#acruvian

[bloggingboutburgers]

So, a while ago you said that you aren't active in fandom spaces in part because they tend to be so overwhelmingly sex and romance saturated that they're basically unnavigable to a sex-averse aroace. (I remember because I am also annoyed by this, and actually write a lot of gen fiction myself. The sort of tropes and interactions I like to read can basically only be found by trawling romantic relationship tags, though, even if I don't care for the sexual or romantic part.)

I just found out that Squidgeworld - a fanfiction repository that uses the same code as AO3 - has a QPR category! There are less than two hundred works in the category, but the mere fact that it exists is heartening. They also have an "antagonistic relationships" category, which I am delighted by - watching rivals interact is way more fun for me than watching lovers interact.

Anyway, I'm not sure that this is something which you would personally take advantage of, but you have a pretty large following in the ace/aro spectrum community, and I have little doubt that this will be a good resource for someone. Maybe it'll even sew the seeds of a more active aroace-safe fanfiction community.

It IS a very valuable resource, thank you so much for sharing it!! I hope it comes to help a lot of people facing the same challenges we do TwT