Why ace-spectrum visibility is just happening now. Where were we before the internet?

This is something I would like to know more about, as well, but I have the feeling the answer is basically “living separate lives.” I think before things started up online there was just not a community — that we know about, anyway, there were probably people who found each other anyway. I imagine a fair amount of them thought about being (romantic orientation)-sexual, straight (wooo heteronormativity), or “not into dating/sex/romance/enter qualities as applicable”.

Which reminds me I need to find the word for “not aromantic” at some point (unless it’s just … romantic, but that doesn’t work so well in “(romantic orientation)-sexual”.

Oh oh though, someone on AVEN did collect a bunch of things into a timeline. There’s a text version at the top and if you scroll down there’s a graphic version. And that pretty much sums up what I know about “pre-internet” activity, which seems to basically be people responding to sexual surveys by scientists/academia.

I would write this up on the Wordpress but my knowledge basically all comes from that timeline, so.

If you were just finding other ace-spectrum people existed right now, what would you want to find to read?

If it’s not obvious I have kind of run out of ideas of what to put on my Wordpress for the moment, so… Anybody got anything they want to see?

pinstripesuit:

aceeccentric:

pinstripesuit:

aceeccentric:

I really want to ship ace!Bruce and allo!Tony

But then I start thinking about how Tony fucking Stark would, practically speaking, end up on the asexual blogosphere and Tumblr looking for information and advice

And then my head just starts to spin

I’ve seen quite a bit of asexual!Tony which weirdly makes a lot of sense to me.

Where have you seen this

And can you link me to it

Pretty please

On the Avengers Kinkmeme, which is helpfully indexed by character, pairing and topics/kinks on Delicious.

Asexual!Tony Stark fic prompts that have been filled are here: [link] (This isn’t a guarantee of quality - though I enjoyed them - but this is what there is so far.  I haven’t been able to find any ace!Tony fics on AO3 yet.)

Hooray! Thank you very much :DD

I am actually going through the kinkmeme but didn’t spot the Delicious account, which would make my progress past all the things I don’t want to read so much easier.

Also there is a surprising amount of gen and non-sexy or non-explicit stuff on there, if anyone is wondering. To be fair, though, I skip a lot of stuff, so my impression may be tilted.

pinstripesuit:

aceeccentric:

I really want to ship ace!Bruce and allo!Tony

But then I start thinking about how Tony fucking Stark would, practically speaking, end up on the asexual blogosphere and Tumblr looking for information and advice

And then my head just starts to spin

I’ve seen quite a bit of asexual!Tony which weirdly makes a lot of sense to me.

Where have you seen this

And can you link me to it

Pretty please

writingfromfactorx:

aceeccentric:

Truth, Jane is already the main reason I was going to watch Thor, since people keep telling me about her and I have no idea who she is really

(I didn’t get any particular vibe from him either, so I can see him as pretty much anything. When I found out that Mark Ruffalo wasn’t in the Hulk’s movie though I lost all motivation to watch it because without Mark Ruffalo what’s the point, whoops. I really hope he stays on the franchise.

If I can think of a plot for a story I may attempt to write one.)

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen another female scientist in a movie that read as convincingly enthusiastic about her work to me as Jane does, which is a huge part of why I love her so much oh my god so much love—

Sorry, got distracted. All too often when youhave female scientists, their careers are painted on as a sort of window dressing to their characters, a way of explaining why they’re there in a position to move the plot. Not so much integral to the way they think and act. And Jane by contrast gets to be utterly enthusiastic about her work. It is, I would say, her single most defining drive and desire over the course of the movie. You might be able to say that her relationship with Thor becomes as important by the end—but her work and her love for her topic of research is a huge part of who she is as a person. I get the sense that if Thor left forever, she’d grieve and move on—as I think what we got of her in Avengers might indicate has happened—but if someone permanently took her work away, that would kill her. 

You see that love for their work in male scientists in media, sure. You almost never see it in female ones, especially not female scientists who prioritize their research over things like romance or interpersonal relationships (as I think Jane does). And as a female scientist, and as someone who really loves enthusiastic people who just flat-out love something, Jane really makes me so happy to watch. I just love her so much. 

I didn’t know who she was or what she looked like so I didn’t catch her in Avengers, but the depictions I’ve seen of her so far have all had her very science-y and then happening to know Thor, really. So the depiction of her, insofar as I have inched into the fandom (Archive of Our Own and a kink meme), seems to have been effective in that regard.

I’m attempting to think of another female scientist who acts like that and I really can’t. This is part of why, I think, I adore genderswaps where we get to see female interpretations of male scientist characters. I don’t like the “this is just for sex scenes” kind, but when you get somebody sitting down and thinking about how their lives would be practically different, and how people would treat them differently, it can just be such a rich story. And I don’t know many stories where we get to see that without having to resort to genderswap.

Oh, wait, perhaps Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1 (and her season on Stargate Altantis)? She is pretty science-y and military-y and career-y. It has been a while since I really watched that series though. But that is the only other person who is occurring to me.

writingfromfactorx:

aceeccentric:

brashlyashley:

aceeccentric:

I really want to ship ace!Bruce and allo!Tony

But then I start thinking about how Tony fucking Stark would, practically speaking, end up on the asexual blogosphere and Tumblr looking for information and advice

And then my head just starts to spin

write it for christ’s sake

I don’t know what would happen though

I have no Avengers plots in my head

Probably I need to actually watch Thor’s movie at some point

Thor is totally worth it just for Jane Foster, and you should totally watch it!

…possibly I am not a reliable source, though, because I would watch an entire 90-minute movie comprised entirely of Jane Foster being sciencey and awesome. Because Jane is the best.

(I would also totally read ace!Bruce, though. I didn’t specifically get that vibe about him when watching Avengers but then I really didn’t get a vibe about him one way or the other sexuality-wise. And I am ignoring most of the Incredible Hulk canon because it was so boringly mediocre that I don’t actually recall most of it.) 

Truth, Jane is already the main reason I was going to watch Thor, since people keep telling me about her and I have no idea who she is really

(I didn’t get any particular vibe from him either, so I can see him as pretty much anything. When I found out that Mark Ruffalo wasn’t in the Hulk’s movie though I lost all motivation to watch it because without Mark Ruffalo what’s the point, whoops. I really hope he stays on the franchise.

If I can think of a plot for a story I may attempt to write one.)