#a win for the aspec community

[venticoffe3]

The beauty of perspective 😭 I love new spins on social understandings of love

I love soulmates but also this-

[hello-eeveev]

Mighty Nein Echoes of the Solstice occurs during Ace Week. Which means that Essek Thelyss is legally required to appear in the one-shot. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

[mirokata]

I love the proud aromantic spirit going around this aromantic spectrum awareness week, but we don’t need love to loose for our happiness yknow

just like how aroallos don’t need love to win for us for their happiness (even if they might complain about it eg. “why don’t you have a partner yet”)

we don’t gotta keep saying “love loses” as if every single aromantic person out there doesn’t love love. some don’t, that’s true and valid. let me remind you of the main definition of the word: “a person who experiences little to no romantic attraction”

“little to no romantic attraction.”

it isn’t even about love in the first place, it’s about romantic attraction. there are many other forms of love out there whether we experience it or not, and some can be beautiful. so in my humble opinion, we don’t need to say “love loses” to feel confident and happy with my aromantic identity.

[transfagore]

About the "love loses" discourse

One thing that enlightened me about this subject was realizing that people who don't think twice before declaring love a revolutionary feeling probably don't understand how to reject love it can be liberating. Not only for the aspec community, but also for neurodivergent people and anyone else who has been dehumanized for not feeling love properly or not feeling love at all. Believe me, rejecting society's idea of love is as liberating as changing the world through love. Considering love as this inherently potent and revolutionary force is not good for anyone. But it's terrible specifically for people who have been hurt in the name of love.

Okay, love is special to you. All good. Take it and transform the world your way. Just don't impose it on everyone. Because not everyone has this wonderful relationship with love. Not in a society that dictates how we should feel and punishes us if we don't follow the golden rules. Not in a world where people use a theoretically positive feeling to hurt other people.

Respect loveless people. Listen to us. You cannot change the world by neglecting and throwing away the parts of humanity that you don't like or aren't like you. Our criticism of love is not the demerit of your love.

(And before someone say "BUT LOVE WINS HAVE THIS HISTORICAL VALUE–" meu anjo i know I study my own community, thank you very much. I know about all this, that's not the problem. We are not denying this historical value or importance. "Love loses" is a response to having love imposed on us, especially in times of pride. Where even companies make it seem like being queer is all about “love wins”. When, it is not true at all.

And to those who are suggesting "platonic love wins" or any alternative, please go read the definition of loveless again ☠️)

[sol-draws-sometimes]

No because the way it baffles me when I see TERF Lesbians or Binary Trans people shitting on non-binary/gnc trans people, or gay people shitting on aspec people. That’s not even getting into ALL the discourse that happens around labels, and their meanings, who gets to use them, etc. Yes, these identities are their own separate things, but, there is so much overlap in between ALL the identities, and lgbtphobic people DON’T CARE. Even if they call you “one of the good ones” right now, they WILL turn their backs on you later. When other queer people attack different identities, they don’t see how they’ll hurt themselves in confusion down the line. Stop licking the boots of your own oppressor just because it provides the illusion of safety from them, because once they're done dealing with the people you blamed as “the ones that make us look bad,” they’ll turn their eyes RIGHT BACK TO YOU.

you have to understand that there is an overlap between drag queens and trans women and between trans women and cis lesbians and between lesbians and drag kings and between drag kings and trans men and between trans men and cis gay men and between gay men and drag queens and between lesbians and bisexual women and between gay men and bisexual men and between lesbians and asexual women and between gay men and asexual men and between all sexualities and nonbinary people and between butches and transmascs and between binary trans people and genserqueer people.

basically what I'm saying is that we're all family. there aren't clear divides or walls that separate us. and that's the point. being easily separated into perfect neat little boxes is exactly what queerphobic people want. don't let your oppressers trick you into thinking your family is your enemy.

