permission to say something potentially controversial and also largely insignificant? has anyone else noticed a tendency in Fandoms to Headcanon a very specific type of character as being asexual?? like within my own observations, the pattern tends to follow a particular kind of female character who is de facto assumed to be incontrovertibly Asexual even if there is no indication in the text that this is the case, and even if she is, in fact, textually horny. you’d think that for the self-proclaimed commie website, at the very least, people would be able to identify and renounce the reactionary tendency to associate a woman who exhibits unique kindness, gentleness, and quote-unquote “purity” with a certain chaste virginal ideal, so ontologically moral and nunlike that she doesn’t even desire sex (like a filthy sinner would). and yet this pattern is frequent enough for me to be rankled by it. the other kind of character I most frequently see hit with the Ace Headcanon beam is, of course, The Child. like oh, you can’t imagine this twelve year old having sex? gee, I wonder why that is. and don’t even get me started on the infantilizing ableism you often see in discussions of disabled and/or autistic characters’ sexualities….. basically, my point is, fandom discourse does not exist in a vacuum, and views on sex as they inform and are informed by cultural and ideological biases do, naturally, bleed into these discussions in revealing and often harmful ways. so we should be considerate of that, I think. or yknow. whatever
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Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'
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Beau Butler via Instagram
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a lost girl with no memories and her mysterious companion (normal woman who is not hiding anything)
new OCs for a short comic in development...hopefully I'll have time to work on it next year
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my digital footprint is a clown shoe I fear
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feministly consuming yuri. shamefully consuming yaoi. consuming m/f romance with a sort of detached anthropological fascination.
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Jeanette Winterson, from 'Written on the Body'
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