#canon aspec swag

[canonaspecswag]

Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Data Soong vs Murderbot

Data Soong from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Data is an android and has no sexual attraction or desire. You can read about him as ace representation here and here

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Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Murderbot is a bot-human construct, made from cloned human genetic material and robotic parts. It has human emotions but is sex and romance repulsed.

"Martha Wells: When I was working on the first novella, it didn't seem logical that a SecUnit would be given any kind of reproductive system or any human parts that weren't directly useful for its security function. And the way Murderbot feels about humans, it didn't seem logical for its personality that it would identify with any one gender, or be interested in choosing a human gender for itself, and it sure wouldn't be interested in human sexual relations. So in a way I guess it was a coincidence, since I didn't plan it from the start, it was just part of the process of developing the character as I was writing. And thank you!"

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Round 1: Logan/Logic (Sanders Sides) Vs. Yasmina Fadoula (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous)

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[microvibing]

REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH RAMSHACKLE (an incomprehensible incomplete list by me)

-THE DESIGN AND ANIMATION-unique style and color pallet, incredible character design and expressions, awesome animation, overall scrappy vibes.

-THE CHARACTERS- they are very stupid and also homeless

you got scrappy feral girlboss, tall emo guy, and wholesome sweet Boi as main characters(don't even get me started on side characters)

-awesome dynamics between characters

-BEANS

-absurd humor

-foundfamilyfoundfamilyfoundfamily

-NO canon romance (aspecs this is for us)

-"eat the rich" taken literally

-BANGER music

-very punk-rock-indie

-beautiful art

-chill fandom(no YouTube content farms here, just a bunch of fans hyping each other up)

-the creator, @zeddyzi is very cool(and the entire crew that worked on the pilot is also filled with cool people)

-my friend liked it and she's very cool and swag so it's obviously good

-if you like gravity falls you'll probably like it

-it'll make me very happy

[momsforroadhead]

idk shit about degrassi let's go with 2, 6, 8, 21, and 22?

YES you can't imagine how happy i am to be doing this i can't talk about degrassi to anyone and the fandom is kinda dead

2. a compelling argument for why my fave would never top or bottom: this question is crazy cause degrassi characters get to be like... 19 at the oldest (not that they die, the just age out and cycle out of the show) so let's imagine them older. now other problem there's like 36 000 of them total starting in the 80s and ending in the 2010s BUT if i pick a fave let's go with Eli Goldsworthy and make a bold claim: he would never top. in canon he's straight (the writers are wrong on this one) but i fully believe that any woman he has ever been with/will ever be with pegs him. he's simply too weak sauce to have the energy to top anybody. he has other things on his mind.

6. which ship fans are the most annoying: like i mentionned, the fandom is kinda dead so i don't really know fandom opinions apart for the yt comments when degrassi was still on youtube for free (booo hbo fuck you) BUT! i will say that people got really invested in Craig/Manny for some reason (he was always awful to her) and started hating Ellie as a result. Now yes Ellie was super misogynistic towards Manny, but that's not really a reason for the fandom to then be super misogynistic towards her. I love Ellie Nash she's my queen get off her back! yes she's whiny and a bitch. it's literally fine.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about: OOUUH!! A lot of people hate Connor, which is SO WRONG. They hate him for stealing girls' underwear (which i will admit is creepy and weird) but like... degrassi is the everybody gets a second chance show... yall love Peter (so do i!!) and he literally distributed revenge porn of Manny so..... you just hate Connor cause you can't handle his autistic swag. but i can. i love him. him and jenna are my favourite couple and he's aspec in my head. (also he's a case of "if a white character did the same thing you all would love him" but let's not even go there)

also everybody hates tristan and he literally did nothing wrong. and people hate ellie and she's perfect. and people hate jane and why do you people have so much hate in your heart

21. part of canon i think is overhyped: i'm really having to think about this one cause idk if any part is really hyped all that much lmao degrassi fans, we love to complain...... i'll say a part of canon that i wish wasn't there is Adam's death. JT and Cam felt earned and realistic, but Adam... idk it just came out of nowhere..... and he's literally one of ma faves.....

