My Pride month submission has Phoenix and Silvyr together. Phoenix is bisexual, and Silvyr is Asexual, homoromantic.
Silvyr is important to me as I see a lot of the asexual experience being the sex repulsed version, or asexual as well as a romantic, and I don’t see anything on the more Demi/grey end. As an asexual, I wanted to explore the idea in his story, and how it plays out in a character that is seen as attractive so he obviously should want it. A scenario that I’ve been shamed for a lot in my life.
rainbow glow tools aside, I love these two :) I hope to draw them more with the ARPG <3
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One of my big concerns with this comic is that Silvyr will read as gay, or that Silvyr will look like he doesn't deserve Phoenix's love cause he isn't sexually attracted to anyone. I... don't know how to shorthand it so I'm going to have to slow burn it which is gonna be hard T.T It's way easier to pin point a character as gay or sex repulsed. Something as subtle as a demi? That's gonna be a challenge T.T I hope I'm up to it ^^;
Yo, I love slow burns, and that probably would be one of the better ways to show it. If you show the closeness they have like you have here, people will be able to tell that they care about one another, regardless of how often or seldomly they express it in a sexual way.
There's a character in a story of mine who is ace, I was planning on making him a far end, sex-repulsed ace. Reading through this though got me thinking how it skips over nuances present in the a-spec, I'm considering rethinking some aspects I had previously scrapped with him. Not that being a classical ace is bad, but I think I this direction speaks to my feel of his character better, and I was glossing it over before.
I love a slow burn too, but I'm very aware that I have a comic cap of 30 pages. I can free style a comic and draw it and finish it for a thing but as soon as it hits 30 pages, I'm on borrowed time. I have no idea how I'm going to break that threshold. I'm scared that I'll do book one, and then stop at that T.T I've done that so many times that my friends wont consume my content till I finish it now which is so isolating T.T
If your character has been simplified to be sex repulsed cause you can't imagine writing an ace that isn't sex repulsed then ABSOLUTLY re work the character. I get that there's a lot of sex repulsed people in the ace spectrum. I... may be one. I don't know. I know I don't want it for myself, but I may be grey or demi and change my mind when I fall in love. There's so much room for sex repulse, as well as demis and greys Not everyone needs to dedicate thier love only for hamburgers or thier work. I feel that is a very allo way of writing an asexual character. It is one way they can present, and it is romantic in a vague way, but you can be sex repulsed and still love someone with all your heart
Ahh, that would be an issue. I kinda have a similar one? Except I world build excessively and it outlives the will to write the story. I've been working on directing that into a means that will get me to writing, I'm seeing how that goes. Maybe you could approach the comic with more outlining? Outlining is a lot faster than page making, maybe it'll help you keep up momentum?
It's not that I can't imagine him as not sex-repulsed, but that I was wanting it to be clear he was ace. But it's not fair to him as a character to simplify him for the sake of being easily digestible to an audience who likely will not have much knowledge of the spectrum. He'll probably confuse people, but putting him into a neater box won't mean that will stop happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieAfi3hLEY
If you want to put it in terms of the video, I'm between a timeline and a skeleton outliner. Doing this gets me excited to hit the plot points, and acts as a sort of motivation.
And aslo Beautiful message. Sexuality is such a weird sometimes fluid thing that can depend on so many factors. Everyone experiences it differently and I'm glad you shared your thoughts/ concern of the lack of different representation of asexuals
Yeah- I use to think I was super broken cause I wasn't sex repulsed so how could I be Ace? The way my ace friends talk about it, it sounded like sex was a thing that couldn't be in the same room as them while I draw NSFW, happy watch adult content, and love burlesque shows. People think it's because I'm like them, but I just think NSFW has a beautiful aesthetic. I want to be able to share that with others, and now I understand it more about myself, the less forced I feel to conform to how I think others expect me to be like. Ace doesn't mean sex repulsed- it means they lack sexual attraction. That I can understand and relate to, and I feel that the world needs to see more of that That's there is an in between state Thank you for your comment <3