages worth of them being all kissy and shit. I feel like shit. Fuck, I even had a name for them. I hate myself. They go by every single name ever given to a Bloodmoon (because this was purely a fun crack ship)

April fools actor au- exactly as it says, Sun and Moon started thinking of ways to bring engagement up for the channel, and then Eclipse popped up, and so they all ran the channel together, bouncing ideas off of one another, and so began the lore episodes. Bloodmoon is a bot that was made by Eclipse from some scraps of code he did originally intend to use to mess with the Celestial twins, now repurposed into a theatre kid. They probably have names but they’re only referred to as Original and Adaptation

I got infected by Magic Girlitis- I was watching a bunch of videos about Madoka Magica, and then I watched the ‘Will you press the button’ video, so now I have magical girl designs for Moon, Sun, and Lunar. I never got to them, but the blood twins would’ve had a really cool introduction and would’ve been a genuinely scary antagonist to our heroes. They weren’t named

Fragment of the ocean- I asked a friend of mine what I should draw for Mermay, they said mermaids and oceanic creatures, I accidentally created an au. Bloodmoon is an apparent human (has never been seen as a mermaid), who after being controlled and used by several people was adopted into the Foxy family. They also have DID, because human. This is the second au where the twins are younger than 20. Bloody, Scythe, Hunter, and Rabies

AAaaaand that’s a wrap! Those are all the Bloodmoons I have come up with!

I think

I hope

🎶I pray that he— uh wrong character

I may have issues

[chaifootsteps]

All this hate on Charlastor fans ALMOST makes me petty-ship it.

I say almost and I won't because I have Rosie and Alastor as LG solidarity besties. And that's because when the pilot rolled out, I thought Alastor was gay based on his words to Angel "And what can you do, my effeminate fella?", then I saw a comment saying he's gay and ran with it not looking back twice (I wasn't in the fandom all these years, I unfortunately disliked the pilot thinking Angel was a walking stereotype and the RACISM, the SEXISM, too much for me even if I loved the concept of HH.)

Tbh, did Viv ever say Alastor was gay at any point? Then perhaps changed it to aroace??? Idk, I remember this very vaguely and it's not like it wouldn't be in character for her to say shit so she escapes criticism/is able to dunk on people via "well, atchually-"

I don't think she did, but I remember the SH crew -- including Sam Miller -- was joking about it him being gay when the first images from the series dropped.

[the-lonelyshepherd]

i am curious about calliope, i feel like i know a lot about the silly cowboyes but not enough about her, what’s she like what’s her story

CALLIEEEEE!!!

the reason i dont post/draw her as much as the cowboyes (yeehaw) is because shes newer, less developed, and deals with a lot of like. directly touchy subjects for myself. also her design changes every 2 days but she does get more decrepit and more middle aged man looking every design lmfao (she is a . newly 18 year old girl.) im just going to say words now its going to be a mess brace yourself

she herself is kind of a mess her whole concept is that she was kind of Weird but like. normaled out. joined the track team. was good at it. was like. kind of in with the crowd. and then it all starts falling apart.

she was very quiet and then very "shut up and go with it" for most of her life and now shes like a confused paranoid wreck because like. she can contain the horrors no longer. shes kind of a dick sometimes kind of unaware of a lot of stuff VERY confused about her entire situation probably iron deficient and oh so very tired. its a very "i dont recognize myself in the mirror but maybe i never knew who i really was" type of story

im still working on the exact rules of the werewolfism ,,,,,,, but im leaning towards making it NOT actually from a bite. for my secret evil Reasons.

originally the plan was to have her be aroace and have a whole Thing about that but now im leaning more towards simply aro (wether that be aroallo or non SAM aro im not sure yet but leaning towards the latter).

she also does llike. experience hallucinations and delusions and paranoid spells like outside of the whole werewolf thing. theyre two seperate problems she has . very confusing and awful for her lmao

the story is more of a vibe and a few scenes than solid right now but its like. setting building (track, friendgroup, home life) -> fakeout (dog bite) -> actually initiating problem (theres several versions of this and im not sure which one im doing yet) -> she has to LEAVE and everything gets fucking crazy and there is no structure beyond this point minus random scenes and throwaway characters (roadkill, hospital, living room, van, cliff,,,,,, idk theres a lot of random scenes, probably something w/her brother )

im. very incoherent aand tired rn but i love her lots and if you wanna get a good idea of Her . then the best i have is her pinterest board

GRIINNNN tysm for asking about her im sorry if this makes no sens e😭

[that-disabled-princess]

