[ SECRET POST #5385 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5385 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm ace as hell and get crushes on fictional characters cuz they're... well... fictional. And safe. And will never crush on me back and have expectations or push my boundaries or--- It's probably a lot different for someone with a sexuality that isn't defined by its absence, but that could be part of it? The fictional dude isn't going to have expectations. Maybe there's something in his personality that you really like that tends to show up in mostly older burly dudes, and unlike flesh life where striking up a platonic relationship as a queer woman could go horribly wrong, this is safe?

[(Anonymous)]

Same. It took me so long to realize I was ace and aro because I get crushes on so many characters. But I've never had those feelings for a real person, and when a person has them for me, even if I like them as a friend and even when I've tried to figure out if they'd be one of my crushes if they were fictional and the answer was "probably," I still felt NOPE about them. It's completely different.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm also ace, and I'm glad it's not just me. This is something that's always puzzled me a bit, because it's not even just an emotional crush for me. Sometimes I actually feel some degree of attraction to certain fictional characters. Which always has me like, ???.

But when I try to imagine them actually present and me actually touching them in a sexy way, my brain is like, "Nope, pass." Or my brain is like, "Can we get [Other Fictional Character] in here to touch them instead?"

Sexuality is weird and complicated, and if my extremely ace ass can be semi-attracted to fictional characters sometimes, then it makes total sense to me that sometimes gay people might feel some level of attraction to a fictional character of the opposite gender.

[(Anonymous)]

This is pretty much how my brain works, too, although I also sometimes get faint hints of attraction towards RL people, but those elicit even stronger "nope no thanks" reactions when I imagine myself in sexual situations with them than fictional characters do.

All that is to say, I don't think OP's fictional crushes make her somehow not a lesbian unless she wants to ID as bi or "straight but only for fictional old burly dudes" or whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, same to all of this! I’m also glad it’s not just me!