Someone Paint A Plane With The Aromantic Flag.

Im not a huge fan of aspec shipping discourse but i have some strong opinions rn. So, ive come up with a hypothetical. Imagine this:

Pretend that we’re back when there was NO LGBTQ representation in media. As in, you could think of literally example of a queer character if asked. (I know LGBTQ rep is still scarce, but not as scarce as it used to be, so just pretend it is that super rare).

Lets say that there is a canonically sapphic character in a show you like, let’s say she’s a girl. You get so excited because there’s literally NO rep in any other shows you can find. Excited, you go on the internet to look for stuff about her. However, when you get onto your social media of choice, all you see is fan content shipping her with a male character.

On the surface, this is completely fine. After all, the show doesn’t exactly specify her identity, she could be bi, pan, etc. Sapphic women can like men. But, you find it odd how the only ship art is with her and a man. She had chemistry with tons of female characters, after all. Why not ship her with them? It seems telling that most people ignore her queerness and just say “sapphic women can still date men” to excuse it, despite that being true.

When you post about how frustrating it is, people start getting mad, saying that you’re gatekeeping queerness. People ignore your points and just say “but queer people can be in straight relationships” even though you know that’s true. People say that “its just fan content, let them have fun.” Most people doing the shipping aren’t even sapphic themselves.

To you, it feels like the only piece of canon representation you have is being ignored completely. You know queer people can have straight relationships, you have no issue with that. It’s the fact that people are basically treating her like a straight character and ignoring her queerness that bothers you.

This is how it feels to see people shipping aro character. I know aro people can date. I’m aro and I hope to be in a relationship someday. Some of my closest friends are aspec and are dating other aspecs. But that’s not the point.

The point is that when aspec characters become canon, which is UNBELIEVABLY RARE, so many people choose to ship them anyways. Not only this, but people’s just treat them as if they were allo, just using “aspecs can date” as a cover for completely ignoring the character’s identity. Aspec relationships have nuance. They sometimes don’t look like a “normal” allo relationship.

You can ship aspec characters respectfully. You can:

Put them in a queerplatonic relationship

Put them in a romantic relationship that doesnt involve sex (if they’re allo-ace)

Put them in a sexual relationship that doesnt involve romance (if theyre aro-allo)

Put them in a relationship that’s sexual and romantic, but acknowledge that the relationship might be different than a one between allo people

Handle the ships with nuance and understand that even in a relationship, the character still isnt allo

And most importantly, listen to aspec people when they tell you something you’re doing is inaccurate or harmful.

Sorry for the rant but just… please listen to aspec people!!! We deserve good representation too

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Ok let's see how much attention a low effort doodle of Second sleeping can get

Knight : Please help me make more dark fountains please please please please please

Knight : You just need something sharp and then you stab the ground.

Knight : It’s not hard.

Knight : Please do this for the love of God please PLEAASEEEEE

Noelle : Look, I know what will happen when we do this for you!

Noelle : We are NOT going to help you!

Noelle : Right, Susie?

Susie, already taking off her spiked bracelets :

Noelle :

I should add, however, I am MAD they destroyed the moon. The just- why'd that happen? We need the moon. We need her for the oceans. She didn't deserve her fate.

Just saw Sonic 3

I. LOVED his movie! Stone's character being just kinda neutral but completely loyal to Robotnik! He literally calls Tails adorable they do not fight ever. and his heartbreak when Robotnik shows more care to his grandpa and when he's fired (saddest break up scene ever). I love him so much. I also hope that there'll be a Sonic.exe reference in the next film bc it'd be funny. And SHADOW AUGH. They all make me sick just- the parallels between Sonic and Shadow!! Anyways great movie 10/10

yes. We stand in the rain, sharing a single umbrella having a somewhat emotional conversation <3

Actually, he's left quite a while ago. There ended up being a lot of drama between him and my sister. He eventually left to be with one of his parents.

Hey dad.

This isn't really about me, but I'm still concerned.

My sister has a friend who'll be staying for some time. He's come from a bad situation, and we're trying to help. The problem is that they met in a mental hospital and they say they love each other. The reason I have a problem with this is because of his situation and their mental problems. Just tonight (the time I'm writing) he talked to my dad about his relationship with my sister and ended up mentioning another girl's name. My sister doesn't know, and I'm worried things will go wrong from here. I don't understand how romance works, but I want my sister to be happy, and make the right choice.

-Voids

Hey kiddo, you sound like a lovely and caring sibling. I understand why you would be concerned. Would it maybe be helpful to talk to your parents about this?

- dad x

Silly

Reblogging this on my alt account.

Regarding that scene with Purple and their family, what happened with Navy, how I saw it was him gesturing for them to run. To follow him. I don't know if it's entirely true, but that's how I saw it. Navy didn't know what to do, but still tried to get his family to follow him. There was just misunderstandings, and Purple and Orchid couldn't keep up or move fast enough. Maybe Orchid died because of an injury during the New grounds attack.

I dunno if this makes sense but those are just my thoughts.

Chat how do I stop The Feelings?

This donut my platonic gf got

WHO NEEDS SOME BOOPS???

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