Hey uhm... if you don't mind, I have a question for you. I saw in one of your recent posts that you're a fellow non-SAM aromantic. Are you out to anyone irl as aro? If so, how did you explain the whole labeling your "sexuality" (as in, general orientation) without actually labeling your sexuality? Because I kinda wanna come out to my best friend as aromantic and I'm not sure how to do it. I have thought about coming out as aroace (as my experiences are a lot closer to ace than allo) but I'm not really comfortable with the ace label as I simply don't know if it's really accurate. Plus, I'm afraid my friend would miss that I'm aro and just call me ace whenever the topic of orientation comes up (without any bad intentions but still). But I also don't want my friend to assume I'm sexually interested in people.

Do you have any advice, perchance?

(Unrelated to that, I'm happy I found another physically disabled non-SAM aro on here)

Hi! Sorry it took me a minute to answer this, I wanted to give this ask a thoughtful answer.

I am out to irl people as aro. My best friend and my immediate family are the only ones I'm really out out to, though. I don't tend to take the time to explain it unless I actually need to because... you're right. It is so, extremely difficult explaining what being aspec means and all the little nuances of the a-spectrum.

I don't think I ever properly came out to my family either until this year. Just... made some aro jokes and let them assume whatever they wanted. I stopped coming out with every new update a couple years ago. My family is supportive and accepting, and our mom doesn't pressure us into any sort of relationship or anything like that.

Clarification: When I say "family" here, I mean my immediate family only. We're not even gonna touch my extended family.

Now, I did identify as aroace for a bit before realizing I wasn't exactly asexual. But my aromanticism has always been a bigger part of my identity, so as far as I can remember, dropping the asexual label wasn't a huge deal to anyone.

At the beginning of January, though, I did try to explain the concept of being aro without being ace to my family. Since my sibling is aroace, I'm not sure they (my sibling) really got it, but they did accept it. I explained that sexual and romantic attraction are two different things, and that you can feel one without feeling the other. We were running an errand, so it was a bit of a... rushed explanation.

If I'd had more time to explain the differences, though, these would've been some of the examples I used:

First off, one-night stands are a thing. You don't have to be romantically attracted to someone to be sexually attracted to them or to have sex.

You can also have a crush on someone without wanting to bang them.

Therefore, sexual and romantic attraction can be felt separately and are two different things, and alloaces and aroallos and non-SAM aces and aros are valid.

As for your concern about others assuming you're sexually interested in people: for me personally--and I've seen other non-SAM aros talk about this--my aromanticism affects the way I experience sexual attraction. I experience sexual attraction, but not Like Allos Do. My romantic orientation is aro, and my bisexuality is also aro. In a way, it is much closer to the asexual experience, only none of the acespec labels feel right. I don't know what being non-SAM aro is like for you, though, but it sounds like your experiences might be similar, so maybe this explanation can help?

And as for coming out as something you're not... The want to do that really is something, huh?

I'd say it's better to be honest if you're in a safe enough place to do so. (And this is coming from someone who originally came out as a lesbian due to internalized biphobia.) Be honest with your friend and be kind to yourself. Let your friend know that you're still working through some stuff and still figuring things out. If they're a good friend, they'll understand that.

I hope this is helpful and that everything goes/went well, love 💚💚

[negative-speedforce]

OC Fandom Asks! For Kayla and Siv please

1, 3, 7, 10, 15, 19, and 29?

1: Was your OC influenced or inspired by any particular fictional character(s) when you made them?

Kayla is loosely based on the ORIGINAL-original version of Siv, the one from 14-year-old me's DC/Marvel/Percy Jackson/Star Wars crossover. I had some really cool concepts for the later chapters of that one, and I decided to recycle them into a whole new character.

Siv is quite literally the product of a dream I had when I was 13, but overall, while I mostly base my characters' stories and personalities off their playlists, her personality has been influenced by a whole lot of characters. They were influenced by Cassandra from Tangled: The Series, Natasha Romanoff, Reva from Kenobi, Adrien from Miraculous, and a whole lot of other characters from fandoms I've been into over the 7+ years I've had them.

3: What genre would your OC do badly in but it would be hilarious or interesting to watch?

Kayla would absolutely SUCK in a rom-com. First of all, she aroace-spec, second of all, she does not know how to talk to girls- at all. It would low-key be pretty funny to watch her fumble around like that.

Siv would loathe being in a Regency period drama. All those rules and restrictions for how you have to be- she wouldn't be able to stand it. She'd probably end up going apeshit and destroying the castle.

