I love Sheppard in all of his awkward glory. And it was genuinely not until the episodes where they started trying to hook him up with people that I realized how much I saw him as ace. He's genuinely the first asexual character I've seen in television or film who feels like a person to me. I just got to Epiphany in my rewatch and there's this awesome moment at the end where McKay goes, What is it with you and ancient women and Sheppard makes a face and shrugs like I DUNNO WHAT'S GOING ON I GENUINELY JUST SHOWED UP LOOKING FOR A SANDWICH AND THEN THERE WERE SMOOCHES. WHAT?

(I am really really happy this is not just me projecting. Because I identify with Sheppard to a truly alarming degree.)