[sophisticated-crow]

JOIN THE ASPEC MAFIA

MURDER THE BOTS

TAKE BACK THE ASEXUAL TAG‼️

UNITED WE FIGHT, TOGETHER WE WIN

(seriously tho the asexual tag is FLOODED with porn bots. Even as an ally it pains me to see such a wonderful community be ravaged by stupid bots)

(also whyyy is that I’ve reported ten posts but only three are under review??)

[aceofspadespop]

Right so I know that the acespec and aspec community are trying to invade Denmark but I feel like if we combine our power with the aro spec community, we have a better chance of winning.

[our-aro-experience]

Whenever I feel romance favorable, I feel like I'm not exactly part of the Aro community. Whenever I feel romance repulsed, I feel like an asshole/ not Aro enough because is more sociable acceptable if You're open to romance.

If You're romance repulsed then society hates you. If You're romance favorable then apparently some other Aspecs invalidate you??? (I have yet to see it happend but I've read lots of posts about it)

We can't ever win Ig

people don’t want to accept that aros are people too and that we’re valid no matter what. but we are valid and nothing can take that away from us.

[sophieinwonderland]

I think a lot of community infighting among oppressed people is manufactured by bad actors to destabilize the power we have in our numbers. It's a lot easier to divide and conquer, so to speak. If our communities are fractured and we're driving each other away over who "qualifies" to be in the community, it'll be a cinch to win people over to conservatism, either because those people were made into outcasts by their community or because they couldn't get rid of the "undesirables and fakers" and just decided it wasn't worth the trouble anymore.

The best part (for those manufacturing the drama) is that the only thing they have to do is sow doubt in a few places, and the rest is done by people who bought into the bullshit. We saw a lot of this during the ace discourse heyday, and it works so well that the pattern is almost identical across so many different discourse topics.

"X isn't really a part of our community. They're actually fakers. Even if they're not faking, it's possible for them to conceal their identity and appear as if they aren't one of us [often not by choice or because being open about it would be dangerous], which means they have privilege over us and are an enemy."

With the ace discourse, we got such gems as "aspec actually means autism spectrum and using it to mean anything else is ableist," and "asexules actually just means sexualities in Spanish, ignore the fact that the asexual flag is right there," among other things. And it worked. A lot of us aspec folks felt unsafe enough that we went back into the closet. It wasn't even until recently that I felt safe enough to come to the realization that I'm aroace.

I saw someone not that long ago chastising transgender people for marking trumeds on shinigami eye as unsafe because "well they're not entirely transphobic, just misguided," which I thought was ridiculous. If someone is going around saying, "transtrenders are stealing our resources, those icky trans people who make their gender their whole identity shouldn't get to sit with us," that person is being transphobic. Even if they wise up and grow past that hatred and internalized bigotry, and there's a lot riding on that "if," they're still not a safe person for a good portion of trans people to be around. Hence, the marking them as unsafe.

So yeah, that's my conspiracy theory. There's like a formula for this shit, down to the smallest detail.

Thanks for the addition!

This... weirdly reminds me of that anti-endo who was theorizing that endogenic systems were a psyop meant to sow division.

That's not an insult. I actually... kind of enjoyed reading that theory, even if it was totally wrong. (As a system who definitely has no trauma and is still plural, I can confirm that we're not a psyop.)

I just find it interesting how similar your minds work. 😜

But I mean, when it comes to conservatives, you're also definitely not wrong in many cases! There are some conservative aggravators out there who will adopt progressive language to disguise hate, preaching values they don't truly believe in to sow division. And I wouldn't be shocked if you were right about it happening in the ace discourse.

I have a harder time believing that it's happening in syscourse though, just because of how niche the community is. While I hope things will change in the coming years, right now, I don't think we're even on the radars of 99% of conservatives.

With the ace discourse, we got such gems as "aspec actually means autism spectrum and using it to mean anything else is ableist," and "asexules actually just means sexualities in Spanish, ignore the fact that the asexual flag is right there," among other things.

