Wow, I've never heard being ace described like this! I've struggled with my sexuality for a long time and am still figuring things out--namely that I might be more allo than I originally thought--and this helped conceptualize things a lot! And it was absolutely beautiful. Thank you! :)
@RosSkylark-p6e7 күн бұрын
Wait… did nia die???? Somehow I never really noticed quite how dead she looks in that opening scene. I have seen this theory in the AO3 comments but yeah she looks super dead.
@Lana-go7gu8 күн бұрын
mds, isso me descreveu TANTO!!!!! Você se sente estranho no começo, é julgado por todo mundo, muitos amigos ainda me dizem que é porque eu "não achei a pessoa certa" ou então que "preciso amadurecer", e isso sempre me deixa extremamente incomodada. Eu tenho 18 anos, NUNCA senti atração sexual na vida, até mesmo dentro da própria comunidade a gente é julgado :/
@felisazure182010 күн бұрын
Beautifully done. Genuinely made me teary eyed.
@RosSkylark-p6e12 күн бұрын
I have bean absolute blitzing though the seekers of soul chapters at a ridiculous rate, and I always have this open in a separate tab so I can check back on those missing home roughs and go “OH HEY I KNOW THAT GUY” when I recognise a scene haha! Anyway you are absolutely awsome, and I love both your story’s and your art style! I have never really read much ao3 stuff before, and just figured out I can comment and leave kudos without an account! I wonder how it remembers who I am. Could I leave multiple kudos by entering and exiting the page? Maybe if I used private browser I could leave infinite kudos! This is a good plan. I will report back if it works. (Edit: Having trouble confirming if it dose work. Might work if I switch to private browser? Not sure. Anyway, once again your work is awsome, and definitely deserves the infinite kudos haha! By far my favourite fan fiction ever (ok that dose not mean much because I have barely read any, but still. It’s cool.)
@OmeganKryist15 күн бұрын
Yeah you just feel like an alien. Like you’re missing out on something. Nice video.
@The7thDraconian16 күн бұрын
This conveys the experience so damn well. The imagery is simple, but conveys a complex emotional experience in a way words couldn't. I'm so happy this kind of short exists in the world. Thank you.
@VixeyFrost18 күн бұрын
I need some good ace comfort content right now, so I’m glad to have come across this animation🖤🩶🤍💜 I’ve had a lot of people want or expect things from me over the years, whether they knew of my sexuality or not. It can be really discouraging and isolating and feel very dehumanizing. But it’s nice to see some reassuring messages that I’m not alone. I wish things were easier for us, but if we stick together, maybe someday they will be.
@Toji-Kageyame28 күн бұрын
Remember just because someone is asexual doesn't mean that they are aromantic. I'm asexual and would love a bf or gf
@polishalastor14224 күн бұрын
Im Asexual 🖤🤍💜 I was in relationship
@a-chronic-0verthinker29 күн бұрын
my favorite part of this is how even though the main character isn't comfortable with sex, she still loves her partner romantically and wants a relationship. Often times people assume asexuality and aromanticism are the same thing, and this makes things even more confusing for people that are questioning. The reason she left wasn't because of the kiss she shared with her partner, but the things she felt were bound to that kiss, like sex. As someone who feels mostly queerplatonic attraction, I think you captured that beautifully and I can't wait to see what you create next!! 🖤🩶🤍💜
@jasmineray8469Ай бұрын
👏😭 🟪⬜⬛im ace myself and this is beautiful art, keep it up 💕
@danieleoliveira739Ай бұрын
So relatable that made me cry. Im sick to live in this sexual world. I don't want to change who i am. I like it. I would like to change the world.
@etsap1236Ай бұрын
I do really wonder if I’ll find love as an asexual. Because in my mind I don’t need sex to love someone, but for some reason people can’t seem to grasp that. Most people also wouldn’t put up with it.🥲
@polishalastor14224 күн бұрын
We Asexual can be in relationship
@qualquerum2395Ай бұрын
Just breathtaking, have no other way to say it! Just sad that there will not be more
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! ^^ I do plan to make more animatics in the future, but just likely not for these two.
