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Art/writing blog: @hinacu-arts
Current Main Fandoms: Deadpool & Wolverine
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My fam had a KFP marathon last weekend and im having some late night thoughts about it

The reoccurring pattern of families through adoption and choice is so good. Shifu adopted Tai Lung, Shifu fostered Tigress, Mr. Ping adopted Po, Po choosing to make room in his heart for two fathers, Mr. Ping and Li putting aside their differences to be there for Po as his family. Just *chef's kiss*. And even with the estranged parent-child relationships its always made clear the parents still love the child so much. Shifu never stopped loving Tai Lung ("i was always proud of you. I never stopped being proud of you. It was my love that blinded me from seeing what you were becoming."), the soothsayer makes sure to remind Lord Shen exactly how much his parents loved him ("no, they loved you...sending you away broke their hearts. Its what killed them."), Li never stopped loving Po despite not knowing if Po was alive.

Im not actually sure if we see any explicitly stated in-movie (i know about the behind the scenes material) blood related families outside of Lord Shen, and he looks so unlike his parents you could probably argue that he isnt. I think thats also the only in-movie family that had two parents actively raising a child (Po's birth mom died, Mantis' dad died, Po's adoptive father seemingly never married, and Shifu raised Tai Lung and Tigress without a partner)

And the quiet friendships between Po and the Five. Its so clear and i wanna know more

Just, these movies are so aspec friendly i love it. Familial love being a secondary-focus in all three films (Shifu and Tai Lung, Po and Mr. Ping and arguably Shen and his parents, Po and Li). Platonic love being quiet but there (Oogway and Shifu, Po and Tigress). And no romance at all. Closest you get is Po's bio parents, Mantis mentioning wanting to die married, and Mei Mei's crush on Po. Thats it.

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hi, sorry, i saw your post abt yelena being aroace, and for some reason i had no idea! when i watched the black widow movie i sorta headcanoned her as lesbian, but that’s really cool that she’s aroace! i was wondering where that came from? (sorry again that this is really random)

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Its fine! I had personally no idea until after Black Widow came out. And lesbian!yelena is a very popular headcanon for mcu!yelena on ao3 and tumblr. And another fun sexuality fact you may not have known about: according to her wiki comic!Kate Bishop is explicitly and repeatedly said and shown to be bisexual in the comics

But back to Yelena

I dont actually know where it came from other than it came from the comics. Back when Black Widow came out a few people posted about how she's canonically ace/aroace with some comic panels of her talking (i think the panels said something like "i dont like men. And no, i dont like women either, so dont ask."). When people say "its canon in the comics" it usually means its actually very vague and more of a popular fandom headcanon (i once looked into the "comic!steve is canonically bisexual" claim and it all boiled down to one panel where the villain was like "the ladies. Or men, if thats what youre into" which to me was just saying the villain didnt want to assume anything but to a lot of people it was more oh the villain knows something we dont), but the way it was worded sounded a lot like the "this is what i am, im not going to use labels because that will confuse you more" coming out technique. So i have chosen to see it as a somewhat-explicit Yelena is Aro-Ace scene

Ive also heard from a couple of posts i saw last night on the subject saying someone (it was either the creator or one of the writers) has stated in a interview before that Yelena is Asexual

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Ive been meaning to make a post on aroace Carmen for awhile and i cant sleep right now so here we go