7: If your OC had to cosplay as a fictional character, who would they choose?

Kayla normally isn't the cosplaying type, but I think she'd have a lot of fun dressed up as Sam from Totally Spies.

Siv would probably dress up as some kind of creature from Star Trek. I'm not sure what, but they'd pull it off really well nonetheless.

10: How would your OC do in the last book/movie/tv show/game/etc. you read/watched/played?

Oooh I watched Birds of Prey yesterday with my Grandma (it is her favorite movie) so this will be fun-

Kayla absolutely slays. She's got that vaguely morally gray component to her character that means that she'll probably get along with most of the main cast. Though Harley's personality would probably give her a headache.

I'm actually planning an arc where Siv has to team up with Harley and the Birds of Prey for... plot reasons! I feel like she'd get along best with Dinah and Helena for obvious reasons, but ngl I'm mostly planning this arc because I have the idea of Siv snapping at Harley and telling her to shut up/stop being annoying/etc, and Harley goes all psychiatrist on her.

15: How well would your OC do in a standard slasher movie?

Kayla, being a secret agent, would fare pretty well. Her skills in recognizing patterns and taking down supervillains would be invaluable in a slasher film.

Siv, if they weren't the slasher themself, would definitely make it to the end, and probably end up slashing the slasher.

19: If your OC was in Star Trek’s Starfleet, what would be their role/position? Or, if that doesn’t really fit your OC: why would they get kicked out of Starfleet?

Kayla, being a biomedical engineer in real life, would probably be either the chief medical officer or an engineer in Starfleet.

Siv would get thrown out of Starfleet for starting too many fights and overwhelming her ship's medical supplies with all the injuries she's caused.

29: Gun to their head, what is your OC’s fursona?

I don't even know if Kayla really knows what a fursona is, but if she had to chose, I think she'd go with some kind of bird. Like maybe a blue jay or some other kind of corvid?

Siv isn't a furry, but she made up a fursona as a joke with her friends in high school. It's a lynx that wields a giant battle axe.

[ryanyflags]

hi!! i really don’t know who to ask but it seems like you have a lot of knowledge about this stuff, is there a term for someone who’s romantic and sexual attraction are entertwined? like one type cannot exist without the other / someone isn’t able to separate the concepts? i can’t really tell if that’s aro/acespec or if it’s just demi, any help would be appreciated lol

This vaguely reminds me of ansequencerose, but the opposite. So sequencerose / sequenceromanticsexual?

The wording could be a bit confusion, because follow the original terms' wording, it would be:

only experiencing romantic attraction after sexual attraction is felt, and only experiencing sexual attraction after romantic attraction is felt.

It's a bit weird because it's circular in it's existence. But it could be read as they both have to exist to exist at all, one can't exist without the other.

Though I'm not sure that covers the covers the "isn't able to separate the concepts" part. Which reminds me of non sam (non split attraction model), and ay (non sam aroace(spec)). One meaning of non sam could be experiencing all your attraction one, so not separating them into different attractions / concepts. So maybe you could call it non sam rose (or non sam romanticsexual).

For non sam, it's a label you can add on to anything. You mentioned demi, so you could just do that. And since ay is aroaspec-spec, you could also just use ay.

I feel like there's got to be a specific label for this, but I can't think of one. That part of a-spec terms isn't really my focus. Anyone else want to add on?

[askanaroace]

So I have a question. I don't feel attracted romantically to people and I don't feel any sexual attraction. Am I ace, aroace or am I just picky with people?

*holds up mirror* You're the only one who can answer this, OP!

Identity is not something we are diagnosed with. How we navigate and describe our feelings is totally and completely self-determined.

I don't know how you want to identify. I don't know how each of these labels/concepts makes you feel. I don't know what makes you feel best/most comfortable. I don't know what communicates to others what it is you want to communicate.

And if you don't know that either, that's fine! Throw your ideas in a hat, pick one out, and try that out for a couple of months. For those couple of months, set aside all doubt and inner-fighting. Just let yourself explore how this makes you feel. At the end of the couple months or later, then re-asses how you're feeling and if you want to go ahead and try out something else.

At the end of the day, it's not our labels that matter. It's our feelings. Desires. Thoughts. Boundaries. Needs. Wants. That's what you need to pay attention to.

It's valid to be a non-SAM ace or aro.

It's valid to be aroace.

It's valid to be a late bloomer.

It's valid to be picky and have standards.

