edwardianbookwhore

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This is your sign to listen to this song asap

#percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #tlt musical #Rick Riordan

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Clean Books.

It's Friday of Ace Week, and I feel like I need to articulate something.

A month or so ago, I was signing at a convention, and I kept getting a specific ask from adults: "Are your books clean?"

And I didn't know what to say. I write for teens. There's body horror, violence, swearing, underage drinking, child abuse/neglect, forced marriage, discussion of past sexual assault, the magic system is essentially "take drugs made out of gods," dirty jokes by the bushel. Sex itself is discussed and depicted with, I hope, all the awkwardness, silliness, and earnestness that rings true for teen characters, as well as respect for the intended teen audience.

But to the people asking for "clean books," it's usually just that last one they're interested in. (Followed by swearing.)

I think, when your book is flagged as an Ace Book, some readers just expect a prominent ace character... and some readers expect a Clean Book. Something pure and wholesome, where sex doesn't exist and no one thinks dirty thoughts, it's just chaste hand-holding and cuddles and maybe a closed-mouth kiss.

That is deeply, deeply unfair to ace readers and writers. A lot of us have spent and/or will spend a lot of our lives, from adolescence onward, trying to figure out exactly what our relationship is with sex. What we want, what we don't want, when we want it, if we want it, if we even tolerate it. Asexuality is a spectrum for a reason; to expect ace work to be "clean" denies it the room to assert its full identity.

I write for the teens who are told they're "just late bloomers" because they aren't interested in dating, while their saved AO3 searches would obliterate the Vatican. My books are not Ace as in No Dirty Thoughts, they are Ace as in Deconstructing the Scam of Compulsory Allosexuality. And that doesn't have to be for you. But it doesn't make it any less ace. It is not abandoning asexuality. It doesn't make them "impure."

Happy Ace Week, y'all.

(I decided, by the way, that my standard answer to "are your books clean" is a simple "Yes.")

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everyone's all about queer subtext until it's aromantic or asexual

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i am so normal about trans and enby characters in animation

they don't constantly inhabit my brain at all, no siree

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LOOK AT MY GIRL

#tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #cassandra clare #cassandra jean #Thais #twp #the wicked powers

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wait he’s so much fun to draw

#adventure time #fionna and cake spoilers #fionna and cake #at #adventure time spoilers #fnc #simon petrikov

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scribble

#simon petrikov #adventure time #fionna and cake spoilers #fnc spoilers #Fionna and cake #fnc #at #adventure time spoilers

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I've noticed a pattern.

#fionna and cake #infinity train #adventure time #fionna and cake spoilers

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idk if anyone has noticed this but these look like little Hootys to me

#they're probably a real candy idk #toh #the owl house #f&c spoilers #fionna and cake spoilers #adventure time spoilers #at

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I’m obsessed with them

#at #adventure time spoilers #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #fnc

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the petrigrof to raeda to petrigrof stan pipeline is REAL

#fionna and cake #fnc #petrigrof #raeda #the owl house #TOH #at #adventure time

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Reasons why the FNC Modern AU is in Simon’s head (literally) Theory is true:

Cheers was the only thing on TV

The weird parallel dreams everyone seems to have

The statue of Betty that appeared 12 years ago (when the Finale takes place)

The statue of Gunter in front of the aquarium

Cake literally coming out of Simon’s head

The parallels between Simon’s day and Fionna’s day

The parallels between Simon’s emotions and Fionna’s emotions

The fact that when Fionna asks Gumball how long they’ve known each other he replies “I don’t know, I guess forever?”

The dream of Ice Prince that Fionna has (how Ice King saw himself)

In the Intro it zooms in on Simon’s head, then enters the Fionna and Cake universe inside his head, and then back out of his head through his glasses to reveal the shrine in front of him

#fnc spoilers #fnc #fionna and cake #adventure time #at #adventure time spoilers #simon petrikov #fionna campbell

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this frame

#fionna and cake #adventure time #simon petrikov #finn the human

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oh my god. wow. absolutely magnificent

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why did she answer a question about Gucci!kit in the year of our lord 2023

#tsc #tlh #the shadowhunter chronicles #cassandra clare #tda #kit herondale #Gucci!kit #twp #the wicked powers #GOTSM

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You know what they say, everything stays (but it still changes)

#adventure time #fnc

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i wanna put him in a microwave and watch him spin (affectionate)

#fionna and cake #adventure time