#I want that SHIP!!!

[altn0g]

best friends

[nathaniacolver]

arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

[color-ns]

Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

[pouletpourri]

giving myself pomni/gangle interactions since idk when we'll have more of that again

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

did it mean anything to you

[hanjoj]

their ship name might as well be theseus the way there's not a single original characteristic left there

[datcravat]

this place is so fruity!

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Local goth working at a Graveyard finds the ultimate goth gf a vampire

[lyenka645]

amok time

[valtsv]

[dapper-lil-arts]

Can we talk about the kind of woman Applejack attracts.

[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[umblrspectrum]

i love learning cursive just to write text for exactly one character

[boyfailurecharliekelly]

I hate when people get on your back about a ship because it's 'toxic' like bro i said they are in love not that they should be.

[annalise-austenne]

Me too Namari