#ace spec characters

[amaliazeichnerin]

fanart by @gahellhimself-blog, with kind permission

December 16,2023 As "Good Omens" has been renewed for a third and final season - and is trending on Tumblr right now, how about a wholesome alternative universe fanfiction, without explicit sex scenes, with ace-spec and nonbinary representation? This is what it is about:

Link to the fanfiction on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49784236 If you like it, feel free to leave a comment or kudos. Thanks and enjoy your weekend.😊

#visit our fundraising concert with crowley and the demons #Good Omens #Good Omens wholesome fanfiction #Good Omens fanfiction #Good Omens fanfic #good omens fanart #Crowley as a retired punk rock star #ace spec #nonbinary #ace spec characters #nonbinary character #agender character

[glitchedcosmos]

Characters dynamic that’s like “ they’re not in a romantic relationship but they definitely love each other with all their heart and fucking soul”

#the dynamic we love #i breathe this shit #yes the is qpr #looking at you sonadow #aroace #aromantic #asexual #ace spec #aro spec #aromantic spectrum #asexual spectrum #qpr #queerplatonic relationship #qpr things #character dynamics

[the-great-kraken]

if you see a male character kiss a male character, you assume they are gay.

if you see a female character kiss a female character, you assume they are a lesbian.

if you hear a character say they don't feel like their gender, you assume they are trans.

so why do a-spec characters have to jump through so many loops?

a character saying they've never had a crush or don't want a relationship or that they don't understand romantic love is so often ignored or used as fodder for other queer or autistic headcanons (reinforcing stereotypes that aroace people are secretly gay or always autistic)

why is it that our stories are always "up to interpretation"? why do we have to wait for the words aromantic or asexual to be said to be taken seriously? why is it that even when characters say they don't want relationships, fans will scream and cry about sex/romance favourable aspecs and qprs?

when it comes to gay and trans characters, even the likes of bisexual lighting is often treated as though it canonises their sexuality. for aroace characters, even the most explicit coding possible is swept under the rug in favour of other "interpretations"

i'm so tired of fighting for representation just to have it ignored and minimised by fans. let characters be aroace. please.

#obviously there are a ton of circumstances where the qpr and sex/romance favourable is completely fine #but when characters explicity say they dont have sex or dont want relationships it feels so hollow #fandom is fandom and there is nothing i can do to stop you shipping or writing smut or headcanoning or whatever #but please just think it through. the characters aren't real but there are so many geniunely harmful ideas doing stuff like this reinforces #rhi rambles #aroace #aromantic #asexual #a-spec #a spec #aspec #aro #ace #aspec representation #asexual representation #aromantic representation #lgbtq+ #queer

[spotlightsandpoison]

Happy International Asexuality Day!

You are all wonderful and valid!

Here are some ace-spec characters from my webcomic to join the celebration.

Characters: Sunny June (main character) - asexual Adam - demisexual Heli - aegosexual

Webcomic: Spotlights and Poison

#international asexuality day #international asexuality day 2024 #iad #iad2024 #asexual #asexuality #ace #ace spec #acespec #asexual spectrum #demisexual #demisexuality #aegosexual #aegosexuality #ace spectrum #lgbtqia #queer #asexual characters #ace characters #ace oc #acespec oc #lgbtqia characters #queer characters #queer oc #chibi art #cute chibi

[lotostar]

Happy month of the gay everyone!

❤️💛💚💙💜

It is time for the annual pride animals post 🦊😺🐺

#pride #pride month #lgbtq #lgbt #ace fox #acearo cat #aro wolf #asexual #asexual pride #ace #aromantic #aromantic pride #aro #acearo #asexual aromantic #ace spec #aro spec #oc #original character #art #digital art #lotostar art #lotostar

[sandpaperoctopi]

aro ace cuties

#most of my characters are ace-spec and/or aro-spec #usually it doesn't come up much in my novels if at all #but in the case of Oriole and Kite #they do explicitly talk about attraction or rather #lack of #which is neat #they would have made a good pair if they'd met in different circumstances... #and I am drawing pride stuff early because I often forget #was going to wait to post but... nah #art #illustration #ocs #novel stuff #oriole #kite #aromantic #asexual #trans #transgender #nonbinary #Oriole is a transmasc enby (he/they) #lgbt #queer #going to do another with Oriole and Fern later #that's a lot of tags aaa sorry

[cowswineandtea]

My aspec experience was going from "Why doesn't anyone want me?" to "Oh, it's apparently me who doesn't want anyone."