It's actually eerie how similar the playbooks are. The whole "Aspec means autism" claim sounds exactly like the "system hopping was stolen from RAMCOA systems" lie. I wonder if we're just destined to eternally repeat history in different marginalized communities.

But can I ask what the deal was with the Spanish one? I'm confused on how that was even supposed to be a gotcha or what the argument was there.

Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts. And let me also say that I'm glad the infighting with exclusionists has settled down enough that you feel safe being out. Hopefully that bodes well for the plural community getting to a point where it's safer for endogenic systems.

[krogerkryptid]

Ace/Aro Identities in Media and Fandom

Alrighty I am jumping on the choo choo train of discussing this topic because OH BOY do I have little big thoughts. As someone who identifies as both asexual and aromanitic I would like to say that that is the perspective I am speaking from. I experience no sexual or romantic attraction and while being open to being in a queer platonic relationship sex would never be a part of it and neither would many aspects of romance. All the words after the cut!

Now to the fun and funky part!! OH MY GOD laddies, lassies, lairds please when something is canonized respect that. You know the joy you felt when your identity was seen on screen for the first time and you felt seen and heard? It's the same for me and for many who identify similarly. Those are big steps in inclusion and allow a lot of people to understand themselves sooner and with less stress and fear. Representation is IMPORTANT regardless of if it's something you identify with or not. Because when it comes to be your turn to see yourself in something I would hope everyone affords you the same courtesy to allow you that joy. Now on to talking about wronguns. As much as I wish to give everyone the benefit of the doubt I have seen aspec people pushed down the metaphorical stairs more times than I can count. This isn't to compare to other identities this is not the oppression olympics and nor will it ever be frankly we're all in this together to create a better world for all of us. If you are comfortable with ignoring ace/aro identities when it comes to shipping and speaking about their character but WOULD NOT do so for other identities that is something that you should deeply think about. In addition to this every person is allowed to experience their identity differently. Some asexual people have sex, some aromantic people date etc. etc. but that doesn't mean that can be taken and applied to every person to make them more palpable for the masses. Some people DON'T want to have sex or be in relationships and that is something that should also be respected. People need to understand that using the "oh well some people are ok with those things!!" is not the win you think it is. Because also some people ARE NOT and that is a core part of who they are and is not something that can be changed. Do better to understand both sides of this coin and if the creators and character in the media has stated that they are ace/aro work to understand that. To the Ace/Aro people and the people who got this far congratulations! I wrote lots of words in a fit of thoughts to place on my little blog and sometimes that is hard to read so thank you! To the aspec crew particularly you are all so incredibly wonderful where ever you fall and you deserve to see yourself in media without it being ignored and pushed aside! I genuinely am so happy to be able to be a part of the community and hope to be able to see so much more of us in the future.

[ben-learns-smth]

today is the 17th of may aka IDAHOBITA* (international day against homo- bi- inter- trans- aspec-hostility). officially it's "phobia" but I've chosen to adapt the practice of (german) queer activists to speak of queer-hostility. while you may argue it's based in a fear of the unknown, the related actions be it individual or systematic are not. they're hostile and threatening to queer lives.

today I'm thinking of those who have experienced (and continue to experience) queer hostility. those who experience it as violence. those who experience it as a legal system. those who experience it from the people meant to support and protect them. those who experience it from strangers. those who experience it and can't talk about it. thise who experience it and are vocal about the injustice. I'm thinking of you and I'm sending you a hug, a shoulder squeeze, a handshake, an affirmative nod. the suffering will end, the hostility will end, we deserve to live peaceful and joyful lives

today I'm asking cis, hetero, allo & endo people to become our allies, to seek out information how to support the queer community better. how to take allyship further than "yeah I'm chill with that". I'm asking you to speak up, to get loud, to get active. I'm asking people who aren't genderqueer and/or trans to become allies to trans and genderqueer people. I'm asking endo people to become allies to intersex people. to make space for conversations about gender, not only about breaking binary stereotypes but about allowing a multitude of complex relations to the idea of gender (including the rejection of it! not everyone has a gender, agender ppl exist!). I'm asking allo people (queer or not) to become allies for the aromantic and asexual community. love is love is a beautiful slogan, but love is not all there is and tbe split attraction model is a thing. amatonormativity is real, different forms of complex relationships are real and conversations about these and the experiences of aromantic and asexual people deserve space and attention.

today is a great day to learn about the hostility queer people experience, to show solidarity, to celebrate our wins and fight for more

[prototypesteve]

Negotiating.

