#THE MOST AROMANTIC MAN

[skullvins]

not to hazbin on main but alastor was so fucking aro in dad beat dad holy shit

[hopeworth]

romance dawn trio are dating except

nami is a lesbian

luffy is aroace

zoro is aromantic and swordsexual

[superiorkenshi]

Need to know wich member of ajr write the turning out song so I can introduce him to the aroace community

[pokimoko]

Hey if you’re up for it, could you maybe do a trans coloured creature with an aroace sunset flag? No worries if not :)

I think this lil' guy counts as a creature. Enjoy!

[dukeofthomas]

Jason Todd's the aroace guy who doesn't realize he's aroace but is also not oblivious to how big a driving force sexual attraction is for other people. He's the type to dislike and judge men for thinking with their dicks so much and kind of think himself better than them because of the fact that he doesn't

[zoerocksand1]

when i was a kid these are who i thought i was/would be when i was older:

and these are who i identify with more now as an adult:

ah how times have changed haha, interesting that i grew up from a weird little girl to a weird man

not to say that i don't still align with or enjoy Panini, Fiona, Cake, or Mabel- i still love the heck out of those girls! but yah its "crazy" old man time now

also Rigby, i never had a one-to-one "i think im just like (girl character)!" with regular show, but man i think i've also grown up to be slightly Rigby-like too haha, i am the eggcellent Trashboat

[little-doggy-girl-kisser]

is this a safe space to share by bad kids sexuality headcanons?

Adaine: transfem, ace lesbian (she/her) Fig: non-binary, bisexual (they/them) Kristen: non-binary, lesbian (she/they/he) Gorgug: transfem nb, bisexual (they/she) Riz: acearo (he/him) Fabian: transfem lesbian (she/her)

[alphabetshipper]

Being (aro)ace, for me, is aggressively saying the most vile sexual things about a character and actively dodging anyone that tries to flirt with me because ew, don't do that

[vulpinesaint]

i will say one thing. being aromantic really made me have to confront my desire to be the most important person in someone's life. and it fucking sucked to work through the pipeline of like. amatonormativity means that for most people, romance makes you the most important person to someone else —> i will never have romance —> i will never be the most important person to someone else —> i have to learn to survive as a person on my own rights —> my relationships are significant whether or not i am someone's first priority —> relationships can be awesome and all-consuming in other ways —> the expectation that there should be one sole important person is amatonormative and fucked up to begin with —> it's not healthy or reasonable to expect to be someone's One and Only. and going through that it was terrible it hurt so much. but at the end of it... i am so much more secure as an individual and as someone building relationships with other human beings. deconstructing amatonormativity will do so much for you in all areas of your life i promisssseeeeeee

[dolls-self-ships]

the awkward moment when you’re in the middle of an x reader fic and start crying out of nowhere bc you want someone to treat you/desire you that way irl but every time you try and be with someone the aromantic feelings TM start happening again and you have to go through the slow painful realization that you only like these scenarios in fiction so you will forever be consumed by this eternal feeling of heart wrenching longing and desire for something that disgusts and churns your stomach in reality.

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

tal 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[silver-stargazing]

aggressively arospec week: arospec headcanons (demiromantic)

The *Hits my favorite classic movies with the arospec beam* Edition:

◦ Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man

◦ Clara Snyder and Marty Piletti from Marty

◦ Claudine Price and Rupert B. Marshall from Claudine

[Image ID: Three images of characters against the black-triangle demiromantic flag. Image 1: Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man. Nick is wearing a tuxedo with a flower corsage and Nora is wearing a halter-top dress and a diamond braclet. They are both smiling at each other. Their image is in black-and-white. Image 2: Clara Snyder and Marty Piletti from Marty. Clara is looking off-screen with a large grin while Marty is looking side-ways at Clara. Their image is in black-and-white. Image 3: Claudine Price and Rupert B. Marshall from Claudine. Claudine is looking off-screen with a big smile while hugging Rupert, who is looking straight on with a grin. /end ID]

[time-is-restored]

btw this might be me swinging a bat at a hornets nest but like. absolutely none of my disappointment from the tl finale comes from ship baiting or any relationships that didn’t happen (though to be clear, i think the tedbecca fake outs were meanspirited and served no narrative purpose - in noted contrast to the season's earlier jamiekeeley fakeouts, for example, which were explicitly there to demonstrate jamie's growth + maturity)

tedpendant is a really fun concept for me, and i LOVE the characterisation + thematic potential there!

but as someone who personally resonated with a lot of ted’s struggles, the idea that ted could leave richmond so… seamlessly, for lack of a better word, really doesn’t sit right with me. the thesis of the shows entire first season - assuming it can be said to have only one - was about how everyone needs the love and support of a community, whether that comes in the flavour of someone who hypes u tf up or someone who will relentlessly call u on ur shit (or, as happened quite frequently, both!).

rebecca, roy, jamie are the clearest examples as the characters with the most screentime: they were all deeply isolated and disconnected from the people around them, and that was making them miserable. the connections they made with the team, the vulnerability they finally allowed themselves to express (the ghost banishing ceremony comes to mind!), and them going on to want *more* out of their life are what made their arcs about *progression* rather than *regression*. without that clear theme of compassion + community inspiring positive growth in everyone who encounters it, there is, frankly, no season one.

my personal favourite scene from season one comes right after michelle walks away from ted, when they’ve agreed to get divorced. ted sits down on the bench looking gutted, and a little shell shocked - and beard sits down with him. hands him the drink, and they sit there together. silent, but together. to me, that scene is an implicit promise from the episode, to the audience: ‘it’ll be okay. it’s going to be hard, but ted isn’t alone, and his friends won’t leave him behind.’

it also makes it clear to the audience that ted isn’t the saintly-giver-of-grace who needs nothing in return, as one might assume on first brush, but rather that he’s Also struggling with his own shit (as is everyone, always, in real life!) and he has something he needs from the people around him too.

and looking at the text of s3, and the conclusion to his arc in the finale, i just don’t believe that he got it. he wasn’t just sad that he was leaving (which would be understandable!), he was completely closed off. unresponsive to the people around him reaching out, borderline confused as to why they were trying so hard!

