#asexual data

[oncemorewithqueering-tv]

saying "im asexual"

-basic

-prompts further questions

-v short and boring

saying "sexual attraction in this context is not a part of my programming"

-makes you sound like data soong (cool and also into sherlock holmes)

-fancy af

-prompts no further questions

-can work for anyone on the ace spectrum bc of "in this context"

[canonaspecswag]

Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Data Soong vs Murderbot

Data Soong from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Data is an android and has no sexual attraction or desire. You can read about him as ace representation here and here

vs

Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Murderbot is a bot-human construct, made from cloned human genetic material and robotic parts. It has human emotions but is sex and romance repulsed.

"Martha Wells: When I was working on the first novella, it didn't seem logical that a SecUnit would be given any kind of reproductive system or any human parts that weren't directly useful for its security function. And the way Murderbot feels about humans, it didn't seem logical for its personality that it would identify with any one gender, or be interested in choosing a human gender for itself, and it sure wouldn't be interested in human sexual relations. So in a way I guess it was a coincidence, since I didn't plan it from the start, it was just part of the process of developing the character as I was writing. And thank you!"

[musicboxghost]

I HATE that every time I try looking up fiction books about machines and other forms of artificial intelligence that have souls or sentience

I get information about fake authors stealing other people's work by publishing "ai books"

I don't want your art theft!

I want Lieutenant Commander Data

I want Murderbot

I want Mosscap

I will never tire of a creature that loves and fears and fights with all the trappings of humanity... Just a little to the left. Just a little different. But no less whole and real.

I love you robots as allegories for neurodivergence, queerness, and different types of being othered

I love you robots building a found family and an identity for themselves at the same time

I love you learning that the world is hostile and you don't need to understand how someone works to accept them

So, if you have any recs, please for the love of God let me know. I need more

[are-you-romanticizing-murder]

accidentally reblogging a horny post and your whole page suddenly filled with horny people be like: hmm i guess i have no choice but to study you like experiments and collect information about your mating patterns now...

[libartz]

Let’s play a fun game I like to call “do I actually ship them romantically, or do I want their relationship to be acknowledged as extremely close and among the most important in their lives and calling it romantic is my way of achieving that?”

[thearoaceshark]

Okay @convolutedblasphemy and @justletmeon12 here are the edits you asked for!

From Doctor Who, the Fourth, the Sixth, the Ninth, the Tenth, the Eleventh, and Fourteenth Doctor.

One individual for the Ninth doctor.

From Star Trek, Data.

[professional-termite]

What character/s from Star Trek do you see as Asexual or Aromantic or AroAce?

oohohohoho THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION ANON!! ive got quite a few of these so buckle up

i think ive talked about this on discord before, idk if ive ever posted about it, but aroallo bi worf is so real. to me.

also data is aroace (and in a qpr with geordi but thats not what were talking about rn)

tos spock is def asexual and aromantic for the most part, ive always seen him as grey aroace gay (snw spock is a completely different thing and i dont even really consider them the same character 💀💀)

also aromantic scotty is very dear to me. he loves his ship and no one else and hes very very aro because i said so

ive always seen q as ace on some level, although i dont think hed identify as anything other than queer if he identified as anything at all

idk if ive talked about this ever actually but ive always seen deanna troi and william riker as a qpr or a fwb situation and ive headcanoned both of them as arospec and polyam for a while now

im probably gonna have more once ive watched ds9 and voy so just. be prepared for more aspec hcs

[kinstein-art]

so it’s ace week? and nobody told me??

[crackingfeetlol]

Hello! I’m Freya and I am doing a personal project about sexual vs. romantic identity. This is related to Aromanticism and Asexuality and how Aspec people’s experiences differ from Allos.

If you don’t know what any of those words mean, that’s okay! That’s why I am doing this project you should still respond.

 Anybody regardless of sexuality, gender or age can and should fill out the form below: https://forms.gle/8qmfRCJ766G6oARj9

Thank you <3

P.S please share I really want as large of a sample as possible

[asexualdindjarin]

very cool that sexuality and gender identity were recorded in the census for the first time! in England and Wales there were 28 thousand people reported as asexual (0.06% of population) in 2021

[ask-healthy-light]

Absolutely adorable and amazing artwork à la @allyooops! 💜

Such an incredible piece of art from a brilliant artist! Thanks ever so much for drawing my Mod Pone!

[moosalicious]

so i kept seeing this ad on tumblr

and i got really confused about why it's aimed at me, so i checked who paid for it, and oh boy, whoever you think, you're gonna be wrong

google.

google paid for this ad. like, at this point, they probably have enough data on me to know that i'm not only ace but quite sex-repulsed.

you have all this data on me. you might as well use it and give me relevant ads.

[twacn]

The film reroll giving me the canonical asexual representation I crave