forum Light-Hearted Cinnamon Roll Chat (Open to Everyone)

Started October 01, 2020 by @murphysgirl

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"Eager much?" He said, also ready to play

shep is ready!!!
"Abie, shh," Seven said, patting the shep's head. "Let's choose our characters!"
Abie selected Pink Gold Peach; Seven selected Baby Peach.

Atticus set his remote down, as he walked to his room, throwing his glasses and plopping on the bed, tired.

Ben select Waluigi.

"Atticus, wait! I've already set up a four-player game!" Seven called after him.

Atticus whined. "Someone else can take my place…"

"Let's just play without him…"

shep will play twice, Abie said, not realising that it was beneath her capabilities to control two players at the same time.

"Okay then.."

"Abie, you can't play twice," said Seven gently, patting the shep on the head before hurrying off behind Atticus. "Are you all right?"

"Yare yare…" he said

"I never told anyone this… but I have sexual dysfunction." He was ace.

(I know I’m not part of this and I know you’re playing a character, but I just want to say, uh could you not refer to asexuality as “sexual dysfunction”, ever? it really rubs me the wrong way.)

(He was alive in the 1800s. They woulda called it sexual dysfunction. It rubbed me the wrong way too, but I had to be historically accurate)

(Hey I understand you want to be historically accurate, but here's some things: if you aren't asexual yourself, and as I understand it, you are not, you shouldn't be including things like this regardless of historical accuracy because it can and will be seen as you calling asexuality a disorder. Additionally, if it makes you uncomfortable and you aren't doing it for educational purposes or because it's important, you also shouldn't be including it. Also, if your character is immortal, iirc although I could be missing some context here, and spent a portion of their life being told that their sexuality is a mental disorder, okay, but as times develop and it's no longer treated as a mental disorder, your character should not be defining it as such, and even back then I doubt he would call it that so openly, as most who identify as ace will tell you that it is not a mental issue, even when they have people actively telling them it is. Especially with the context of him just having stated "I know how it feels to be hurt because you're not straight", it would have been a good time to say something along the lines of "I'm asexual and until very recently, it was considered to be a disorder" and possibly talk about some of the things that asexual people face, like the pervasiveness of sex in our culture, the intermixing of sex and romance, and corrective rape rather than himself calling it a dysfunction. Again, I'm sure I'm missing some context here, and I'm sure you didn't mean any harm, but it's still harmful and I'd rather you know going forward. Hope I didn't interrupt too much)

(He was alive in the 1800s. They woulda called it sexual dysfunction. It rubbed me the wrong way too, but I had to be historically accurate)

(Hey I understand you want to be historically accurate, but here's some things: if you aren't asexual yourself, and as I understand it, you are not, you shouldn't be including things like this regardless of historical accuracy because it can and will be seen as you calling asexuality a disorder. Additionally, if it makes you uncomfortable and you aren't doing it for educational purposes or because it's important, you also shouldn't be including it. Also, if your character is immortal, iirc although I could be missing some context here, and spent a portion of their life being told that their sexuality is a mental disorder, okay, but as times develop and it's no longer treated as a mental disorder, your character should not be defining it as such, and even back then I doubt he would call it that so openly, as most who identify as ace will tell you that it is not a mental issue, even when they have people actively telling them it is. Especially with the context of him just having stated "I know how it feels to be hurt because you're not straight", it would have been a good time to say something along the lines of "I'm asexual and until very recently, it was considered to be a disorder" and possibly talk about some of the things that asexual people face, like the pervasiveness of sex in our culture, the intermixing of sex and romance, and corrective rape rather than himself calling it a dysfunction. Again, I'm sure I'm missing some context here, and I'm sure you didn't mean any harm, but it's still harmful and I'd rather you know going forward. Hope I didn't interrupt too much)

(he was born in 1850 and died in 1865, at 15 years old, for context. He also doesn't feel like he's allowed to call himself asexual, for more context. And thank you, actually! I don't know much about asexuality, and that really helped! Thanks a million! And you didn't interrupt anything! The only bad thing is that part of the conversation is in the past, so I can't correct it!)

Atticus was sleeping, until Seven showed up. "Mm… Fine." He muttered.

"Oh, I'm sorry, did I wake you up?" Seven asked. "Sorry, you can go back to sleep." He went out of the room and shut the door, going back to Abie and Ben. "Guess it's just us three, then!"

Atticus smiled, before sleeping once more.