@qualquerum2395Ай бұрын
I loved how much of the personality of the characters you showed with the walking cycle
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! :]
@lmgmodefoxyakalugnutАй бұрын
super duper awesome sauce (I'm new and I've only read up to chapter 19 so far)
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thanks!!! :D Hope you enjoy the rest of the story!
@lmgmodefoxyakalugnutАй бұрын
@@teshamerkel yee, I'm pretty sure I will
@mewnuxwolfАй бұрын
Omg these are so beautiful?? I would love to see the finished animation meme it looks so good so far! :D
@emilycarrick3570Ай бұрын
I know, right? The story looks so exciting!
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! ^^ I'm definitely planning on finishing the animation meme when I have more free time!
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
@@emilycarrick3570 Thank you! :] Totally understand if the word count is too much and you'd prefer to just stick to the animations/illustrations, but the story is about 2/3 of the way finished rn if you do want to check it out! The AO3 link is in the video description, but it's also on tumblr if you prefer that format for reading.
@emilycarrick3570Ай бұрын
@@teshamerkel No worries! I needed a new Pokémon fic to binge read, anyway. Lol
@tymunsterАй бұрын
I've begun to see more asexual film projects by people who are like where I am, film students who happen to be asexual. It makes me feel better about what I am and about what I can do. Like the story I want to tell is valid.
@fanadrawnimation3001Ай бұрын
It's too good! I especially like the last animation ^u^ (When I saw the release of this little video yesterday, I really wanted to resume my reading but I'm saving it for tomorrow as one or more chapters may have been written since the last time so I won't feel bad as I get closer to the “end” ) Besides, it'll be horrible when it comes to the real ending... but I know it'll be perfect! (as long as it's not ultra sad... ; u ; and as everything is more or less planned in view of the writing and the Universe, I reserve the right to cry if it happens and to complain (nicely of course) to the possibly Machiavellian person who wrote it! X3
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! :D I do plan to post a new chapter this Sunday, if that influences your reading decisions at all, haha! 😉 But I think the END end of Seekers will hopefully feel satisfying when we get to it! It might be a little bittersweet, but I promise it's not a tragedy. Thanks for watching (and reading)! ^^
@fanadrawnimation3001Ай бұрын
@@teshamerkel Thank you! \(^.^)/ (Désolé pour le fr, et c'est super pour Samedi alors! Surtout que quand je suis dedans, je ne m'arrête habituellement pas à un seul chapitre d'un coup avec ton histoire)! èué
@projectzone335Ай бұрын
I hate when these kinds of KZbinrs don't get recognized
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
To be fair, my uploads have been pretty sporadic, haha. :] But thank you!!!
@AldenHoffmanАй бұрын
These all look amazing! Seriously, good work.
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! :D
@silviux93abletvsilviux88Ай бұрын
Nice the animation
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! ^^
@gpaphoenix4650Ай бұрын
I recognize so much! Aw man this is so well done. I am actually beyond hyped
@gpaphoenix4650Ай бұрын
I just found and commented on Seekers in the past 24 hours and now youtube recommends me the Authors channel?! Lets go rare youtube W! Adore the work!
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Ha! Perfect timing!!! :D Glad you're enjoying the story and animations so far. ^^ Thanks for the kind words!
@LenisLynxАй бұрын
So cute!
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! :D
@brushscapeАй бұрын
omg these are all so cute 😭 also some of the shots in the Missing Home part look fucking epic. I love 💙
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thanks, friend!!! ;v;💚 One day I’ll get to finishing the Missing Home meme…ONE DAY!
@brushscapeАй бұрын
@@teshamerkel I believe in you 💙💙 (and I feel you. Got so many projects in the works rn Im just fantasizing like one day... One day they'll be done... One day 🌈 lol)
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
@@brushscape We'll get there eventually! 😂😅
@curlyfeatherdoodlesАй бұрын
OH MY GOODNESS YES!!! I am SO excited for that animation meme! The perspective and environments already look SCRUMPTIOUS!!! Always a treat seeing your work! :DDD
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thanks so much!!! :’D Glad you enjoyed it. I’m hoping to finish the animation meme by early 2025, so hopefully more animations of these guys on the way soon!
