#ace people in ‘straight’ relationships

[olderthannetfic]

Let me present some more pride wank.

What the fuck is up with people who cry and whine about cishets going to pride? Those people who go completely feral and furious at any cishet* who dares walk at pride, and then uses the argument "It's for queeeeeer people!" as if that suddenly means nobody else gets to join.

*alleged

Like honestly? At worst you're straight up attacking queer people, questioning, closeted, passing, queer people in certain relationship presentations, someone's partner, helper/carer, friend, family member, other support, bis, aces, gender-conforming folks, and at best you're shitting on a random cishet person who's brave enough to stand up to a society that at large still views us as disgusting perverts, and decides to stand with us and show their support.

Like, no matter the reason, you're just being a fucking useless asshole towards those who're on our side, and we really don't need that vibe. Not to mention that open events really shouldn't be treated like your personal safe space mini bubble, if you need that then maybe going to closed events* or staying at home is better.

*and with those "prove your queer" events you end up with the same shit I mentioned in the "Worst case scenario" examples.

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They should focus on the corporatization of parades and events. That's the real issue, not normie-vs-queer-as-in-fuck-you wank or whatever.

[mockiatoh]

Are intersex people queer? Is PCOS intersex? Is it reclamation when trans men say bitch? Can aces call themselves gay? Is it possible for a nonbinary person to be straight? Is it immoral to call yourself butch if you wear earrings? Can a bi woman ethically be in a relationship with literally anyone? Should gay men call themselves otters? Bears? Foxes? What does the fox say? Ring ding ding ding dingeringeding!

[rottmnt-residuum]

Any other LGBTQ+ Headcannons that are canon is the comic??;)

*patiently awaits Cupioromantic Donnie*

hmm... had to think about this for a while and talk about it with co-author, but here's what we got. we mostly base this stuff on how plausible it is in show/if there's evidence for it. with a dash of personal experience. This only applies to residuum, btw. I have different personal headcanons for these characters outside the comic.

april: lesbian. this is mostly based off of the fact that most aprils get with their caseys & the comment she said to dale. which could be taken as disinterest in dale specifically, but she seemed more concerned with impressing that popular girl earlier and that reads as more... saphic, i suppose. or at the very least homoromantic.

raph: raph is just raph. we look at him and basically just *tv static*. go crazy. all we got is jokes or stuff that has too little evidence to support. so, yeah, he's whatever you want him to be i guess?

leo: trans. already said my reason in the other post. also, gay. if gay were a power source he could power the entirety of the united states for five months straight without a single power outage. failing power grid notwithstanding (< thats the actual word. its supposed to be mushed together like that. wack.).

donnie: as much as i'd like him to be ace/aro spectrum rep, he just doesn't have the evidence in show for us to apply it to him in this comic. it's funny, for being hc as ace so often he sure is the most outwardly romantic/sexual turtle in the show lmao. one! cherry: "you're so cute, but you're so mean! why do i always go for your type?" two! astrogirl?? (whatever her name is) he is very very romantic with her. he has a type y'all. also just look at those two, he's a leg man lmao (bootyyshaker9000 anyone? ha!) anyway. and with the bromance/instant chemistry he had with that one guy in the purple dragons... Pan. or possibly Omni as he does seem to favor... cute brutal femme... Yeah. Omnisexual.

(you have no idea how fucking bad i want this boy to be ace spectrum. hes got the colors y'all!! The Colors!!!!! but alas... i am bound by my canon plausibility creed for this comic)

mikey: ace. possibly ace/aro. he shows interest in literally no-one. we're aware that the common hc is pan but... we know a pan 13 year old, and let me tell you ahahahaha, kids going through puberty are very uncomfortable to be around sometimes, especially around their partners. or crushes. and mikey... well, that boy is ace behavior personified lmao. aces in the back you get what we mean right?? right??? anyway commiting to aroace

[planefood]

I’ve gone fursuiting in public a handful of times but the most dirty looks I’ve gotten for it was at a pride event? (I actually bought him there hi) from people with pride flags and stuff and they were like nasty looks of disgust man, don’t come to pride if you can’t handle queerness.

Hope I don’t get that shit for it next year fucking hell

[hauntingblue]

Stampede aka another episode of luffy turning haters into dick riders just with his kind and big heart

[khayr]

anyway. I just think that it’s totally fucked that it’s even still called discourse when it was just. nasties in our own community talking shit and spouting vitriol about our identities and lived experiences as if there aren’t parallels all over the place between us all. The fact that so many ace/aro people felt like they had to a) out themselves or b) share their personal trauma with strangers on the internet just to be taken seriously (or not, even) is just so fucked. the whole thing was fucked. there is so much nuance to human gender and sexuality and it just was not fair what they did to us lmfao

[dolokhoded]

there should be a game where i ask allos to name one character they care about that they haven't forced into a romantic relationship and if they can't answer they have to give me a hundred dollars

[asingingpenguin]

If your idea of queer representation begins and ends with characters explicitly shown in same sex relationships, then I really wish you would just say you only care about gay rep and leave the rest of us to our enjoyable crumbs.

