#but changing canon traits and then CLAIMING you're not changing anything bc the LABEL is still the same... is erasure

[tyrannuspitch]

not to #discourse about a fandom i haven't been in for five years but it is kind of funny that in tma they outright say in canon that a character doesn't have sex, at all, ever, and half the fandom went "well by 'this character doesn't have sex' what they mean to imply is that he's asexual, and asexuality only really means that you don't experience attraction, so some asexual people still have sex, so i think the character who canonically never has sex should have sex'". and by funny i mean aphobic

#like. okay. transformative fandom is transformative #i don't think it's necessarily bad to write a canonically queer character as a different queer identity #in the same way that genderbends are basically fine #but changing canon traits and then CLAIMING you're not changing anything bc the LABEL is still the same... is erasure #and also some of u guys just reeeally aren't comfortable interacting with sex-averse characters lol #also funny that afaik canon itself DOES NOT reference the commonly accepted strict definition of asexuality #(lack of attraction) #ONLY the sex aversion #so it would actually be MORE canon compliant to write him as a sex repulsed allosexual. which believe it or not is an identity that exists