#they’re aroace your honor

[mantar-yosunu]

[sonadow4life]

Wait a minute….

Hang on a sec…

I GET IT NOW OMFG IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO REALISE IM A FUCKING IDIOT

[carmendeiact2whenplz]

I WILL TALK ABOUT THIS A LOT AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME!

I love how with other ships people people will insist they’re dating if they even slightly look at eachother while with bardven i bet (in an alternate universe where it’s shown that characters give even the slightest bit of affection towards each other) hoyoverse could find a way show them vigorously making out or smth and they will still be just friends and the fandom will say they’re just friends and there’s no denial of feelings or gay erasure it’s genuinely just average homie behavior between those two

some bystander could be like “that’s extremely gay tho like are you sure you don’t have any romantic feelings for eachother?” as if neither of them could easily beat you in a fight

[touy-touy-two]

ok this may just be me but sung jin woo gives me untraumatized dabi vibes

[starblizzard247]

Me, an aroace, when I see close friends in media

The aroace part of me: Aw, it’s so nice to see friendships being given as much importance as romantic relationships. I want to have a friendship like that too!

The shippy part of me: THEY’RE IN LOVE YOUR HONOR-

[onesidedradiostatic]

Vox and alastor both not knowing that asexuality/aromanticism is a proper thing… velvette trying to dumb it down for Vox that it’s like alastor is immune to horniness etc, but what Vox gets from it is “holy shit alastor is immune… that must be why he’s so powerful”

Meanwhile alastor this whole time has been thinking “romantic and carnal desires are such laughable weaknesses… but not for me, it’s like I’m immune… that must be why I’m so powerful :)”

They’re both oblivious your honor

LMAOOOOO honestly yeah I find it funny how they're both boomers and just do not understand modern labels of romantic/sexual orientation, canonically in the show for alastor, and implied in that one staticmoth sketch by staff of vox being confused by the bi flag. but yeah this is funny. being aroace makes you powerful indeed.

[signanothername]

Hey, do you think it'd be funny if Killer and Nightmare gossiped about other people together? One of the few moments they actually vibe together (aside from the chess, although that's debatable given how pissed Nightmare's gotta be at losing), and it's just talking smack about others

(Partially inspired by me hearing this TikTok audio which was Ye Olde English 'He's a 10'. Which they could do too. I personally headcanon Nightmare aroace, or at least on the spectrum, but it'd be funny if he didn't know, but Killer did. So they just trash talk people who try to hit on Nightmare, because they're messed up morally, at least one if not both is aroace-spec, and it's FUNNY)

Funny enough Anon, I actually described Nightmare and Killer as “Gossip Girls” before, the linked post is more referring to the fact Killer is the one bringing info/intel back to Nightmare, (I like to think of Killer as the spy/scout of the team beside being Nightmare’s right hand man) but the caption still holds truth to it, as I fully love to believe them to be gossip girls

And them gossiping is definitely one of the very few times Nightmare treats Killer on a bit of an equal ground to him (who knew Nightmare’s capable of it xhhxhxhx)

And same Anon sammmmeee!!! I like to believe Nightmare to be specifically a repulsed Aro and a grey Ace >:))) and I actually like to believe Killer’s demisexual, they’re both on the ace spectrum your honor <333333

But it’d honestly be funny to see them gossiping by going “he’s a 10” bxhxhdh

I honestly like to believe they literally gossip beyond even that, all into people’s relationships, way of life, where they live, etc, and they can be relentless

Anyway someone should make animatics of Iamtonytalks’ gossip vids with Killer and Nightmare this instant or I shall do it myself (if my motivation doesn’t fail me guvujv)

[beautyofaphrodite]

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[feeling--pink]

Hi 🥺 what if they- 👉👈 what if they got mawwied???? 💕💕💕

Okay hi I’ve been working on these on and off all month (mostly off I got really busy whoops) and I have A LOT of thoughts about a Legbone wedding (ft. the drawtectives cause they really are my blorbos) 

Anyways here’s a list of headcannons that I didn’t get to draw:

So right off the bat let’s talk OUTFITS

To me Legzi and Ryjinah had gone looking for dresses but Legzi wasn’t really pumped about any of them 

