Questions from a Featherbrain
It had been a few days since Aj came out as Ace to her partner, Rainbow, and she’d received nothing but acceptance from her. No prodding around about sex and if she was somehow related to plants or somewhat interested in the letter A for whatever reason. But there was also a very noticeable lack of further questions. Normally she wouldn’t have been bothered about this fact, but knowing Rainbow as well as she did, she knew Rainbow wasn’t the type to not be curious about something like this. At least one question about where Aj fell on the spectrum, or if they could have some kind of sexual pleasure, but nope. Nothing.
At least, that was how it was until this morning. During a breakfast Rainbow was invited to by the Apples as an honorary Apple, Rainbow had blurted out the last question Applejack expected.
"Are you Aromantic?" The mare was staring expectedly at her partner with wide beady eyes.
Applejack nearly spat out the juice in her mouth, instead it went down the wrong pipe and she started coughing. She hit her hoof against her chest trying to calm herself down, even Rainbow started patting her on the back.
"Sorry, sorry! Was that rude?!" Rainbow asked in a mild panic, trying to stop her marefriend's coughing.
In about a few seconds, her coughing stopped, and she regained her ability to talk. She turned to face Dash, making sure she kept eye contact, "To answer yer question Dash, no. No, I’m not Aromantic. Can’t speak for everyone, but from what I’ve heard, they don’t like to be in romantic relationships, right? We’re in one, I’m happy with ya as my partner, I just don’t think that… the fun in the bed time is needed to have a fulfilling relationship. Get it?"
Rainbow nodded unsurely, "Yeah…? Don’t those two things kinda… go hoof in hoof… or is that… not how that works?" She toyed her forehooves together in a nervous habit.
"No, they ain’t the same thin'." Applejack picked up Rainbow's plate and her own before heading to the sink. "Wan'in' to pleasure yerself is real different from wan'in' to be with somepony and do romantic stuff with 'em. I love goin' dates with ya, I love sayin' I love ya, I love sleeping next to ya, and I love bein' yer marefriend and vice versa. That’s very different from me likin' sex. Sex is like… pie… someponies, or most ponies, love pie but someponies just don’t. I’d rather have cake than pie, anyway though." She kept the dishes to dry, then trotted to Dash and leaned in to whisper, "Get it now?" before planting a rather tender kiss on the mare's cheek.
Rainbow grinned like a three-year-old as she nodded vigorously. "So… sex is pie and all that ‘I L word you' is cake? Like that?"
Applejack stared at Rainbow for a second, then laughed, "Ya know what, Dash? That’s exactly what it is." Aj headed to the barn door, then looked back expecting Rainbow to follow. Dash got the cue and got up from her seat at the kitchen table and made her way to her marefriend.
The next half hour was spent doing some farm stuff. Bucking down the apples from the trees, collecting them in baskets then taking said baskets inside. Rinse and repeat this cycle about a dozen or so times and there you have Applejack's entire morning to lunch. Rather tedious, but at least she had a little cyan featherbrain helping her this time. Rainbow was a pretty fast learner, contrary to popular belief. She picked up the apple-bucking method quickly, and it nearly looked as if she had been doing this all her life. Made Aj just a tad bit envious, though. They competed to see who’d manage to get more trees bucked in an hour, and unsurprisingly Applejack was in the lead by a good chunk.
While losing at something her competitor had been trained from before her teens, Rainbow asked another peculiar question. "You're not hetero, right?"
This caused Aj to have to take a physical halt. Her head darted in Rainbow's direction, a very blank expression on her face, "What?" was all that she could even ask.
"Like, you said that romance is different from sex… so if you’re not into ponies… sexually, then you have to be into ponies… non-sexually… right? Otherwise… you wouldn’t be with me, right?" Even to her, that logic seemed very obscure, but it made enough sense for Rainbow to ask the question.
"Well… don’t hetero mean you’re into the opposite sex, alone?" Rainbow nodded in response. Aj heaved a sigh as Rainbow bucked down the tree that was exactly right to Applejack, "Then how the hay does that make any sense?" She asked flatly.
Rainbow seemed to take a second process, and when she did you could’ve easily been able to tell. Her cheeks turned a shade of bright red, and her head fell to the point where she was able to cover her face with her mane, "Oh… well that’s embarrassing…" she then looked up just a little, narrowing her eyes in flustered fury, "We’re never speaking of this, ever again. You hear me?"
Applejack laughed, "We’ll see." She smirked proudly before bucking down a row of two trees.
Rainbow growled loudly, and continued bucking.
