[ SECRET POST #4577 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4577 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't get how people who've never been in love, (or loved), and don't feel physical attraction towards others could even ship tbh. How do you think of two characters who aren't together in cannon and imagine them liking and wanting to be together, if you never feel that way in real life? Why even bother? What draws you to these fictional characters (and their relationships) that you can never find irl?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but...

Do you also think people only write kinks they have in person? Or that asexuals can't write sex?

I can say I would not have any interest in being stepped on and whipped in real life, but can imagine characters that would love it!

It's the same broad category. You can imagine fictional characters doing and enjoying and finding fulfillment in things you personally wouldn't do IRL. It's p easy

[(Anonymous)]

What draws you to these fictional characters (and their relationships) that you can never find irl?

For me, it's literally how my sexuality works. (And for the record, speaking purely for myself and not for any other aces out there: this isn't some special snowflake bullshit, I would choose to be allo in a hot second if I could.)

For most people, attraction goes between them and others: "I feel attracted to him/her/them." For me, the attractions is still a potential I have in me, but it isn't connected to me in a direct way - so there can be no "I feel attracted to him/her/them." Instead, all of my attraction attaches to a ship, and I just kind of piggyback along: "A is attracted to B. B is attracted to A. I feel what they feel by proxy."

How do you think of two characters who aren't together in cannon and imagine them liking and wanting to be together, if you never feel that way in real life?


I can understand how it would be confusing. The way I think of it is, sexual people go their whole lives having never felt attraction and fallen in love...until they reach a point in their development where they do feel that. They don't become able to feel it because they're taught it. They become able to feel it because the natural drive/appetite/what-have-you develops inside them.

The inclination to ship developed the same way for me: instinctively, in response to a drive/appetite/what-have-you. My sexual and romantic impulses just function a little differently, for some reason.

Not OP, btw.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry OP, forgot to mention I wasn't you.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like one of those people who have kids and then precede everything with 'As a mother/father' and talk about how you understand love on a much deeper level now.