Van Silven

I just think he's non-partnering, 100% loveless

Ves: HE BASICALLY SAYS IT Fast: HE DOES I dont wanna say that people hcing him as bi or gay or whatever is aroace erasure but like. Idk i dont like it

he could be honorary member of the greater Akamatsu-centric polycule, but like, he's better off in his element, being the big brother to his friends

any of his ships is just better and feels more in character when it's platonic

and it'd be good for him to have friends he doesn't see as little siblings/therefore also feels responsible for & get some that are equals that he can rely on, but that doesn't mean they have to date

Ves: it was solidified for me the first time i saw the nailpainting scene and it just kept going the more i watched

Fast: I've always been upset abt this but i never brought it up here bcs. A lot of people here ship Rantaro w someone

well, those ships? platonic now

Ves: tsumugi says 'you know how to paint nails because you have a girlfriend??' and he says No and she says 'you don't have a girlfriend because you're such a player???' and he says Double No and it's SO funny, she wants him to be marketable so BAD but all romantic and sexual implications slide off him like an aroace duck his greatest sexual fantasy??? doesn't have one, he just wants a sibling figure who he can protect

Fast: I remember he talked abt how he's never been interested in anyone in his ftes And its just like "Wow I'm so glad there's an aroace character :-)" goes to the fandom "what the fuck "

he's got a classic case of people can't deal with attractive person being ace going on

Hina: Is there something wrong with headcanoning him as not aroace?/gen Ves: i wouldn't say there's something wrong but so many people just completely ignore all of The Words That He Says With His Mouth and headcanon him as a FUCKING PLAYBOY and it's so insanely frustrating. if you use ~ at the end of his dialogue you owe me 20$ he is, at the very least, disinterested in sex and romance. so i'd say not reading him as some kind of a-spec is upsetting, even if you do ship him

Mauri: demi rantaro GOOD aroace rantaro GOOD gray-aroace rantaro GOOD

I don't want to gatekeep, but, I'd be happier if more people kept it in mind, maybe make him an oriented aroace, or put those ships in relationship anarchy in some way

Mauri: reject amatonormativity embrace avocado man

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…  is Coming to PS4, XBOX ONE and STEAM

It’ll feature:

New HD Graphics

A New character

Gameplay / Technical tweak

The game will be fully voiced and have the voice work redone

Re-recorded Soundtrack

Some brand new tracks for the soundtrack

Various additional contents that will be announced soon

Development Team:

Producer: Yosuke Saito

Director: Yoko Taro

Gameplay Supervision: Takahisha Taura (PlatinumGames)

Concept Art: Kazuma Koda

Music: Keiichi Okabe (MONACA)

Development: Toylogic Inc.

Production:  Square Enix Co., Ltd.

Teaser Trailer Here

I can only speak from my cis aroace perspective here, but as an aspec woman I desperately need solidarity from other non-straight women and I feel like we rarely receive it.

Aspec communities lack the language we need to talk about the ways in which being aspec can drastically alter your relationship with the concept of womanhood or femininity. The closest thing we have is arogender, which was specifically coined because of how common it is for aromantics to have a complicated relationship with their gender due to being aro, regardless of what their gender is.

It’s a well-established fact by now that traditional notions of womanhood and femininity are inherently tied to heteronormativity. But I, as an aroace woman, am consistently kept out of those conversations, and any attempts I make to join in those conversations run the risk of being told I’m sticking my nose where it doesn’t belong or appropriating the experiences of others.

I wondered for the longest time whether I was even allowed to use the word “dysphoria” to describe the discomfort I felt with the parts of my body that are commonly gendered by society. But because I’m aroace, and those feelings of discomfort are heavily linked to sex repulsion, I didn’t know how to ask, and when I did pluck up the courage to ask I was dismissed.

The answer for me, personally, was “yes, I’m a woman. I’m an aro ace woman, and I feel like an aro ace woman. And that’s going to look and feel different from other cis woman in a number of ways, but I’m still a woman.”

Lesser known facts when writing women:

High heeled shoes don’t become flats if you break the heels off.

The posts of earrings aren’t sharp.

Nail polish takes a long time to dry and smudges when wet.

You can’t hold in a period like pee.

Inserting a tampon is not arousing or sexual in any way, ever.

- Make up can take anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes depending on how skilled you are.

- Taking hair out of a ponytail after wearing it for hours does not make it perfectly straight when it comes down.

- Hair when wet sticks to the skin it no longer flows, idiot.

-When women with long hair kiss, turn around, do anything, their hair falls in the way.

-a good bra will hide headlights, or at the very least drastically reduce their noticeability. A women with enough pointy nipple issues will opt for a padded or molded bra to hide them.

- Ill-fitting bras don’t just look good; they make you feel terrible, too. If they’re too small, they feel like they’re constricting your chest, making it hard to breathe. You also get headaches. I don’t have any experience with wearing too big of bras, but you probably wouldn’t feel supported enough in the breast department, and it’ll just look plain weird under your clothing.

- Bras with cups, for the most part, conform around your breasts; they don’t stand up on their own like they’re made of plastic or metal or something. Wearing a big bra won’t make it look like you have big breasts. To make yourself look bigger, get padded bras.

- Periods SUCK. Someone experiencing a period probably isn’t happy unless they were worried they were pregnant. Symptoms vary based on the person, and their symptoms can change over time. The most commonly-known symptom is cramps, but that’s not all there is - you can have acnes, backaches, bloating, stomach issues, tender breasts, insomnia, certain cravings, etc. And since symptoms can change over time, a person can be surprised by their period. I used to have periods with cramps, stomach issues, and acne; now, I have periods with backaches, neckaches, acne, and bloating.

- If we call out of work because of a period, it’s serious. Most people go about their work/school day while on their period without mentioning it unless we need to. We try our best to act normal even in the face of pain, indigestion, etc. When a period gets serious, it can lead to a person curling up on the floor in pain, vomiting all day, having extreme insomnia, etc. (If you experience these serious periods frequently, talk to your doctor - it could be endometriosis.)