(side note, while i completely respect the read of ted and trents last interaction being rather rude + ooc on ted’s part, i personally read a different motive into it. for me, it was more like… he didn’t understand where trents enthusiasm was coming from? like, he read that as trent being too invested in what other people think of him, and responded in a way that he hoped would emphasise that ted doesn’t *need* to laugh at everything trent wrote, bc trent Already Knows that he’s done something really cool and kickass, and he shouldn’t value anyone else’s reactions above that. basically, based on his demeanour in the episode, i genuinely don’t think it would’ve even occurred to him that trent was more invested in HIS reaction than he would’ve been with anyone else.)

again, looking purely at the text, the show had already established that ted has really strong depressive + avoidant tendencies, as well as panic attacks (largely triggered by his fear of not being ‘good enough’ in various roles, ie: a father). we saw one area he was able to calm HIMSELF abt these fears (worry for henry, which is a Hell of a choice considering the ending…), but in literally every other heightened moment, he had to rely on his support system to help him make the choices that he WANTED to make, rather than ones inspired by avoidance and fear (ie: confronting michelle abt jake, talking to his mum abt why she was visiting + his dads death).

and to be clear, this is a GOOD THING! we’re not supposed to go through life alone, no matter how bad OR well we’re doing. rebecca and keeleys friendship isn’t worth less for all the scenes where they’re both in good places. if anything, the opposite is true - it’s lovely that they both have someone who want to celebrate the achievements in their life!

and fuck it, we’re sure as hell not supposed to go through life with exactly one (1) person whom we expect to fulfill ALL of our emotional needs at all times either! like, im sure i don’t need to labour my point here, but tying everything to one (1) person in ur life doesn’t make u any less isolated than if u were going it completely alone, whether it’s a family member, a friend, or a partner. i won’t pretend to know the first thing abt what it’s like to be a parent, but i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that no parent would be at their best if they had absolutely no support/camaraderie/general love provided to them from Anyone other than their child.

so when ted is SPECIFICALLY shown to be in a bad place, over and over again (did he come to terms w his fear to be close to henry overnight???????), and then removed from his community? of COURSE the audience is left feeling unsettled, and like the rug has been pulled out from under them. there was no time in this finale dedicated to how ted would still be in contact with anyone from richmond. no promises of visits, or phone calls - fuck, nothing about emails!! according to the text, we might as well assume this is a clean break (and the maybe-dream-sequence does Fuck All to assure us otherwise. if ted doesn’t go to beards wedding, what WOULD he go to????). and since the show has ALSO completely failed to give us even an IMPLICATION of who/what ted’s support system would be in kansas, there’s… a reasonable argument to be made that this is It for ted. that, after two seasons doing NOTHING but attesting otherwise, the audience is supposed to suddenly believe that ted can (and SHOULD!) pull himself up by his bootstraps, and cope entirely on his own.

that, to me, is a betrayal of the show’s premise. we were promised a show about how, no matter how dark things may get, none of the characters would be left to struggle alone. and then they ended the show with ted alone.

i don’t know. i guess if i had to give this post a tldr; if anyone has any gen fic/meta/Literally Anything in the pipeline, i would absolutely love to be tagged/directed towards it. i’ll be endeavouring to write something myself, as well, but it might take a while before i can return to my WIP, lol.

[splashtailstar]

(this includes nonbinary and multigender individuals who consider themselves to be attracted to an "opposite" gender)

(yes, the idea of an "opposite gender" is binarist, but vi can't really come up with a better way to word this)

(aromantic and asexual are being used as umbrella terms here)

also if you want to, say in the tags if you are trans, nonbinary, or genderqueer!

[depressed-alone]

if they actually push a romantic interest onto Din I might actually die of cringe... leave the man alone!!!! he does not need a woman to kiss o(-( nor a man!! (its disney so obv thats not even an option tbf) like leave him out of that romance bullshit!!!!!

[torchstelechos]

My hottest take for SQQ/SY is that hes suuuper AroAce and doesnt realize that because he thinks being asexual is not thinking nor participating in sex at all. So he can’t be ace when he wants to have sex sooo badly, and he reads het smut so obviously!! Hes a straight man!! Even though he not once ever actually feels attracted to any of the CANONICAL MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. He talks about people like they’re paintings and hes the critic about to ruin a career. At one point he actively censors tits because he labeled all women in the world off limits from himself because they’re LBHs future wives, even though thats not how sexual attraction works. I think at one point in the Skinner scene he actively apologizes to his disciples for showing skin in his head and compares it to seeing your math teacher half naked, ignoring the fact that hes in one of those fan service scenes from an anime. HE. FUCKING. NEVER. ONCE. NOTICED. BINGHES. FEELINGS. UNTIL. THE. KISS. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! MY MANS IS FUCKING AROACE OF SOME SORT, LOOK AT HIM. LOOK!!!!!!!