aro culture is STOP SHIPPING ME - A REAL PERSON, WITH OTHER PEOPLE!!! ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE BEEN TOLD I'M AROMANTIC ALREADY MULTIPLE TIMES!!
STOP ASSUMING I'M LYING ABOUT BEING AROMANTIC AND TRYING TO CONVINCE ME TO SECOND GUESS MYSELF! I KNOW WHO I AM, I'VE KNOWN WHO I AM FOR YEARS AT THIS POINT, JUST GIVE IT UP ALREADY!!
seriously tho the osc is so shipping oriented its kindof hard to be here sometimes as an aroace person who just isnt interested in that because there is so so so so much shipping. its everywhere i tell you everywhere. if that makes you happy then go for it but its just hard to be around sometimes when that isnt something youre interested in at all... i havent been keeping up lately but i just keep hearing about new ships and pretty much nothing else and it pisses me off. the moment a new ii episode comes out like all the asks here are just about shipping wether positive or negative
also the osc is sooo allonormative its absurd im so tired of this 'theres no platonic explaination for this' nonsense yes there is there always is. rant over goodbye
Please consider each rarepair and vote for the ship you like the best / find the most interesting / that compels you the most / etc.
Bonus Poll #5: Nie Huaisang ships
NieWangXian (Nie Huaisang x Lan Wangji x Wei Wuxian)
NingSang/SangNing (Nie Huaisang x Wen Ning)
SangXian (Nie Huaisang x Wei Wuxian)
SangYu (Nie Huaisang x Mo Xuanyu)
WangSang (Lan Wangji x Nie Huaisang)
Xisang (Lan Xichen x Nie Huaisang)
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Voting ended onFeb 1, 2025
[Please be kind and respectful in the notes. Anti-Propaganda is NOT allowed.]
🔽 Propaganda below 🔽
NieWangXian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)
Characters: Nie Huaisang x Lan Wangji x Wei Wuxian
No propaganda submitted
NingSang / SangNing from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)
Characters: Nie Huaisang x Wen Ning
Submission: Pair the spares, yeah, but I think they'd be adorable together. Wen Ning needs someone to talk to so he's no longer the sad third wheel to Wangxian (thankfully he has A-Yuan and the juniors, but still) and Huaisang needs someone since he's now completed his revenge and that often leaves people feeling empty inside.
SangXian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)
Characters: Nie Huaisang x Wei Wuxian
Submission: They were already bestie in their teen years and i really love the headcanon that when everyone had forsakes the yiling laozu, nhs had looked after him, squashed rumours, spread some to keep wwx safe, sent supplies, kept in touch via letters... lets also not forget if he wanted revenge for nmj, he couldve gotten it another way...bringing his long dead friend to life and making sure the resurrection terms were easy to fulfill, making sure the body oferre to him had potential to cultivate...yea i love that ship!
Fic Recs: heresy of the sun by tunnelOFdawn, when the caged bird sings by Laxruar
SangYu from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)
Characters: Nie Huaisang x Mo Xuanyu
No propaganda submitted
WangSang from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)
Characters: Lan Wangji x Nie Huaisang
Submission:
NHS uses LWJ's birth name to refer to him when introducing him.
“Not that old man,” Nie Huaisang replied. “The one you have to be careful of is his favorite disciple, Lan Zhan.”
Excluding him and Wei Wuxian, no one uses his birth name to refer to him. There's always a chance that they knew each other before they got their courtesies, perhaps due to the shared friendship between NMJ and LXC.
NHS brings that friendship up when explaining the Sabre Hall where he focuses most of the conversation in referring directly to LWJ, since it is his word he requires so that his clan secret does not get leaked. It implies a show of trust in him, considering his words that Lan Wangji has always been a man of his word. Feel free to imagine what other promises he is keeping for him!
It also bears true that it was also Lan Wangji who first recognises the scrap of clothing to belong to Nie Huiasang when they were investigating the Man Eating Castle rumors and it was in fact Lan Wangji who brought him to the inn for interrogation.
Nie Huiasang's plan for starting the investigation for his brother's death involved endangering Lan disciples when they would be out helping the Mo Manor to take care of the walking corpse issue. Obviously, this was to bring Lan Wangji into the fray. His reputation of going after all cases without prejudice, and of being ruthless in executing his own ideal of justice are all well known. Nie Huiasang planned for him to solve the case and gain the ear of Lan Xichen and the wider cultivation world, so that they would side against Jin Guangyao and hopefully end him, effectively completing his revenge.
Outside of that, the personalities are more of opposites at first glance. Lan Wangji is diligent in his cultivation training while detesting laziness and has a very straightforward approach to how he approaches problems. Nie Huiasang fools around all the time and doesn't seem to care about the values Lan Wangji holds close, and has a twisted way of solving things.