It's valid to "technically" fall under some identity term but label a different way that you prefer to label/not connect with that community you might "technically" meet.

It's valid to disregard labels altogether.

I could pick out an answer for you, but then it wouldn't be your answer to your feelings. I can't feel your feelings for you. I can only validate what you do feel. <3

[snurgle07]

What's some of your favorite rarepairs from some of your favorite fandoms?

Ooh that’s a fun one! I'm definitely a big multishipper, and it doesn't take much for me to enjoy a rarepair. Sooo I'm gonna stick to the two major fandoms that have given me brainrot and only name a few because I can ramble for sure haha. I can elaborate more if prompted tho :>

For Mob Psycho 100

QPR Ritshou: Ritshou is by no means a rare pair within the fandom (there is a lot of content!) but I have a very specific vision of them in a queer platonic bond specifically. I like viewing them as more alterous than romantic, mainly because I am attached to the aroace Ritsu headcanon and I love to project. I’d absolutely love to explore this concept in art or fic one of these days because it's very complex in my head! I’d say that brand of Ritshou content might be too self-indulgent for others to care, but I've surprisingly seen some QPR content for these two already!

Tokugawa/Kamuro, Takenaka/Inukawa, and Matsumine (looking at you theo!) also appeal to me (separate from each other ofc)! I like the opposites vibe of the last two and I wish there were more content for all of them. (Though I completely understand why these are rarepairs at the same time haha). In my head, their dynamics all involve quiet/serious guys who secretly enjoy the company of the other a lot, and I think that's cute.

For Psychonauts

Frazie/Sam: I know people tend to hop on the Frazie/Norma train, which is definitely a fun pairing, but I’ve fallen for the idea of Frazie with Sam instead. The comedy potential of Raz finding out his big sister is dating Dogen’s big sister is golden to me. I think they'd get along well! They're both weird woodsy girls who shift between nice and intimidating. I want to draw these two together eventually!

QPR Clem/Crystal: I have an aged-up Psychonauts 'AU' of sorts in my head. These two would live together, and generally be very touchy-feely in terms of affection, but not romantically be a thing. It's a very sweet concept to me! They'd be inspired by Cassie and Compton's relationship while interning at the Motherlobe, and they mostly act as feeble supports to each other's severely low self-esteem! Fun. On a similar note, I think Crystal and Phoebe would be cute romantically.

Maloof and Elka for that matter! I think Nils and Elka would be on and off for a long time, and she'd eventually fall for Maloof's cutesy mafia boss schtick. They'd have a sorta opposites dynamic that'd be cute I think!

And yea! Those are what came to mind! Thanks for the ask! :D

[gorgeousgalatea]

Can you just like do everyone in the fellowship of the ring for the character thing XD

Oh...boy. Lord of the Rings was a fandom where I deeply appreciated the canon more than did a lot of coming up with headcanons or personal takes and also that’s nine characters oh my god but I'll do my best XD

Frodo

Sexuality Headcanon: Hmm, demi bordering on aspec

Gender Headcanon: I admit I’ve never put much thought into the Fellowship but trans Frodo would be interesting

A ship I have with said character: Sam

A BROTP I have with said character: The hobbit quartet

A NOTP I have with said character: A dark part of me knows that Frodo/Gollum must exist and I respect those people and their right to get weird but I think reading it would break me

A random headcanon: Not even my headcanon but I am deeply tickled by the ‘Frodo doesn’t even know Legolas’s name’ theory from the movies

General Opinion over said character: I grew up with Tolkein and I love his protagonists. And I’m very into the subversive element of the Ring wearing even him down despite how long he endured it for. And he still gets a happy end despite of it!

Sam

Sexuality Headcanon: Demi and deeply devoted to Rosie and Frodo

Gender Headcanon: Cis

A ship I have with said character: Frodo but I respect the canon

A BROTP I have with said character:Bill the pony

A NOTP I have with said character: I’m just gonna reiterate the Gollum thing

A random headcanon: I want him to publish a gardening book that’s a breakout hit throughout Middle Earth but that is a bit indulgent

General Opinion over said character: Such a sweetheart really. Stalwart, loyal, and very badass about it.

Merry

Sexuality Headcanon: Bi

Gender Headcanon: cis

A ship I have with said character: None come to mind

A BROTP I have with said character: Eowyn. Okay also Pippin

A NOTP I have with said character: None come to mind

A random headcanon: He doesn’t enjoy the fireworks the way he used to anymore :(

General Opinion over said character: Dude helped kill the Witch King. He rocks.

