I love your icon here! You always have the most amazingly appropriate icons.
Was the issue for them that A&B were equating asexual fic with gen fic?
That's a good question, actually! If I'd had the presence of mind at the time to query them about it, maybe we could've had an interesting and productive discussion.
I do agree about Illyria.
I was just reading the TV Tropes list of canonical (and semi-canonical) asexual characters, and they had Lorne on the list—apparently the actor who portrayed him was on record at some point saying that he thought Lorne was probably asexual. Which, okay, I can see.
I found it unfortunate that this is the direction Vision was taken in the MCU because it seems so unnecessary.
Yeah, I was taken by surprise by the relationship between Vision and Wanda at the start of Infinity War. I mean, I accepted it; they're characters we don't even know very well, and lots of time has passed since we last saw them, so I accepted that their relationship had developed offscreen.
That said, I hadn't realized that Ben's existence and subplot had been primarily a way for Li Ann to encounter a new identity!
Well, like I said, that's why I chose that particular setting and case. The details worked themselves out in the telling, as usual!
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Date: 2019-05-28 02:43 am (UTC)Was the issue for them that A&B were equating asexual fic with gen fic?
That's a good question, actually! If I'd had the presence of mind at the time to query them about it, maybe we could've had an interesting and productive discussion.
I do agree about Illyria.
I was just reading the TV Tropes list of canonical (and semi-canonical) asexual characters, and they had Lorne on the list—apparently the actor who portrayed him was on record at some point saying that he thought Lorne was probably asexual. Which, okay, I can see.
I found it unfortunate that this is the direction Vision was taken in the MCU because it seems so unnecessary.
Yeah, I was taken by surprise by the relationship between Vision and Wanda at the start of Infinity War. I mean, I accepted it; they're characters we don't even know very well, and lots of time has passed since we last saw them, so I accepted that their relationship had developed offscreen.
That said, I hadn't realized that Ben's existence and subplot had been primarily a way for Li Ann to encounter a new identity!
Well, like I said, that's why I chose that particular setting and case. The details worked themselves out in the telling, as usual!