Quick Question: Can I Just Identify As Aroace Spec And Move On W My Life Or Will I Be Invalided And Interrogated

i forgot to post this here

Apex brain rott go brrrrr

I posted this a while ago but seems appropriate, great minds

ignore the shit quality i just had to get this thought out of my head

also apparently kurt/nightcrawler was raised by a Romani woman so he and dick have that culture in common too. plus they both have ‘Night’ in their hero names (tho that’s obvious)

OH and dick & clint both have a bird theme

The plot of the X-men prequels

Narrator comforts a depressed Stanley

the writing in some of the x men films was honestly so good. they never relied on one liners or forced interactions to be short/clipped. the plots were often character driven rather than action driven, so there were a ton of emotional and context specific moments. I think one of the best examples of this is the plane scene bc there is so much to unpack. charles being a drug addict who ran away from his problems bc it hurt to much, who chose to silence his powers instead of constantly feeling people die. erik who just spent the last ten years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, trapped while mutants were being murdered. both feeling as tho the other abandoned them, even tho their break up had been mutual. the years of hurt between them. the fact that they still both love each other. wolverine awkwardly in the background. it’s too much!!!

#AroAceJugheadOrBust

I am glad the Riverdale show is over. To the people gushing about how the show was nonsensical, special & amazing, I would like to remind (or tell) that Jughead is canonically asexual aromantic.

There was initial enthousiasm in the aroace community at the annoncement of this show in 2016 & early 2017, especially because the actor Cole Sprouse was initially x supportive of an asexual Jughead, had read the comics & claimed respect for the decades-long original material indicating that Jughead was aroace (even before it was official confirmed in 2016 in the Chip Zdarsky comics). I don't know if Cole Sprouse mentioned it since, I couldn't find anything after 2017.

In 2017, there was a months-long campaign, with the hashtag #AroAceJugheadOrBust. We kept up hope, especially because at the time, it would have been the biggest piece of aroace representation ever seen on television, in a mainstream show no less. And we weren't hoping for something out of reach, they were adapting a comic where the best friend of the lead was consistently depicted as aroace, for decades. And we were told we would get a fair portrayal of the character.

Time passes, the show aired, Jughead initiated a kiss with Betty & Jughead got a girlfriend. At some point someeone involved in the show straight up said (I would cite the source but I don't remember well & I didn't bookmark it at the time, sorry) that the reason they gave the character a love interest was that otherwise it didn't make for a compelling or interesting story (I don't remember precisely, sorry).

I stewed in that a long time, thinking about how I'm one of the most interesting person I know, being aroace isn't boring, if they can't have a character being interesting without giving them a romance plot, that's them being terrible at their job...

When all our hopes were dashed, other people, many queer people started to show & like that show. Rooting for it. saw praise for queer representation for bi or gay characters, I didn't see any mention of the straight-washing of one of the main characters & how maybe some solidarity were warranted.

As an aroace person, I wanted the show to fail, for the widespread outrage of the queer community condamning straight-washing to underwhelm any positive review.

That didn't happened this time. I hope the next time people try to rase aromantic or asexual identities of fictional characters in popular media, things are different & we do get that solidarity & support. I hope things get better.

also. is this anything. anything at all