#non respectfully

[ifonlyicouldbeastar]

STOP USING A TAG IF YOUR NOT GONNA POST ABOUT IT. LITERALLY JUST STOP. ISTG. SOME OF THIS STUFF HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JEGULUS BRO. I JUST WANT JEGULUS.

[dollya-robinprotector]

Believe me, when I said I needed him, I NEED HIM.

[clarissaweasley-10]

Grayson Hawthorne, wearing a loosely tucked white shirt, collar and first button opened, hair slightly messy/tousled, with his glasses on, reading something....

[triaelf9]

Before Veilguard drops, I'm going to submit a challenge to fanartists to not draw Harding or Taash as dainty waifs. Already seeing it, already not fond of it.

(this goes out to the dainty waif Karlach arts too, please, practice other body tyyypeeeesss I beg of yooou)

[gothsuguru]

doing the heavy lifting in a convo can be so tiring omfg

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

man, utena is fucking wild (is on episode 1)

[confused-disaster32]

Hi! So you can call this a rant or a vent or whatever I don't rlly care - I just wanted to put some of my opinions out there bc it is eating me inside out to keep my opinions on Alastor's sexuality and all of the discourse about him being shipped to myself.

Also i'd like to state that I'm writing this as someone who is aroace but has no actual wish to be in a romantic relationship and actually struggles to so much as picture what that's be like for myself. I would also like to state how I'm not speaking for the whole community and others will have different opinions to myself.

Firstly - aroace is a spectrum (as someone who is on the aroace spectrum btw) and I completely agree with ppl who say that it is a spectrum and shipping has always existed and you can't rlly stop an entire fandom. My only problem is when ppl completely ignore that he is aroace while doing this, bc to me it seems like there's so much potential to having him have to go through those types of emotions and to write him off as if he's completely allo not only can make some people feel unseen but also just isn't as fun.

Also I kind of believe that he'd possibly date someone for the entertainment - like even if he didn't exactly feel romantic attraction maybe he'd be willing to be around someone closely bc he might like the reactions he'd be getting. (example: he might've stayed in a relationship with Vox maybe not out of pure attraction but if he found out that affection could make the TV short-circuit? He'd be interested)

Adding to that, I personally do not actually ship him with anyone romantically due to his character + the fact that I am projecting my own distaste for romance on him but you do you ig.

Also, on the note of nsfw around him - sometimes you cannot stop a fandom, rule 34 exists and some people who are asexual sometimes may want to have sex and all of that stuff. Personally I think he'd probably be sex-repulsed due to the fact that he canonically has issues with being touched.

ALSO, i personally think that way too many people are brushing over the idea of putting Alastor in a QPR - like that would literally be so awesome.

Alastor x Rosie? Cute af (to me Rosie gives of aro vibes too, but more romance - favourable) like they're already besties and honestly I think that Rosie would defo help him figure out about his identity considering that he's quite obviously not all that sure about slang and stuff.

Vox x Alastor - It has the potential to be SO FUCKING FUN like, you get to experiment with how they feel for each other, maybe what Alastor's got going on bc he died before being aroace was rlly a thing and he'd be confused about how he felt about Vox for sure.

Lucifer x Alastor - I quite like it, ik that Lucifer is supposed to be with Lillith but she did take an extremely long hiatus on her family up in heaven so i think it's okay. Plus the idea of them bonding and becoming close due to Charlie is wonderful.

Even angel and Alastor - maybe after Val Angel doesn't want a super sexual relationship - maybe he's not all that interested in something purely romantic either and though I love huskerdust this would still be pretty cool.

Really all I'm saying is; be considerate. Incorporate the fact that Alastor is Aroace, even if you do ship him - in or out of QPRs - and ofc sometimes writing someone who is part of a group ur not in is difficult (coming from someone who often struggles in writing especially when it comes to romance) but taking a crack at it might actually turn out to be rlly cool.