#only fictional characters please #aegoromantic #aegosexual #aroace #queer #lgbtqia+ #aspec #asexual #aromantic #aro spec #ace spec

[seeminglydark]

Our stories aren’t the same, but maybe we can understand eachother regardless.

Here it is! Oh my goodness this took FOREVER but I’m really happy with the result (especially the cover!) I wanted to make a small comic exploring John’s boundaries and baby steps in trust and comfort, Caro’s transition, and how much things have changed in the many years they were apart before reconnecting. There’s always going to be new things when there’s almost a decade between the last time you saw someone. For some reason I decided it needed to be full color. Anyway enjoy this tender moment disguised as a thirst trap. ✨

I think this little life snippet stands alone, but of course if you want to know more about them, they are side characters in my webcomic Seemingly Dark, and the mains in my webcomic Mil-Liminal, both can be read on Webtoon and Tapas.

John (sometimes Sully) is he/him gnc grey ace and Caro (sometimes Angel that’s not their dead name though) is they/them transmasc nonbinary

Edit: fucked up a word in the last panel, fixed!

#original characters #mil-liminal #short comics #ace spec #trans #queer relationships #I really love the idea of them having to relearn about eachother #cuz neither of them are the same person they were years ago #but falling in love all over again is the best part #starcrossed lovers #shirtless #bare chest #top surgery #scars

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Saiki is A-spec, Aro-spec, and Transgender, and uses he/him pronouns!

#I have a feeling this will be controversial #Since he's not officially labeled and it's all based on his behavior i went with a spec and aro spec rather than just ace and aro #saiki kusuo #kusuo saiki #the disastrous life of saiki k. #tumblr polls #fandom polls #poll #a spec #aro spec #asexual #aromantic #transgender #he/him #anime #manga #lgbtqia #do you know this queer character #finished

[asexualenjolras]

Don't mind me, I'm just thinking about Douglas "Cash" Piggott - the asexual eshay at Hartley High School that does not care about sex in the slightest, and is even slightly repulsed and confused by it - sitting through weeks and weeks of SLT classes, learning about things that do not interest him at all and will not benefit him in the slightest all because he likes looking at Darren's face.

That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard.

And, yes, I know he was forced into SLT with his fellow "map bitch" victims but I still think it's nice that he attended and still listened to what was being taught. Because I, a fellow asexual person, sure as hell wouldn't have been comfortable covering those topics.

#heartbreak high #cash piggott #cash #douglas piggott #asexuality #asexual character #asexual #ace representation #ace #acespec #ace pride #ace spec #asexuality spectrum #lgbtqa #lgtbq

[scribblemew]

HAPPY AROACE AWARENESS WEEK YALL!!!!!

HUGE shout out to all the aros and aces and cupioromantics and everyone else that falls under the aro/ace umbrellas, yall are so important to me, i love you all so much and i hope you guys have the greatest day <3 💚💜🩶🤍

#aroace rep #aroace #aro #aromantic #asexual #ace #aroace spec #aroace spectrum #i want more aroace rep #pleaseeeeee #cupioromanticism #cupioromantic #i want more cupioromantic rep actually #i want both #it’d be so good #lmk your fav aro & ace & aroace characters #<3 #i love you guys so much

[specialagentartemis]

When I write book/podcast/etc recommendations, I try to write them how I would want to see something pitched to me—what convinces me to read/listen to a work. And I’ve got a basic formula down:

Genre

Basic plot premise, 1-2 sentences for a short pitch or a paragraph for a long one.

What does it feel like to read? Is it fast-paced and action-y, or slow and sad, or dense and weird? Did it give me the shivers, or make me laugh, or break my heart, or go confusingly in-depth about the mechanics of wastewater treatment plant operation?

Something I particularly like about what it did. If the worldbuilding was particularly interesting, or if the narrative voice was compelling and distinctive, or the humor was constantly on-point, or the characterization was consistently well-done.

Talk about the queer identities of the main characters after I have done all of these things. This one is optional.

