orpheus 💿

My main problem is that it follows the same theme that a lot of fandoms take - the prioritisation of romantic relationships over platonic ones, and the view that they are worth less. There is a stunning lack of well developed fully platonic relationships in media, and it’s that lack of representation that makes aroace people struggle with their identity.

It’s very hard to live your life knowing that so many of the people around you view your connection as lesser just because it’s not romantic, and it just gets enforced by the standards shown in fandom spaces about platonic relationships.

Usually I’m all for shipping like do whatever have fun, but to me Rocky and graces relationship and it’s meaning for both of them is so inherently linked to their platonic value to each other.

One of the reasons grace was sent on the Hail Mary was because of his lack of romantic relationships (despite his apparent friendship with many other people on stratts vatt) and how that lack of what many believe to be a more valuable form of love made him a coward for not wanting to leave his life behind.

However, grace choosing to go back for rocky, not because of some romantic feelings but solely because of their friendship is so important for graces development as a character, because yes he still has no romantic partner, he’s still technically in the same position as when he left except he’s not, because he’s able to place his own value on the relationship he has with Rocky, rather than adhering to what are essentially societal hierarchies of love.

a visitor on the biodome!!

24 HOURS TO EAT A SKATEBOARD ⭐️

an open door tunnel…

bonus:

It’s just so refreshing and wonderful and the amount of positivity and whimsy is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before

Examples:

- It’s a beautiful platonic story, we often like to headcanon the main character as aroace because of the symbolism that entails, and yet we have fun shipping him with everyone under the sun (and the suns of other universes)(and one universe that doesn’t have any suns)

- the woman who doesn’t have an easily digestible, “friendly” personality is almost universally loved. The general lack of misogyny and the understanding for her (very reasonable) actions makes me so happy

- we’ve created a widely loved character based on a name, three mentions of said character, and a few patches of green rock on said character’s mate

- we’ve somehow merged fandoms with iron lung

-Coltland twins. Is it because many of us are retired gravity falls fans? Probably!

- We basically created a fandom for an extremely underrated movie (fall guy) and also merged it with this one

- There’s so little fighting among the fans! Almost everyone agrees that yes, we CAN have fun and go wild with headcanons! We can have fun doing whatever the hell we want and no one is going to tear anyone apart for it!