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⌈ Secret Post #5987 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

WELCOME TO THE AROACE FIC EXPERIENCE LMAOOOOO! (disclaimer - NOT universal for all aroaces, but is a pretty common experience from what I know)
this feeling of shipping characters HARD but having no interest in porn and just wanting 1000+ fics of them getting together or purely interacting in any (non-sexual) way? yeah, been there, done that, doing it currently with some of my fav ships lol.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm aroace and my shipping impulses are filthy, but I will share a hearty cheers with the shippers who ship it hard but sans porn. There's no wrong way to ship!

[(Anonymous)]

I thought "aro" meant no interest or feelings of romance? OP specifies they like the pairing in a romantic way.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - A lot of aro/ace people enjoy fictional romance and/or smut. I love fictional romance and smut, particularly when it's between my OTP. My OTP fucking is hot; my OTP being in love is awesome; I just don't want any of it to involve me at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for answering! I knew that about ace people but the only aro people I've met have taken the "no interest" all the way and preferred their pairings to be platonic.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Oh yeah. It's like... a lot of people read fiction about things they're uninterested in for themselves, sort of thing?

If I watch a movie about rock-climbing, I don't necessarily want to take that up as a hobby.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not the person you're replying to, so I'm not sure if it applies to them but you can not be interested in romance personally but still be interested in reading about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for being kind in the reply! The only aro people I know take the no interest thing to apply to all aspects, they hate that shipping is such a big thing in fandom and don't like romance (or smut) at all so I was kind of extrapolating and generalizing from them. Should have known better!

[(Anonymous)]

DA I have always loved romance as a concept, and in fiction... this is a major reason why it took me a long time to accept myself as ace, let alone aroace.

I love romance, just not as it applies to me!

[(Anonymous)]

Guess it varies. Aside from not connecting with romance, myself, I usually find romance between other people about as boring as watching paint dry. But a lot of people who are capable of writing interesting character dynamics and vivid sex scenes seem to think it would be indecent to write those things without including some sort of courtship, or spilling ink on the premise that the characters love each other. I just skim the parts that leave me cold and slow down when it gets interesting again.

But then, I'm aromantic and allosexual, whereas most of the people writing about being aro are also ace.

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny, I'm ace but I don't think it necessarily reflects in my shipping practices. Like sometimes yeah, I scroll through the smut to get to the plot or whatever and sometimes I just read alllll the smut. It has to do with specific pairings or fandom vibes for me, not what I think of as a reflection of my own identity. Though I have also been informed that most people like to project into fic and that's why they read it, and I definitely do not do that so that could come into play.

Either way, I love reading about the different ways people do fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

I never actually tracked it but I'm pretty sure my intense "read all the smut. Now." phase correlates with some phase of my period.

I go through a day or two of reading the kinkiest, filthiest things I can find and will skip anything that's not just straight-up porn. But after that it's basically just PG rated fluff or skimming through the sex scenes to get back to plot, no interest in anything sexy whatsoever.

yup

[(Anonymous)]

Mine is roughly the week before my period. It's actually the surest sign I know it's coming (irregular periods are so much fun!) and it took me forever to notice the correlation.

Re: yup

[(Anonymous)]

NA - Relatable. I used to feel extremely driven to seek out super filthy smut a few days before my period. That mostly stopped after I went on the pill--which was actually a bummer because those couple of days a month were the only time my libido ever went above, like, two out of ten level. But adult acne struck hard, and the pill was the only thing that was effective in clearing up my skin. So no more horny smut-a-thon days for me. :/

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not ace, but to leave you guys with an additional data point, I've noticed the intensity of my sexuality tends to climb before my periods. It's pretty much always noticeable, but it gets harder to control.

I saw a study one time that claimed that women were attracted to men with face shapes that indicated higher testosterone around the start of the menstrual cycle (compared to what they rated as appealingly attractive the rest of the time), and thought "oh, is that what gives guy's faces that sleek look and the sharp definition around their cheekbones and chins?"

I was also kind of amused at how closely it matched what I had in my head as sort of the stereotypical villain look - the sort of face that older literature would compare to a hungry wolf.

[(Anonymous)]

Though I have also been informed that most people like to project into fic and that's why they read it

I'm not ace at all and this has always just been incredibly weird and creepy to me. If I'm reading fic about two characters, it's because I want to read about those characters, not because I want to pretend to be one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

As an aro/ace person who's very into fictional smut and romance (particularly when one of my ships is involved), I've always found it really neat, and also comforting, that even among allo people this is so totally variable. Like, I know allo people who find it baffling that some people don't project themselves into fanfic, because they assume it's standard. And I know other allo people who seem to have about as much of a visceral squick at the idea as I do.

I have a guy friend who literally doesn't understand what I get from smut or romance if I'm not imagining myself being involved. Like, it does not compute for him. I find that so wild.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I can't comprehend the idea of projecting into a fic because like... for me, the entire reason I ship a pairing is that I like the specific dynamics between those two characters, so my interest is in wanting to read about those two characters in particular interacting. If I projected myself into it then it wouldn't be those two characters anymore, it would be one character and me and that's not what I'm there for.

[(Anonymous)]

Heh I am aroace. And do like to read smut and romance. Sometimes libido wins and it's more interested in some smut (ironically my libido is highest ON a period. Ok let's be bleedy and horny, why not).
But I do project myself into fanfic sometimes. I like to pretend to be a person that feels romantic or sexual feelings occasionally. And I do it through fictional characters. Not in "I want to change this about myself" but "I am interested in how it feels, but I am also interested to know how colors sound" way. But I am aegosexual if we are microlabeling.