[ SECRET POST #2314 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2314 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have this exact same issue with ace!fic, which I'd never had much of an issue with before, but it seems to be creeping into some of my fandoms more and more lately. I'm all for representation of issues outside of a character's usual wheelhouse, but 99% of the time it's not only unrealistically dealt with, but in direct contradiction to the author's character of choice. I'll never understand why people so desperate to see their own issues covered, whether it's actually relevant to the show/characters/whatever or not, don't just throw in a self-insert OC and call a spade a spade...

[(Anonymous)]

My experience has been that orientation-centered fic is usually not written by people who identity with the orientation in question.

My fandom had the ace phase some two or three years ago, and it drove me up the wall because it was all but how do they deal with not getting sex from their heart's desire. Being ace influences my life in a number of small but interesting ways, but angsting about the sex I wouldn't be having with a potential mate isn't among them.

[(Anonymous)]

Heh. Possibly that's why it's often so unrealistically handled, then. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Being ace influences my life in a number of small but interesting ways, but angsting about the sex I wouldn't be having with a potential mate isn't among them

This comment is good and you should feel good for posting it.

Although, tbpf, I don't think a lot of single grownups walk around angsting about that, either; if someone wants nameless, faceless, potentially STD-giving sex they have it, and if they don't...they don't. (And if someone wants something in between, they do that, too.)

IDK, I blame the media for way oversexualizing/overselling sex, in a way that's pretty much never been seen before since, well. Ever. Thus, the advent of everyone needing to have an "orientation" to explain their otherwise perfectly standard behaviour.

[(Anonymous)]

Hee, thanks. I realize that my comment was poorly worded - what I meant was that almost all acefic I've seen has been about asexual characters having angst about not being able to perform in bed and expressing their love in the deepest of ways and denying their partner access to sex or something along those lines. Very few stories are much interested in the epiphany about other people really wanting sex or trying to explain it to their parents or dealing with concerned friends or new acquaintances assuming you have a partner and when are you going to have kids and all those things.