@YakalentosАй бұрын
Ahh Seekers of Soul content! Happy!!
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!!! Hoping to get that Missing Home animation meme done in early 2025, so hopefully more animations on the way soon. ^^
@kichu1406Ай бұрын
Beautiful
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! ^^
@Nuggs-and-FriesАй бұрын
Buh actually made me feel things
@WinglessMoonstoneАй бұрын
Dang, this is really good! I love the expressions you gave the characters, how conflicted they seem to fight each other before they see each other. And your character design for the villain is wonderful! Great job! :D
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Thank you!!! ^^ Glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun exercise!
@RandomPerson-y5fАй бұрын
My mum didn’t understand at first so I got her a book about it to help her somewhat understand how I feel.
@polishalastor142Ай бұрын
🖤🤍💜
@hamood54612 ай бұрын
ok so maybe it wasnt the Best thing to find the fic by this animation memes but damn a yamask villain is such a tragic and cool pmd villain concept, love to see my fav ghost type get love
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
I've always thought yamask was a super neat Pokemon concept!!! Especially for a potential antagonist. Hope you enjoy Seekers itself. :]
@NiaRicks-md5nh2 ай бұрын
this film truly brought me to tears. absolutely beautiful piece. i wouldn't change a thing. thank you so much for this.
@tygersongbird82082 ай бұрын
This video reflected everything I felt before coming out. Before coming out as asexual, I felt out of place, and I finally feel like I belong in such ways now. It is a struggle because our society is so sexualized and so few people actually care about including asexual people, but I feel so much better now.
@polishalastor142Ай бұрын
🖤🤍💜
@measlyfurball372 ай бұрын
Gorgeous and wonderful!
@nina72082 ай бұрын
Im asexual but im struggling 😢
@polishalastor142Ай бұрын
🖤🤍💜
@SphynxyXVII2 ай бұрын
I love this so much as a demisexual black girl myself. It's really hard to try follow the norms of society and wonder what's wrong with YOU when you don't fit in. This perfect encapsulates all my feelings and makes me feel so seen. Thank you.
@polishalastor142Ай бұрын
Fellow Demisexual 🖤🤍💜. 👍🤝
@SphynxyXVIIАй бұрын
@@polishalastor142 :D 🖤🤍💜 🤗🤗🤗
@HoolsKayFilm2 ай бұрын
I loved this so so much. Thank you for making and sharing it :)
@poopface85982 ай бұрын
As an asexual I’m so happy to find other people. I always felt left out, especially seeing my friends talk about it. Sexual attraction has always been something I strayed far from, always excusing it as it not being my time or I’m just never in the mood. Seeing my friends have it or openly say it’ll happen to me eventually has always made me feel lonely. Sex makes me uncomfortable, just the thought of it. Nothing about it seems interesting or exciting. Over the years, I noticed for a while I most likely was asexual but it honestly hurts. I’m aro/ace, and I guess it makes me feel lonely. I’ve never been attracted to someone, never liked anyone, I could never imagine myself with a man or a woman. Platonic feelings are never more than that, when I look at someone I don’t get the desire of wanting to love them. Since I honestly could never like any of my friends enough where I’d want to spend my life with them or even see them after high school. I get so disgusted at anything sexual, that it confuses me. Do I just hate anything sexual is that why I have no attraction towards it? Asexuality is something I can’t understand but there’s no way to define it or say 100% anyone is asexual. So I guess realizing there’s so many asexuals and that it’s not just something I experience has made it a lot better for me. I don’t know why I ranted but seeing a video about asexuality has just made me kind of happy.
