So I’m posting this here because it’s not to a point where I need to make a comment about it in my stories but it’s starting to get to me:
Please stop commenting asking, or hoping for smut in anything that I write. As some one who is asexual who when just talking about sex leans towards neutral with close friends, and repulsed with everyone else, it’s been making me a sick to my stomach.
It’s been making me feel like people’s expectations for fanfics are that they have smut and sex in them, but I have never tagged my works as such (at least to my knowledge), I have never alluded that there would be smut in my fanfics. And it’s really heart breaking as some one who is ace to have that pressure put on you. My spideypool fanfic had a sequel which I removed because people got mad at me for making Peter ace, and he had always been ace in my head, both my version(s) and canon version, and getting comments saying that wade “wouldn’t be in a relationship with some one who’s ace” acting like sex is the only thing that makes a relationship was horrible to read, and why I removed the story.
I have alluded to characters having sex (at least one of my one shots was based off of the ‘is was doing things’ ‘I’m things’ meme), I have written short horror story about a sex act, and I had planned on writing a body horror smut one shot for the horror of it.
There’s a major difference in people expecting fanfics (or any writing) to have smut, and just writing smut/smut adjacent thing for fun because of an idea. I’m no longer trying to figure out how to write the body horror smut one shot I was planning on because it feels expected from people now.
If I continue to receive comments asking/hoping/pleading for smut I’m going to have start posting comments and authors notes saying I’m ace and smut isn’t happening,a new he all know how well the spelling warnings work.