Yet, when their loved one is harmed, they would go to all lengths to right the wrong as they personally see fit. Lan Wangji fights 33 elders to keep Wei Wuxian safe, and later in the present time he always sticks to him and stands against the world out of love and faith. Nie Huiasang brings down one of the most powerful people in the cultivation world by years of methodical planning, not caring about the wider consequences of his actions.
They are deeply selfish people, who when they care for one thing, the world ceases to exist for them.
Narrow minded focus, and a case between them and a ruthlessness in their actions and an implied past—I think they could have great chemistry if explored further.
XiSang from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS)
got asked to hang out in a double date type of situation by a work customer... and like.
sorry! you guys were fucking weird when, upon me deciding that since you were queer and asking about local queer spots, i could tell you my neopronouns! one of you looked confused, but your partner had a thinly veiled disgust! i neither want to hang out with you, nor explain that i do not have a partner nor want one!
Ooooh! 8 and 18 for the ask game if you don't mind?
NICE I WAS HOPING FOR 8!!!! tbh in my heart all the characters i like are aro BUT there are some i feel Really strongly about and thats flowey and femt (unsurprising) i feel like. flowey is probably understandable. given his. Everything. but with femt i feel like it just fits with his character. guy who hates "normal" and seems to struggle to bond with anyone and considers himself a freak. also whatever THIS was
"whats ur type" "i dont know i dont CARE just. be funny when ur suffering i guess." i love femt hes SO funny i think flowey and femt are the only characters ever
some other characters i like that i think are aro are haruka kokonose, mahiru shiina (milgram), and mr itto genshin. for haruka i think the fact that he feels so isolated from everyone else and how he gets Weird about the few friendships he has And how he desperately tries to understand what friendship Is is so. ohhh i love him.. and mahiru is just. the obsession with love and her trying to Define love and how she seems to think being in a relationship will fix her somehow. i have a really specific relationship with being aro and these characters just kinda Hit what its like to feel that way as an aro person <3 love them dearly. also i do not have any reasons for itto i just feel it in my heart <3
and 18!! i tend to avoid shipping mostly cuz i guess i dont really care for it?? it doesnt really make sense to me and i much prefer to explore character analysis and how traumatized characters react to those around them. if i Do end up shipping anyone its almost always in qpr way
YUUTA SAKURAI SECTION!!!! i never get to talk about him but this is a PERFECT time to talk about him. everyone watch net juu no susume IMMEDIATELY its one of my most favorite shows and severely underrated. i think yuuta is such an interesting character. so much of his character is him wanting to get closer to people but he has an emotional wall up both because of his parents deaths and because of his Various Past Experiences involving people wanting him romantically and him not at all feeling that way.
i really like how they write his misunderstanding of how hes perceived and that hes convinced that hes going to get in the way of others relationships... thinking about the idea of people wanting to take up as little space as possible because they feel unworthy of being loved and i wanna shake his head and be like NO everyone LIKES YOU SO MUCH!!!
i think his relationship with moriko is really special because theyre the only people they feel they can truly rely on. both of them have been so lonely and i just think a lot about how they both put so much importance on their friendship and partnership it just means a lot to me that the romance aspect feels more like an afterthought to their friendship because i rarely see that... i also really like how this handles the idea of wanting to be seen as Someone Else because firstly i like it in an aro way but also this show is. so good for trans people
i just think a lot about the way he understands his relationships around him and how he hates being lonely and very rarely has people understand him in the way he wants i just love yuuta so much hes one of my most favorite characters <3 on that note i think him and moriko. they are so qpr to me
imagine i have my head in my hands i am desperately begging people watch this show its only 11 episodes i love it so much... thank u for the ask these were fun to answer :)
arospec culture is explaining to your friend that you've only ever liked one person in that way and you don't think it'll ever happen again only for them to respond with "aww because you'll never feel for anyone else what you felt for them" and you're like no not like that not like that
aro culture is being fillled with rage every time someone dehuminises an aromantic person, every time someone devalidates an aromantic person, every time someone dares to say that aromantic people "jUsT hAvEn'T fOuNd ThE rIgHt PeRsOn yEt"
Aro culture is... Gonna get vulnerable for a second, so bear with me.
Aro culture is, back in elementary school, fixating on familial love for my cousin and somehow, for some reason, convincing myself that constitutes a crush. And because I was a dumb kid who didn't know what incest was or why it's bad, I forced myself to think of her in a weird pseudo-romantic light, and thought me not being able to even fully do that was the embarrassment you're "supposed" to feel at a crush??? Thankfully, I grew out of that by middle school, before I even knew what aromanticism is.
But like, to this day, I still don't know why I did any of this??? It's not like I had friends to show off too, and it's not like my parents were being weird about me not having a crush. My dumbass kid brain just decided to be strange and wrong, forcing a crush where there absolutely should not be one, and I never saw the problem.
This blog awakened memories I didn't know I still had.
(if anyone needs some extra cws in the tags on this, shoot an ask or DM @just-aro but PLEASE do not get weird about an experience someone had without knowing why the world functions as it does)
