#happy asexual week !!!

[faer1efire]

really scuffed ashe doodles 🤲🏻🤲🏻 shes my everything

[mel-loly]

-Happy Asexual Visibility Week!💜

[censorious-asshat]

To all my fellow asexuals here, I am so proud of you, you are amazing and you deserve nothing but the best. Don't let anyone try to tell you otherwise. you mean so much. happy ace week to all of you

[kai-and-their-mess]

happy ace week

im ace!!!!!

from being brainwashed into ace exclusion, to being scared to claim it because of ace exclusion, to not thinking i deserved to call myself 'ace' because im sex eager/positive.

i can finally say outloud:

im ace!!!!

it took alot of learning and internal growth, but im

finally actually proud to call myself asexual

[beelze-the-bubkiss]

Happy ace week (❁´◡`❁)

[souppunch]

Be careful what you ask for dad,

Happy ace week!

[blu-wingz]

I am aware

[ciudadanouniversoblog]

Yes. So?

[shmaroace]

it's ace week so put that sexual attraction AWAY you don't need it. now bring out the cake

[somegrumpynerd]

Nailed it.

[starstruckodysseys]

d&d shows have done more for asexual representation than like ninety percent of media

[goddammit-sam]

[dogb1scuit]

Fun fact: Komodo dragons have the ability to reproduce asexually. That gave me inspiration to draw this.

[yannig]

I love the color coding in Koisenu Futari

Let it be said that I am a complete novice on anything regarding colors coding; but I've learned a few things from @respectthepetty and I have opinion on colors in Koisenu Futari.

Quick context just in case: Koisenu Futari is a Japanese show about two AroAce characters, Sakuko and Takahashi, trying to make a life together and navigate society's expectations.

First off: the contrasts between Sakuko and Takahashi

Takahashi is a blue boy (loyal, steady, and reliable but a bit passive and depressive) who also likes green a lot ; it's almost the only two colors he wears, beside neutrals.

The only warm color he wears is the store’s red apron, which is notably a uniform that he doesn’t choose to wear.

Sakuko is less strict about her colors. I’d argue the first thing you’re supposed to get from her clothing is that she's expressive and a bit eccentric: she wears patterns, bright colors, colorful jewelry, that kind of things.

Overall though, she’s a red rascal. She definitely is spontaneous (if not straight out impulsive), energetic and passionate, and she gets this beautiful red coat at the end of ep 3 that she wears every time she’s out afterwards.

It serves really well to contrast them with each other; it makes sens, they certainly have contrasting personalities. Sakuko is impulsive and demonstrative where Takahashi is more reserved and steady.

But it also makes them a perfect Purple Pair, which I'd argue is another romantic trope they float right through (just like they couldn't care less about the meet-cute they had in the first episode).

Kazu-kun

The first bit of color coding I actually noticed in this show was about Kazu-kun, and how he spends almost the entirety of ep 4 completely standing out in the decor.

Since they spent almost the whole episode in the house, neither Sakuko nor Takahashi wear their signature coat, and Takahashi being on bed rest means he can't wear his green apron either. They are striped of their colors like Kazu-kun is stripping them of their privacy and agency by imposing himself in their home.

And imposing he is. Beyond the fact that I want to punch him every time I watch this episode, even the camera doesn't like him being there. While Sakuko and Takahashi spends most of the ep in neutral colors, Kazu-kun never once loses his signature orange.

(Kazu-kun is, of course, a Yellow/Orange Oddity, optimistic and creative but impatient and careless with other's feelings.)

Which means he completely stands out in the decor.

He begins to stand out a bit less as the episode progress and he starts to learn; when he cooks diner, the decor warms up to him a bit, but Sakuko and Takahashi are still wearing neutrals.

And once he's learned his lesson and accepted Sakuko is AroAce and is never going to love him, that's when he stops standing out.

Here he is in ep 5 in neutral colors to match Sakuko and Takahashi inside of their home:

And then all 3 of them out on vacation a bit later in the same ep, this time all wearing their respective color:

Now that Kazu-kun has learnt his lesson, now that he understand them, he fits. He's stopped being an intruder.

I had other things to say, but this is long enough as is, and I need to go to sleep. So the rest will need to wait for another post!

In the mean-time, I've got other posts about this show!

[lord-of-the-weird]

[the-stars-were-his]

be aware.