Many years later, when he’s an independent and free adult, he’s with a friend, and, oh heck, I’ll just quote the scene: However, as soon as he got home, his father sold him to a stranger, and he never even got to taste the cake he had spent so much of his hard-earned money to buy. While the ace character was busy being miserable as a child, he dreamed of being able to eat cake, and eventually, he stashed away enough money that he was able to buy a cake for himself for his birthday, just as other kids got to eat cake on their birthdays. He had to work to feed them all while they were lazy and made more babies, which they sometimes sold for money.
The ace character, Jack, was exploited and abused by his parents as a child. However, when the ace thinks that cake-decorating shows are the best thing to watch on TV, and the other only ace character in the story agrees, I am 98% sure that is an intentional ace/cake reference.Īn especially long cake reference can be found in Candy Land. For that matter, while researching this trope, I discovered that a surprising number of ace fiction stories have pancakes in them. Thus, it’s not surprising to find cake references in ace fiction.īut is it enough for an ace character and a cake to be in the same place at the same time? Is it enough if an ace character eats a cake? I’m not sure – I have found examples in ace fiction where it’s possible that the writer was not thinking about the connection between aces and cakes, and the ace is eating cake by sheer coincidence. It started as a running joke at the AVEN forums, but has expanded to become a marker of aceness both on and offline. I’d rather,” his mouth twitched, “I’d rather have cake.”Īs many of you know, references to cake are common in ace spaces. But I don’t understand why that’s such a great experience.
I see that it’s sweet and melts and is pleasurable. “I can see why people like it.” He grimaced. “I don’t like chocolate.” His eyes were locked on Jonah’s. “You prefer dark, but you have milk because it’s still chocolate.” “You said sex for you was like chocolate,” he said eventually.
Those grey eyes were sad, almost pleading with him to understand. To link or follow this series, please use the “ace tropes” tag on this blog. This is part of a series on tropes in fiction with ace characters.
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