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[Banner by the talented @gooberdotnet] Gender: female (ser/serp/serpentself, she/her/herself) | Lvl: 8 | Moves: Sketch 🎨 Helping Hand 😃 String Shot 🕸 Harden 👏 | Ability: Shed Skin | Nature: Bashful | Characteristic: Often lost in thought | Bug-Type Enjoyer 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 | (Here from pokemon irl? go to @crispythehubcoon for my roleplay blogs.)

[crispythecascoon]

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[negativepeanuthoarder]

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

[crazysnor1ax]

Yall,

[papercranesandpride]

I think if you want to understand bigotry against aromantics, I have a good case study. Let me talk a little about my dad's family.

My dad has 4 half siblings and two step siblings. They're all a decent bit younger than him. When I was a teenager, we went to a family reunion, and I realized something—my dad did not respect his siblings. He looked down on all of them. He saw them as fuck-ups and overgrown children. My dad had the American dream: well paying management job, suburban house, wife, and three kids. My aunt and uncles did not. Excluding my aunt, none of them were married or in serious relationships. They hadn't really settled into long term careers. Several of them were working the kind of jobs that get called "Unskilled labor." So he looked down on them because the youngest one was in his thirties (and several were much older), and yet none of them had "settled down" into what he saw as lifelong, permanent careers and relationships and lives. He was polite to their faces, sure, but I heard how he talked about them behind their backs, to my mother.

And then a few years ago, we visited his brothers again for Thanksgiving. And I realized something again--he respected them now. He saw them as equals. Why? Well. All of a sudden, every single one of them had serious, committed romantic partners. They didn't even need to still be with those partners—one of my uncle's fiance passed away from cancer before they could marry—just having had one showed that they matured into a real adult participating in society. In fact, at one point, my aunt was telling my mom about how one of my uncles was no longer living in an apartment she owned, but instead, after having a steady girlfriend for about a year, he moved in with her. And my mom literally said to my aunt, "wow. Look at that. He finally grew up."

One of the lines that frequently gets repeated about anti-aspec sentiment is "why would anyone hate asexuals/aromantics/etc? They aren't even doing anything." And that's exactly it. In the eyes of amatonormative culture, we aren't doing anything. Adults are supposed to do things. That's how you become a member of society.

I know that my father will never see me as a successful adult. He will never approve of my life. And I think most people would assume that that's because I'm trans. And don't get me wrong, he sure as shit doesn't like or respect that, but I do think if given enough time, he would get used to it. He would eventually realize that it isn't going away. And if I settled down with a spouse and a respectful job and a few kids, he could see me as a successful adult that he could be proud of anyway. But of course, that's not going to happen. Because I'm aromantic. So I'm never going to do that one thing that signifies that his job is complete, and I'm officially a full-fledged adult. I will perpetually be that fuck-up kid who won't settle down. In my personal case, that's okay. My dad is a conservative piece of shit, and if he doesn't approve of you, that just means you're doing something right. But on a societal level? This kind of attitude is a massive problem. Aromantics deserve to be treated like adults, and to feel like the accomplished adults that they are. We should feel like we belong in society.

[epilepticsaints]

[puppygirlisland-deactivated2024]

as annoying and harmful as tiktok is i gotta hand it to them, they have a unique pvp system

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

It just keeps going

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

why is this tagged mature content

[fangirltothefullest]

You know how we on Tumblr play with images like dolls Tiktok is doing that with videos and I appreciate that.

[crazysodomite]

Basyas eating...

[theraphos]

@onenicebugperday please look at this giant of a man, incredible

[diamantefangs]

[xeansicemane]

This is kinda ominous ngl

[vexwerewolf]

Gotta compliment him on his reflexes. No hesitation. Just described exactly what he was seeing, regardless of what it was.