Quick note. This is how I explain the aspec community’s use of the adjective queer to friends. I don’t know if this works with strangers. It probably wouldn’t. I normally don’t even bother explaining this to strangers. I’m making an exception for you.

How I’ve explained this big and loaded topic to friends (as in the people I don’t want to burn bridges with, but who I also know weren’t “just asking questions” to be mean):

“You’ve probably always thought of queer as Gender Queer—breaking with heteronormative standards for sexual attraction, gender presentation, and gender inhabitation. Asexuality and Aromanticism are largely Relationship Queer—breaking from amatonormative and allonormative standards, while also (though sometimes less visibly or noticeably) bending heteronormative standards, just by being Relationship Queer.”

Like I said, this is how I explain it to friends, which is why I don’t escalate with words like gatekeeping, locking out, discriminating, etc.. When I talk to friends, I’m not trying to win a fight, I’m trying to help them see the parts of the picture they haven’t had an opportunity to see, yet.

If they still can’t get it, that’s usually because the word itself, Queer, often has a ton of deeper meaning. For lots of our friends and neighbours, the word Queer is more than just an adjective, it’s a Homeland. If that’s the case, I clarify that I’m only referring to the lowercase adjective, not the Liturgical Noun. I mean queer as a colloquial alternative for divergent, the way we use it as a suffix, like in neurodivergent. I mean queer as in genderdivergent, allodivergent, amatodivergent, and so on.

I use queer as a colloquialism for divergent, the way I use divergent as an antonym to normative.

I then explain to my friends that I personally don’t use the word queer, not because I don’t like it, but because I’m neurodivergent as fuck, so when it comes to explaining why or how I’m different, I like to be as unambiguous as possible. I personally just say I’m aromantic and asexual. I don’t even say aroace much, because my Vivera retainer makes that word complicated.

So I’m not saying this as a preface to barging in on anyone’s language space, discourse, or theory. I’m just making sure they understand that the world and its words are big, and getting bigger, in a good way.

But here’s the thing: We can’t ask the world to put away their millennia-old conflicts over homelands, when we can’t even de-escalate our decades-old conversations over who gets to use a word.

[meaninglessblah-writes]

2024 Annual Wrap-Up!

Here’s the 2024 wrap-up, in case you missed it…

Current word count: 1,448,030

(up 61,952 words from last year) 

2024 Events:

Passion Pit (JayDami Week)

Our Cherub of Chastity (Cancel Me, Daddy! Zine)

Serasapphic��(Cancel Me, Daddy! Zine)

Once More With Feeling (Batfam Birthday Exchange)

Pollinate (BruJay Week)

Leniency (DCU Rarepair Exchange)

Community (DC Aspec Week)

A Guy Like You Should Wear A Warning with forestgreen, kieran_granola, kuro49 & scandalsavage (DC Toxicity Tournament)

After Hours (Batfam Kinkmas Exchange)

Cock & Bull (Batfam Kinkmas Exchange)

Nipping the Bud (Batfam Kinkmas Exchange)

New Fics:

Playing to Win with anotherDeadRobin & forestgreen (Apollo/Midnighter/Jason Todd)

Clarity & Depth with cadkitten (Apollo)

Over the Line with forestgreen (Apollo/Midnighter/Prometheus | Matt Dell)

Light the Fire Inside with cadkitten (Apollo/Jason Todd)

Blank Canvas with forestgreen (Apollo/Midnighter)

Recipe (Jugend Erdefunfte/Kanin Schutzen/Alte Sklavesman)

