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Everything is gonna be okay, character

Everything is gonna be okay is a show about a Australian entomologist, nick, is tasked with caring for his half siblings, Matilda and Genevieve moss. through out the second season Matilda and her friend drea, both being autistic, begin dating and at the end of the fourth episode establish a rule set for said relationship, as Matilda does want sex just not with drea and drea doesn’t want sex at all, but both still want to date each other. This making drea an asexual lesbian and Matilda a romantic bi and a sexual straight, if I recall. This strange system continues and in the next episode Matilda hooks up with someone to various reactions and it ends with a one on one conversation with drea and nick which includes the classic “what is being asexual” conversation which I think effectively explains the disconnect of romantic and sexual love.

Overall, I do believe it is a good depiction of the complexity of sexuality and treats drea being ace as a normal thing that a character needed help understanding.

Also just watch everything is gonna be if you find like family sitcoms fun

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Supernatural academy, show, character,

This show is tied to a book series that I haven’t read so I have no clue what happened in those.

At the start of the show we are introduced to Jae the fae who later states they aren’t into the whole romantic relationship stuff, as well as going by the/them. The next time it’s brought up is as an inside joke of another character calling them romantic with them retorting you know me so well. Additionally there haven’t been any plot lines indicating an intention of being in any romantic sub plot. Due to the story not bringing it up any other time Jae’s opinion on sex isn’t mentioned which is a recurring feature of shows. As mentioned the character is a fairy which I personally have conflicting opinions on a rep being a fae that I’m failing to explain. The story seems to just treat them being aromantic as a regular part of the character, nothing worth writing about a second time if not natural brought up which it hasn’t yet.

Conclusion: a simple but effective introduction of Jae’s aromance that proceeds to treat it as part of the character without needing to hammer it in similar to how they do with them going by them/them. If you want a big out and proud character this is not your character but they are someone comfortable with themselves going through day to day life.

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Heartbreak high, subplot, s1 e7

In episode 7 of season one named the sheriff, during a lockdown to get a teacher back, Douglas Piggot (cash) confides in their situationship Darren about not wanting to have sex, never feeling the desire for sex. A major part of season one is Darren and Cash trying to date each other with mixed results due to not understanding each other, miscommunication and external pressures. The story shows someone trying to handle being asexual without knowing it’s normal and can still date people without the sex parts. He also talks about still enjoying kissing once again showing the variety asexuality can have. The season ends with cash confessing his love for Darren who reciprocates the feeling.

Conclusion: the first season starts a seed of a much bigger story about cash discovering his asexuality and accepting that part of him, pretty good from my perspective

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Acception, character, side character

Bó is a supporting character that started as a side character for the “mean girl” group till episode 78 where at the prom while talking with the character Lola, a trans character herself, talks about how she doesn’t like the sexual pressure revolving around her then calling herself ace a sentence later, lola miss understands a bit saying “so no dating at all?”, leading to a quick explanation of asexuality by saying “she stills wants to date but with out the sexual stuff”, preceding to mention thinking she’s fine with hugs and kisses but not sure. She is then invited to hang with Lola more adding her into a much more major supporting role.

Conclusion: a small beat as of now failing to come up but a quant little event that gives a perfectly fine rep and shows the various quirks that formulate someone’s asexuality, like if their aro as well, or what their comfortable with doing.

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Bloom into you, subplot, episode 4, volume 2

Maki seiji is an aroace character in the lesbian romance manga and anime “bloom into you”, most of the story is about this romance, he states enjoying watching romance happening but equates it to a theater performance with him in the audience with someone confessing to him being like an actor talking to the audience it feels wrong out of place or him. He acts as a good foil for our main character yuu while she figures out what she’s feeling. A strong argument can be made that yuu is Demiromantic as a major part of the story at it’s beginning is her not reciprocating the love from nanami then slowly developing it which could be seen as Demi.

Conclusion: it’s a very small part of the story only properly appearing in the 7 volumes of the manga I’ve read once or twice, but it does well depicting it and gave one of my favorite descriptions of how I view romance.

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Loveless, book, main plot

The story is about Georgia Warr, a fresh college student who feels they’re failing to keep up with people her age, not being in a relationship, haven’t had sex and doesn’t go out partying. Attempting to change this she swears to use college as a fresh start to do all of the above. She eventually discovers that existence of asexuality and aromanticism whereas she slowly accepts that’s what she is. The story shows the struggles of being aroace before knowing about it, the start multiple times showing Georgia believing there is something wrong and forcing herself to try to love people leading to damage to others. It also describes her trying to kiss someone as having the kill bill siren going off in her mind. The story also states tho partially contradictory to the title that Georgia does in fact love people she still loves just not sexually or romantically

Conclusion- loveless is a very well written book that is quite good at depicting how it feels to be aroace along with various other beautiful parts of the story, highly recommend

The kill bill siren in question

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House, S8 E9, Better Half, subplot

a patient and her partner are both ace, house tries to find a medical reason for why she’s ace, after implying she’s ugly and the partner is gay being the reasons for it (art piece in background appears to be the aro flag) (house is slightly racist the whole episode), house calls the patient a liar, and or sick, house discovers a brain tumor in the partner that lowers libido and gives erectile disfunction thus implying the patient was in fact lying because she liked the partner, it is proven that the patient was lying did enjoy sex and was saying so to continue to stay with the partner.

End result: bad rep, implies ace people either have some medical problem causing it or are lying about it.