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Arkady is gray-ace, like me.
I& #39;ve long thought of her this way but worried outright stating it in the show would be too self-indulgent. It& #39;s funny, this show sometimes gets credit for diversity but I dragged my feet most on including my own kinda marginalized identity. (1/?)
I& #39;ve long thought of her this way but worried outright stating it in the show would be too self-indulgent. It& #39;s funny, this show sometimes gets credit for diversity but I dragged my feet most on including my own kinda marginalized identity. (1/?)
Writing identities you don& #39;t have is hard, from a getting-it-right perspective. I& #39;ll never write it as well as someone who has lived it; I strive for the best possible version I can create but it& #39;s imperfect. Still, writing closer to home can feel really vulnerable. (2/?)
Probably the main takeaway here is that writers of color should always get more credit than I do for writing POCs. Same with trans writers writing trans characters. Same with all the other identities I don& #39;t have. (3?)
(Ugh, now it feel like I& #39;m asking for credit for finally, in season 2, finding a way to casually mention Arkady& #39;s aceness on the show. I& #39;m really not! It took way too long and it& #39;s only briefly mentioned!)
I only got to this point because I mentioned it as a headcanon and a few people got cautiously excited. Then I started feeling cheap bc saying "X was Y all along!" outside the official work is such a table scrap, representation-wise. (5/?)
And THEN it was like, why am I so worried about being self-indulgent? This whole ding dang show is self-indulgent as heck. Season one ends with a heist, for crying out loud. (6/?)
Starship Iris is basically the kind of ice cream sundae a little kid makes when nobody is watching, just a giant pile of tropes I loved and things I wanted more of, and like, I want to see more ace characters in media, maybe that& #39;s okay. (7/?)
In most ways I had a privileged upbringing, but when you don& #39;t even have words to describe the way you feel (and don& #39;t feel) attraction, the words that flow into that vacuum instead are pretty terrible. I felt SO WEIRD as a teen and "weird" was the nicest term I had for it. (8/?)
I really really hope this generation of ace kids has an easier time of things. They deserve better than table scraps, and it& #39;s exciting to be part of the AD community, where ace characters honestly aren& #39;t even that rare. (9/?)
This thread is kind of a mess, which to be fair, feels about right. Happy #AceVisibilityDay! (10/10)
