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Today’s asexual character of the day is Aristotle Mendoza from Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe!

Many thanks to otakusapien for the submission! :)

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yall really just cant fucking help yourselves can you

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Ah, what a lovely morning! You know, I really feel like playing some Kingdom Hearts today. Time to boot up my tablet and-

Something isn’t quite right here...

Yeah, something’s definitely not right.

-_-

(So you know, Anon, telling a severely-depressed and chronically low-key suicidal young woman to perish is playing a very dangerous game.)

I see a follower-submitted post from a blog I haven’t updated for over two years suddenly blew up overnight and resulted in a gigantic backlash against myself, my blog, the submitter, and asexual people in general (... I’m a bit confused as to why a blog called cishetsbeingcishets is commenting on ace matters but that’s just me).

Quite frankly, I haven’t read the book myself, am not familiar with the characters, and of course I had not seen a specific tweet by one of millions of authors in the world. I’m not omniscient. Speaking of the tweets, here they are.

Oh hey, these tweets were posted on the twenty-first of February, 2016. I wonder when the post on this blog was made?

The eighth of November, 2015? Yeah. This headcanon was entirely valid when the post was made, the submission being posted made some people happy (check the early notes, back before the Tweets existed), and there was no gay-erasure, seeing as how according to you guys the author’s confirmation of Aristotle being canonically-gay was made AFTER this post was published. I’m not going to retrospectively delete the post because it’s historically valid, even though it disagrees with something the author later declared to be canon. I reject the accusations of homophobia on these grounds. If a character is yet to be explicitly confirmed by the author as having a particular orientation, all headcanons are as valid as any other.

Get out of here, guys. Stop making yourselves look bad.

#I'm so tired #like I understand the criticisms #but to completely ignore the context is just #wow

Hey can I ask you something I sent that once more but Idk if you got that message and its really really important, I need to ask you,the hiro Hamada being asexual thing,was it canon? Or just a headcanon?

Hi Anon! I’m sorry, the message must have got buried, I’m extremely easily-distracted and have no real sense of time (which is also why the lack of posts, which I’m going to fix at some point in the near future).

I actually have no idea, I haven’t seen Big Hero 6 (I know, shame on me, I'm really going to have to watch it before KHIII) so I can’t say whether it’s confirmed as canon or somebody’s headcanon, you’d have to ask the submitter. However, even if it’s not explicitly confirmed, it doesn’t matter, because fictional characters rarely have explicitly confirmed sexualities and the assumption that all characters are straight until proven otherwise is damaging to everybody. If a character hasn’t been explicitly confirmed as anything other than asexual, it’s perfectly reasonable to treat it as canon. At least, that’s how I see it.

I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

-L :)

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Bruh, I saw Mitsukuni Haninozuka and Haruhi Fujioka on your blog, labelled as asexuals. I may assure you that they definitely probably aren't considering that they are from a romantic comedy (not to mention that in the manga Mitsukuni gets married to Reiko Kanazuki and Haruhi gets married to Tamaki Suoh). Just saying that they don't belong here, and even if they were asexual they weren't officially confirmed as asexual. Sorry, but I think whoever submitted must have lied to you.

I own the manga, have read it several times, watched the anime, and know exactly how it ends, thanks. :)

Personally, I can see exactly how Haruhi and Honey could be interpreted as being asexual, because they could easily be asexual and demi/heteroromantic: plenty of asexual people enter romantic relationships and get married and that doesn’t make their asexuality any less valid. I should also point out that I’ve spoken before about how it doesn’t matter whether characters are officially confirmed as being asexual or not, because if nobody takes issue with characters officially being confirmed as being heterosexual before they headcanon that, why should it be any different for other sexual orientations? Are you saying that everything is outright wrong unless the author explicitly says so, and that headcanons aren’t allowed? If this is what you’re saying, you’d better give up on your “Haruhi and Honey are hetero” heacanon, too, because at no point (that I’m aware of) did Hatori-sensei actually say “Haruhi and Honey are sexually attracted to the opposite sex”.

Another question: what did you think your submitting this ask to me would achieve? Were you hoping I’d take down the posts? I can assure you, I’m not going to do that; as of 2:13am GMT on the sixth of February, 2016, Haruhi has received 166 notes and Honey has 22. That’s 83 people (at the very least, assuming each one both liked and reblogged and that all of the Honey rebloggers/likers also liked and reblogged Haruhi) these headcanons are making happy, why should I spoil their fun? More to the point, who gave you the right to?

-L

#OHSHC spoilers #Ouran spoilers #please don't treat me like an idiot Anon I know what I'm talking about #L rants #Anonymous #Ask

So I realize your FAQ just kind of links to Google for this question, but unfortunately Google covers all definitions of asexuality, including conflicting ones, and some that are apparently considered offense to certain groups. So I want to ask what YOUR definition of asexuality is, to provide some context for this blog.

You’re right, my FAQ is flawed. Asexuality is simply the absence of sexual attraction. If you want to extend the definition to the entire ace-spectrum, that could be broadly summed up as the absence of sexual attraction, with possible exceptions in extenuating circumstances. :)-L

#The queueing of submissions will begin momentarily #Anonymous #Ask

Naoto was never confirmed asexual, what is she doing here???

... The implication of your ask being that she was never confirmed hetero, either, begging the question of what you’re doing here in my askbox. (This is not one of my fandoms, so I can’t comment on the character myself, but my point stands.)

The problem with asks like these is that they make one huge, damaging assumption: that the default sexuality is heterosexuality. Granted, it’s impossible to prove whether the statistical majority of the world’s population is heterosexual or otherwise, but to assume that heterosexuality is the default is to relegate any other sexuality to minority status, which goes hand-in-hand with alienation and erasure by the less amenable members of society, in addition to often unintentional patronisation by an handful of well-meaning, if ignorant, members of the perceived “majority”.

As damaging as the potential implication of your ask is, Anon, I’m glad you asked it, because it gave me a chance to show you how flawed your reasoning is. I hope you’ve been able to take something out of my response.

-L

(I shall be adding to the queue and answering more asks later. My apologies for my recent absence.)

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