22. my favourite part of canon that everyone else ignores: omgomgomgomg Marco and Ellie hooking up post graduation. for context Marco's like BEEN fully gay. and he hooks up with Ellie out of sheer codependency which is, in my opinion, HILARIOUS. also, he says that the worst part is he didn't want it to stop (they didn't go all the way) and if the writers of that episode weren't COWARDS he would've had a real reflection on the fluidity of sexuality but oh well. it's an iconic throwaway plotline and one of the foundational building blocks in my evil Craig/Ellie/Marco codependent love triangle polycule

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

ask game 2 6 17 (feel free to skip any) 💥‼️💪🦜

okay while i cant say i have any compelling arguments here's my 2 cents

venti: doesnt top or bottom because of hia asexual swag. plus a good chunk of mondstadt believes hes below drinking age so i don't think hes getting around much. if you dont already have a thing for it learning he's your god probably makes things a bit awkward too so that probably scratches out those that know.

dazai: bottom. thats it. thats the whole argument. whatever type of bottom he is up to the situation im sure but tell me those exes weren't pegging him. I'll wait

(though to be clear he is also aspec to me. points at him)

xiaoven 🫵 like im sorry theyre like.... the ship already wasnt my thing but the fans make it worse. honestly any genshin ship where people wholeheartedly claim and believe its canon and get on peoples cases abt it like it's a fact. like no its not??? none of the ships in this game are canon thats the whole point.

not to be ill and unwell abt dazai but i want more shit abt a happier future or post canon. or really just more happy dazai in general. like i wish he would smile more. but like not because im being rude i just wish he had more to smile about???

[fictionkinfessions]

canon carryovers time!

sanya kazarina (pafl): i still really like anger management's music in this lifetime!! i know it's not quite my tsar and arthur's [for obvious reasons], but it's comforting to listen to :] and also, i'm homeschooled in this life just like i was as sanya!! even started at around the same time, iirc.

hajime hinata: still a system 👍 in fact, one of my alters even types and looks [in headspace] pretty similar to how i remember izuru. although i don't think they kin my izuru or anything lol

makoto naegi: still an older sibling! although my relationship with my siblings in this life is pretty different than the relationship komaru and i had... it's a lot more strained.

sora (sdra2): identity issues!!! dissociation!!! i also still identify with ai/machinery in a gendery way

jay merrick: one thing about me is that when i was first cracking my egg a bit in this life i tried out the name jay [because it sounded similar to my deadname]. not quite a carryover but i think it's really funny. anyway i've still got my aspec swag

ashlyn banner (schoolbus graveyard): Auditory Hallucinations 👍 and dogshit social skills.. sad!

sunny (omori): the intrusive thoughts pertaining to harming myself take the same form. so much fun [<- lying]

sara chidouin: ...i still take on way more responsibility than i should. haha.

wheee fun!! also im so terribly sorry about the amount of tags on this beast </3

- #🥀☔️🥀

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[spark-lapis]

Alhaitham genshinimpact 11, 20, 22

for the blorbo ask game!

this got REALLY long because this accidentally um. activated the overlap between my special interests (psychology, particularly identity and relationships) and (autistic blorbos).... so im putting it under a cut. the questions were:

"11. Would you date this character?";

"20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?"; and

"22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don't like?"

11. Would you date this character?

honestly this is a difficult one simply because i cannot envision any reality in which he would date me. he's got that huge aspec swag. i think we could be qpps though. he would be very autism direct with me and it would be very nice and cool. like business partners almost. i could see that. i think in the spirit of the question, yes, because i respect him as a person and would engage in a long term relationship with him pretty readily, were it an option

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

OHH that's a cool one.. honestly i think he has an interesting relationship with kaveh, i think they could be good friends after like. a 200k slowburn fixit fic where they both put a lot of work into their relationship and their own self esteem (mostly on kaveh's part-- poor guy). like it's impractical from a canon standpoint but I'm fascinated by the prospect because their core personalities compliment each other so well, and they're both extremely intelligent. i think kaveh is one of the few people that doesn't really get left behind when alhaitham explains things.