So maybe they went on a road trip (because ladies bookclub road trips my beloved) to either go look in a different boutique or to do other wedding related shenanigans 

And on the side of the road Legzi spots this rag 

And of course it’s a torn up wedding dress and suddenly she has a Vision^TM

Just Legzi being more excited about fixing up this dress than anything she could have just bought up to that point 

Because to me Legzi is someone who loves to feel like a part of the process and having all her random skills she picked up from Darkmouth 

Then design wise I wanted something puffy so I could hide how much taller I made her 

Because personally I think her using the leg stilts on her wedding day is not only very Legzi^TM but I also made myself laugh with the concept :) 

And florals because those are fun, green, and easy to make by hand (as someone who’s made a lot of ribbon flowers)!! The vines were places where the dress was really torn and needed more structural stitching 

Ryjinahs dress on the other hand I wanted to take some inspiration from her season 1 design (even though I haven’t seen it) 

Also I love a chance to draw some boob 

so anyways York’s invitation

I’ve said it before but “artists draw fan art of each other’s art” where Karina drew Ryjinah, York, Rowan, and Jacob horse all hanging out is CANON TO ME

Which is why all of those characters were invited!! :)

Anyways I imagine all the invitations had your standard stuff- names, dates, rsvp section

But where it would’ve said +1 I think Ryjinah scribbled that out and hand wrote “+2 ;)” 

Which of course Grandma would be slightly flustered by meanwhile York is like “AWESOME you guys can come!!!” 

I believe in drawtectives polycule supremacy and also York is aroace

Which also lead to my miniature leg wrestling joke :)

Oh but the second York and Rah’ōxah lock eyes they’re going to leg wrestle (Pokémon rules) 

Then they can become friends too and we can make Julia’s drawing in “pro artists redraw their old OCs” canon!!! 

Rah’ōxah is both Legzi and Ryjinahs maid of honor :) 

She’s awesome of course she can do both!!!!!!

I wish I had drawn this but to me Parker the cat officiated :)

Maybe while standing on top of Parker the horse 

Ryjinah was not pleased with this but also couldn’t say no to the combined force of Legzi and Rah’ōxah’s puppy dog eyes 

Plus Parker the cat is the only person (cat) they know who’s ordained

Oh last thing I wanted to but didn’t draw was a Rosé & Rowan interaction 

Or not even so much of an interaction but they catch each other’s gaze from across the room and freeze 

Oh more headcannons but they’re siblings to me 

I mean dyed hair? Knives? Mysterious pasts? Color schemes?? Attracted to himbos??? 

Anyways they both have moved on from their family in different directions 

So to suddenly meet again even from across the room 

Then York or Gramdma calls for Rosé and she looks away and they’re gone

But I digress 

Tbh for everyone’s outfits I kinda just went “you know what would be cute???” 

So floral dress for grandma (obviously) 

Jumpsuit + long gloves for Rosé because vibes 

Unbuttoned shirt and double breasted vest for York so he doesn’t have sleeves 

Similar thought process for Rah’ōxah because they give off similar vibes BUT I made Rah’ōxah’s the same colors as Ryjinah and Legzi so she could match both :)

Then a demon Johnny button on her outer vest kinda like the pin/broach she has in Julia’s drawing in pro artists redraw old OCs 

Rowan I just wanted to look swanky and what’s more swanky than a tailcoat? 

And for everyone but Rah’ōxah I tried to keep to their normal color schemes!! :) 

Are all these outfits practical for what I made a beach wedding on a whim? Absolutely not 

I gave pretty much all of them some sort of heels even if they are technically wedges which is better but STILL 

Beaches are fun and easy ish to draw and I never do backgrounds anyways give me a break lol 

But anyways I think that’s all my thoughts!!!

