#anyways i’m biro ace like him so i can say whatever i want and yall have to listen /j

[jester-step]

thinking about jonathan sims being asexual. thinking about how most ace/ace-coded characters in media are represented as cold, distant, unfeeling, too busy, smart, or ambitious for sex, “barely human”, sometimes literal robots or aliens. thinking about jon, who first comes off as cold and rude but who we gradually discover to be compassionate, anxious, kind of a dork, funny, lonely, stubborn, brave. who struggles so much with his own humanity. thinking about the aces who feel different, disconnected, broken, who lack or have a complicated relationship with “the thing that makes us human.” thinking about jon, who even in his worst moments, cares so much and loves so deeply. who, on the surface, embodies the asexual stereotype of a character who’s too cold and inhuman for sex, and yet who subverts that stereotype over and over again by being a complex character struggling with his disconnection from other people in a way that beautifully ties into the unfortunately common asexual experience of feeling broken and yet who remains so very human, despite everything. thinking about how jonny probably didn’t consider all this when he wrote jon as asexual but fuck it it’s 3am and i’m emotional over the jarchivist. uh, in this essay i will-

#this is absolutely incoherent but i’m a bit sleep deprived and emotional so forgive me #i’m just getting hit with a lot of feelings about ace rep tonight and i need to rant about at least one of them #yall are lucky i’m not going off about fitzroy maplecourt (my beloved) rn #anyways enjoy this rant i’m going to sleep #the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #asexuality #ace #ace spectrum #i have Other Things to say about jon’s ace rep some less positive but i’m feeling emotional about the good parts of it ok #anyways i’m biro ace like him so i can say whatever i want and yall have to listen /j