>>3996432
I have a canned response actually;
>As an ace person let me remind you that it's like bisexuality...a big spectrum! I'm gray asexual, so somewhere in the middle, but there are aces who are more sex repulsed than I am, and aces who are less. I personally headcanon Al to be more of a sex haver, and that's fine! Fanfiction is a big sandbox to play in. You're not denying me representation by shipping Al with anyone.
Sometimes it helps. Sometimes.

And gosh, human Al is so beautiful. If he weren't fictional and I weren't happily married he'd have to file a restraining order.
>>3996434
I think that the kiddos who are balls deep in woke ideologies will love that he's black...and then start racializing everything about him. I anticipate them to start shitting on white people who self ship, and people who draw his original design. We'll have black girls on TikTok thinking that they can speak for a man who woukd have lived 100 years ago with radically different ideals just because they share African ancestry... So the usual. Though I think most of the autism will be confined to the controversy of him being a literal slave to a 'white' woman, at least at first.

>>3987527
Indeed!

Also make sure you link the /trash/ thread here if you bake today, thanks Nuggs. <3