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It's very funny to me that svsss seems to have a particular draw to aro fans. Like, wangxian and hualian are relatively straightforward romances all things considered, but then bingqiu are so deeply fucking strange about their relationship in a way that isn't neatly romantic, and I think that is particularly compelling to an aro audience

This has definitely been discussed before (that time wrt asexual fans) but my hypothesis is that because SVSSS spends a lot of time deconstructing how sex and romance happens in stories -- why would they fall in love? just because he's a man and she's a woman? do they actually have anything in common at all? why do they have to have sex? isn't it weird that there's a convenient plot device to make it happen? -- it's very appealing to the subset of fans who spend a lot of their time asking the same questions about sex and romance in other media

the self-indulgent fanfiction will continue until morale improves

The self-indulgent fanficiton will also continue after morale improves, just with better morale.

The Murderbot Diaries are a power fantasy about being aromantic and still developing extremely important dedicated emotionally intimate partnerships where you are a top priority in a person's life, equal to their other family or romantic attachments despite your own emotional difficulties. And having guns in your arms