[plushiehamuko]

being aroace is crazy bc sometimes it's like. whoo yay i have such a wider perception of relationships that's so cool yay!!! and sometimes it's like. i hate this it sucks

[airenyah]

Sex scenes don't bother me as much as kiss scenes. When the characters are making out in a way that indicates it will lead to sex, I'd scream at the screen "Just take off your pants and start grinding under the covers already!" because I cannot watch them mash their mouths together for another second.

That being said, I'm not a huge fan of sex scenes because firstly—I can't take the movements seriously, and if there's sound effects, there's also a high chance of me laughing. Secondly, the squishiness of the human body is another thing I can't take seriously. When I first watched the Only Friends trailer, and I saw that scene where Sand thumbs Ray's tattoo, I thought it was a butt tattoo because of the way the skin bounced in slow-motion, but no, it's actually a hip tattoo; the human skin is just that springy on every part of the body. While everyone was going crazy because of the tattoo-touch, I'm laughing because the bounce was so pronounced.

Basically, kiss scenes ick me out while sex scenes are comedy.

omg that sounds like such a fun way to experience sex scenes tho!! i wish my reaction was more like that rather than convulsion. i'd much rather experience a comedy show tbh dfjkkdgj

also interesting point you bring up about the human body being so squishy. i never really thought about it but yeah. human bodies are just so weird?????? actually, only the other week i was talking with another friend (who's likely also ace-spec) about just how humans (and tbh even animals) will just have things dangling from them?? whether it be genitalia or boobs or whatever. like, those body parts are just... hanging there?? and technically even your arms but at least you can control those. meanwhile my boobs will just bounce depening on what movements i make and i can't control them and they're just hanging from my chest while i go about my life. like, why?? i want dog boobs where you mostly have just the nipples and they only really get big when i have an actual child to feed (i know human breasts also swell when they fill with milk during a pregnancy, but why do i have to have two balls of meat hanging from my chest even when i'm not pregnant?? who thought of this design??). coming back to your point of the human body being so squishy and actually yeah, i'm realizing now that i can't take it seriously when people talk about how hot boobs are precicely because boobs are so squishy and also so wobbly and just. how is this not funny to people? dkdfjdjfk

and lmao i remember everyone going crazy over the tattoo!!!!! i realized right away that it's on the hip but maybe that was bc i remembered the placement of it from the eclipse. which is also why that scene didn't make me laugh, i was actually too busy trying to read what it said bc in the eclipse we never got to see that tattoo up close enough in order to be able to read it. so while everyone was freaking out i was just sitting in my corner like "omg so the tattoo says 'beautiful'???" i'd been wondering about it for a year ever since the eclipse, so i was just excited to finally know what it says bc i'm a nosy ass bitch lmao

anyway, i love hearing about your experiences. it's so fascinating how varied the ace experience can be and how specific things affect everyone differently. and i think it's also cool to hear what things other ace people pick up/focus on while the allosexuals are busy drooling over whatever is happening on screen dkjkdkjg

the kissing... idk, i can't tell you why it doesn't actually bother me that much or why i might even enjoy it. although i do have to say, the act of kissing does look extremely weird. sometimes (usually during longer kiss/make-out scenes) i'll be sitting there and suddenly it'll hit me that "actually kissing looks SO strange, whose idea was it for kissing to be a thing??"

sometimes in my head the kissing just conjurs up the image of a fish opening and closing it's mouth, like so:

except, you know, kissing involves two people so in reality it's more like:

[zhalar]

is this real. Are you people feeling this way. At This Age. Am i in the wrong to think this feels so weird to feel. "This isnt normal" WHERE AM I,

[queer-ragnelle]

If y’all can keep track of the massive family trees in mythology you can track queer networks with more than three people. Throuples are great. But what if there were more queers. Consider that.

[gayvampyr]

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[eclipsecrowned]

going into a character's tag finding people thinking they're being allies when really they're being aphobes. weeps.

[in-sufficientdata]

Your local ace here, reporting that I have been on tumblr for 10 entire complete years, and I finally have started to recognize that when people tag weird things on pictures of people, they mean they find that person attractive

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[wacky-internet-rollercoaster]

Idk just rambling in the tags