Being both aroace and a huge nerd, it irks me a little that 99% of the asexual and/or aroace headcanons I see (and not aroallo headcanons interestingly, which could be its own post but I digress) are about characters who spend all their time working/studying/etc…. scientists, academics, introverts, shut-ins, even. I assume the common reasoning is that these characters only care about their work and don’t have time for things like relationships and sex. But like. You know that’s not what asexuality is… right 😀
Obviously it’s fine to headcanon these types of characters as ace, but I just always wonder about allo fans’ reasoning for it and what it implies about their opinions of asexual people. When the ONLY characters you can think of as ace are just nerdy, quiet/socially awkward characters with no other canon implications that they’d be ace, to me it just sounds like you think people are asexual because they can’t attract sexual partners? Or because they don’t have time for relationships??
Anyway it just annoys me a little that this is the VAST majority of the ace representation I see, both in canon and fandom. I’m an aroace academic, but I’m not aroace because I don’t have time for people or because I’m shy or awkward or lonely or whatever. I’m aroace because I’m aroace lol
Tl;dr, asexual/aroace people aren’t all innocent nerdy introverts (and aroallos aren’t all extroverts with a long history of one night stands, btw). Let ace characters be loud and stupid. Or try headcanoning a loud and stupid character as ace (you can do it, I promise)
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SHUFFLED BISHOPS AU since IM going insane over it and yall seem to like it as well,
we’ve got their designs IN FULL and general notes- DW Goat and Lamb will eventually get their own post, this is just focusing on the bishops
I'm glad you liked it!! I really enjoyed drawing them as humans :)))
Hopefully VoW isn't over yet..
Old doodles of @tsunochizu 's fics- Vow&Btts
Yeah I rly loved these two back then in 2023,, (still love em but.yea)
+unfinished wip of BttS
when artist consistently draws the same pattern of things for a long time like... Puppies or something.. and then gets interested in skeletons and starts consistently drawing skeletons....
Thats when a lot of people start to really be mean or show entitlement it's clear they view artists as "art dispenser" and not and actual person with a consciousness that flows like a river. It's like they think the art machine is broken and it used to give me puppy art but it's broken now and I get skeleton art so someone should fix it ?
People go through phases of things they like sometimes people really are into something for years and then they're into something else for years and then they go back to the old thing for a week and then they do something else again
Artists aren't brands they aren't corporations you aren't consuming them ... They're human people and they're trying to connect or get thoughts out or any number of reasons to create and share things and a lot of artists aren't even interested in making money off it..
#lil gremlin child
collecting my fave little images of them in one place
SO TRUE
like. I see a beautiful person(or character) and my brain goes "PRETTY" and "I need that THING" but at the same time doesn't want something romantic/sexual with them
What I say: Damn, that guy's hot.
What I mean: I love that facial structure. I need to study it, learn to draw it, and use it for my art. Also, I want that haircut.
Today I was chatting with two guys and mentioned I was aroace. It went a little something like this.
A: wtf is that
B: it means she’s not attracted to people in that way
A: bro you can’t just not pick a side, that’s crazy
B: nah, it just means she’s spectator mode
A: OHHH IT MAKES SENSE NOW
I have never felt more validated or laughed so hard
How hyperfixation feels like:
I bingeread TRoD(cotl) two days ago and am still calming down from the hype
Gonna draw some stuff later