About ten minutes passed by with no more random questions from Rainbow. Ten minutes of absolute silence. Something that would normally drive the pegasus insane with boredom. Today, however, seemed to be a day of dumb questions and a lot of reconsidering and thinking for her. But it wasn’t over. The questions, that is.
"So what are you?" Rainbow asked a little before they hit the fifteen minutes mark.
Applejack cocked an eyebrow, "A pony. Proud earth pony to be precise." She bucked yet another tree down, granting her the very old position of first place, with Rainbow way behind her.
"More like really annoying." She grumbled under her breath, "I mean, like what are you… like bi, or pan, or poly, or gay… just with Asexual mixed in."
"Oh! See now, Rainbow, that’s a pretty good question ta ask. Not a dumb one." Applejack smirked, "And ta answer, I’m biromantic. And if ya don’t know, it’s basically bein' bi without the sexual attraction part. Ya know what bi is right?"
Rainbow nodded, "Yeah, when you’re into… two or more genders, right? Twi's also bi, she told me." She was very confident in her answer. For good reason too.
"Exactly!" At least she knew that. She had better know that. "Bisexual means you’re into more than one gender, sexually and also romantically. I mean… I’ve heard o' ponies bein' into multiple genders sexually but not really wan' to get with them. But! That ain’t the point 'ere. I’m sayin' I’m biromantic, which means that I’d wan' to be with ponies o' my gender an' others but I’m also sayin' that I'm asexual, so no sexual stuff for me." Applejack bucked another four trees and proudly remained in first place in their little competition. "By the way, Rainbow, only twenty minutes left for y’all to catch up."
Rainbow glared, "How do you know I’m not already in the lead?! There's no counter!" Rainbow pointe,d huffing.
"No, there is one. That’s up 'ere." Applejack tapped a hoof against her hat.
Rainbow rolled her eyes, and bucked down another tree, before quickly getting to the next, and so on. After having knocked out apples from six separate trees, she stopped and turned to her partner, who at that same time managed to get down double what Dash managed. "…I’ve heard ponies… uh say that they don’t think aces don’t really… belong in the community. And before you assume anything! I think they do belong in the community like really do. But some aces don’t want to be in the community and don’t recognize themselves as a part of the community. And most do… where do you… you know…."
"Fall on that spectrum?" Rainbow nodded as her reply, "Well, yeah, I’ve met a few other aces who’ve said that they don’ want' to be in the community. Personal reasons I suppose. But, nah, I believe aces belong in the community, and I believe I’m in it as well. Ain’t gonna judge anypony else's opinion on it, just not something I agree with, personally."
"Yeah! I agree with that!" Rainbow"s wings flared up in excitement, then tucked itself back into place. "Like, I’ve heard that aces don’t face as much… what was the word… oppression- yeah! -like the rest of us. That sounded crazy to me, just 'cause if you’re a part of the community then you’ve gotta have to face some kinda… badmouthers in your lifetime, right?" She bucked another tree in the midst of talking.
"Right." Aj smiled softly. "Folks say we don’t have all that much discrimination 'cause we're 'technically straight', or some other bs I didn’t pay much attention to. Again, it's all shit. Ya know? Just sayin' that is discrimination. Invalidatin' ponies' identities is discriminatory and I don’t think they get that."
"Massive douchebags if you ask me," Rainbow muttered sourly, earning a rather pleasant chuckle from her marefriend.
"Aphobes. Those douchebags got a name somewhere along the line; aphobes." Her expression turned from a scowl to a rather smug grin, "Also! Ten more minutes Rainbow, hurry it up." Applejack sat down on the floors, under an already buck apple tree. She leaned back and laid her back conformably on its stable frame. "I'm even gonna play the hare for ya."
"Ha, ha." Rainbow quickly bucked down a few more trees before her mind thought up another little thing to ask. A little thing she didn’t want to have to ask, but she needed to know at that point. "So… I know you wouldn’t want me asking this… but…"
"Repulsed. Absolutely repulsed. I like jokin' about it, 'cause, well, it’s a joke to me, but no. I never really wan" it for myself."
Rainbow blinked. She let out a short, "huh" before it clicked in her head. "Oh wait, no! I wasn’t asking that!" She flailed her hooves in front of he,r and shot up into the air. "I kinda figured you weren’t a fan, considering what you said the other day."
Applejack sat up and stared Rainbow dead in the eyes for about the seventh time that morning or something like that. Rainbow was a featherbrain. A very, very confusing featherbrain. Granted, that was one thing Applejack absolutely loved about Dash, bust still! "Then?"