So Legzi & Ryjinah ride into the sunset on their noble steed Jacob Horse :)

[graythegreyt]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!! Who wants ace/aro fic recommendations for Miraculous Ladybug does anyone want ace/aro fic recommendations. Who am I kidding of course you do get in here

The Ace-ing on the Cake - Sailorchibi

This one is THE Aroace Marichat fanfiction in my mind. After several encounters, Chat and Marinette come to understand that they’re both asexual, and begin to worry how their crushes will accept them knowing this. They have a lot of transparent discussions and they may find that things will work out better for them than they’d ever hoped. This one makes my heart so happy :) This author has a lot of fantastic ace works which I'll also be linking, including

Miles Above 

Aromantic Chloe! Chloe, as Queen Bee, feels a growing sense of dread at being left behind by her friends who are getting into relationships and having less time for their friendship with her. She and Ladybug have a long heartfelt talk about her fears of being abandoned. Everyone knows each other's identities in this, and Ladybug does her best to let Chloe know how much her friends value her.

And the last one by the same author: Lost Cause

Marinette is caught up in the fear that Chat Noir will hate her for wanting to pursue a relationship with Chat Noir while being aromantic, but Tikki is convinced that he’ll just be so glad that she loves him so much. Marinette’s not so sure about that, but with Adrien’s encouragement she takes a leap of faith. Aromantic Marinette!

(pockets full of) Stones - felledstar

Aroace Adrien! Adrien keeps telling his friends that Marinette is just a friend to him, but nobody seems to listen to him. Eventually, tired of not being understood, he does some research of his own and has some revelations. This one has a really valuable narrative of how it feels when people won't listen to how you describe your identity in my opinion!! Adrien isn't left hanging forever though-- his closest friends are willing to put their hearts into understanding him. Hopeful ending.

doing romance - @anna-scribbles

I would be REMISS to leave out doing romance from Annascribbles-- it’s just came out but already addresses a lot of the confusion and indeed dread from not feeling the same ways that other people seem to, for romance. Aroace Adrien struggles with feeling inadequate as a boyfriend-- how can he claim to be in love with someone if just a kiss makes him feel so off?

The Hearts of Monsters - @ladyofcreation (and also the whole Heroes with the Faces of Monsters series honestly.)

This is an alternate universe where the miraculous transform the holders into what are, essentially, monsters-- Mari becomes a huge ladybug creature complete with mandibles and two pairs of arms, and Adrien becomes a cat creature with warped limbs and sharp teeth. While our two heroes aren’t interested in one another romantically, they find that they treasure and love eachother deeply, and that’s enough for them- it’s always been enough. Highly recommend the rest of the series as well!

Honorable mentions (stories that aren't ace but do fit the spirit in my credited opinion. They're also just a real kick to read):

Tangled Ribbons and off book by @sadrien

These two stories do a fantastic job in establishing deep friendships in the characters before they begin to harbour honest romantic intentions, which reads so nicely to me and is also just so so beautiful. Highly recommend either of these!

Boys get Dresses, Girls get Suits - @dragonchris

This one’s a gen story and not focused on romance- instead, Alix tackles gender roles in the school, and her class has her back. Very fun!

OKAY THAT'S IT EVERYONE HAPPY READING AND I HOPE YOUR VALENTINE'S HAS BEEN EVERYTHING YOU HOPED IT WOULD BE!!

[caitiewantstobeavadakedavrad]

for the ship thing: Harry/ each of the Weasley children (individually or in groups, go nuts)

Damn anon you’re crazy. I love it. Sorry this took a bit. I had to do some thinking

Harry/Ginny: I love them. I just think they’re great idk. They’re such little shits individually and it’s so fun seeing that come together. They’re one of my favorite canon/het ships and I don’t think that will ever change, they’re just such a comfort pairing and I think they balance each other out really nicely. Overall rating: 10/10

Harry/Ron: Best friends to lovers excellence. They remind me of prongsfoot but? In a much? Softer way? I love the idea of Ron slowly showing Harry what it feels like to truly be loved and that it’s okay to want to be taken care of. I can definitely picture them in a poly situation with hermione, like with Ron dating both of them and it’s just a lot of co-parenting loveliness. Overall rating: 9.5/10. I love them but I do prefer each of them with other people

Harry/Fred: Sure. It’s fun and cute but I don’t really think much of it? I like Harry with both of the twins but for some reason him just dating Fred has never really done much for me? I literally have no clue why, it just doesn’t stand out to me. Although I do like the idea of them pretending to date just to torture Ron. Overall rating: 5/10

