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posted by [personal profile] charamei at 08:20am on 14/09/2010
Romance in which at least one participant is asexual (usually the Time Lord in Who).

Asexual does not necessarily mean aromantic. :)

As I said, there's not much of it in this fandom, which is a shame given the long tradition of asexual Time Lords. [livejournal.com profile] asexy_sherlock is the comm for Sherlock, so that's the best place to go for examples.
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posted by [personal profile] primsong at 05:18pm on 14/09/2010
So how would this type of fic differ from Gen? Isn't that simply another way to define a close platonic friendship?
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posted by [personal profile] charamei at 06:38pm on 14/09/2010
Not... really? Asexuals can be in love with someone, in a romantic sense, and still not want to have sex with them. For a romantic asexual, there's an intermediary step that might well be filled with, say, kissing, sharing a bed and general physical closeness without any kind of arousal factoring in.

I'm possibly not explaining this very well because, being ace myself, it makes far more intuitive sense to me than the sex does. If that's the case then I apologise: keep asking me questions if you want and I'll do my best to make this make sense :) You might also want to check out the FAQ I linked to upthread (here it is again), because the folks at AVEN are far better at this than I am.

EDIT: Sorry, just reread: in terms of fic, I guess there's not much difference between this and a PG-13 romance? Except in terms of implication: when I write PG-13 'normal' romance, there's usually at least some implication that they're getting busy offscreen. When I write ace romance, they're not.
Edited Date: 2010-09-14 06:48 pm (UTC)
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