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[peculiar-reblogs]

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[acesincomics]

Today is the 3rd annual Disabled Ace Day! 💜♿️

First organized by Courtney from @theacecouple, today highlights the intersection of asexuality & disability.

I contributed to a list of comics with disabled acespec experiences for this Ace Week resource.

This resource is not intended to be exhaustive. I primarily contributed with fiction comics that have canon disabled acespec characters.

How many have you read? Did I miss a favorite?

[sparklemaia]

more like netflix and chili amirite

[kindlyanni]

🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🌈

May I interest you with some light queer reading in the form of a PDF comic zine? It's an autobiographical comic about living by myself, partner-free, with posi vibes! 24 pages!

PDF available in my ITCH.io shop in English and in Finnish!

[tamamxrii]

I'm gonna try to not think too deeply about the fact that this is a few days late for Ace Week because this is an important thing to me year-round!

I've known that I'm ace for about a decade (eugh) but I've only been able to confidently declare it with pride for about half that time. I wanted to use this lil comic to express some of my experiences as an ace person in an ever-evolving queer space. A space that wasn't, and often STILL isn't, welcoming to those of us on the ace spectrum.

And while there has been strives towards representation pretty recently (like the fact that an actual LIST of ace rep in media can now be compiled! wow!) in the grand scheme of things there's still a long way to go. 🖤💜

[tikklil]

Closing out Ace Week with a brand new cover for my 8 page comic 'Just Friends'! If you love your friends so much it hurts a little, this is for you 💙 Preview ⤵️

Read the full comic on my Ko-fi at ko-fi.com/tikklil/shop

And tell your friends you love them!

[heybatterbats]

I’ve been seeing entirely too many posts about how ace-spec people aren’t really LGBTQ+ and don’t belong at Pride. And I got mad about it. So…*aces your Batfamily*

Yes, all of them. Every last one is now ace-spec in some way. They even named their dog Ace.

Bruce is sex-neutral biromantic demisexual, and came out by accident at age 24 to a random reporter who was not expecting it. This sparked a social media storm that was only halted by the much bigger social media storm of Bruce adopting Dick.

The Batman has been asked his sexuality before. Bruce replied- perfectly straight faced- that the Batman is an asexually reproductive entity and creates its Robins via mitosis. A third of Gotham, most of Metropolis, and several members of the Justice League still believe this.

Dick is sex-repulsed biromantic asexual, and is of the type to make the dirtiest jokes you’ve ever heard because sex is a joke to him. Came out in the form of an acrobatics performance he did at a pride parade, wearing a terrible Batman costume with a bi heart as the Batsymbol, an ace flag cape, and no pants. The audience was ecstatic. Bruce was mortified.

Nightwing has never said his sexuality, but anyone who claims he’s straight is quickly met with pictures of the Discowing suit and up to a dozen laughing emojis.

Jason is sex-repulsed aromantic asexual. He’s not as vocal about it as Dick is, but he does like it to be known. He’s the type to make garlic bread/cake/world domination jokes. And ESPECIALLY dragon jokes. He kinda tends to just insert it casually into conversation, he didn’t do anything crazy to come out. It’s just a fact about him.

Red Hood claims to be sexually attracted exclusively to guns. Bruce hates this joke.

Tim is the opposite of Bruce- he’s sex-positive bisexual demiromantic. One of the few Batkids to come out while in costume- he got a concussion on a case and blearily mumbled into Bruce’s hair that he’s “you but backwards” and completely confused Bruce. Tim is a little shy about his identity, but since dating Bernard he’s been more open about it.

Red Robin is out as bisexual, but hasn’t added demiromantic to that. Tim is worried people will piece his secret identity together, since Tim doesn’t realize that most normal people are not highly skilled detectives who can tell a person’s identity from a single acrobatics move.

At the moment, Damian just thinks he’s feeling the normal “ew cooties” that most children do. In the future he’ll realize that he’s sex-repulsed ace/aro, although he’ll refuse to use those terms in favor of broodily muttering “this bloodline dies with me.” Ra’s has an actual heart attack the first time Damian says this to his face and has to go into the Lazarus Pit to recover. Talia has never been more proud.

Barbara is sex-neutral, demiromantic and asexual. She’s more outspoken about it than most of the family, and runs social media pages about disability and the asexuality spectrum alike. Aphobes and ableists that make the mistake of leaving comments often mysteriously find that their most embarrassing search histories have been sent to their grandmother.

Cass is sex-repulsed ace/aro. Steph was the one to explain sexuality to her, and also made her an ace ring. Cass told Bruce first, then the rest of the family. She’s never come out publicly- Cass doesn’t like media attention being on her- but some sharp-eyed Gothamites who are looking can spot the black ring on Cassandra Cain-Wayne’s middle finger in a few paparazzi shots the papers got their hands on. (I have a fic about this!)

Black Bat has never been asked her sexuality, mainly because she’s absolutely terrifying and nobody can stammer out the words when faced with her.