Harry/George: I actually fucking love this ship and I have no clue where all the love came from. I like to imagine them getting together during gof or post-Hogwarts. I love the idea of Harry being there for George after fred dies and kind of becoming an anchor for him. He helps out around the shop and makes sure George is taking care of himself but he doesn’t let himself be used. I love them your honor. Overall rating: 10/10

Harry/Percy: I’m intrigued by this pairing. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen it before but??? Now I want content for it??? So if you have any percy/Harry content please hit me up cuz the angst potential is delicious. Overall rating: 7/10. Percy turning against Harry when Voldemort is back? Sign me up.

Harry/Charlie: No. It just doesn’t really do anything for me. I don’t really spend much time thinking about Charlie and when I do, I usually think of him as aroace so. Overall rating: 2/10

Harry/Bill: Listen I love Bill so I’m gonna support all of his ships, but they have the potential to be really sweet (and hot). Maybe they end up sleeping together when the golden trio is staying at the cottage and from then on they’re just filled with dread from not knowing if the other is even still alive. It’s just…idk I really like this pair and I want more content. Overall rating: 8/10

[specialagentartemis]

ask meme since Pin-Lee was taken: the literal goddess Athena. throwing the apple of discord at you

Kat are you trying to get me smited :P

First impression

Age 10 or so: wow! Cool smart warrior lady! Also I love that she decides to stay unmarried forever for reasons I don’t know how to express!

Impression now

Age now: wow! Cool smart warrior lady! Also I love that she decides to stay unmarried forever for reasons I know Exactly how to express!

… although tempered a lot with more knowledge about Ancient Greece and different variants on the gods’ stories, the social context of when the different ones were written, and why. I’m actually more fascinated now with Athena’s portrayal as the goddess of merciful justice, as she is in the Oresteia; neither Apollo’s smug righteousness, nor the Furies’ screaming for vengeance and blood. However, a lot of these portrayals of wise, just, balanced, merciful Athena come from Athenian playwrights who were obviously biased towards their city’s patron, and against Apollo (who was associated with Sparta, the city Athens was at war with at the time). She could certainly be selfish in the way of the Bronze Age gods in the Bronze Age stories.

I’m also interested in her association with crafts, specifically women’s crafts. Crafts being recognized as taking the same kind of logic, planning, intelligence, and importance as war tactics. Athena spanning this masculine space of war and feminine space of craftworking.

And the ambivalence of her eternal virginity—Athena only able to have that position of power and respect she does because no man is allowed to dominate, master, and functionally own her, the way classical Greek views on gender hierarchy and sexism assumed was the natural way of men and women. Athena has to take on masculine characteristics to be powerful in this manner. As much as I wanna go hell yeah genderqueer aroace icon there’s also the fact that it’s heavily rooted in sexism. She’s a fascinating, complex, ambivalent figure.

Favorite moment

I’m very fond of the story where Athena was raised alongside Triton’s daughter Pallas, as sisters and friends. They both practiced the arts of war and would practice and spar together. Then, once, either they had a falling-out and the fighting became real; or they were sparring and ply-fighting, but either way, Zeus, afraid for his daughter and Meddling, distracted Pallas, and Athena accidentally killed her. Athena, heartbroken at the death of her friend, which she genuinely wasn’t trying to do!, built a statue in her honor and adopted her name “Pallas” in honor and memory.

Idea for a story

She’s Odysseus’s patron, and Telemachus’s mentor (ha), but as the goddess of weaving and tactics and cleverness… I would LOVE to see her interacting with Penelope more. The woman known for her cleverness, and her weaving skill, and for using weaving as a tactic in her cold war against her suitors. I would DESPERATELY love to see Athena and Penelope during the time period when Telemachus was growing up, or while he was off in Sparta and Pylos, and Penelope was holding down her palace and kingdom alone.

Unpopular opinion

Ovid’s renditions of the myths are fine. Yes even the one where Athena turned Arachne into a spider out of spite, and the one where Athena made Medusa a monster. They’re not the only versions or the version that your own mythic/literary tradition needs to draw on, but they’re compelling and interesting. They were written from a very specific cultural and political perspective, but that perspective is fascinating in its own right. It’s not Ovid’s fault that most of our knowledge of Greek literature comes from Athenians who are biased towards Athena and portray her as great.

