YOU SAID IT THANK YOU. THIS ACTUALLY BOTHERS ME SM. I'm gonna fully go off bc I've been inspired - this ain't directed at you Kinopio DHDHDH
It would be an issue if Angel Dust was written romantically/sexually for a female reader as he's a gay man, and it would be an issue if Vaggie was written in the same way for a male reader as she's a lesbian. These things the community would absolutely riot over happening (rightfully), so why the hell is it suddenly just fine to write off the canon sexuality when it's asexual?
How are we all gonna be 'we need to respect canon sexuality and preferences in our work! Anything else is unacceptable!' Until it's the sex repulsed asexual being sexualised all day every day in this community? Huh. It's interesting how that works.
I was trying to be gentle on this bc I didn't wanna get grilled by the Alastor simps in the community but I'm just gonna say it: It frankly is weird as hell that people cannot keep their hands off of the ONE canon asexual character in this show when there are countless allo characters you can simp for in that way.
Like why the heck can you not just leave the guy who'd physically bristle seeing you in lingerie alone 💀
Maybe this is spicy to say, but if Alastor was gay instead of ace, you people would riot if the female readers dug their claws into him. Because that would be weird. And frankly, it shouldn't be any different here in my mind with people obsessively wanting to bone him because the dude is CANONICALLY a sex repulsed asexual.
Not sex neutral, not sex favourable - repulsed.
The main thing about this that annoys me is the double standard here. I've seen fic writers turn away Angel Dust obsessed women without a second thought because it disrespects his canon sexuality (again, rightfully). So why is this different suddenly? It shouldn't be.
Y'all cry out for rep for ace people, but the second we get it, y'all just wanna write your way around the characters because they are unpalatable for you now they are sex repulsed and don't want to fuck at all. It's whack.
Just as trying to write a fem reader for Angel as a 'exception' to his sexuality would be homophobic, rewriting Alastor's sex-repulsed self as a sex favourable ace is frankly aphobic