Infatuation (Jason Todd/Bruce Wayne)

Bruises (Dick Grayson & Jason Todd)

One Less (Jugend Erdefunfte & Valint Rueger)

Nomad (Jason Todd & Damian Wayne)

Incessant Desire (Redlich Erdefunfte/Valint Rueger)

Flash Works:

Honorary Uncle (Clark Kent & Dick Grayson)

Hiding Heats (Jason Todd)

Bluebird (Dick Grayson)

Gun Training (Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson)

Good Boy Sit (Jason Todd)

Bruce Wayne Eats Pussy Like A Champ (Jason Todd/Bruce Wayne)

Deceiving Appearances (Tim Drake/Roy Harper/Jason Todd)

Denial (Bruce Wayne/Tlano | Batman of Zur-En-Arrh)

Courteous (Dick Grayson/Roman Sionis)

Safehouse (Tim Drake/Jason Todd)

Hired (Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne/Slade Wilson)

Fatherhood (Jason Todd/Slade Wilson)

Bachelors (Roy Harper & Slade Wilson)

If You Cry (Jason Todd)

Don't Move (Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne)

It's Not Your Fault (Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas)

You're A Monster (Tim Drake)

We're Going To Have To Improvise (Jason Todd & Damian Wayne)

You're So Much Prettier This Way (Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson)

You Look Pretty Pale (Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne)

You Don't Need To Earn This (Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain)

Playing Fetch With My Heart (Tim Drake/Jason Todd)

Blue Checkered Shirts (Harvey Dent/Thomas Elliot/Bruce Wayne)

Body Count (Ra's al Ghul/Damian Wayne/Other(s))

Service With A Smile (Stephanie Brown/Bruce Wayne)

Strait Laced (Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson)

Gift Works:

Tug (Kanin Schutzen/Alte Sklavesman, for snowinthestars)

Milk (Jason Todd, for daemoninwhite)

Read & Recommended:

Come and open yourself up to me by Reagy_Jay

To Form A New Dynasty by daemoninwhite

Chew Toy by sarriathmg

Teacher's Pet by forestgreen

An Angel Falls (Choose Your Own Adventure - Visual Novel) by sarriathmg

Criticality; Implicity by kuro49

Related/Inspired Works:

When Goodbye Begins by arsenicgreen, inspired by Retributory Shroud

Nothing and Anything by arsenicgreen, inspired by Retributory Shroud

The Orange Variations by arsenicgreen, inspired by Retributory Shroud

Mercury in Tardigrade by arsenicgreen, inspired by Retributory Shroud

[Podfic] Flowers For The Moon by Ravin_Pods (Ravin), a podfic of Flowers For The Moon

[knifearo]

bro amatonormativity and relationship anarchy needs to be like common knowledge for shippers because I literally got like drawn and quartered for critiquing people for shipping a certain ship romantically when it was closer to a qpr. lemme tell u. i awoke some DEMONS. and the responses I got were allos but also OTHER aromantic/aroace people telling me I was 1: making a qpr romance-lite. or. 2: them just saying "oh but.. they had a kid! they said I love you." like HUH

MAN. fandom culture is kind of uniquely intolerable for all the focus on shipping and for all the ways that people invent to get people together they never seem to get around to anything aspec... genuinely you cannot win. if you're romance-repulsed you're inundated with it and if you're romance-favorable you get erased and if you're just trying to aro-fy it you get yelled at by everyone... i stand with you i hear your struggle 🫡

that's so wild though. i will personally say that i have not particularly liked the way that qprs have been framed/discussed in the popular conversations around relationships because of the way that it's usually presented as "you can have a romantic relationship OR a qpr!" which is what i think is people presenting them as romance-lite (the aspec alternative to a romantic relationship rather than something entirely different that exists outside of those frameworks). saying that a romantic relationship should be/is a qpr is. not that. i feel like a lot of this results from the fact that other people's understanding of our community's terms is so limited, so every conversation we have for allo benefit is baby's first relationship anarchy, and then well-meaning aro people jump into conversations with an understanding that's borne from a very basic set of concepts and definitions that isn't equipped to engage with more complex conversations. which isn't their fault really but. imagine a beautiful world where we all actually knew what a qpr was...

anyway i think we have to start eating people. and then we can have the real actual cool conversations about relationships and the different ways in which they appear without people popping up to add unhelpful and uninformed comments </3

[mthofferings2023]

Tiptapricot

See Tiptapricot’s existing works here and here.