Pippin

Sexuality Headcanon: pan

Gender Headcanon: trans

A ship I have with said character: None come to mind

A BROTP I have with said character: Merry

A NOTP I have with said character: None come to mind

A random headcanon: He and Merry visit Faramir and Eowyn a lot. This could even be in the book epilogue it’s been so long @_@

General Opinion over said character: Deeply chaotic little dude who grows a lot with the help of consequences and world saving trauma. He’s great.

Aragorn

Sexuality Headcanon: Arwen

Gender Headcanon: cis

A ship I have with said character: I’m fine with Arwen. The bb crush was cute

A BROTP I have with said character: Legolas and Gimli

A NOTP I have with said character: I never got into Aragorn/Legolas...

A random headcanon: Nothing specific but bb crush shenanigans is a cute concept

General Opinion over said character: Any time the guy with the most Chosen One traits is a supporting character and mentor is a good choice to me. Aragorn has his doubts and flaws and own narrative arc, but what he’s got going on doesn’t consume the narrative. It’s just a part of it!

Boromir

Sexuality Headcanon: just gonna slam my aroace emotions into this sad man

Gender Headcanon: cis

A ship I have with said character: Boromir/life ;_;

A BROTP I have with said character: I mean. He has a brother. Who misses him terribly. But admittedly also him and the hobbits.

A NOTP I have with said character: None comes to mind

A random headcanon: When he was able, he would delegate the delivery of good news to Faramir and he would deliver the bad, hoping to turn his father’s favor

General Opinion over said character: Heck yeah, give me all the tragic and doomed characters destroyed by their own nobility. Am I sad he is dead? Yes. Do I respect and appreciate the path his arc took? Also yes.

Gimli

Sexuality Headcanon: bi

Gender Headcanon: [insert a long and rambling discussion on how formative Discworld was and its relationship with dwarf gender and politics without ever actually answering the question]

A ship I have with said character: Legolas. What can I say, I like rivalry and contrast

A BROTP I have with said character: Aragorn

A NOTP I have with said character: None comes to mind

A random headcanon: All of the Discworld dwarf traits I can get away with

General Opinion over said character: How can you not like Gimli? Gruff but soft and swinging at every enemy kneecap in sight

Legolas

Sexuality Headcanon: pan

Gender Headcanon: gender neutral no matter what the Hobbit trilogy tried to pull

A ship I have with said character: Gimli

A BROTP I have with said character: Aragorn

A NOTP I have with said character: I guess also Aragorn

A random headcanon: All of the cat coded traits I can get away with

General Opinion over said character: I admit of the races I’ve always found elves less interesting but the woodland background and fratboy vibes are endearing

Gandalf

Sexuality Headcanon:Gandalf

Gender Headcanon: Gandalf

A ship I have with said character: Ga--he and Saruman have some of the narrative foil dynamic I would later deeply enjoy in a lot of my ships but I never got there with them in actuality

A BROTP I have with said character: Bilbo

A NOTP I have with said character:The flirtation with Galadriel in The Hobbit trilogy deeply weirded me out

A random headcanon: He came back in white to dunk on Saruman about the many colors thing. This might just be canon expressed in a really dumb way, it’s been a while

General Opinion over said character: He’s a cranky goodtimes cheerfully cryptic wizard, what’s not to like?

[noa-ciharu]

I'm grateful for having tumblr aroace community when I was 18-21 and grasping the concept of aromanticism/asexuality but as I grow older I feel more and more out of touch with tumblr's aroace circles. I guess that's the result of me growing older and cultural differences. Cuz to me a lot of debates going on there come down to theory vs practice (in my case in very queer-friendly country :>): how you perceive yourself and your relationships vs how 99% of society will perceive it and how much do you let it get to you over time. Because you can only go as far with society that won't even acept people wanting to stay single isn't some mental illness, try explaning qprs or SAM to them

[chronicalchaos]

What is the sexuality of the trio and weaver kids from wick Peculiarity au? and congratulations on lgbt pride :⁠-⁠)

Thanks! Happy pride for you as well!

Well, it's not really a sexuality, but I can see Sam being gender fluid. As for Travis and Duncan, I'm not sure, they might be straight, they might be gay for each other, who knows, I'm leaving this one open honestly.

The weaver's don't really know the concept of sexuality, but Tim could definitely be Pan. Tom probably is on the AroAce spectrum, not that he wouldn't fall in love, he just spends his days travelling around on his car with a gun and a demonic pet/friend. Lillian might discover herself as a lesbian in the future, Caleb and Benny probably are just straight.

