Cecil

ace characters are so goddamn rare and when they exist they’re usually portrayed poorly, so when there’s a character who’s ace who’s written well that’s a huge victory and it makes people who are ace feel seen and validated

i don’t know how to express this well but if you are writing about a character who is sex repulsed having sex then you don’t care about the character, you see an integral part of a character as an inconvenience and are ignoring it for your own enjoyment

how is this different than writing about a straight character being gay? well straight characters are the norm, media is over saturated with heteronormativity, ace characters on the other hand are rare and taking that representation away within the fandom is unfair towards the people who had to wait for a character like them, it would be like writing about a gay character being straight - people would be mad

ace spaces are few and far between and as silly as this sounds fanfiction about ace characters should be a space reserved for ace people (that does not mean allosexuals can’t read/write about ace characters it just means it should be done respectfully like anything else)