#asexual peridot

[mightymelancholy]

Adding on to a previous post since I feel it's more appropriate to explain here. Warning it gets ranty

I feel a lot of people would miss these "this character is xyz" tweets and live streams. I mean Peridot having little to no sexual/romantic attraction didn't even cross my mind as a young kid or even when I got older. Her being aroace had to be pointed at to me by other YouTubers since I didn't have Twitter (not calling it "X") to see the tweet or the book alluding to her to be aroace. Also because her being aroace wouldn't automatically block off from fusion, since fusion represents varying relationships like toxic relationships, romantic, sexual, polyamorous, monogamous, platonic, and familial relationships. It seems weird to imply Peridot can't have strong platonic and familial fusions just because she's aroace. That's an unfortunate stereotype that the Crewniverse fell into.

Also I won't even get into how Alastor's asexual/aroace identity was vaguely referenced by a joke that was very easy to miss.

Go watch this good video by The Ace Couple

And Octavia hardly contributed to Helluva Boss due to her being overshadowed by her neglectful father that sexually coercived a person with a poor education and a daughter, employees, and himself to financially provide for. I'll keep bringing up how terrible of a character Stolas is any chance I get lol But again a character being ace and or aro is an afterthought even to queer creators, but characters like Angel Dust, Fizz, Blitzø, Ozzie, and Stolas can mention how gay they are. There's nothing inherently wrong with sexual humor it is just that the writers of Hazbin and Helluva think overusing it is funny.

Full Moon was so bad for this 😭 Like making fun of sex toys by having the Cherubs think there torture devices isn't that funny and since they're intentionally or not making fun of people who use them. Like making fun of sex toys and BDSM is hardly funny anymore and really wasn't before at least in the ways some people did it so childishly. The people that participate in those things already get stigmatized enough, why is the show using it as a punchline??

It's just weird and kinda fetishy that the writers depict the prominent gay male characters in the show as extremely sexual people, while asexuals and aromantics can't even mention their orientation. The show uses the word gay or other similar words a good amount of times but only says ace ONCE in Hazbin Hotel that could easily go over someone's head. If people have to go looking for evidence and confirmation outside the show proper then that's not what I'd call good representation. What if platforms get taken down or the posts get removed for whatever reason, then that PROOF of the characters sexuality is gone.

Point is add more characters that are explicitly or heavily implied to be ace and or aro. This shouldn't be hard to make diverse characters important that are also their own person while not ignoring their sexual and romantic orientation. If a character can say they're gay/lesbian/bisexual etc. and like sex with pride, then why can't an ace/aro character.

[dizplicity-draws]

Happy asexual awareness week!

I wanted to celebrate with these aspec icons 🖤🩶🤍💜

Characters and their canon sexuality explanations under the cut!

From left to right:

Peridot - Steven Universe: canon asexual aromantic. Peridot was confirmed to be aroace by Maya Peterson, a storyboard artist for the show. She said in a post on Twitter, “She’s not about fusion. She’s the ace and aro rep.” And true to her words, in the episode Log Date 7 15 2, peridot was shown to have a disinterest in fusion in a scene where she backed out of fusing with Garnet. I know fusion isn’t a direct allegory to romance or sex, but as an aspec person, this scene was super relatable. Also, my personal headcanon is that she is in a queer platonic relationship (qpr) with Lapis :)

Perry the Platypus - Phineas and Ferb: canon asexual. Perry was confirmed to be asexual by Dan Povenmire, a co-creator of the show. He confirmed this in a comment on TikTok, where someone asked “Hey is Perry part of LGBTQ+”, to which he replied, “Does asexual count?” Some believe he only said this because he didn’t like the idea of Perry being shipped. But that doesn’t mean we can’t still claim him!

SpongeBob - SpongeBob SquarePants: Canon asexual. In 2002, Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob said, “I always think of [the character] as being somewhat asexual.” Technically, this was not said as a positive reference to asexuality, but in order to deny that the character was gay. However, Nickelodeon later posted a pride month post featuring a few lgbt+ characters and SpongeBob was included. A lot of people, including myself, chose to believe this was meant to be in support of SpongeBob being canonically asexual.