BUT if im looking at canon characters as they are and not my long-term fantasy fanfiction that i haven't written, i would have to say... any of: gorou, keqing, freminet, albedo, ....and maybe xingqiu but i'm tentative on that one. reason being that these are the most honest, upfront, devoted, hardworking, and intelligent people that i can think of off the top of my head.

my criteria:

1) has to be able to keep up intellectually with him. i don't think he minds being patient and explaining things over again if there's genuine interest, but someone who gets lost really easily and can't follow his train of thought even if he slows it down/makes it more explicit... probably wouldn't really enjoy spending time with him, and probably wouldn't be very rewarding to explain things to either. a good friend for him would be someone who has the interest and ability to eventually understand whatever interesting thing he's pondering, and preferably, even be able to build off of it and pose their own curiosities. i think that albedo and keqing excel here, as they are both extremely curious and thoughtful people that are prone to questioning and interrogating their environment. the insane scientific banter these guys would be able to have with him is off the charts and would be very autistically satisfying for everyone involved. freminet and gorou also fit here to a lesser extent, because while they might not have as much to actively contribute (though I think they still would at least a little), they would find whatever he were talking about genuinely fascinating and want to learn more.

2) has to be genuine and earnest. or at least able to be genuine when the time calls for it. for alhaitham to be able to fully trust and enjoy being around them, they have to be someone who he can trust to be open with their information and intentions. they would have to be someone that he can trust to not try and mislead or misinterpret him when it counts. i think he lies a lot to people that he doesn't like or respect, but in a relationship that he did respect, he would require mutual honesty and communication. i think that freminet and gorou excel here, as they are both extremely empathic, earnest people. i think they wouldn't engage as much when alhaitham talks about whatever curiosity he's most recently discovered, but i think they would have insightful opinions when they did, and they could be trusted to keep it as secret as it needed to be. (though i will note i'm mostly going by personality. i'm not really factoring age into this because i think freminet may be a teenager?? i think gorou is just a petit adult though)

.....he has not interacted with any of these people in canon. like at all.

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don't like?

oh MAN i really should read fics honestly but i don't... so i will just go with fandom characterization of him. i love it when they make him blunt and autistic and rude especially to paimon. i don't really like when people's entire impression of him seems to be "asshole that's bad and weird and can't keep friends and doesn't have the Common Sense to upkeep social courtesies" cause that squicks a little bit too close to just.... hating neurodivergency. for my comfort. also not personally into the fan portrayals where he's seemingly fully allosexual/alloromantic, or where he's like... romantic about it, you know? this guy's idea of romance, if he has any, is asking you directly what you want for your anniversary, and then buying that for you. or sitting on a couch and reading silently together. and i love it when i see things that hit that kind of specific queerplatonic vibe. i also love characterizations that are a little bit slapstick where he causes problems for kaveh and is just generally kind of. like. insensitive but not Mean or Malicious you know.

AND that concludes my answer to this ask that took me two hours to type up (oops)! thank you so much for the prompt!!! this is. my favorite topics . i love relationship pondering

[joeyclaire]

Okay here are opinions (gang by themselves edition):

-Dee is my favorite she slayed she failed she's so sucks she's my poor little meow meow my little loser girl she's never been good at anything in her life and I think we should give her an award. The amount of joy I felt when everyone congratulated her for tying the waiter's shoes together. twirls my hair she's ruined several lives

-Mac second favorite I like his karate thing showhsowhshwo < karate noises. I like how they canonically made him a malewife and gave him soulful little eyes. he makes me sad sometimes his dad never loved him he just wants to play catch. like a dog sitting in the rain to me. guys guysGUUYYYS. TERRRRRIBLE NEWS !!

-everyone calls Dee the insecure one but ngl I think Dennis is more insecure. insult this man and he will shatter into a million pieces and explode trying to convince you you're wrong. what is a God without his sense of control, without his image? Something wrong with him fr 🥰 does a gay little spin. he should take his antipsychotics. cat person

-speaking of cats Charlie I am picking him up he is scratching me scratching me scratching me, most likely to kill somebody and most likely to be awwwww just a little guy just a little guy!!! he's right about so many things. he doesn't know a thang. he's aspec or smth. BPD swag/ is he okay? no, he is not. obviously, but like. cmon, is he okay?

