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2019-06-08 04:54 pm

A welder's review of Flashdance (or: I watched 5 seasons of Bojack Horseman)

I've just binge-watched all 5 seasons of Bojack Horseman on Netflix, and I have a thing or two to say. Cutting for spoilers....

Spoilers! )
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2019-05-27 12:31 am

Asexuality, part 2: Putting an asexual character in my fic for the first time

So, having come out as asexual in my previous post, I want to talk about the experience of putting an explicitly asexual character in my fic for the first time.

But actually before that, I think I need to talk a little bit about the experience of writing fics about sexual characters, as an asexual writer. Read more... )
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2019-05-26 05:05 pm
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Asexuality, part 1: my coming-out post

Usually on this journal I talk about my fannish interests or my fanfic writing, but not about my self. I have a different, friends-locked journal for sharing personal stuff. (Not that "usually" is an entirely applicable concept, since I've barely posted in the past seven-ish years. But back in the distant past when I did post, that was the division!)

But I have a post in mind that I'd like to make about the experience of putting an asexual character into the fic I've been writing. And before making that post, I want to give some context.

The context is: I'm asexual. I've identified as such ever since I first came across the term, which was in a sex-and-sexuality themed advice column in a free urban weekly newspaper approximately twenty years ago.

More specifically, I'm asexual, biromantic, heterosexually married, and polyamorous. It was a bit of a journey, getting here, but now I'm in my 40s and happily comfortable in my own skin, and very content with the life that I'm living.Read more... )

Now available: part 2, in which I talk about the intersection of my asexuality and my fanfic-writing, and about my experience of writing an explicitly asexual character for the first time!