Preferred contact methods: Tumblr: Tiptapricot Email: tiptapricot@gmail.com Instagram: tiptapricot_vibes

Preferred organizations: - Autistic Self Advocacy Network - Native American Rights Fund - RIP Medical Debt - The Bail Project - Transgender Law Center (See the list of approved organizations here)

Will create works that contain: Sfw: Fluff, angst, horror, inhuman exploration, domesticity, falling in love, nonsexual intimacy, role swap, missing scenes, time loop/time travel AUs, sci fi, mixed canons from media, trans exploration, aspec exploration. Nsfw: explicit content with any of the above, transmasc porn, t-dick smut, frottage, grinding, monster sex, tentacles, aphrodisiacs, cock warming, weird sex, voyeurism/exhibitionism, more if asked.

Will not create works that contain: Yandere, dark!AUs, intentional OOC, scat play, piss play, non-monster blood play, heavy BDSM, bestiality, underage sex (whether between minors or between an adult and a minor), incestuous content, childbirth, period sex, cannibalism (aspects of monster-related eating may be discussed), race play, age play, medical abuse, suicide/self harm (references and content may be discussed), heavy non-con/dub-con (aspects involved in kinks may be discussed), heavy gore/heavy sexual gore (can be discussed in certain contexts), explicit and visceral murder, religious alteration/other religion AUs for Jewish characters, plural erasure/separate body/no system AUs for plural characters, magical genderswap/other gender AUs (fantastical trans explorations may be discussed), Bemis's run, Pepose’s City of the Dead characterization (though plot elements from CotD are welcome to be utilized), OCs, reader inserts

  -- Fic or Other Writing --

Auction ID: 1125

Will create works for the following relationships: Steven Grant/Jake Lockley/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Layla El-Faouly/Steven Grant/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Logan/Charles Xavier - X-Men: Evolution Miguel O'Hara-centric - Spider-Verse (animated films) Miguel O'Hara/Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson - Spider-Verse (animated films) Jean-Paul Duchamp/Steven Grant/Jake Lockley/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Layla El-Faouly/Steven Grant/Jake Lockley/Greer Grant Nelson/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Jean-Paul Duchamp & Layla El-Faouly & Steven Grant & Jake Lockley & Marc Spector - 616, MCU Astronaut Marc/Jean-Paul Duchamp - 616, MCU Yehya Badr & Steven Grant & Jake Lockley & Marc Spector & the Midnight Mission crew - 616, MCU

