I knew you had to have some kind of magic-related rationalization for the PG-motivated preemptive redaction of Quirrell’s sexuality back in 2009 before you knew ace people existed, but WoG-ing that after you learn ace people actually exist and didn’t do anything wrong to be like this, doesn’t feel like the move.
As I’ve increasingly noticed of late, and contrary to beliefs earlier in my career about the psychological unity of humankind [ inline link mine ], not all human beings have all the human emotions. The logic of sexual reproduction makes it unlikely that anyone will have a new complex piece of mental machinery that nobody else has… but absences of complex machinery aren’t just possible; they’re amazingly common.
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If you’re not around people who talk explicitly about the possibility of asexuality, you might not even realize you’re asexual and that there is a distinct “sexual attraction” emotion you are missing, just like some people with congenital anosmia never realize that they don’t have a sense of smell.
Many people seem to be the equivalent of asexual with respect to the emotion of status regulation—myself among them.
I knew you had to have some kind of magic-related rationalization for the PG-motivated preemptive redaction of Quirrell’s sexuality back in 2009 before you knew ace people existed, but WoG-ing that after you learn ace people actually exist and didn’t do anything wrong to be like this, doesn’t feel like the move.
Possibly relatedly, can you speak on why you deleted your old “Headcanon accepted” comment under Harry Potter and the Methods of Catgirls?
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[ earlier Facebook post introducing status-blindness concept ]