I will defend aces/aros who enjoy reading or writing romantic or sexual stuff in fiction to my dying day but…
I also wanna talk about the overwhelming feeling that no one will read a fic we write if we don’t include some ship or another, how much we’re told “if it’s not rated M it’s not worth reading"–followed up by “the fic was rated M and it didn’t even have smut scenes!” of course.
How many times I’ve seen fellow ace writers talk about how they are trying to teach themselves to write smut they’re repulsed by because people keep demanding it in their works, how many times I’ve seen fellow aro writers buckle under the pressure to make the central relationships in their works romantic.
How when we write about characters with nonromantic sexual relationships we get swarmed with “I can’t wait for them to open their heart~”, how when we write about characters with romantic nonsexual relationships we get “I hope they give in soon~”.
How difficult it is for sex- and romance-repulsed people to find works without it, how frequently we’re guilted or pressured when we try to write it for ourselves.
I am 100% behind the “it’s okay to be ace/aro and enjoy stuff with romance/sex” posts forever but we really need to talk about the pervasive pressure that we have to include it no matter what, whether we want to or not.
We need to talk about the overwhelming culture in fandom that a story is worthless without it.
Tag: yeah!
Into the woods
To get the thing
Real actual lyrics. (via kajacana)
lol if you think the fact that rhodey and sam aren’t that popular on this site has NOTHING to do with racism and the exalting of the “white male hero” then you need to start thinking critically because both characters are amazing and were developed enough to have larger fanbases than they do
I think the number of notes this has is really telling
tip: failing a class? demand trial by combat
shoutout to those random peacocks you find in places that are probably unsuitable for a peacock to inhabit in the first place
it scares me how impermanent all my internet friendships are like you could just delete and i’d never see you again in my life or hear from you ever again and that makes me really sad
“I’m an adult.” I whisper as I eat my fifth bag of M&M’s, still not yet dressed at 2:00pm and press play on a cartoon meant for children ages 6-11.
Okay quick survey. Reblog this if you would see a Young Avengers movie
do you ever get cuddle frustrated? Not sexually frustrated, but just get really frustrated and asdfghklg because you’re not cuddling someone right now and you just really need to feel someone with their arms around you and bury your face in their neck and just feel them close
Combeferre, Courfeyrac, and Enjolras are in a great queerplatonic relationship with each other and no one can tell me otherwise. They all cuddle while watching movies and they all share a bed (which took them awhile to figure out because they’re all goofy sleepers, but they managed) and the three of them are just soo happy with each other.
fearlessstateofmind backup 