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lol okay sure here are the ace books ive read this year, both books i loved and didn't love, of various genres

little thieves and painted devils by margaret owen - ya fantasy, demi rep. overall grade: A

you don't have a shot by racquel marie - ya contemporary romance, panromantic ace rep, sapphic romance. overall grade: B-

planning perfect by haley neil- ya contemporary romance, biromantic (i think) ace rep, sapphic romance. overall grade: C

love letters for joy by melissa see- ya contemporary romance, panromantic ace rep. overall grade: C-

aces wild: a heist by amanda dewitt- ya contemporary, lots of ace rep. overall grade: B-

role playing by cathy yardley- adult contemporary romance, demisexual and demiromantic rep. overall grade: B+

refusing compulsory sexuality: a black asexual lens on our sex obsessed culture by sherronda j brown- adult nonfiction. overall grade: A+

on my tbr:

summer bird blue by akemi dawn bowman

hazels theory of everything by lisa jean bigelow

dread nation by justina ireland

the brusing of qilwa by naseem jamnia

this golden flame by emily victoria

song of salvation by alechia dow

bitter medicine by mia tsai

wren martin ruins it all by amanda dewitt

Even though every season has its own character it all feels so repetitive and predictable at this point. The characters don’t really have any personality beyond the stereotype they represent. I still aprecciate that they chose to cover asexuality but for me it just felt copy pasted from other seasons but with asexuality thrown on top.

I know people like to shit on Skam france but it really does make me miss the og show, where everything felt deeply thought out and meaningfull.

The weirdest thing was that i felt like i couldn’t really empathise with the main character even though i’m myself asexual. It just didn’t feel like i could get in his head, like it should make me feel. And also i felt like he was treated like shit throughout the season and nobody REALLY took his feelings into account. To me it seemed like nobody cared about his feelings beside the girl he started dating for no reason.

He would talk about actual, valid concerns and everybody was like “you’re overreacting, it will be fine” but it doesnt work like that in real life. Actually the message of the season was kind of just “this is only a problem cause you’re not doing anything about this”, but the only problem they resolved was the relationship drama. They didn’t even show actual problems asexual people face in ace/allo relationships. The only problems were coming from the asexual person because first he couldn’t have a conversation with his girlfriend and next he was distancing himself from the other girl.

They could have shown his girlfriend breaking up with him after he comes out as asexual. Or they could talk about ace people being pressured even after coming out to their partners. They could actually show psychologists who think being asexual is a sign of disorder!!! They could have done so many things but instead they just did the regular: “i’m unhappy cause i’m queer and alone -> i get into problems cause i don’t understand/hide my identity -> coming out -> i’m happy now”

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