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If you let the way that other people online make *fanworks* about *fictional characters* influence your self perception that strongly, then maybe the internet is not the place for you. Like genuinley. If the only way you can be safe on the internet is to police other people's content then you should not be here.

I'm not policing shit though?

I'm saying "leave SOME room for a queer orientation that's already invisibilized in real life". I feel like that can coexist. I feel like there's a difference.

But yeah, acting like offline is any more welcoming to us than online is naive reasoning. Or turning one's gaze away from our erasure across the board 'cus it's convenient that way.

The large, large majority of people's dismissal of us is ruinous for our self-perception ONline AND OFFline, so there's literally nowhere for us to be. And idk. Having a little bit more diversity on top of the existing diversity shouldn't be that hard.

(PS: Also lowkey why is queer representation in fiction so important and life-changing and key for advocacy and self-esteem for everyone but apparently us?? Like, why does this reasoning conveniently suddenly stop existing for our orientations??)

#asexual #aromantic #aroace #aroace erasure #anyway dunno if this was worth answering #but yeah so much of this is turning away from so much real harm across the board #and jumping to the conclusion that we're saying “STOP EVERYTHING” when what we're saying is “START DOING MORE AND BE MORE VARIED”#i guess putting in more effort for diversity is overrated tho #anyhoo #akhts answers asks

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Aro/ace culture is being devastated at the fact your favorite character who had so many implications of being aro/ace in the early days of the source material has now been written into (checks notes) a plotline where he’s now in an implied straight romantic relationship and is a father of four

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ship and let ship

and

if an underrepresented group asks you to be respectful about a character’s identity, you should respect that character’s identity

are two statements that can and should coexist

#idk ship and let ship is a lot easier to follow when said ship isn’t ignoring or erasing a characters identity #this ship is about aspec characters (and yelena belova) but also applies to any identity!#for example: lesbians asking people to respect a lesbian character and not ship her with a man #same thing applies with aspec characters: when aspecs ask you to respect an aspec character (and not ship them) you should listen #and obviously there are always going to be people who are shipping whatever they want. there’s no way to stop that or force everybody to #respect that characters identity. however! when it’s a large chunk of the fandom #when it’s half or more of a fandom ignoring a canon identity—that’s super frustrating! it means the majority of fandom content is ignoring #an underrepresented identity! and that sucks! it’s really hard to ship and let ship when these ships are literally everywhere and permeating #every fanart/fanfic/fan created media #okay tag ramble over. i shall get to the pertinent tags now #ship and let ship #aroace #aspec characters #idek how to tag this #fandom culture #aroace erasure #queer erasure #etc etc #reinanova rambles

It’s crazy how many people just don’t understand why a lot of aro and or ace people don’t like that Alaster gets shipped. It’s not that hard to understand we don’t have a lot to let ourselves lose. I mean can you name 10 asexual characters? 5? Can you name two aro characters. There’s the guy from Archie who they made have a sex scene in a movie version. There’s a few books. I think a background character in Heartstopper? Do you see the theme here??? You’re all queer people, do you not get it? How it feels to have nothing? Is it so wrong to be upset that there’s finally an outwardly aroace person in popular media and instead of people embracing that they’re fighting on the internet about why it’s ok to ignore it? And I will never in my fucking life have anything against the people who are aro and or ace and portray him in THEIR experiences, even if it is a romance or sex favorable experience, but it is obvious that way too many of you guys are allo and it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t even like him as a character that much, he isn’t even made by an aroace artist. The show isn’t even that fucking good, I just want to keep someone like me for once in my life. If there were a million other aroace characters I wouldn’t care, but it just hurts seeing erasure coming from my own community. It just sucks, man, I don’t know. It just sucks

oh I'm sorry this AROACE character exists and you can't ship them with any other character because they're AROACE, must be so sad for you

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It’s not even about Yelena.

It’s what allos’ eagerness to erase her identity (with fanworks but far more importantly with a PETITION) says about what they really think about aspec identities.

We can exist as long as we’re invisible. As long as we don’t have rep who isn’t a side character no one cares about. As long as we can pass as allos—“aros and aces can want romance and sex!”

So basically we can exist as long as we don’t fight the status quo, as long as (some) allo people don’t have to look at themselves and confront their amatonormativity.

#amatonormativity #aroace erasure #aro #ace #yelena belova

I think there's something to be said about how an aroace character's sexuality is forgotten the minute they become popular in fandom spaces in favour of shipping.

"oh, but being aroace is a spectrum!" yall will do with anything but accept us as we are, huh.

#specifically about bloodymary.#no hate #i love bloodymary #pretty sure ryland's sexuality is a headcanon that's so widely accepted it's basically canon #but idk it rubs me the wrong way as an aroace person #aroace #ryland grace #phm #but still #queer #project hail mary #star says stuff #aroace erasure #shipping

“forcefem” “forcemasc” what about forcegay. seeing a lot of that lately

#yes this is about phm and bloodymary.#aroace #aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #asexuality #aromantic asexual #aroace erasure #the allos hate us #they just GOTTA ship everyone with SOMEONE #let’s show the aroace children that you do not need a romantic relationship to be valid

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