Work Description: (This is my SFW listing, if you are interested in explicit/sexual work, please look for my other auction.) This listing is for a generally safe for work fic piece starting at ~1,000 words. Each $5 bid will increase the piece’s word count by ~500 words, up to ~5,000 words maximum. If desired by the winner, the resulting word count may be split among multiple smaller fics. It may also inhabit a lower word count than the maximum if it is hit in bidding (IE: even if this auction hits a $55 bid, if you would like only a 2k word fic, I can do that). Word count is not exact and I may go slightly over or under depending on what fits the story best, but I will try to stick as close as I can. Due to current projects and plans, I will not be able to begin active prose work on this piece until early 2024 (likely early January, if not a bit later. I will communicate my availability with the winner). Discussions, planning, and an outline are welcome to be discussed and hammered out before then. This piece as well as my other listing will be taking the place of two regular commission slots for my January opening, and it is unlikely I will open more slots at that time. Winning a listing from me here is the best way to guarantee a slot from me in the near future. Clarifications for listed relationships: For any group platonic relationships or polyamorous romantic relationships, I am open to the whole group listed, as well as any combination of characters listed within that group (IE: I am open to writing polyamorous Marc/Steven/Jake, as well as only Marc/Jake or only Marc/Steven. This applies to platonic groups like the Midnight Mission Crew as well, as in I am open to writing stories only featuring Badr, Reese, and Soldier being friends, or only Steven and The House of Shadows). If a relationship you are interested in is not listed here but seems to fit with what I’m open to (IE: Greer & Frenchie, House of Shadows-centric, or even Miguel & The Moon Knight System), you are welcome to bid and reach out to discuss it with me. I may not be open to all pair ups or explorations, however, so please make sure you are at least interested in a story with what I already have listed currently. The "Astronaut Marc" listing refers to Captain Spector/Commander/MK-1 AKA the spaceman alter featured in the Lemire run, and his inner world version of Frenchie who fights alongside him. I am open to headcanoned characterizations/stories for these two, as well as larger AUs should the winner want to do something extra fun with them. Further content clarifications: I am open to melding aspects of different universes together in whatever way the winner would like (IE: MCU Moon Knight System interacting with Lemire Run events). Additionally, characters regularly a part of the chosen cast but not listed above are welcome (IE: Gena, Crawley, Lyla, Mayday), and additional side characters or Marvel cameos are welcome as long as I am given ample communication on versions and where to find information on them if I’m not familiar with them. While 616 is listed for all Moon Knight characters, I am not comfortable writing for runs I am not familiar with or am uncomfortable with (see DNWs above for some runs). I am most familiar with the Lemire 2016 run and the MacKay 2021 run versions of the characters. Headcanoned versions of additional Moon Knight system headmates are allowed to a certain extent (IE: Mr. Knight as a separate headmate or Dr. Harrow as a separate headmate would be fine, an original child alter would not). Examples of my work can be found in my portfolio links! What I have posted covers a range of content and word count, depending on the length and story type you are looking for. When contacting me after winning, please have a general idea of the story you would like to see. Further discussion on things like specific beats, headcanons, point of view, and tense may be discussed after.

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-- Fic or Other Writing --

Auction ID: 2061

Will create works for the following relationships: Steven Grant/Jake Lockley/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Layla El-Faouly/Steven Grant/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Miguel O'Hara/Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson - Spider-Verse (animated films) Miguel O'Hara-centric - Spider-Verse (animated films) Khonshu-centric - 616, MCU Jean-Paul Duchamp/Steven Grant/Jake Lockley/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Jean-Paul Duchamp/Steven Grant - 616 Layla El-Faouly/Steven Grant/Jake Lockley/Greer Grant Nelson/Marc Spector - 616, MCU Astronaut Marc/Jean-Paul Duchamp - 616, MCU The House of Shadows-centric - 616

