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[aengusnatureking]

Little vent, ignore it

Venting, author rant, feel free to ignore it.

As a professional musician and writer for many years, I avoid fans and fandom with every part of me. First, I do not like the word "Fun." It's short for "fanatic," and no, I do not like fanatism or anything related to it. Generally, I refer to someone who likes my job as an "Estimator" or "appreciator." I was convinced that my work and the community around it were fan-free, but lately, I have been working on a peculiar project, and despite how much I love it, I know that I need to stay away from this specific fandom. So I did, which was for the best since much of my character and writing were structuralized and used to fulfil some unreasonable, thirsty desires. I know that sometimes that happens, and it is something I don't care about; I can't. But something happened. A character that I canonically made for representing aromantic and asexual is being erased of this identity. I made this character a sexually repulsed and not romantically interested person. I took time to write him that way, despite everything so many people are going around saying, "Aromantic can date" and "asexual can have sex", and, of course, that they can: asexuality and aromanticism are both spectra. Still, we have not come to this character; he can have sex and can't be in a romantic relationship. How do I know? Because I damn create him that way. I'm the author, for fuck sake, not a bunch of thirsty disrespectful and immature people. If they want so badly to sexualize a not real character, I strongly suggest that they invent one of their own instead of stealing and changing someone else inventions. If they can, not everyone can be a professional author. Even if that's not enough, another college of mine points out an episode he writes on social media. A 15-year-old estimator of this work was talking to an adult fan, and the teenager was trying to explain to the other why what the adult was doing ( some art or fanfiction") was disrespectful because this meant to erase the sexual and rotating orientation of the character. The adult answer was to complain about the authorial work for adults, not kids, and then fuss about how the kids were ignorant and did not understand the character. But the disclaimer is "for the mature audience," and that is not always related to age: in this specific instance, it's being proven to be true. The 15-year-old trying to defend little Aroace representation in media was quite more mature than the adult who could not release their erotic tension in another way than shipping some character. Of course, this is not disrespectful to an imaginary character but to the people who work to make that character and who created the product you're enjoying… Anyway, sorry for the rant. I thank the anonymity that I have here on Tumblr.