Zim - Invader Zim: This one is just my own headcanon, but I wanted to include him because he’s a character that’s very important to me and, as an ace, I have always related to. Also, it’s shown in episode 3, Parent Teacher Night, that irkens reproduce by cloning rather than any natural means. And while I know that doesn’t really prove anything, I think it does add to my headcanon :)

Alastor - Hazbin Hotel: Canon asexual aromantic. Vivziepop, the creator of Hazbin Hotel first confirmed Alastor as being ace when she posted a drawing for national coming out day in 2018, which featured Alastor holding the asexual pride flag. Later, she confirmed during a Q&A that he is canonically asexual. During season 1 of Hazbin Hotel, Rosie, Alastor’s friend, jokingly calls him an “ace in the hole.”

[bananahkim]

Happy aromantic visibility day!!

Hii

[offline-nobody]

happy asexual awareness week yall!!

[floralcavern]

Aromantic and/or asexual characters

EDIT:

New addition!

[goblin-grandee]

Listen I love shipping characters as much as the next guy but can we just let aro characters be aro?

Like listen, it's fine if it's exploring your identity and whatnot, but I don't need someone using every line that has even a remote implication to try and justify a character who is highly implied to be aro actually having a crush on someone.

My main examples are Alastor and Peridot.

(for anyone wondering about Peridot, she's meant to be a sort of metaphor for being aroace considering what fusion is meant to represent, and she's one of the few characters to not show any signs of romantic attraction, only exception being with Lapis but I feel like those blushes are more flustered than anything)

Edit: Peridot is not confirmed to be, or is canonically aroace. I just had an incorrect source!

Edit 2: This post can easily be misunderstood, so let me clarify. It's fine to ship aro characters, just acknowledge that they're aro. Please.

[juniperberrypipebomb]

Made some low quality reaction images with various flags a while ago

Remembered about them just now and i think its time to release them into the wild

[uma-pessoa-humana]

GET IN LOSER, WE RIDE AT DAWN

[okumadechan]

REPOSTING THINGS FROM TWITTER/INSTAGRAM TO CREATE A NEW PROFILE HERE!!!

[2020] #StevenUniverse #Lapidot

[meilia-stims]

Aroace Peridot (Steven Universe) stimboard

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[jaydove-writes]

Shipping PSA

Asexual and aromantic people who think two people are just friends aren't homophobic just because the people in question happen to be the same gender.

Also people can use compound names for friendships. (I do this for Lapidot from Steven Universe and Spranne from Amphibia)

[miaubonnie]

I WANT MORE AROACE REP IN CARTOONS IM TIRED OF THE SAME THREE MFS

[crossroadsofchaos]

Aroace and ace flag versions of the Izutsumi, Peridot and Mordecai edits. Posting them separately from the AAW posts, since they're not aro-centric.

(Aro flag versions/AAW post links: Izutsumi | Peridot | Mordecai)

[crow-the-fox]

(Another post!? Omg we’re on fire this week)

Happy pride month everyone!!! I’m late but it’s just because I forgot or procrastinated to post this here for absolutely no reason. (Please click for better quality)

Headcanons and closeups under the cut! And again, happy pride month everyone!

Ok now headcanon time

Nimona: gender-fluid lesbian

Peridot: aroace and maybe nonbinary, technically intersex? I mean she’s a rock so.

ROTTMNT: Donnie: nonbinary (he/they), arospec, ace and biromantic. Leo: transmasc, gay. Raph: bigender, ace, pan?. Mikey: poly panromantic ace. April: lesbian. Splinter: bi. Draxum: gay (they’re divorced /hj). Casey (senior): lesbian. CJ: aroace.

Uuhhh ok I think that’s it. I love y���all and have an awesome and safe pride month

[echoarts03]

Asexual representation is so important. It's hard feeling like I'm broken; I've struggled with that problem for a couple of years now. But a lot of these recent shows that we see are giving us strong and confident aromantic and/or asexual characters who are living very happy lives, and it helps me feel like maybe I can have that someday, too.

We're only 1% of the population, but 1% of 7 billion is 70 million, and that's still a lot of people! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[honey-side-up]

I asked a couple ace groups for characters they see as ace coded and characters that are canonically ace. This is what I’ve got so far. 🥰😄🖤🤍💜