Work Description: (This is my NSFW listing, if you are interested in non-sexual work, please look for my other auction.) This listing is for a sexually explicit fic piece starting at ~1,000 words. Each $2 bid will increase the piece’s word count by ~200 words, up to ~4,000 words maximum. If desired by the winner, the resulting word count may be split among multiple smaller fics. It may also inhabit a lower word count than the maximum if it is hit in bidding (IE: even if this auction hits a $40 bid, if you would like only a 2k word fic, I can do that). Word count is not exact and I may go slightly over or under depending on what fits the story best, but I will try to stick as close as I can. Due to current projects and plans, I will not be able to begin active prose work on this piece until early 2024 (likely early January, if not a bit later. I will communicate my availability with the winner). Discussions, planning, and an outline are welcome to be discussed and hammered out before then. This piece as well as my other listing will be taking the place of two regular commission slots for my January opening, and it is unlikely I will open more slots at that time. Winning a listing from me here is the best way to guarantee a slot from me in the near future. Clarifications for listed relationships/characters: For any polyamorous relationships, I am open to the whole group listed, as well as any combination of characters listed within that group (IE: I am open to writing polyamorous Marc/Steven/Jake/Jean-Paul, as well as any combination within such as Marc/Jake, Jean-Paul/Jake/Steven, etc.). If a relationship you are interested in is not listed here but seems to fit with what I’m open to (IE: Layla and Jean-Paul both being with the Moon Knight System at the same time, someone engaging sexually with the House of Shadows, Miguel x MK System) you are welcome to bid and reach out to discuss it with me. I may not be open to all pair ups or explorations, however, so please make sure you are at least interested in a story with what I already have listed. The "Astronaut Marc" listing refers to Captain Spector/Commander/MK-1 AKA the spaceman alter featured in the Lemire run, and his inner world version of Frenchie who fights alongside him. I am open to headcanoned characterizations/stories for these two, as well as larger AUs should the winner want to do something extra fun with them. Both the House of Shadows and Khonshu are listed as I greatly enjoy inanimate/nonhuman/godly sex, and if anyone out there would like some good old eldritch building or god fucking, I am very very open to that. I am very specific about how I pair Khonshu with other characters, however, so work with him would be less flexible on what I’m open for outside of a solo scenario. Although comics Steven/Jean-Paul is covered by my polyamorous relationship pair up rule, I am especially interested in the MacKay versions of Steven and Jean-Paul as a ship, and would love to create for them. Further content clarifications: I would like the focus of this story to be on sexual intimacy, porn, etc. as I’m interested in creating a short and smutty piece we can both be excited about and have fun with, so as long as it fits with my content boundaries, weird and wild ideas are welcome! Plot build up outside of the main sexual content will be kept to a minimum unless further discussed. I am open to melding aspects of different universes together in whatever way the winner would like (IE: MCU Moon Knight System interacting with Lemire Run events). Additionally, characters regularly a part of the chosen cast but not listed above are welcome to feature (IE: Gena, Crawley, Lyla, Mayday), and additional side characters or Marvel cameos are welcome but only in brief mentions or appearances. Trans headcanons are more than welcome for any character! And further headcanons such as kink preference, body features (bottom growth, top surgery/bottom surgery or not, etc.) may be discussed as well. While 616 is listed for all Moon Knight characters, I am not comfortable writing for runs I am not familiar with or am uncomfortable with (see DNWs above for some runs). I am most familiar with the Lemire 2016 run and the MacKay 2021 run versions of the characters. Headcanoned versions of additional Moon Knight system headmates are allowed to a certain extent (IE: Mr. Knight as a separate headmate or Dr. Harrow as a separate headmate would be fine, an original child alter would not). Examples of my explicit work can be found in my portfolio links! If you would like further examples of my explicit content, a few short original pieces may be found here and here. When contacting me after winning, please have a general idea of the story you would like to see. Further discussion on things like specific beats, headcanons, point of view, and tense may be discussed after.

Ratings: Explicit

Can pods bid on this auction? Yes - Podbids welcome!

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tollund man by the mountain goats and the “love is the running towards” poem for the london fire brigade and the peace of stepping back and not looking at or engaging with aspec spaces for the last couple months have made it very apparent that if i care about aro and ace causes i should engage with in-person/local spaces and activism and not online communities - not both, the former and not the latter. my experience of online aromantic spaces in particular has been just soul-sucking. deep pits of negation of the values of love, connection, affection, and desire. individual aspec people can be lovely and i’m sure that it is possible to build aspec communities (online, even!) that are wonderful and supportive and joyous, but the online spaces i’ve encountered have been echo chambers of “it’s ignorant to think there’s any value in love-per-love, arophobic to position love as a positive force, and overbearing to express love toward other people”. i’ve found them to be deeply romance negative and at times sympathy-crushingly callous about homophobia. i want to do something to make the world kinder for people who don’t travel the expected paths of sex and romance, and i think to do that i need to close my eyes to the people who say “ugh it’s so shitty and hurtful when gay people say love wins. we need to negate the hegemony of this slogan with our own… how about… love loses!”.