[wherefore-whinnies]

[VD: A weatherman is giving a report and pointing to a map, saying "feel like temperatures really take a tumble too, because after the storm-" before he is interrupted by the screen going black and then displaying a picture of some baby spinach. He says, "um," then immediately points to the screen and confidently announces, "this is baby spinach." /End VD]

[lake-erie]

this year’s prom theme is… *opens envelope* Great Lakes Invasive Species And What Boaters Can Do To Stop Them

[football-in-tuxedos]

And the subject of tonight’s ecology panel is *turns on powerpoint* Enchantment Under the Sea

[worldaccordingwrites]

I HATE BEING A YOUNG WRITER BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE WORLD YET AND MY STORIES LACK REALISM. LIKE WHAT IF A CHARACTER NEEDS TO FILE HIS OR HER TAXES? I DON’T KNOW HOW ONE GOES ABOUT FILING TAXES! YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA OF HOW CONCERNED I AM ABOUT KNOWING HOW TO FILE TAXES.

[malcolmwehavetocook-deactivated]

[theaspecyear]

People need to understand that the point ISN’T “being single is not a failure if you’re aromantic”, the point is being single is not a failure full stop.

You can be allo and be single; it’s allowed. You feeling attraction doesn’t mean your priority NEEDS to be finding romance (it can be! But it also can not).

Being single should be normalized no matter what your romantic/sexual orientation is. It isn’t a tragedy.

[explore-animals-and-wildlife]

[bugthingsdaily]

Today's bug thing is this ant ring by metalclothandwood!

[canonically47]

this pride month, don't forget to shout out asexuals and aromantics. sometimes even pride month can make us feel isolated so DON'T FORGET US!! WE'RE HERE AND WE'RE QUEER!!

[prinnay]

2016:

2026:

I'd like to think I improved a little bit over the last decade ;u;

[clown-a-ffliction]

Hellohellohellohello I really like how you draw the look outside group, they are all very very expressive and I adore it

Also very cute joel I wish for his teeth to br very well brushed forever

Thank you thank you!! Sorry for also taking a bit.

Your message made me think of Joel's probably now 20+ minute brushing routine...

I'd think Sam would've given him a towel to wrap around because the poor kid probably drools constantly while brushing. Comes with the open maw.

Think he'd at least have some company to stop him from getting bored.

[ink-the-artist]

God's Little Cow

[simandthedimbulbv2-0]

Some more Look Outside character exploration animations; walk cycles for Jeanne and Audrey, a transformation sequence for Leigh and some camera work for Lyle. Process notes under the cut.

Jeanne - very fascinated by her trunk; it’s a gorgeous sprite, but it’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on with it, so of course I had to try to lay it all out logically. Heavy, lumbering gait on four (five?) legs that I could probably make a little clumsier looking… ah well. Animating the severed necks would be an exercise in weight and auxiliary movement that I don’t quite have the energy for yet.

Audrey - Much like Cabinet Man before her, Audrey’s combination of precise, geometric form moved by organic components makes her a bit of a pain to animate, but fun nontheless. I like how her sprite gives her stompy feet… she must be kinda top-heavy, so I wonder if I should have made her list side-to-side more? Eh, perhaps a future goal. I gave her toe beans because… it just felt right.

Leigh - The sprites for this game aren’t exactly the most consistant, so it took a while to figure out exactly what was going on with The Grinning Beast. I did want to animate a transformation sequence though, so I did my best with the available information. Hopefully this doesn’t count as nsfw… it’s cartoon logic ok

Lyle - Lyle’s camera and suite of eyes are definitely able to move around his chest (neck, technically) Once again, the sprites aren’t quite consistant, but you can see the camera clearly pointing head-on with his eyes rearranged to accomodate it when you peek at him, as opposed to carried upright on his “shoulder” during his bossfight. I thought that was really neat, so I wanted to conceptualize how his eyes would make way for the aparatus. Five pairs make for ten in all, as well as the aparatus’ three partners (view finders, perhaps?) I neglected the bellows for the eyes for simplicity’s sake (once again, cabinet man problem) but I tried to give them all a little extra personality to make up for it.