Favorite relationship

I’m a simple normie, I like Athena lavishing attention on Odysseus as her champion during the war, a warrior after her own heart, and the way even when he pisses her off after the war and she withholds her help anymore she starts to feel kiiiiinda bad about it. And she strikes up a friendship/mentorship with Telemachus and starts advocating for him to the other gods again. Odysseus and his son as Athena’s… projects, supplicants, maybe even in the strange way of gods and men, friends.

Favorite headcanon

I think she is SO pleased that even though she lost the judgement of Paris, she won the war (not even the Trojan War, the war for the hearts and minds of the people. She is Everyone’s Favorite Greek Goddess now)

[vague-bisexual-crimes]

Monday - “children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.”

RAIN MOTIF RAIN MOTIF RAIN MOTIF!!!

as @greeen-bean already said: autistic Angel. You agree

Love Juliet but baby how do you forget to pass along that you’ve also invited another friend when surely this is all you and Angel have been talking about for months

That being said ohhh Angel and Juliet <3

Still obsessed with the last paragraph of chapter one where it describes the photo of The Ark from @ ArkUpdates twitter and Angel describing them as “the Beatles on Abbey Road, or a group of toddlers holding hands on a preschool trip to the park”

Rowan calling Jimmy Jimjam is sooooooo. Your honor they love each other.

Always and forever love that right off the bat Jimmy hits you with “my friends at very hot and I love them so much” realest of all time.

“It’s nothing new. We’ve done this before. What’s whirring?” He taps his temple and looks at me. What’s whirring. I love Rowan. He says words like he made them up. Probably why he’s our lyricist.

Jimmy’s little trans flag he always wears makes me emo

Rowan undoes his seat belt, pats me gently on the cheek, pinches Lister’s nose, and says, “Let’s walk, lads”

The girl’s aren’t anything new. They’re always there, somewhere, waiting for us. I don’t mind really. Jimmy I don’t know how to tell you that if they didn’t bother you, you wouldn’t have described them like stalkers.

Jimmy’s “California, baby,” makes me giggle. That’s it it’s just very funny.

Rowan just get no show socks you don’t need to suffer leather shoes no socks

I think Rowan’s right to hate their fans even at the start of the book 🤷‍♀️ they don’t have the right to demand things of him (pictures, autographs, follow-back on ig) and even tho he hasn’t been you know bricked in the head yet but he’s still spent the better part of his teens being obsessed over and having fans invade his privacy and personal space. Anyway.

I don't [take pictures with fans] anymore. I don’t go anywhere near them anymore. I don’t mind waving and smiling, and I’m grateful, definitely grateful that they’re here and supporting us and loving us, but…they scare me. And this is perfectly normal for someone who is not bothered by his fans and definitely doesn’t have severe anxiety.

LET THE ARK HOLD HANDS 2024!!!

Angel the pinnacle of mental healthiness: Fortunately for us, I’m excellent at faking being okay with things, even when inside my brain there is a tiny screaming gnome who is definitely not okay.

Poor Angel having to unexpectedly hang out with an 18 yo boy :/

If Mac has no haters, Angel is dead.

Let’s hear it for aroace Angel Rahimi!!!

Very important to me that the fans/public don’t know Lister is bi they just think he is

Angel’s parasocial relationship with Jimmy goes hard I will say it.

Jimmy just accept that you’re a music snob, it’s okay, it’s actually very real of you

“Would you really take a bullet for them?” “Yeah, I think so.” AUGHJFHSKE !!!!!!!!!??!:$(&/&’cl

The Ark loves theatricality.

Our platform starts to rise into the air. The light changes and I glance around to look at the LED screen. It’s a giant Renaissance painting of an armored woman wielding a sword. Joan.

[starry-skies-116]

ROTTMNT HEADCANONS BECAUSE I WATCHED AND LOVE THIS SHOW AND AM HYPERFIXATING AGGRESSIVELY ON IT NOW:

They keep the surnames of “Hamato” despite abandoning the strictly traditional practices of the Hamato clan whilst also taking more eclectic inspiration from their arts to their own.

