#eren posts

[silly-filly]

our differences make us stronger

[mackenziedaartist]

idk I wanna repost these cuz I feel proud of them rn 🤷

[unsettlingcreature]

Woe, Eren be upon you :)

[silly-filly]

i had a vision

[silly-filly]

i just realized theres a huge similarity between how aro and ace characters are treated in fandom to how enbies are treated, primarily within the context of shipping.

despite their respective orientations and genders generally being acknowledged, they're often treated as what is most convenient or acceptable. that is, treated the same as alloromantic and allosexual or binary gendered characters.

aro characters are being shipped as though they are alloromantic. ace characters are portrayed in sexual relationships as if they are allosexual. how often do you see people portraying these characters' orientations beyond the surface level?

nonbinary characters are referred to with gendered terms based on whoever they're being shipped with. with a woman? they're called "yuri", "sapphic", etc. with a man? it's "yaoi", "mlm", etc. how often do you see people using nonbinary-focused terminology for these pairings? why is the binary-gendered partner a priority in most cases?

when the problem is brought up, the "rebuttals" are the same: "aros/aces can still date/have sex!", "some nonbinary people identify with [lesbian, wlw, sapphic, yuri]/[gay, mlm, achellian, yaoi]!". neither of of these address the issue that this is what fandoms with these characters default to.

this is not to say you can't headcanon characters to have these traits. as someone who is all three, all i want is for people to acknowledge the full spectrum of being aro, ace, or nonbinary, not whichever is most convenient.

[silly-filly]

yeah we have parallel characters, and i think we should start using "perpendicular" to describe them too!!

what i mean is two different characters that are vastly different, but throughout the story, their roles/personalities "swap". they fill the place in the story the other character previously held.

for example, at the beginning of deltarune, susie is blunt, rude, dislikes authority, and is the fighter of the fun gang while ralsei is humble, kind, and a healer. slowly, susie's personality softens and she becomes kinder and more considerate and learns healing magic. as of chapter 5, ralsei is much more prone to anger and annoyance and he is shown to know offensive magic. they have begun showing similiar traits to what the other had in the beginning.

makes me wonder how many other stories have this kinda dynamic!!!

[silly-filly]

me: I don't like how people call ships involving canonically nonbinary characters "yaoi" or "yuri" depending on if their partner is a man or a woman, even though yaoi and yuri are terms describing boy x boy and girl x girl specifically, which erases the nonbinary character's gender.

fuckass pinterest reply: so you think nonbinary characters can't be in lesbian relationships?

are you kidding me.

[silly-filly]

tomodatchi life is generating so many new rarepairs for me