RadioStatic Week Day 7 (Protecting the other)

Day 2: Sharing a meal (Yes I'm aware I'm doing this out of order-sssshhh)

Gotta love those vintage recipes Vaughn got from his mother.

radiostatic week: one sided attraction!!

based on the song plug in baby by muse

this was yesterday's prompt but i was too tired after finals to finish all these yesterday... please mind the messy ness, i didn't want to do lineart!!

i like to think val is full aware of vox's obsession and often feeds into it because he likes seeing his man seething

A trembling thought hit me like a freight train, what if the reason the crew went back on saying Al in aro is because he and Vox actually did date?

And then Vox wanted more and they broke up?

Like, I just have a nagging fear that that might come up in season 2 and I really don't know how to feel about it

Like on one hand it should make it easy to clarify that, yes, Alastor really is aro for he gave it a try and found it really wasn't for him

But on the other, what if the crew (or whoever is in charge) is all, "Well he dated once so he can't be aro, therefore he is only ace"

I've seen these kind of conspiracy theories before where people think there's some planned surprise romance plot for alastor and that's why they don't want to confirm him as aro and well.

I disagree.

for in-text, meta, and my own reasons. lemme go through it one by one.

in-text reasons

if we ignore ANY sort of word of god, statements from staff and whatnot, the only thing we have is the rosie dialogue. I've talked about it before, although she only says "ace in the hole", the context in which this is said is the idea of alastor dating charlie, this is a romantic context, and rosie says she's joking because she knows he wouldn't do it because he's an (aro)ace in the hole. the joke here is that alastor brought a girl with him and she's jokingly assuming they're dating (unless we're really thinking she jumped to joking about them fucking). so she KNOWS he wouldn't date and that's the thing, the only way I could see vox and alastor having previously dated and still have rosie say this is if them dating and alastor realising he's uninterested is specifically what got rosie to realise alastor wouldn't do that. otherwise no, it wouldn't make sense to me that alastor would've dated when rosie said this.

meta reasons

old faustisse streams. I'm not a pre-series fan but I've done my research. sure, there's info they've said before that's been deconfirmed but that's because some info from them are stuff they only say they "think" and not stuff that they 100% confirmed with vivzie, just opinions based on what they know about the characters. alastor's aroaceness is different though, faustisse was VERY forward that alastor is AROace and they SPECIFIED vivzie did not want to canonise it because of shipping wars and all that, so I'm fairly sure it's not because of some surprise alastor romance plot. faustisse may not be a 100% reliable source since this is from years ago now but I will say alastor being aroace is about as canon as husk being pansexual. both of this info is from faustisse. arguably alastor being aroace is even more canon than husk being pan because of the rosie dialogue. you can read the transcript of one of the old streams here. don't take this as a necessary reflection of my take on alastor shipping, no, I don't like reciprocated romantic alastor ships. at all. but I also definitely don't think harassment is okay. shippers will exist, and nothing you say will stop them so it's best not to waste your energy shouting at them.

my opinion

first let me say, I DEFINITELY don't like vivzie's choice to not confirm it. I understand yes people can be very aggressive in shipping wars, I understand harassment happens. but. IT IS HAPPENING REGARDLESS. ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING REGARDLESS. it's just made WORSE by no solid statement on him being aromantic because then there's people who will argue it's not canon. confirming alastor as aromantic will not stop the shippers from shipping or having fun, this is like saying confirming angel dust as gay prevents angel dust x women shippers from having fun. they will exist regardless. confirming alastor as aromantic WILL NOT CHANGE THIS, all it will do is ASSURE aromantic people that they are being represented. all it will do is stop people from saying "alastor is ace not aro!" and acting like alastor being aro is an obstacle to their shipping.

that aside, I'll talk about my opinion on the idea of alastor having dated vox in canon. now, okay, I don't mind the idea if it's done in a very clearly aromantic way and it was just something alastor tried out but didn't like. I would even like it if it was done properly! but I also don't trust vivzie to write an aromantic character in a romantic relationship, so I'd rather it not happen in canon. and I do think vivzie is more likely to not take the risk of trying to write an aro character in a relationship anyways (and if she did I would definitely hope she does lots of research).

also it doesn't really make sense to me why he would try dating with vox instead of like. a woman. like rosie or mimzy. and I don't mean this cause of heteronormative reasons I mean this because alastor is clearly more comfortable with women, it just makes more sense to me that if he were to try out dating it would be with a woman. like... why vox? the only reason I could see it happening is vox is the only friend who tried to confess to alastor and so he decided to try it out cause he was a friend but then didn't like it. that isn't to say I wouldn't enjoy reading about this in fanfics or anything cause I probably would LMAO it's an interesting concept, but doesn't really make much sense to me and I'm not sure if I trust the allo writers to do it in canon.

that's all I have to say.

*mic drop*

magma doodle

based on this

StaticRadio Week Day 5: sick day.

That deer carcass gave vox food poisoning.

🫀I've seen some people confused about the many different radiostatic ship names, so I'll try to explain some of them here

VoxAl - The common ship name technique of just mixing characters names together

RadioStatic - The one that's most known around the fandom, can be used to describe either mutual or one-sided

Radiosilence - Vox likes Alastor, but Alastor doesn't reciprocate

OneWayBroadcast - Newer version of Radiosilence made by tumblr user @/onesidedradiostatic since people are often confused by the radiosilence tag

Radio/Silence (With space) - Do not use this, please remember not to space when you use the radiosilence tag, since radio/silence is a different fandom entirely

Staticsilence - Alastor likes Vox, but Vox doesn't reciprocate

StaticLoveTune - The ship name people used back in the early pilot days, l've seen some people to this day use it for fluffy or mutual radiostatic

Me and Gracie ( @llserenell ) made whatever this is, she deleted it and I wanted to post it so here it is.

I have no art today sadly. I will soon, I promise.

one way broadcast am i right

You ever just wanna…

Source

“I’m a SHARK-” said Alastor the deer demon, “because it’s a good metaphor!’

(NO I will not do a part 2!💕)

RadioStatic Week Day 6 (One-sided attraction)

Pov you are Vox

The idea of Alastor doing something intentionally off-putting to scare people around him and Vox just not being even slightly affected by it is so hilarious to me

viv posted this pic and i just had to do it

vox and alastor when they first met maybe!!!!!

after this they formed a one sided close friendship and vox considered alastor a genuine companion (and wanted to do the occasional spit swapping) and so he's been craving his attention and approval ever since this!!!!!! (im crazy abt them)

I love how these 5 kind of form a chain with their connections and I desperately need to see all of those connections come together at some point

Alastor's apologising (part 2)

It happens after this and before this

Part 1

Seems like Rosie is angy with Alastor... very angy.

Vox yappin.

i have no thoughts. head empty.