They all brumate btw. Pry this from my cold dead hands. Every time brumation season comes, the Disaster Twins Inc. hog the couch.

Donnie, because he’s autistic and is a softshell turtle, has sensory issues and is very picky about what food he eats and which clothes he wears, as well as what surfaces he touches. He secretly has a casual list catalogued about what sensory things he loves versus what he hates, and there’s a small area in his lab that’s sensory heaven for him.

All the turtles have different eye colours. Leo has natural heterochromia, one eye being cobalt blue and another eye being bright amber. Post-movie Raph has heterochromia from being turned into a Krang zombie for a short amount of time- one eye is emerald green, and another is a bright magenta purple. Donnie has warm brown eyes, and Mikey has baby/cornflower blue-ish grey eyes. April has hazel green eyes.

Teenage Mutant Intersex Turtles, anyone?? They’re all different variations of intersex on the intersex spectrum. Leo was presumed to be a guy and does have some male traits, but is biologically female- he’s both intersex and a trans dude (and I’m all here for it).

Raph is an aroace bigender (both transfem and demiboy), Mikey is genderfluid and greyaroace pansexual and panromantic, Donnie is nonbinary, asexual and greyromantic biromantic, and Leo is FTM trans, demisexual and gay (did I mention they are all intersex).

Yes I do headcanon disaster twins, and that Donatello was taller than Leonardo when they were younger but Leo is 3 and a half minutes older than Donnie and takes every damn opportunity to brag about it.

“We need CaCa and Maggie~!” “JUST SAY CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM GODDAMNIT-”

In the future, all of the turtles have cloaking brooches and stable jobs that earn them great income. They also have apartments close to the sewers that is their home.

Okay, we all know Donnie’s canonically autistic. But what if all the turtles are on differing parts of the spectrum. More at 5.

Donnie in addition to being autistic has insomnia, BPD and misophonia and does have sight issues and is prone to migraines due to staring at screens and not getting enough sleep, Raph has panic disorder, dyslexia, OSDD-1a and GAD, Leo has ADHD-I, autism, GAD and is bipolar, and Mikey has ADHD-HI, dyscalculia and autism. All of them have some form of PTSD post-movie.

Leo does know how to play chess please and thank you. He just does it for fun and doesn’t really practice.

Splinter has PTSD, is autistic and is bisexual (the most unrealistic thing is young Lou Jitsu/Hamato Yoshi in his 20’s NOT kissing men and enby hoes in addition to women). He’s not a bad father, he just passed some of that generational trauma of everything that’s happened to him, as well as his regrets and grief, down to his kids without even knowing and feels terrible about it once he realizes. He may have made so many mistakes as a father, but he deeply loves his sons beyond what they could ever comprehend, and he’d send anyone to the shadow realm if they laid a finger on his beloved turtle children.

Donnie and Leo (mostly Donnie) bite each other for no reason at all- not enough to hurt or draw blood, but enough for the bitten to yelp and want an apology from the one who did the biting.

April O’Neil is an also autistic lesbian polyamorous demigirl. She’s saving up enough money by working at The Foot shoestore partially for her top surgery. Sunita is her best friend soon-to-be girlfriend. They’re gay disasters your honor.

Cassandra Jones is MTF trans. Fight me on this one.

Sunita, despite being a teenage slime yokai, does celebrate and participate in Indian culture and does consider herself Indian (let me have my rep I’m starved of please). She’s also a lesbian demigirl, and is asexual and autistic. She also has the ability of superhuman bodily elasticity, even in human form (though it is restricted somewhat in human form). Sunita WILL call pilaf ‘biryani that needs therapy’ okay, she’ll fight you if you say they are the same thing.

Queerplatonic/non-romantic Apritello where they have a super close relationship greater than best friends but cringe at the idea of being in a romantic relationship together wya <3

April’s African American, we all know, but what about her being of Afro-Iranian Jewish descent and her mother’s Shakshuka and Latkes and Rugelach and Sufganiyot being her absolute favorite among all the stuff she makes. She gets MAJOR hyped by the time Hanukah comes around and tells the Turtle boys and Splinter about it.