  • The first time anyone asked her who she was into was Sheena when Black Sheep was 16. The answer is clearly no (right?): she'd grown up in isolation, this was her first year actively hanging out with people around her age, all these people were 2 or more years older than her so why would they take interest in her, and most importantly she'd never had a crush before. Sheena is one of those people who thinks if you havent had boyfriends since at least 5th grade youre not normal AND Black Sheep doesnt wanna go around telling people she's VILE raised (and she wants to fit in) so all she says is "no have you seen the boys here?" and points to the boys who are making a racket in the cafeteria.
  • The second time is by Brunt. Black Sheep quickly shuts it down and reassures Coach Brunt she does not need to beat up her new guy friends 
  • Cleo is next. She notices how all but one of Black Sheep's new friends are boys. 1) it was embarrassing enough Cleo held her after class to confront her 2) Countess Cleo somehow makes it both innocent questioning and hostile questioning. But thats not enough. Black Sheep is given 3) the birds and the bees talk AND 4) boys are horrible talk. She leaves the classroom two hours later traumatized.
  • Sheena HAS to be the center of attention and uses flirting to get this attention. Its why her "friend group" is all guys and why she's always taking digs at Black Sheep. Black Sheep knows Sheena knows that she doesnt like Gray like that but whenever Gray wont pay her attention she'll bring up how he likes Black Sheep more and insinuate things and it makes Black Sheep's blood boil and occastionally her skin crawl
  • ((Gray thinks she's cute, and was into her in the begining. But then they became friends and age gap (aka missing social skills) made her feel like a kid sister to him. He puts up with Sheena's remarks because 1) its not true 2) he knows where he stands with Black Sheep, so why should it bother him?))
  • Black Sheep never went to high school but she thinks this is how it would be. Its close enough to the movies: blonde mean girl, boy best friend, goofing off in class, sneaking off to break the rules. She could do without the talking about boys. She always prefered nature doctumentarys anyways.
  • After Gray becomes Crackle, Sheena becomes Tigeress, etc and Black Sheep begins her redo year of crime school no one bothers her about boys and dating.
  • After her escape and integration into the real world she begins interacting with many strangers everyday. The first few times people flirt with her it goes over her head. The first time someone asks her out she tells them she's leaving town later that day. She finds all the senarios where she imagined herself being the girl in movies who's pretty and is always drawing eyes to be actually be a hindrence since she's suppossed to blend into the background. Its the first time and everytime that someone makes some flirty comment about her body her blood goes cold. She doesn't tell Player this. Figures its because she was always the youngest and the baby of VILE she wasnt used to being seen in a "adult" way. Carmen never really minded her appearance, and likes how her hair extentions make her look: older, pretty, taller. Her new makeup look makes her look different while still looking good. She looks the part she's occasionally imagined being: that pretty girl in the movies. But she doesnt feel like she expected to feel. She's not getting excited about having this type of attention. So she has a brief moment of wanting to change everything, to make herself look as unattractive as possible. She decides not too, listens to the logic that is Player went through all this trouble to make her IDs that if she changed her look now it would make things worse... Besides disguises are about not looking like yourself
  • Getting it though Zack and Ivy's heads that no, she doesnt want to talk about how hot a actor is or talk about dream dates took several tries. At first they backed off because they were balancing the line of friend and boss and then completely when Carmen would attempt to contribute to those conversations very awkwardly. They notice she's fine with romcoms and listening to those types of conversations, its just participating that bothers her.
  • They still make fun of her "date" with Graham though. Carmen is fine but finds it easy to try to remain calm instead of letting her blood boil like it did when Tigeress insinuated things. She figures its because Zack and Ivy are real friends who respect her boundries. They eventually stop talking about it because it makes Player of all people upset.
  • ((Player now has to dodge accusations they throw at him about having a "little crush". Truth is he's still hurt over the fact Gray was Carmen's best friend back when Black Sheep was Player's))
  • Having someone refer to Devineaux as her boyfriend would have thrown her off anyday (he's in his late 30s and she just turned 20, WHY would she be dating him?), but to hear it come from Brunt was so out of place it made her realize that Brunt truely didnt know who she was. That hurt.

All right thats all of season one, ive been typing for one hour, ive been constructing this on the spot so it makes 0% sense to my sleep deprived brain, and i'll fix it in the morning

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Whenever ever a new ship gets popular

A) is the fact im oblivious, aro, or ace the reason i dont see it?

B) have the straights decided to jump on the "hes a boy, shes a girl" bandwagon once again?

C) are the gays desperate?

D) is this another projection/self-insert shipped with "i think this character is hot" situation?

E) the rare occurance the ship is actually canon AND popular

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so my family was looking for a movie the other night and watching trailers and one of them was about a woman whos pushing herself into sexual situtations (porn, sex toy stores, dates) that shes uncomfortable or scared with because her last boyfriend dumped her for "not being that into sex". So either theyre shaming people who like vanilla sex and/or people who are ace-spec OR by some impossible chance theyre baiting horny allos into watching a movie that ends with revealing asexual people exist and their boundaries should be respected

its probably the first one but i can pretend that its the second one

besides imagining her going through all this and trying to impress her new love interest just to find out at the end of a date that he's ace/ace-spec which leads to her researching and realizing she's ace-spec (and both of them keep dating) would be a better ending

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