#I didn’t bother to describe the queer identities in that podcast list #It’s indie podcasts. They’re all queer. We all know this #Also I find it fun to trick people into listening to aro/ace podcasts #SURPRISE you will care about an a-spec main character and you will like it #InCo has an aroace protagonist and Old Gods of Appalachia has an aroace… it doesn’t really have protagonists #But one of the central characters who links various disparate anthology stories together

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

Ohoohoh and saiki k is aroace too. Bc i said so :3

absolutely

#lilith's aspec character army #aroace #aro #ace #asexual #asexuality #aromantic #arospec #acespec #aro spec #ace spec #aroace spec #aroace spectrum #asexual aromantic #aromantic asexual

[thatone-aroace-friend]

Please stop shipping characters on the aroace spectrum

guys please stop doing this because it can be kinda harmful to people on the aroace spectrum because your essentially erasing their identity. Cuz as a community we get very little representation in the media which is just kind of sad and annoying because I spent a good portion of my elementary and middle school years wondering why I wasn't really getting crushes like everyone else and everyone was fascinated with the dating world which was bizarre to me. I didn't know what it meant to be aromantic or an asexual until the middle of my seventh grade year and for a lot of people they don't find out until they are much older. This is partially because we get so little representation and at this point we are willing to take whatever we can get. Okay like I can count all the characters in the media who are on the aroace spec on one hand. ONE HAND. It also doesn't help that we are often excluded from lgbtq+ spaces. This is because a lot of people think we aren't really repressed or discriminated against. or whatever the fuck which it's always funny for me to hear someone say that because when they say that they're only contradicting themselves. When I came out to one of my friends who was also gay gave me a look of disgust when I said it and just kind of rolled her eyes. Even though I am bi or pan or whatever the fuck I don't know to explain it but ugh Anyways point is the fact that straight and cis aroace spec people are constantly discriminated against by the lgbtq+ community because we're straight passing. However we are also constantly told that we'll find someone someday and that we're just being picky and it fucking passes me off. So yeah don't ship character in the media who are on the aroace spectrum because we get very little representation as it is

#Aroace #aromantic #asexual #ace spec #aro spec #aroace spectrum #aroacespec #aroace struggles #aroace character #aro characters #ace characters #I'm just so tired of this shit #Like could you be any more disrespectful #This is legit like bi erasure #wtf people #get your shit together

[liminalpsych-in-teyvat]

I have just read the closest description to how my brain / heart function in relationships that I have ever found. And it’s in an erotic Kavetham fanfic. (forms of love, by acynthe)

Fandom and fanfiction is so surreal that way. It’s often seen and treated as trivial, but it can also be incredibly artistic, and it can have representation that’s otherwise hard to find.

Before this, the closest I had found was BBC Sherlock fanfic, and those didn’t quite hit the mark.

This one does.

(I describe this thing that happens in my brain as… keeping file folders on people I find interesting. All the observations I collect on that person goes into their mental file. And eventually those observations and data points click together to form a pattern, an interconnected picture of why the person acts the way they do, and of what’s going on beneath the surface. And new data points get added to the pattern/model of that person to flesh out a more complete understanding of them.)

(“interesting” can mean “infuriating, I don’t know why you act the way you do and so I’m annoyed by you, if I can figure out the why then I can more easily shrug off the irritating behavior”)

(and “interesting” can mean “I like you and am intrigued in a positive way, I am drawn to you and wish to make a study of you”)

(I imagine that Kaveh started in the first category for Alhaitham and over time moved to the second)

I have to flail about it somewhere, and doing so to my girlfriend of 17 years (who doesn’t play Genshin yet) wasn’t enough, so… quotes that I especially relate to beneath the cut:

—

Alhaitham’s also studied the interstices of Kaveh’s elegant fingers and wondered how his own would fit between them—the same way he’s quietly taken in the details of Kaveh’s life and wondered whether there could ever be a place for himself to fit into it somehow, amidst all that passion and all that ambition.

He collects these observations like he’s compiling a dictionary of his own—one defining all there is to know and understand about this man, about Kaveh’s relationship with himself.

Learnings handled with the utmost care. Alhaitham documents all these things far more conscientiously than any of the information he’s ever managed as Scribe. Some things are simply far more precious, after all.

—

“You don’t need to be a student of Amurta to know that’s not quite how it works.” Amusement flickers across Alhaitham’s face. “But if you must rely on physical evidence for some form of reassurance,” he takes Kaveh’s hand, and guides the palm of it to rest over his own chest, “then I’d direct you to look for it here instead.”

Here?

It takes a few seconds for Alhaitham’s meaning to register, to fully sink in.

“...Oh,” Kaveh whispers, as the rhythm of Alhaitham’s heartbeat makes itself comfortable in the home of his hand. He closes his eyes, willing his own to fall in sync, finding the pace of Alhaitham’s pulse to run unexpectedly fast for someone so seemingly unswayed and stoic on the surface. How swift and steady this heart beats—

“...For me,” Kaveh murmurs, with a quiet sort of wonder.

