(To summarize, my aro day 5 topic is about how the characters I can relate to the most, are all for some reason having romance as a big part of them or something. The daily Daniel thing is another official Instagram short from the Loveproof Instagram account).
Besides today's Daniel - I mean Loveproof stuff (unironically my brain just thought of Daniel - I mean fair enough, one of the main reasons I make daily aro week posts is for Daniel images) - I also am gonna have other images to, like, illustrate (no pun intended), a point - because originally I had something else on my notebook for, like, aro week, but decided to write about THIS, and the original thing was a draft anyway (which was me writing about how I've felt about romance in media, and also how I was somehow obnoxiously straight even though, like, wasn't I literally aroace) - anyways, that IS fun too, so I guess feel free to be like "do you have a soulmate?", and then I'll answer as if I was younger - I was originally also gonna put a picture from, like, a video I made from when I was REALLY shippin' stuff, but nah - anyways, so it's aro week day 5 or something, and the subject is the fact that it's SO FECKING ANNOYING to have characters, with like half my personality - FINALLY, characters I can relate to! Beautiful characters who are SOMETIMES portrayed as selfish, annoying, in the wrong, etc, but STILL are established as HAVING TALENT, HAVING PEOPLE WHO LIKE THEM, BEING UNIQUE AND EVERYTHING ... and then they're straight and all of them are straight and romance and/or sexuality is a significant part of them somehow - and like, I'm still trying to figure out if Jett Fillmore from Goat is half like me, and she's new, and nothing was implied with HER (I think) though Hannah has a crush on her, and people are gonna ship, or are attracted to her, and I can't relate to Jett when it comes to goals or problems or how she looks, so I'm not counting her, when I make this rant - from oldest to newest, there is the life-changing "FINALLY there's a character like me", dog, who got me into animash, made me know what dog breed I'd be as a dog, and who I've used to both project my real self, VS ideal self, onto - and like, I don't care that she's from a shitty sequel, everyone in her band had potential with the story, and Dixie means a lot, I love her, and I wish she had a different name, and before I say what's wrong, here's some pictures of her lovely self:
Now what's the problem? 1, she is sexualized, which kiiiiinda puts pressure on me, and 2, a lot of her story revolves around her and her boyfriend, which is honestly fine, I LOVE their drama even to this day and want to see more and all, but then ANOTHER character similar to me, is Zoe Trent from that Littlest Pet Shop show (here are some fake PNGs I took screenshots of):
And she often enough has crushes (and didn't end up with anyone which makes me even MORE annoyed), and even sang a SONG about crushes, and seems to be a hopeless romantic, and in my opinion sexualized too, and the annoying thing about that, is that, again, my relatable characters are deeply tied to romance. I was a hopeless romantic growing up - or at least I liked romance stories and half wanted a boyfriend, whatever, same thing, but it's the MOST RELATABLE CHARACTERS TO ME ... tied to romance, and how they DO have the attraction things that I DON'T, and that they DO have crushes, and it kinda makes me think that I will - like there's kind of the pressure or expectation already in, like, the LPS show for example, that you will have a crush, and there's already personality set-up for sexuality - but I mean I'm like not FULLY like them, so I guess that's how I find it as if, like, personality doesn't equal sexuality but there's no room in my big personality FOR sexuality - or whatever the f happened to my sexuality - seriously, I just DON'T HAVE IT, I guess - I mean y'all are aros - or at least most people reading this, probably, so y'all probably know what I mean by the fact that I hate - like you probably can tell why I hate it when my most relatable characters are highly associated with romance - I also got a new character who is NOT an adult character this time, aka Ginger Jones from Pinkie Cooper And The Jet-Set Pets, and yes I have the doll:
(Sorry for the bad screenshot and filter, it was from an edit I made) -
BUT HER BIO LITERALLY SAYS SHE'S A ROMANTIC AT HEART - okay, maybe it didn't mean it like ROMANCE romantic, but it's not the fault of my aro self that "romantic" can mean as in romance, or as in another thing, while "platonic", can mean nonsexual, nonromantic, or both, and you can't be like "OMG, he's being SOOOO platonic!" the way that one can with romantic which doesn't make any sense - and I know I have Daniel, but the thing about him is, that I don't see him as "has around half my personality", I see him as a potential friend who is similar to me but still has plenty of differences, and 2, he is quite far aesthetically compared to these dogs.
I got distracted by housemate and didn't have much else to say anyway, but I hope that someone gets my point. Daily Daniel:
