toughness and bravery

This is what I drew for pride month this year. I don't have much in common with Zim and Gir but like sometime last year I realised they probably have something in common with me that is very important to me; same sexual orientation (asexual), same romantic orientation (aromantic), same gender (masculine aligned genderless). All 3 of them...which is wow. They're both very aromantic asexual coded and I pretty much headcanon them that way ("headcanon" but it's pretty likely that it's canon if you ask me)..I can't imagine them as any other orientation. I don't know but maybe Jhonen Vasquez thought of them that way too (I sure hope he did). Irkens are a genderless species (just read the wiki if you think I'm making it up) and sir units are genderless robots so they normally wouldn't be able to feel sexual attraction anyway. And even if they're genderless they still lean to masculinity and manhood. (If you headcanon them differently or disagree with me in any way, please respect the way I interpret them. I respect yours.)

Having something like this in common with fictional characters (especially those that aren't made by me, since I can just make my ones however I want) gives me some sort of comfort. I don't know. I'm a pretty unrelatable person in general, this aspect of me is also pretty unrelatable like almost everything else about me, but it is also one of the aspects of me that I want people to accept the most.
Random: I've known my gender and sexuality like my whole life but it took me a while to fully figure out what my romantic orientation is, I became fully sure I am aromantic in February of this year. So late...
I know people who know almost nothing about me see me as invalid but they're just asking for dinosaur balls to go in their asses. I have too many personal aspects and personal experiences related to those 3 things about me that very much prove that I am a real (aka valid) example. And if you say anything annoying about this I will just not take you seriously. I already feel very down and broken and don't need your extra filth.

In memory of my probably lost rainbow flag and rainbow fırıldak (I don't know the English word for it, but it's the thing Gir is holding). 💔

invader zim (c) jhonen vasquez