They aren't really includee in the ask, but John's an Ally, while Mary and James would be very homophobic. That's all, i think :)

[gayarograce]

Asexuality and Aromanticism Explained* with Set Theory

* I couldn't think of a better word lol so I went with that

Asexuality and aromanticism are two similar terms that are frequently misconstrued when talked about by people outside of the aspec, so I've done some thinking, and, as someone who is more logically and mathematically inclined, I've thought super basic set theory might be an easy way to explain the differences and intersectionality between the two.

But first, some definitions for the uninitiated:

ASEXUAL can be generally defined as someone who experiences little to no SEXUAL attraction, or who might do so conditionally

AROMANTIC can be generally defined as someone who experiences little to no ROMANTIC attraction, or who might do so conditionally

As stated above, the two labels are similar to each other, but they do have their differences. Anyway, let's first introduce some concepts from set theory with numbers, so we're all on the same page:

For these examples, a SET is defined as a list of unique numbers.

Suppose we have a set, which we'll call A, which contains the first five counting numbers. Mathematically,

A = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }

Let's also define a set B, which contains the first four square numbers, starting from 1² = 1:

B = { 1, 4, 9, 16 }

A SUBSET is a set in which all of its elements are contained within another set. For example, the set { 1, 3, 5 } is a subset of A, because A contains every single element of the smaller set. However, we could not say B is a subset of A because A does not contain the elements 9 or 16.

A UNION operation adds all elements from two sets into a resulting set. For example, the union of A and B is the set { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 16 }.

A INTERSECTION operation between two sets yields a set which contains only elements found in both sets. For example, the intersection between A and B is the set { 1, 4 }, which are all the positive square numbers below 5.

Right, with that out of the way, how does this apply to asexuals and aromantics? Well,

Let's suppose we have two sets, one which contains all asexual people, and another which contains all aromantic people. Both sets are quite large compared to out earlier example sets!

Notice that we cannot say that either set is a subset of the other; this is because both asexuals who are not also aromantic and aromantics who are not also asexual exist and are elements of their respective sets, but not both. However, both sets are each a subset of the set which contains all LGBTQIA+ people.

The union of the two sets contains all** the people who could be classified as aspec. ASPEC, by definition, refers to any individual who does not experience more than one type of attraction, or who does so less often than most people.

The intersection between the two sets is a set which contains all of the aroaces. All people in the set of asexuals who are not also in the set of aromantics are alloaces (allo being short for alloromantic, the opposite of aromantic, and ace being short for asexual) or aces who do not specify their romantic orientation (called non-SAM aces, SAM referring to the Split Attraction Model). Conversely, all people in the set of aromantics who are not also in the set of aces are the aroallos (or alloaros, it's inconsistent) (allo this time is short for allosexual) or non-SAM aros.

Aaaaand I think that's about it! If I think of something to add later I'll edit this or put it in a reboot, and if I made a mistake, well, that's embarrassing! But I'll try to fix it. This post ended up waaay longer than I thought it would, but that's because I wrote it assuming little to no knowledge of asexuality, aromanticism, or set theory, and thus had to explain each enough for the post to make sense.

** I have left out, for simplicity's sake, other aspec identities, such as aplatonic and asensual, among many others. Following through with the analogy, you could suppose each of these are also their own individual sets, and then aspec would actually refer to the union of all of these sets.

Sidenote: After typing this all out, I now realize and admit that a venn diagram may have been a more intuitive way to explain this. However, using a venn diagram doesn't work once you have more than like 4 things you're comparing, and there are certainly more than 4 aspec identities. I mean, you could stop drawing your groups as circles and instead as complex blob shapes, but that would still make the venn diagram unnecessarily complicated and convoluted. Set Theory still works no matter how many unique sets you're working with.

[aroandawkward]

(cw internalised arophobia)

I was such a dumb aro when I first heard the word "aromantic". I thought it seemed antisocial - I have a distinct memory of thinking "I can't be aromantic because I could definitely eat spaghetti in a candlelit restaurant with someone and accept flowers from them and go to the cinema with them! Anyone could do that, why would you decide to call yourself aromantic?"

I'd never had a crush but I decided that must be because I was asexual (which tbf I am). My initial reaction to the concept of aromanticism was to convince myself that I couldn't be aromantic because I could hypothetically go on a date (even though I'd never wanted to with any specific person).

I was so aro I didn't even understand what it meant to be aro.