"I was talking about the whole plant thing. I talked to Twilight about the whole ace thing and she said something about plants, and also said I should’ve learned about it in school somewhere along the line, but I don’t really remember anything, and that whole thing had me confused. Are you somewhat related to plants?"
Aj shook her head, "Is that all? Alright, ya had me questionin' stuff for a second there. But no. We’ve got nothin' to do with plants. I personally do, bein' an earth pony an' everythin', but most ponies aren’t plants."
"Oh, okay cool! And thanks!" She grinned happily, before quickly resuming her apple bucking.
Rainbow was surely not the fastest when it came to apple bucking- if that wasn’t evident enough -but she did manage a lot more than Applejack had expected. She managed to get five trees down in three minutes, while Aj was expecting something along the lines of two in ten minutes. Five in three minutes was definitely not going to help her win or anything, but it was something.
"Hurry it up, tortoise! I’m gettin' bored o' just watchin' y’all struggle to beat me. Oh, and there's only five minutes left. I’ve got around one-sixty, y’all have got one-twenty." And another three trees down within a minutes, "Make that, one-twenty-eight."
"Shut up!" Rainbow exclaimed, "I'm gonna do it! I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do it." She kept mumbling to herself, trying her very best to speed up her bucking if just a little. She did manage something, she managed to get eight in two minutes. Close to Aj's count, but not close enough.
And in five minutes, her time was done. "And that's time!" Applejack announced as he strode over to Rainbow with a little smug look on her face, "Nice game partner." She held out a hoof that was expecting a little bump from a cyan hoof.
"Alright, one more question."
Applejack cocked an eyebrow. She’d figured Rainbow was done with the questions, not that she had much of a problem with it.
"Ace or asexual?" She grinned randomly.
"What- well, that ain’t soemthin' I’ve got before… uh… ace… I guess, I dunno."
Rainbow, with one hoof, grabbed onto Aj's neck. Her wings fluttered out, letting her hover a little above the ground, and use her other hoof to draw an imaginary word in the sky, "So, Acejack or Jackace?" She grinned goofily.
"Rainbow!" Applejack scowled earning a rather happy snicker from the other mare, who was now just a little higher than the trees she had been bucking down for the last hour.
"What?! They’re pretty good if you ask me." She could hardly keep herself from laughing, "Don’tcha think Acejack? Or do you prefer Jackace? Or both?!" She gasped loudly, "Acejackace! You’d been the most aceiest pony alive!"
"Alright, that's it! Get over 'ere!" Applejack growled, pulling her trusted lasso out of nowhere.
"Try and catch me Acejsckace!"
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I loved this. The dynamic between the two was on point. It reminds me so much of when my friends would question my own sexuality.
Edit: Why are people disliking this all because I am saying this? Kinda weird.
Acejack sounds more like a pun on Applejacks name, and Jackace sounds more like a pun on ummm.. a certain cuss
. Both are definitely befitting for RD to teasingly call her marefriend. And her conclusion to call Applejack "Acejackace" was cute!
Asexual mlp fic is kinda rare so this (along with it's prequel) was refreshing! Nice to see some misconceptions cleared up in this work, at least as how it applied to AJ. Also good to see both her and Dash be inclusive in regards to the community.
On that note, I'm happy to see a sequel to the former Acejack fic... of which I'm still hoping I could get a reply to the question I left under it? I promise it was asked in entirely good faith as a genderqueer individual myself.
Constructive criticism wise, perhaps look to the last line and the second to last paragraph for errors. I noticed more but those are the ones I remembered by the end. More proofreading could help.
Also maybe consider slowing down on the AJ abreviations? She was written well, but there was a few times where it seems she was shortening words a tad too heavily. And shouldn't the use of asexual, ace, and aromantic not be capitalized? I'm actually not positive on that one... Nonetheless, I hope that helps!
Disneyfanatic23 (author of Bride of Discord) wrote a story called "I Am Not Gay" which was about Rainbow Dash trying to understand why she was repulsed by sex. If I remember correctly, she received quite a bit of negative feedback. The story was very good, though.
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Why are people downvoting you?
Could use an editor, but nice!
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Oh. So you're one of those people.
First of all, what does that even have to do with 11274348? Gender and sexuality are two different things. Second of all, it's scientifically proven that there are multiple genders. Many cultures have used other genders other than male and female, such as the Native American "Two-Spirit." I suggest doing your research. Here's an article to start you off.
Have a great day!
I'm not finished with the story but overall I'm guessing the answer is no, ask someone who is aromantic I can't find ourselves in relationships especially romance positive arrows like me
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Gender vs. Sex
Have a good day.
