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“ace ppl can still have sex” well yes but you just dont see that character as ace

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131. good old-fashioned

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122. gangster

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114. ultra rare

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104. lethal

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96. fantasy

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88. stalking

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I finally felt represented. I finally found a story where romance and rose relationships were not only largely irrelevant, but barely even presentin the story. And it was sci-fi? And the two main characters are autistic-coded? And it’s super hopeful? It was like it was tailor made just for me! I was so excited to share my love of the story with others, and celebrate platonic relationships and hope and science and joy, and instead all I see is shipping.

And no matter how many individual ship tags I block, I still see the shipping content. It’s inescapable. I can’t block every single fathomable ship tag*. I just want to feel happy about the implied aroace positivity and instead I’m surrounded by amatonormativity and compulsory sexuality and allonormativity and sex and romance (and I’m rose-averse and sometimes even rose-repulsed!) and if I say anything about it, I’m villainized and mocked and accused to fandom policing.

I just want to be able to escape the shipping and find the other people who enjoy the aspec narrative as an aspec narrative. That’s literally it. But if I say “hmm maybe people should consider if amatonormativity is impacting their perceptions” I’m the problem.

*Even when I try to add filters for all the ships of this character, browsing his aroace tag looks like this for me: "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" "This post contains filtered tags" etc