I’m not sure when Stef became ace. For those of you who know the deep time history of the series, back when this was all Matrix fanfic, Stef’s old incarnation wasn’t ace. She was geeky and awkward and not exactly hitting up Tinder every night, but she showed no signs of being ace. Some of her awkwardness around sex and lack of swiping right was undoubtedly a product of her writer at the time – when I was younger, I was…extremely sheltered. I was brought up by my grandmother who always said “boys are for later” so I kind of had that bit of myself repressed to the point…