Being ace is a… weeeeird experience, but y’know, something cool about being ace is that we can get creative sometimes. When it comes to intimacy, relationships — all that! We have our own ways of exploring that stuff, and our own ways of exploring our queerness. And we can love just as hard.

And I love queer shit! Doesn’t matter what. Trans stories, gay fluff, kinky stuff. I am also a queer adult. I am also a trans adult. And a furry!

Sometimes I wonder if other queer people enjoy reading stories about ace characters in the same way. I’m sure some do. I’m curious! Aren’t you?

Heck, people have been shocked at times when I’ve told them I’ve enjoyed a work with some kink or romance or just NSFW stuff in general. And it’s like: I’m 33 years old, I enjoy work written for adults, as I am an adult. I can read a sex scene and enjoy it even though I don’t have sex myself.

It could be said that folks may not expect to see ace people in queer spaces that are a bit more NSFW or within the queer dating scene. Sometimes people are… surprised?… to see you there. Not in a bad way, they’re just… surprised.

Sometimes it’s as simple as just wanting to meet other folks.

For the record, most of the queer spaces I’ve been in have been really accepting of asexuality! Furry included. I think this can sometimes be more of an “us” problem where we internalize some sense of being broken or “not like the other queers”. I feel that way often, despite being trans.

I’m not sure what to do about the issue of ace people feeling a sense of not quite belonging in queer spaces. Especially since asexuality can vary as much as any other sexuality.

I personally really like the ace mantra “not broken” because I think that’s how a lot of us can feel sometimes.

And when I do write characters that are ace, I’m worried people will either misinterpret that or disagree with how I depict an ace relationship — even if it mirrors my real life experiences. It’s WEIRD.

Granted, I think I have these worries about my trans/NB depictions too, soooo. It’s similar.

Like, it feels like false advertising or something even though it isn’t. Whether I say I’m LGBT+ or my works are. It’s not, for the record. Just feels that way sometimes.

Bröther may I have börg

I’m a messy eater, yeah… 😔 Sometimes I’ll drop a whole ass tator tot on the cat. Flakes galore.

Baa!! Bringing more baa to all!

Just watch. Some shmuck is gonna crawl outta the woodwork and claim that their OC is a more performative male than mine is. But I’ve got at least 300 pages (probably more) of Boone’s performative antics to dispute their claims.

I’ve already won. Give up. 🏆

From this day forward, I’ll wake each morning and wonder… how do I outperform the other males today? And then I ask myself: What would Boone do? The answer to that is that he’d don a really silly outfit and bear out his raw emotions on a stage in front of an entire town. So I will do as he does.

I myself take inspiration from Boone daily. Partly because I took inspiration from myself when I made him. The inspiration now goes both ways. I now aspire to outperform every male in my vicinity. Like Boone, I want to be the most performative of them all. I want to perform AND I WANT YOU TO CLAP —

“What is a performative male?”

Boone. That’s what we call them in these parts.

I'm spending too much time thinking about how I don't want to go to work tomorrow, when I could be thinking about the comic I get to work on today.