Boring

ec-sanderssides:

“Asexual characters are boring”
I have traveled across eleven countries and ten states
When I was thirteen
I had hydrochloric acid dumped down my back
and I walked away without a scratch
When I was twenty-one
I broke into castle ruins with a professor
and found out afterwards
that they were probably haunted

I once got stranded on a mountain
while I was searching for the Cave of Zeus
and got rescued by a little old lady
who didn’t speak a word of English
and the local village’s schoolteacher who did

I’ve learned how
to surf on water, to dance with fire,
and to bungee jump through the air
I’ve walked up mountains, down beaches
and through forests

My friends tell me I have the weirdest luck
of anyone they’ve ever met
and laugh about what mysterious forces
must conspire to keep me alive

And yet, according to you
a story about my life
would be dull and uninteresting
simply because I have no interest
in sex

I wasn’t aware that
that was the sum total of my value
That no one cared about
what I’d done
only who

That every man must get a girl
and every girl must be gotten
and that to do otherwise
is to be banished into obscurity

And yet I’m still here,
still writing,
still telling stories,
and while I have been described as many things
boring has yet to be one of them

Asexual characters are boring
I pity your imagination