-Frank he's like this emoji :0) I like him more than I thought I would bc he's more consistent than I thought he'd be. good way to write a deranged character is establish the ways in which they are deranged. he is a good friend and a bad father. and a bad friend in the way they're all bad friends yaknow. (sobs) he was Froggie. kicking him in the shins and he shoots me and we both go to hell.

-TDLR i hate them im tucking them into bed gib them kiss goodnight

i love you.

[jackiebrackettt]

qCellbit for the ask game ^_^

Sexuality Headcanon: aspec I would say. gayspec if you will

Gender Headcanon: i haven’t thought about it and I’m not going to yet. maybe later

A ship I have with said character: qroier/qcellbit and I’m breaking the rules by adding another and. qforever/qcellbit

A BROTP I have with said character: okay I’m giving up on qs you get the point this is the characters: forever and cellbit! really like their dynamic

A NOTP I have with said character: I feel like there are so many random ones I could toss out but nothing I’ve actually seen/have strong thoughts about. idk. cellbit and baghera they’re siblings-in-law. to me<3

A random headcanon: I doj’t know if I’ve watched enough to have a headcanon off the top of my head like this ): I think anything I can think of rn is just canon o(-( like the uhh scars from the chainsaw attack shrug

General Opinion over said character: I really like this guy :]!!! have a lot of thoughts but haven’t been able to watch a lot of streams rn so my thoughts are more reactive based on what I know to be canon atm ^_^ his puzzle-solving swag dragged me into being invested in the whole thing

[oflgtfol]

Din has serious aroace swag. Let din be aro you cowards !!!!! His whole story is centered around finding family and people he can trust, nary a romance in sight! I find it funny how he is shipped with every living thing in the show but at the same time it is exhausting. Anyways. Din should be aroace. 💚🖤🤍

it is truly so nuts to me how he comes across as so blatantly aspec to actual aspecs, like we may disagree in which ways he’s aspec but we’re all in resounding agreement …… and then the fandom at large doesn’t even entertain the IDEA, and in fact continuously warps who he is as a character on a fundamental level until he’s nigh unrecognizable. it’s like yeah i’m salty because i’m aro and so is din but also at this point it goes beyond that and is just like, misreading canon to a frankly absurd + insulting extent 😭 like even if you don’t think of him as aro, how do you take a show about single fatherhood in the wake of childhood trauma (both for the parent and child!) and your only thought is “hm. but what if he Wasn’t single.”

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Welcome to the canon aspec swag showdown

Where your favorite canon aspec characters will go head to head in a battle of strength, wits, and most of all, canon aspec swag.

SUBMISSION RULES: 1. Characters can be asexual, aromantic, aroace, demi-, grey-ace, or any other aspec lablel

2. Real people are allowed if they're publicly out as aspec and I feel like including them. Or if it's funny enough.

3. Characters must be canon aspec: confirmed in text using an aspec label OR confirmed by word of god OR expressed disinterest in sex and/or romance in text

Why only canon characters? I wanted to highlight the canon aspec characters that are out there and introduce people to new media with canon asexuality, aromanticism, and more.

4. One submission per character per person. I encourage people to submit multiple characters, and multiple people can submit the same character, but don't spam your favorite character.

5. Don't fight on my posts or in my inbox. If you need to complain about whatever characters people are submitting or that people aren't voting for your blorbo, vagueblog about it like a civilized person.