Stephanie is sex-positive graysexual grayromantic, and absolutely not shy about it. She’s almost as good as Dick at making horrible, filthy jokes. Has punched a guy in the face for aphobia, does not regret it. Stephanie is out and proud and loud about it.

Spoiler/Batgirl III have both been seen wearing a rainbow flag as a cape too many times for anyone to assume they’re straight.

Duke is sex-neutral demisexual/demiromantic, and is probably the most open about it of the whole Batfamily. He’s fully out and so is Signal, and will inevitably show up at any daytime Pride event just to say hi. Gotham adores him, and he’s practically the ace-spec community’s mascot. Can and will use the entire rainbow spectrum of light to create various pride flags over Gotham whenever he feels like it, and has started taking flag/location requests. Once turned the Batsignal gay.

Harper is sex-positive bisexual aromantic, and where Stephanie is loud about it, Harper gets violent. She carries a souped-up taser and doesn’t hesitate to use it. Has knocked at least four homophobes/aphobes out cold not counting the ones she beat up in the Narrows. Bluebird is not only publicly out as bisexual but wears two out of three bisexual colors, and while it’s not come up publicly yet, she won’t hide that she’s aromantic either. Along with Signal and Spoiler, Bluebird is one of the vigilantes that’s known for being specifically good at handling LGBTQ+ issues. She wouldn’t have it any other way.

After being forcibly outed as gay and then bullied for it, Cullen is still in the closet about the fact that he’s asexual and sex-repulsed, too. The first person he told after Harper was Alfred. By now the whole family knows, but they’ve been careful to keep it away from the media until Cullen’s ready to come out himself.

Alfred is sex-neutral, aromantic, and pansexual, though he’s older than some of those terms and doesn’t often use them to describe himself. Bruce didn’t know Alfred was anything but straight until he was almost seventeen, to which Alfred replied- signature eyebrow raise at full height capacity- that he had a career in the theater, Master Bruce, and no one who does that can possibly be typical in matters of orientation or any other aspect of life.

The outfit might seem antithetical to this, but Selina is ace too! Specifically, she’s sex-positive, heteroromantic and demisexual. The leather outfit is primarily for distraction purposes rather than true sex appeal. When it comes to Bruce, however, Selina’s more than once described herself as “morosexual.” Bruce, bless him, still has no idea what that means.

There ya go. Ace-spec Batfam. Happy Pride to everyone but especially all you fellow ace-spec folks who absolutely, 100% belong there.

[teratobiter]

that funny gray orientation

[gingermarshmallow]

I saw this comic by @chrishallbeck and had to adjust it for Sklonda and Riz. (original under the cut.)

[entroart]

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ACE DAY!!!

From your fellow demisexual body and host ;3

[laseralligator]

Reminder that you are valid <3

[fun-k-art]

This is TECHNICALLY a WIP but I'm deciding to post it now because I've procrastinated for too long

Aroace Gwenpool! Happy pride everybody!!

(Yes, I did hide the hands and legs behind the flag, what are you gonna do, sue me?)

[ispadeyou]

Only 3 days left to reach our goal! I ♠️ You is a collection of comics about asexual spectrum romance and partnership.

130+ pages of stories featuring asexual relationships (both romantic and platonic).

Funding goes towards payment of contributors, printing costs, shipping, and fees. Contributors

Chex DC - Tumblr - Bluesky - Instagram

Duba (STUDIOBOO!) - Twitter

Gilly (STUDIOBOO!) - Twitter

J.N. Hayes - Tumblr - Instagram

Marta Selusi - Tumblr - Bluesky

May Wu - Twitter - Instagram

Preciousknightwalker - Twitter - Instagram

Cover by Ursula Gray - Bluesky - Youtube - Instagram

Edited by Bones McKay - Bluesky - Youtube

[oliviawhen]

I don’t know if this is accurate to everyone, it’s just the weird art lens I need to look at everything through. It took me till adulthood to figure out both these things. 

[alannawrites]

Hey, if you want to read a story about a Marvel character realizing her asexuality, written, drawn, colored and edited by people on the asexuality spectrum, hop over to Marvel Unlimited, because today is your lucky day!

As I mention in this interview, this story means a lot to me, and I’m so proud of the creative team for working so hard to bring it to life. Everyone put so much love into it, and I’m still just so thrilled we got to do this. I have a lot more feelings about this but I don’t want to get mushy on main yet. Maybe later.

Welcome to the ace army, Gwenpool!

[meidailies]

happy pride! I SPADE YOU (@ispadeyou) is a comic anthology about asexual spectrum romance and partnership, and it's a project i'm super excited to be part of.

my comic in the anthology is about honeydew, a bi/demisexual girlie who, in her struggle to find a partner, manifests her JRPG blorbo in real life. but things can't be that simple, can they...?

the above comic is a summary of the real comic, which you can read if you back the kickstarter, up until july 1st – check it out HERE!!

(if not, you can always hit reblog so this reaches more acespec people – every bit of support counts!)

(bonus points if you can guess who the blorbo is based on)