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I'll add more as I find them. My tablet isn't the best for web browsing.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/
https://cadehildreth.com/gender-spectrum/
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I'd love to see your evidence. One that isn't pushing the cis agenda, of course.
Honestly I get what you're saying about the community but I hate the idea that Equestria would need a community, I like to imagine that in Equestria crayonis would just be accepted as the norm, meaning that there'll be no need to create such a community in Equestria, I guess I like to see Equestria as a perfect and safe world for people like us
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Thanks!
I choose to believe they’re homophobes
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Make sense. Suppose it goes against their headcanons, or their biases, who knows.
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Or, folks just don’t see Aj as Ace, and the mere idea has them repulsed.
Either that or the story itself is just absolute trash
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Well, she did come up with them on the spot, so they were gonna have to be really bad XD
And, yes, Ace stories aren’t really something you come across everyday, huh? Kinda sad, actually.
Right! I’ll get on that in a second!
I appreciate the critiques! Thanks!
And, yeah, I’m pretty sure they are, but autocorrect says other wise and trying to fight it ended up horribly, I’ll be honest with you. I’ll go back and see if I can spot all of them
Thanks for commenting!
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I agree! I agree completely. But I do think they need a community to at least help ponies feel represented and loved. Maybe one that’s becoming less and less active as they’re becoming more and more normalized in the pony society. But think of places like Manehatten or Canterlot or maybe even the traditionalistic Appleloosa. Ponies growing up there would be told that going against the societal norm is bad and that they shouldn’t be doing "what they're doing". For those sorts of situations and places where it still isn’t normalized and ponies still get hurt and oppressed for being them, I see a reason to have the community remain a thing in their world.
But, I feel like when Twilight takes charge, all those problems would’ve been dealt with it in the best way Twilight would know now, because, well, it’s Twilight we’re talking about here.
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Get what you saying but I imagine Equestria to be a world that never needed a community because queer people would just as much as the normal straight people, I had Cannon Celestia to be open arrow Ace trans woman, I don't think a society that is ruled by someone like her could develop things like homophobia transphobia that is what I meant I don't think those are things of a bin things in Equestria, it's a world devoid of biggest tree but also never had it in the first place
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While I get that, I don’t completely agree. I mean, like you said, Celestia being aroace and trans are your headcanons, so they're not entirely ture. But, say for a second that she is, and that she’s banned any discriminative behaviors in her country. Frankly, I don't think that’s gonna do much. Parents can still make their child feel oppressed and alone, even if there are rules against. Bullying, any kind of bullying, is banned in a lot of places, and yet it still happens.
So, discrimination is also likely to happen. Did you see how fast the ponies of Appleloosa rejected Trouble Shoes? He was rejected and called a freak because he wasn’t given a "normal" cutie mark. What if somepony were to be assigned the wrong gender at birth and wanted to medically transition o make themselves feel happier in their body? They would’t be allowed to as that wouldn’t be "normal" or "it’s just plain wrong", and they’d get cast out of their homes, cities and so on. Princess Celestia, no matter how hard she tries, can’t stop that.
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Get what you're saying about trans folks, even though the gender construct itself along with the concept of homophobia and transphobia are just human concepts that we just straight up made up how to believe that to give me Equestria that I imagine that to being not straight or being trans would not be the norm that's what I'm saying like I feel like that would be as normal as straightness, a lot to disagree but I'm saying that I can't see that sort of bigotry ever being created in this world at all, just something that this will just never experienced at least in my mind
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We've seen that societal norms are a problem of Equestria, what with the whole recast thing they had going on. So, homophobia, transphobia, aphobia and such do seem like something ponies would have problems. But finding Equestria a safe place where no such hate exists is definitely a refreshing mindset. One I don’t personally share, but I can definitely see why you think so. An oasis away from the troubling world we have here on Earth. I getcha!
Guess we can agree to disagree?
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Personally, I would argue that escapism can still work in even in settings that are less-than ideal. For example, the world Frank Castle lives in is not exactly the kind of place most people will be itching to live in, yet there are people who clearly want to be like him IRL.
But aside from that, I just think stories where the characters have to overcome bigotry are more inspiring (and applicable) to real life than those where it is magically non-existent or resolved so quickly it seems like it was almost a non-issue to begin with.
I’m surprised that this story has so many downvotes, but I loved this sequel.
It’s always good to read stories involving lesbians, gay couples, bisexuals, asexuals, etc. This is going on my favorites bookshelf.
Keep up the good work!