Aro/ace culture is not noticing the blatantly obvious signs that you are aro/ace all your life and later realising half the shit you thought was your personality is said blatantly obvious signs.
AROMANTICISM AND ASEXUALITY ARE INHERENTLY QUEER AND DO NOT NEED TO BE PAIRED UP WITH ANOTHER LGBTQ IDENTITY TO BE RECOGNIZED AS SUCH AND YES THIS INCLUDES CISHET ASPECS
Maura: I made tea.
Jane: I don’t want tea.
Maura: I didn’t make tea for you. This is my tea.
Jane: Then why are you telling me?
Maura: It’s a conversation starter.
Jane: That’s a lousy conversation starter.
Maura: Oh, is it? We’re conversing. Checkmate.
I love the power Maura has over Jane. Since it was not enough to see the series, I have seen it again analyzing each part and each interaction between Maura and Jane and, I find it fascinating how maura is the boss of the relationship, Every time Jane does something Maura doesn't like she just gives her a look and Jane starts making excuses and explaining herself Which I find super interesting because she doesn't behave that way with men, she doesn't let herself be bossed around and she doesn't let them hesitate either, but instead when she's with Maura or in some case, Always defend and let Maura be the boss Also the power of conviction that Jane has over Maura In short, they are a couple, they got married in Paris and live together with bass and a son. Which is giving me an idea for a little drawing hehe I apologize for the drawings I make, I promise to upload something of quality when I have time
Jane looking at Maura like she hopes Maura never figures out how in love with her she is because Maura might not feel the same way.
And Maura looking at Jane as though every single good thing in the world is right there inside Jane.
aroace people really said "the closet? no no no, i'm gonna hide in caves, in the woods and even underneath rocks, i'm gonna be the best damn hide and seek player in the world" because i have yet to find one aroace person in real life
You take it… and you own it.
[Pride (2014), dir. Matthew Warchus, wr. Stephen Beresford.]
We’re here, we’re queer, and you should live in fuckin fear.
nothing is stronger than the bond between an aroace and their favorite fictional character
Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.
Very interesting.
i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”
The wlw characters i ship always have about 0 chances of becoming canon and i was all fine and good and accepting of this (fanfiction exists i could survive) until like 3 of them fucking became canon, so now i am staring at my other ships expecting them to do this same, like no bestie, my guy, those were the outliers, those were not the beginning of the gay revolution you so desperately want, i would go feral if they do and i am going feral as they do not, this is my villain origin story