—

And that’s the issue with Alhaitham, isn’t it? He says such things so simply, so bluntly, like it’s the most straightforward thing in the world to accept, like it’s simply another truth of existence—and somehow they still send Kaveh’s heart in somersaults nonetheless.

—

Alhaitham soothes a hand down the curves of Kaveh’s sides. Studies him as he slips fingers into himself, opening himself up, like there’s something about the process worth analysing.

“Like what you see?” 

“On the contrary,” Alhaitham’s touch ghosts over the space between Kaveh’s ribs, “it’s rather regrettable that this is all there is to the view.”

“And what do you mean by that?” Kaveh narrows his eyes. “Pray tell what it is that you find so disappointing.”

Alhaitham’s gaze sweeps over him. “That this is all there is on the surface.” His fingertips ghost over shivering skin. “That there is much more to you that my eyes cannot possibly perceive.”

Kaveh closes his eyes, that blush deepening its reach down to the base of his shoulders. “So this is what you’ve chosen to use your Haravatat education for.” He huffs out a laugh. “Waxing poetry to fluster me?”

“Not poetry,” Alhaitham says, dismissive. “Such a subject isn’t in the curriculum at all. I was merely acknowledging something I found to be a pity.”

It’s difficult for him to see this as anything but that. For all the people who meet Kaveh, it’s common to get too distracted by the radiance at his surface to look deeper than his skin.

But Alhaitham has been around long enough to see through all of that. Perhaps because when it comes to Kaveh, he is always looking. And Kaveh has always been so much more than what exists of his corporeal form to be perceived—his body but a finite vessel for an infinite mind.

What a crime it would be, to reduce someone so brilliant to the simplicity of their physicality. Alhaitham has never wanted anything less than all of him.

—

This, like most endeavours, Alhaitham approaches methodically. Brow furrowed in concentration as he works his fingers inside Kaveh, initially in an exact imitation of how he’d observed Kaveh do it to himself—an exact replication of pace and angle and pressure.

Then he gets a bit more experimental, following his own intuition as he gets a better feel for the process. Throughout, he keeps his eyes on Kaveh’s face, watching his expression to assess his response to every touch, using that to guide his own adjustment of his efforts.

—

Alhaitham hums. “Let’s put it this way. I’m exempt from a certain sort of attraction,” he says, “but I’m certainly not blind.”

“...Oh.” Kaveh pauses, processing those words into something warm and hopeful. “And what do you like about what you see?”

“What I like?”

Alhaitham doesn’t even have to spare a second thinking about it—it’s like there’s a list already waiting for him in the back of his mind.

“The outline that the side of your face cuts against the sunset,” he says. “How your eyes are the colour of wine. Your hair could be an instrument of alchemy, with the way it catches daylight and transmutes it into gold. The shape your hand constructs when poised with a quill perched between your fingers. This arc between your shoulder and neck.” He traces the path gently, and the touch tingles like his fingers are stained in stardust. “I hope that answers your question.”

—

Alhaitham knows he may never be able to look at Kaveh the way he may wish to be seen sometimes, the way he may wish to be wanted. He can admire Kaveh for all his aesthetic appeal, certainly, but there are certain desires his mind simply does not have access to. And maybe that means he won’t be able to fulfill a need Kaveh may carry, one craving a certain sort of validation.

… “You’ve had other partners, I assume, who are able to properly appreciate a facet of your allure that is inaccessible to me.” Alhaitham pauses. “I can’t think of you like that. I don’t think I ever can.”

He wonders what he can do, wonders what he should promise in compensation. “I don’t know how it feels to think of you in that way,” Alhaitham continues, the space in his chest suddenly tight like it already knows the importance of what he’s going to express, “but I do know how it feels to be in love with you.”

—

“Maybe they will never be able to comprehend each other, not in their entireties. They are two pieces from different puzzles after all. But if what’s ahead of them is a lifetime of learning, there can be no other person more fascinating to figure out than someone so diametrically opposed to yourself.”

#Genshin impact #genshin fanfic #alhaitham #kaveh #kaveh x alhaitham #alhaitham x kaveh #kavetham #asexuality #ace spec #asexual #ace representation #sex positive ace #acynthe #Intp #haikaveh #fic rec #character analysis

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

perry the platypus from phineas and ferb is asexual (canon)

submitted by @winterserpent

#perry the platypus #phineas and ferb #disney channel #ace #asexual #aspec #a-spec #ace-spec #acespec #ace characters #asexual characters #asexual spectrum #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia+ #queer characters #lgbt characters #submission #ask #winterserpent #@winterserpent #your blorbos are queer