6. Propaganda is allowed. Encouraged even.

Submit your blorbos with the form below, the form will be open for submissions until April 20th, 2023 Friday April 7th, 2023 at 4PM Pacific Time

Inspired by @asexual-swag-bracket @aromanticswagbracket @alloarocharactershowdown @autismswagsummit @aromanticbracket2023 @aroaceswagcompetition @aroaceslayshowdown

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Round 1: Double Trouble (She-ra and the Princesses of Power) Vs. Kim Diehl (Soul Eater)

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[girldraki]

✅ ⚧ 📝

…upon receiving this ask we immediately remembered we should’ve mentioned to specify members for asks but since we did not (which is on us) here’s whoever’s in front aka clef-eden draven epon and sort of celeste’s thoughts under the cut because there are indeed Too Many Of Us

📝 How do you feel about fanfiction?

mostly unilateral answer: its fine and we enjoy looking at it but people are wrong about things all the time. not mad about it, mostly it’s funny, but we wish people were less wrong about things sometimes bc going I didnt say that every ten seconds does kind of break immersion when youre trying to look at a nice story about that guy you happen to be

✅ What does the fandom usually get right?

clef: actually fandom is pretty on top of my whole deal in most ways, possibly more than anyone else in here :shrug:

(bonus eden answer: long hair and antlers. i guess im less overtly irritating than clef or ukulele?)

draven: um. actually not a whole lot that isn’t already direct canon i.e. my relationship with my mom or whatever. i like when people give me t4t swag with james i guess that’s real even if they usually come from a different direction than my stuff

epon: people really dont talk about me much esp in a headcanon-y way. i sure do have horns like everyone draws me with i guess????

kondraki: the repression 😐

⚧ What were your gender and orientation in your timeline; was your identity canon?

not only are we all ridiculous gestalts with probably-infinite-timelines we really dont get many source memories but. Sigh here’s the info we do have

clef: fairly similar to over here i was mostyl some kind of flavor of queer-romo aspec, which is fairly canon. i think i generally ided as a [cis] guy but more like in a “i don’t know what being nonbinary is“ way than a “im actually a man“ way? the nonhuman (always) and gender stuff were kinda mixed up but i didnt really have words for that either

(bonus eden answer: ace (canon) girl-as-discovered-literally-first-time-fronting (less canon) Headspace Gay (extremely not canon))

draven: lack of memories specifically involving gender is not helping out here. i was definitely bi (canon compliant) and also possibly kind of aspec (less so) and all attempts to return what my gender was are blackboxing so who knows

epon: i dont really have a good enough grasp on what’s up with any version of me to answer this one sorry

celeste: i’ve told this story but i was bi enough of the time to distinctly remember bottledick and “straight“ enough of the time to be adamantly insistent i was cishet for like two weeks after showign up here. both arguably canon compliant. i don’t think i was a girl before forming because that wasn’t on our radar at all but at the same time the last fucking triyearly new source memory i got was specifically about being a girl? the gender stuff objectively isnt canon compliant but i don’t care and canondraki’s a girl now

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Canon Aspec Swag: Daughter Dooley vs Sister Carpenter

Daughter Dooley aka The Witch Queen from Old Gods of Appalachia who is asexual and aromantic, confirmed in text and by word of god. "@oldsteveofappalachia (He/Him): Daughter Dooley has no descendents. We've been very public and very forthright about this. She's asexual and aromantic. Her line ends with her. I can promise you all right now, no one is ever going to be revealed as a secret daughter of or son of or anything tied to DD. Solitude suited her and that's how it stays."

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Sister Carpenter from The Silt Verses who is aro/ace, confirmed in text and by word of god.

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Kale Romero vs Keyleth of the Air Ashari

Kale Romero from Monster Prom who is asexual and aromantic and attends the Support Group for Asexual People in a World So Sexualised It Might As Well Be a Dating Sim

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Keyleth of the Air Ashari from Critical Role: Vox Machina who is demisexual confirmed by word of god.

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Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Malcolm Shingle vs The Doctor

Malcolm Shingle from Entropic Float who is biromantic asexual and uses that label in text.

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The Doctor from Doctor Who. "Actors Jon Pertwee and Matt Smith have described them as asexual. The doctor has expressed explicit disinterest in sex on multiple times, most explicitly in Bang Bang a Boom that I know of. They have never canonically had sex, and the canon origins of their granddaughter are ambiguous" "For the 1st-7th doctors, disinterest in sex/romance onscreen, 8th doctor referred to as asexual in a novel, 10 & 11 both word of god asexual, others generally show disinterest unless w a specific person"

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