@BrutalOddball2 ай бұрын
I love this. This is important, beautiful and transgressive. I long for accurate representation all around
@Therealbluefire112 ай бұрын
I love this video it 100% represents me
@fanadrawnimation30012 ай бұрын
eng (with Deepl, sorry): I love it so much and thank you so much for writing this story! It's my favorite fanfiction of all the ones I've read from any fandom (not many but I know what a well-written story is and especially people even secondary ones as incredibly well done and interesting! ) and I got to know it this year thanks to your animation (which I haven't seen in its entirety yet because I sensed the possible spoiler after looking in the description and seeing that it came from your story in progress) (the color animation with Nia and Tobias evolved) and since then, I've been reading it whenever I have time but as I'm towards the end of what you've written at the moment, I prefer to slow down if I have longer moments to read more without having to wait if I want to know the rest. I don't write comments there because I don't have an account on AO3 but I'm not kidding about the fact that I love it so much! It's even gotten to the point where as soon as I can, I'll make a fanart and I'd also like to make an animatic or something! It's so good and it's also teaching me things to improve my writing and the fact that the drawings are always beautiful in each chapter is really great, especially as I don't really know the English names of the pokémons (just French in most cases) so it helps me find my way around. For example with Junie, when I saw “bleue”, I thought it could be the tiny light blue and white bird pokémon with a thin black beak (I don't remember its name) but it was funny to see that I'd been wrong! X3 fr: J'aime tellement et merci infiniment pour avoir écrit cette histoire! C'est ma fanfiction préférée de toutes celles que j'ai lu de tout fandoms (pas beaucoup mais je sais ce qu'est une bonne histoire bien écrite et surtout des personnes même secondaires aussi incroyablement bien fait et intéressant! ) et je l'ai connue cette année grâce à ton animation (que je n'ai pas vu en entière encore à ce jour car je sentais le possible spoil après avoir regardé dans la description et avoir vu que sa venait de ton histoire en cours) (l'animation en couleur avec Nia et Tobias évolués) et depuis, je la lis dès que j'ai le temps mais comme je suis vers la fin de ce que vous avez écrit pour le moment, je préfère ralentir si j'ai des moments plus longs pour lire plus sans devoir attendre si je veux connaître la suite. Je n'écris pas de commentaire là-bas car je n'ai pas de compte sur AO3 mais je ne rigole pas sur le fait que j'aime énormément! C'est même au point où dès que je le pourrai, je ferai un fanart et j'aimerai aussi faire un animatic ou autre! C'est tellement bien et sa m'apprend des choses aussi pour m'améliorer en écriture et le fait d'avoir des dessins toujours beaux à chaque chapitre est vraiment super bien surtout comme je ne connais pas vraiment les noms anglais des pokémons (juste français dans la plus part des cas) donc sa m'aide à me repérer. Par exemple avec Junie, en voyant "bleue", j'ai pensé que sa pouvait être le pokémon oiseau tout petit bleu clair et blanc avec un fin bec noir (je ne sais plus son nom) mais c'était drôle de voir que je m'étais trompé! X3
@teshamerkelАй бұрын
Super, SUPER late seeing this, but thank you so much!!! :'] Really glad you enjoyed this little animatic, and I'm even happier that you're enjoying Seekers' story so much! 💚 Hope you like where I take it from here as well.
@fanadrawnimation3001Ай бұрын
@@teshamerkel ^u^ I hope so! (Plus now I can do clean drawings and animations again so it'll be perfect)! èué
@cosmicpixels63232 ай бұрын
This made me cry, I relate to this so much, i love the animation.
@somebodyoutthere22 ай бұрын
at first i thought the cracks were her feeling broken and that she was gonnahave a break down or something but it was jus slowly coming out which i htink really cool (:
@ashlazdanovich83962 ай бұрын
This made me tear up. I relate to it so much. Before I found out I was ace I thought I was broken and worthless. But now I know that I am not broken. I’m just fine with who I am. 😊
@polishalastor1422 ай бұрын
🖤🤍💜
@elizabethives19513 ай бұрын
I cannot tell you how much I needed to see this today, thank you
@ygorlira26093 ай бұрын
Fofo.
@reydonnysben69333 ай бұрын
I'm glad that i'm ace, cause i can see all the kinds of love that we can offer to the world and for ourselves.