A quick pic, but I wanted to do something. I guess this is also my formal coming out as asexual. It's taken me a long, long time to figure out I'm ace, but I'm finally happy to celebrate pride knowing that I'm not alone!

For a long time, I thought I was broken and felt so distanced from the 'norm' in terms of sexual thoughts, attraction and activities. In the past I was sex-repulsed and had people take advantage of me because of this, my first relationship in particular. I've been LGBTQIA+ forever, as I am also trans and panromantic but my main exposure to queer stuff was hyper-sexualised and I believed that maybe there was something wrong with me. I've also attributed my asexuality with being trans and dysphoria.

I've finally figured myself out in that I find situations/ideas and sometimes fictional characters attractive, I'm sex-positive but I don't find RL people sexually attractive in any way. I'm fine with drawing NSFW art but it's when stuff is shoved in my face I feel uncomfortable. I do seem to go through phases where I'm more or less grossed out than usual by sexual content though, which didn't help me figure stuff out.

I'm happy to explore kinks and such on my own terms in art rather than RL, and that's enough for me. Also I'm in a happy 10-year relationship and we're both ace so yeah!