And there’s more, but I’ll tell y’all about that later, or we’ll be here all day.

[artblueminecraftorchid]

Rings

The first female pastor I ever met

At the first gay wedding I ever attended

Told a story about rings and their meaning

“They’re round so they can fit on your finger,

Made of precious metal so they don’t rust.

Be sure to tell your kids when they ask.”

The congregation laughs, and she smiles.

“Rings are also a symbol of promise;

A circle to show eternity,

Precious metal to show commitment.”

Your ring was round,

But you never wore it;

Wrapped it in thread and tied it around your neck.

Your ring was metal,

But clearly not precious;

You tried to pawn it off on me.

Your ring was a promise;

You broke it.

That story wouldn’t mean much to you

With how queerness looms like a spectre

Over your mind; a sin ever creeping

And threatening to steal your soul.

A female pastor is an abomination,

A violation of God’s plan for us.

Perhaps I should tell a different story

From someone more palatable

To your milquetoast tastes.

Once upon a time, we were friends.

Sisters in arms, aroace solidarity,

Playing DND, swapping character stories,

Comparing theologies to sharpen each other’s iron.

I loved you,

You loved me,

We had mutual friends.

Once upon a time, our friend

Had ace rings they were giving away

And only one in my size.

You asked for it, said it would

Fit your finger best, met up in person,

Put it on. I didn’t begrudge you

Anything.

It was a sign of love for you,

And I knew our friends loved me too.

Shame it didn’t fit.

Once upon a time, our friend was our DM,

Telling us stories and letting us tell ours.

Ring on your necklace, a sign

That you didn’t want sex or romance.

Your characters did, but of course

We play people who are not like us

To tell the stories we need to hear.

Your character got her NPC happily

Ever after dream, and if

The players at the table felt strange at the pressure

Of romance, we didn’t say a word.

You promised you didn’t want to push.

Shame you pushed it anyway.

Once upon a time,

You asked me if I wanted a ring.

Said you had an old ace ring that didn’t fit,

That you knew I’d get better use out of it

(Since it’d probably fit my finger better),

Promised to send little treats and gifts with it,

Told me you loved me.

Let me think it was precious;

A sign of our friendship

Shame it was secondhand.

Once upon a time,

I asked where the ring came from

And you told me,

Reluctantly.

Claimed our friend had done heinous things,

Swore that any reasonable person would agree,

Lied to me about what you’d done,

And why you thought of me.

You’d promised to send the ring

Before the end of the sophomore year;

Maybe over the summer, if you were late.

I thought I’d have it in time for the wedding.

The gay wedding,

Officiated by the female pastor,

In which I was the maid of honor.

Shame you never sent it,

But

There were other rings

That meant what they said.

[burning-thistles-bt]

they’re haties your honor

Read Hunted Lynx

these two give me so many feelings. just.... imagine dying and you don’t have anyone to greet you except your dad who ur not really close to either because he died when u were so young you dont remember or bcus he was kind of a sucky dad. and ur all alone, and ur dad has friends so its not the same, and all you can do is watch ur brother try and survive below and hope for the best but its hopeless for u bcus u kind of wish someone u know would die but its a horrible thought and u hate urself for it

and then you finally have someone who you know and grew up with but fuck its the girl who bullied you/the girl you despised

but you dont have a choice but to bond because, well, what else do you have? the lonely abyss of beautiful night stars?

maybe you can gaze together

(yes the background is the asexual spectrum flag. it provided the most night-sky affect out of the aroace-spec flags. Lynxpaw is demiromantic asexual, and Cricketheart is ???? unknown. just vibing. not particular interested in romance/sex so aroacespec maybe but who knows! she never thought about it. their relationship is queerplatonic friends. so like Copperleaf and Dawncloud’s, but the opposite way. instead of being romantically in love but with an undefined relationship, they’re just reluctant best friends forced to seek comfort from one another due to unfortunate circumstances. Lynxpaw probably develops a real crush but Cricketheart is just happy to have a friend again and oblivious yet also teases/flirts with her 24/7 and its not helping lol)