little sketches from this afternoon
elhaspowers asked:
hi, just wanted to say that your lovely mario art has gotten me playing Luigi's mansion 3 with my twin!! thank you sm for giving me the chance to have bonding time with my twin again!!! 🩷 have a nice day!! <333
noodles-and-tea answered:
I hope you enjoy it!!
Serperior Facts
Jessie doesn't nerd out often but when she does, it's about snakes or fashion. After she released Arbok and sent Seviper to HQ, I feel like she missed them so much she just got deep into ophiology
commission for drawing metis cykes and ponco! tbh very cute if only i played aa5 lmfaooo
reminder if you wanna commission me my ko-fi is in my pinned post + comm prices teehee
This ASAW, I'd like to make a quick post talking about queerplatonic relationships and why the term is used, as many people mistakenly believe it's a useless synonym for friends.
To start, the "queer" in "queerplatonic" is not the same as queer as in LGBT+. Queer here is referring to strangeness; to how these kinds of relationships are outside the norm. And that's the point, really – queerplatonic relationships are relationships that do not fit into the expectations for platonic and romantic relationships, thus "queering the platonic." You don't have to be queer as in LGBT+ to use the term "queerplatonic," because the term does not inherently have anything to do with whether a person using it is LGBT+.
The term is, however, inherently connected to the aro community, because it originated from there. Those who do not experience romantic attraction and thus are less likely to enter romantic relationships decided they needed a term to describe their relationships that are different from typical romantic ones but are also different from typical friendships. Over time, it also spread to ace spaces, and today is used regardless of sexual or romantic orientation.
Going back for a minute to explain this concept better – what do I mean when I say "queering the platonic" or "not fitting into the expectations for platonic and romantic relationships?" Well...
- Doing traditionally romantic things (such as cuddling, kissing, or going on dates) with someone you have a platonic bond with.
- Living together/sharing taxes, getting married/raising children/etc with other typical adult things with someone you have a platonic bond with.
- Having multiple consensual relationships.
- And more examples that I can't think of as of right now.
Oftentimes, mentions of these sorts of things in queerplatonic relationships is met with "But friends can do all those things!" and, sure, but the question is not ability. It's normality.
Is it normal to see two friends getting married platonically? If I went to a school and took a survey, could I expect at least a few students to say their parents are not and have never been romantically involved? Can I walk over to the romance section of my local bookstore and see a good selection of polyamorous representation and have that be the usual sight on a trip to that store?
No, no, and no.
These things are not normalized. That is why we have queerplatonic, because to have strong bonds that are not strictly romantic and monogamous yet involve activities that are commonly considered to occur in romantic relationships are not normalized, or even considered acceptable by some people.
Yeah, sure, queerplatonic partners can be friends. They can have a strictly platonic bond. They don't have to use this term to describe their relationship.
But I'm not seeing any stories at my local bookstore about someone deciding to move across the ocean and live with someone they do not want to be romantically involved with while also being in a romantic polyamorous relationship with several other people, now am I?
That's why we use queerplatonic.
Tl;dr: Queerplatonic relationships are not about whether the people in them are LGBT+ or if the relationship is both non-romantic and non-platonic; they're about if a relationship goes against amatonormativity and relationship norms.
This has been a PSA. Go support queerplatonic relationships.