here's mickey, goofy, donald, and chip & dale. yeah they turned mickey & friends into anime boys. they're an idol unit or something. they're technically not anime boy versions of the source characters, they have different names. mickey's guy is "Neo Michel". not michael, michel, like he's french. chip & dale are "Ruska Moncrief" and "Ranka Monk", they have different last names, they're not brothers anymore so that they can be yaoibait instead, anyways this post isn't actually about these guys I'm just setting the stage for the actual humanizations I wanted to show you

They also did monsters inc. And. Well it's obvious from the designs who mike and sully are. but you will also notice. the blonde one on the left. with glasses. monsters inc is kind of famously about just the two guys so they didn't really have a lot of other non-villain characters to take anime boys inspiration from, I guess, so, well,

like something i think we need to accept is that mainstream contemporary queer discourse does not have actual functionally consistent definitions of sexual and romantic attraction. which makes perfect sense because those are extremely subjective, complicated, multifaceted, nebulous, and deeply personal kinds of feelings. but people toss these terms out as if everyone is already on the same page about what they actually entail and so they can then be used to come to some sort of universal understanding of what feelings are then deviant from the implicit "normal" sexual and romantic attraction. and i just simply don't think that's the case. norms around romance and sex are so so so much more about policing the way people behave than the way they feel because we do not have the privilege of experiencing anyone else's emotional landscape first hand, or interfacing it at all without it needing to first be externalized through some form of speech or action.

there are people who consider themselves asexual and still willingly have and enjoy sex with a partner. there are people who willingly have and enjoy sex with their partner who consider that willingness and enjoyment to be sexual attraction in its own right and don't find the asexual label to be applicable or helpful for them even if their sexual feelings are nonstandard. there are people who have chosen to spend their lives with each other and never fuck once who consider their relationship to be queerplatonic. there are people in the exact same circumstances who consider themselves to be a romantic couple. and none of these people are somehow wrong about themselves, or invalidating each other by their use of terminology that contradicts one another, they just have different ways of conceptualizing their feelings.