[ SECRET POST #3354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3354 ⌋

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09. [ warning for homophobia / transphobia / misogyny take your pick, people seem to be divided on this one ]













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Comments

Re: Fanfiction General Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a good way to write asexual characters or should they just be avoided altogether?

I've read so many comments here, in the 'what makes you automatically stop reading a fanfic' type threads, that a character being asexual is one of those things. I've also seen other comments that it's the 'Tumblr-y' way the issue is treated that's the problem, not the fact that they're asexual.

So should there never be asexual characters ever, or is it okay if they just say they're asexual and leave it at that instead of going into a long explanation with a dozen different labels?

What do you guys think?

Re: Fanfiction General Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Is it germane to the plot or characterization? If it's not, I'd leave it out because it looks like you just want asspats because "look you guise! I wrote an ace characters"

Re: Fanfiction General Thread

[(Anonymous)]

tbh unless the character is a modern 20-something college student I'd just write them as asexual but not label them as such. I might not even include the "asexual character" tag if it was on Ao3.

It's not like it's something that even needs to be addressed, most of the time? Just have them say "I don't have much of a sex drive" or "I'm not very interested in sex" or something and leave it at that. Hell, you can write epic sweeping romances, and just totally skip the sex scenes and call it good.

Mostly I feel like (and I say this as an ace person) it's wildly OOC for 99% of characters to even know what "asexuality" IS. Let alone for them to feel the need to explain it to people in a fanfic.

Re: Fanfiction General Thread

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand I agree with the others that most of the time it wouldn't be relevant to the story. Unless someone wanted to have sex with them, or they were involved in a conversation where people were discussing their sex lives or something, but I can't see where those kind of things would necessarily need to happen, depending on what kind of story you're trying to tell.

On the other hand, there are some characters I headcanon as asexual because they've never shown any interest in sex but it would kind of be nice for it to actually be confirmed, you know? I know it's not exactly the same, but it's kind of like wanting actual gay characters instead of taking characters who don't seem interested in the opposite sex and saying "ok, well, they SEEM gay, so I guess that's as good as I'm gonna get".

Anyway, I think it would be ok as long as you don't get "Tumblr-y" like you say. In a situation where it's relevant (as in, don't just have them mention it completely out of nowhere) they can say something about not liking/being interested in sex/not being attracted to people/whatever, and leave it at that. Like the person above says, 99% of characters probably wouldn't even have any idea of what asexuality is, so they can just describe how they feel (or don't feel) and be done with it.