#working on her robot

[parksnark]

women in stem

[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.

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

[crescentfool]

reunion 🌸

[ramblingguy54]

If there was any moment that made me cry most, it would be this one.

[cracklewink]

MY GIRL FINALLY HAS A REF SHEET (my longest yeah boy ever)

I'm working on a comic about her see tags for more 👀

[archivebottles]

finally free from not being able to draw the past two months omg..to celebrate here are some elsters from last week...i like her

[urgunnamissmebymytaco]

Do you think Tucker is like that one post on here where the mad scientist brings his wife back from the dead and thinks 'wow she is so changed' but actually she's exactly the same he just never knew her really? Like tucker keeps trying to make new Trudys that match his idea of His Trudy™ the original, the perfect girl, but this was the 50s and he never really knew his wife outside of the context of what she did for him. So all of these robot versions of Trudy are His Trudy™ just as she was, as he never knew her

[tio-trile]

Some of the photos I took of the cast and showrunners at the Chaos Theory panel yesterday : )

[shokveyv]

shut up

[squoobest]

this pleasant étoile shows up at your door

[finitestateai]

If you were put into a dating game, what would your romance route be like?

[manygeese]

this is going to be embarrassing if this gets no notes but WHO WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT MY VALGRACE SMALL TOWN AU.

[heart-buzz]

Commission for @/dragongirlknot! thank you for allowing me to depict your chassis!

She/her for this character ♡

[fusionsprunt]

Thinking about giving Hunter golden gloves to match his eyes...

[ohshitsherry]

Girl who's somewhat obsessed with blood not in an edgy psycho kinda way but rather in a quirky grown ass child who likes to observe a mosquito feeding off of her arm kinda way