#also ca$h!!!!!!!!

[palehottubchild]

i know we all joke about the best ace rep and our favourite character being an eshay (and tbf im european that word means nothing to me) but imo thats one of my favourite things about his characterisation: the fact that he is not something an allo audience would mecessarily expect or imagine to be ace.

small disclaimer, im happy with any ace rep we get in the first place and if you do like what im about to describe more power to you, this is just my personal opinion.

That being said, i love that cash is kind of an 'unconventional' ace character, for lack of a better word. all too often ace characters fall into one of two stereotypes, either the heartless cold robot that is already kind of weird or other in itself and does not care about your or anyone elses feelings (this also includes nd coded characters), or the innocent sweetheart who is so pure and cute and has (most likely) one singular character trait (somehow almost always books). again, there is nothing inherently wrong with this since these people exist in real life, but they do push yhe aspec community further into the little boxes that allos have already put us in.

Now what i love so much about cash is that he is one of the most clearly genuinely kind people in the show. Despite him being surrounded by bad company, he is constantly shown to be gentle and sweet with his grandma and is obviously uncomfortable with the whole harper situation the entire time (not saying he handled this perfectly but thats not what this post is about). He is shown to clearly care about people deeply and he is not afraid to show this, except for when he is in bad company.

However, him having and showing emotions does not push him into the pure innocent cinnamon roll part either. He goes out to parties, does engage in enough sexual activities to end up the map, openly flirts with darren and is totally rocking his mardi gras outfit (including thong on head) without hesitating once. He is also stereotypically a 'tough guy', which is also not a type of guy too often represented as any sort of queer in popular media afaik. all in all the way cash is portrayed as an eshay to me makes him being aspec so much more valuable to me and while i understand the eshay posts are mostly jokes i did want to talk about it

[plink-dev]

when she half life vrs on my ai till i self aware

[agrebel18]

diversity win!! the eshay giving you food and drugs is asexual!!

[witchinatree]

i love when there is a character that i can overthink about. get rotated in my brain, idiot. i hope you heal from your traumas

[stuff-diary]

Been rewatching Heartbreak High to prepare for season 2 and, while I love the show as a whole, I have to say the Ca$h/Darren storyline might just be one of my favorite queer stories ever. I'm so excited to see what they do with these characters next.

[pyrojanis]

the meaning of cash's name ☹️☹️☹️

[ourdreamsareneon]

just finished season 2 of heartbreak high and I'm BEGGING this fandom to blow up because I need fics to read

[whoblewboobear]

I think the main reason I didn’t want mc to be turned this soon is purely bc the feeding scenes were so intimate in a way that a lot of the make out scenes aren’t like I’m SO sorry those feeding scenes were the equivalent to a 30 diamond scene TO ME.

[cchaoticc]

HEARTBREAK HIGH | Season 1, Episode 5

was it love? yeah, sure was. 

[shimmerluna]

My issue with Darren is that they don’t really get any development

Their season 1 plot line is more of an explanation of their problems than an actual arc with growth and change. It’s honestly more about their dad’s growth than them. and then in s2 they literally have the exact same conflict with Ca$h and continue to not grow, and now there’s only one season for them to actually do anything and I’m really doubting that it will happen

My other potentially related issue with Darren is that they feel like a 2D conglomeration of racist stereotypes with the hypersexuality and sassy comic relief and short temper etc. etc. It’s entirely possible that their s1 plot line was just a way to explain why they’re a racist stereotype, but there aren’t any plans for them to grow bc the stereotypes are the point

[thetisming]

heartbreak high 🤝 bojack horseman

shows with highly sexual themes with an ace character that make me remember that we're a minority and sexual attraction is real and people actually feel these things

[lockandkeyhyena]

finished s1 of heartbreak high. a few things to say

malakai has done nothing wrong in his life. best character. i will fight to the death for him

on that note im so glad someone brought up how weird the threesome was. he should not be as okay with it as he is

great. GREAT show, highly recommend. look up content warnings for it though seriously

[maroonangels]

the scene of ca$h tattooing darren is still one of my absolute favorite scenes of the entire show

[luci-hemwin-evanson]

ANT AND HARPER?!?!?

DARREN AND MALAKAI?!?!?!!!!!!!

[seiruun]

say what you will but heartbreak high is the first show to give us gay asexual eshay representation

[confused-disaster32]

Genuinely hoping that whatever was going on between Darren and Malakai in the Heartbreak High s2 trailer was just Malakai trying to help Darren out with smth because I refuse to believe that Darren would cheat on Ca$h - especially not with Malakai (who would definitely find doing smth like that wrong)