ꉂ`🃏˖ * m3nt4l1st ᡣ𐭩

Gen asagiri fans, wake up! It’s 5:47 AM (PST), freakfast is ready.

And I understand!! I really do!! I'm hypocritical because I'm always bitching and moaning about how so many of my favs are horribly generally mischaracterized but if an individual post really makes me so mad that I feel like my identity is being erased (???) I can at least say to myself hey!! Maybe it's time to put the phone down and pick up a coloring book or something. Maybe sign up for a lacrosse team. Something. Anything other than just being miserable as a hobby.

I’m someone who’s pansexual and demiromantic (I’m not very open about this, obviously), I tend not to explicitly identify with any gender label, and I’ve also questioned whether I fall somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum. This is because I tend to struggle with forming deep intimate connections in the way a lot of people describe. So, believe me when I say that I understand why seeing characters with identities that resonate with you being interpreted differently can feel frustrating or even personal.

But I also think there’s a point where fandom spaces start blurring the line between “this interpretation bothers me” and “this interpretation is actively harming me.”

Like, representation absolutely matters. No one’s arguing that—Having characters who are explicitly aro/ace, or who people can see themselves in, is important. As is all representation. Nobody should be trying to erase those identities or act like they don’t exist. But at the same time, fictional characters are interpreted by hundreds of thousands different people in hundreds of thousands different ways.

Someone shipping a character, even if that character is often perceived as aro/ace, doesn’t automatically mean they’re invalidating aro/ace people or making some statement about real identities. Sometimes it’s literally just someone enjoying a fictional dynamic. Interpretation goes as far as that. And don’t get me wrong, you can dislike a ship or think someone’s characterization is wrong. BUT, you can do that without needing to treat every person who enjoys it like they’re doing something malicious.

My first: Zero Kiryu (Vampire Knight)

My current (how surprising ^^): Stanley Snyder (Dr. Stone)

Current: Stanley Snyder from Dr. Stone (Though he was my manga crush first.)

Current: Senku Ishigami from Dr. stone / Kabru of Utaya, from Dungeon Meshi

Teehee

current is Gen Asagiri from Dr STONE aka my beautiful boyfriend

What do my four favorite characters say about me 😭😭😭

i think liking senkuu straight up just says you're a compassionate person with the bonus of being intelligent >:D

anyway cough. my favs

Alex has a type and I fw it

P1erce you like the color purple (???)

What do my four favorite characters say about me 😭😭😭

i think liking senkuu straight up just says you're a compassionate person with the bonus of being intelligent >:D

anyway cough. my favs

Alex has a type and I fw it

it's very cool and we have a bunch of color roles and even individual threads for ships