But please don't ignore his aroace-ness, there's not a huge amount of aroace characters out there and acting like someone isn't can be annoying for ppl who want to find rep around their identity, esp if they haven't seen much before (I can relate and he was one of the first aroace characters I was introduced to after I found out what it meant).

So yeah, that's my piece.

[la2yn0va]

Just saw this edit and wanted to ask you which do you like better?

Bof

[icarusflyingtoclose]

Still thinking about this

[antihibikase-archive]

It is incredibly isolating to navigate through fandom as an aromantic person. Aro experiences are so varied, and there is no definite aro experience that encapsulates the alienation that fandom spaces cause for certain people.

Fandom is mostly built and structured on shipping. And if not, the blorbofication of characters, which tends to go down the shipping pipeline; where does that leave the romance repulsed aro person who genuinely does not want to see any form of shipping? Platonic dynamics, right?

Yeah, sure. But by platonic dynamics, it's only "best friends" or "family" right? Where does that leave the aro folks with undefined labels? No, qprs aren't a get-out-of-jail card.

And qprs- they have no rules or standards set upon them by society, not even having a clear definition for what it is, because not all qprs are the same. Yet, for some reason, it ended up becoming the "nonbinary" option to a lot of people- not romantic or "regular" platonic? Qpr it is, right?

But where does that leave the aro folk who don't want a qpr? Who don't wish to see characters depicted in pairs or trios or so forth- who embrace the lack of a partner?

And these concepts presented; when aro folk talk about them, do you care? And if you do, do you understand? Do you try to?

If you aren't aro, but wish to be supportive, are you a genuine ally? Do you raise the concerns of aro folk you share the space with?

Or do you take a look at these concepts- and decide you understand them "well" enough? Do you decide to speak for aro folks instead?

Do you depict relationships outside of romance because you believe in the importance of platonic relationships? Will you accept the fact that not all platonic interactions will be familial or "best friends"?

Can you accept depictions of qprs outside of "more than friends, less than lovers"? Are you willing to accept it is not just "best friends" or "romance lite"? Will you accept that nothing is inherently romantic- and characters in a qpr may fall under your standards of lovers?

Can you resist the urge to put every character in a pair or trio or group? Are you comfortable with the notion of characters finding more joy in being by themselves, outside of all those lenses you see them in?

It's good if you can.

And if you can't, at the very least, do you understand why some aro folk in your space are upset? Embittered by your favorite ships? Starving for representation?

Did you depict these characters with these concepts with the knowledge that aromanticism is fluid?

[vroomvroomwee]

[femme-ftm]

hand caressing my pussy and rubbing my clit and letting me grind against it, and being told im a good girl when i start getting wet from it ❤️

[ninjastormz]

I CAN FIX HER

[lale-txt]

thinking about him (hit manga haikyuu!! stage play sakusa in a skirt)

[ix-c-999]

if you're not an addict (active, recovering, or otherwise) we can't be friends

[brinehater]

I completed the main quest portion of the masquerade really close to morning, so much so I ended up just backtracking through the masquerade hall and going back to the palace courtyard and waiting the few minutes for sun to come up enough that guards wouldn't try to arrest while running into the palace to turn in Sven's masquerade quest.

And for some reason when got to Sven's room...

he was in his street clothes...?

buddy don't say that directly to Rose while staring at him, he'd immediately die, have fun with your letter from Ser Patrick while he goes and trips out a window

Did terrify me that my game was somehow shattering to pieces after ran home to switch gear to the point ran back to palace before was willing to sleep and

he was back to normal Regentkin mode. I have no idea how this happened. My only theory (see below) of how happened turned up nothing.

As a note, I did save and exit to menu briefly because I needed to take a call. I thought maybe because street clothes Sven is one of the NPCs who can wander on the daytime Vernworth main menu, loading in at a spot where Sven was loaded in game proper tripped up the game into loading the wrong version? But I tried replicating it multiple times at varying distances and lines of sight to him and no. I still get normal. Just seems like I got a bizarre momentary bug that was harmless.