#me i'm the ace writer

[ejunkiet]

okay I need to leave, but I've been poking at wips, and after a month in the trenches trying to find romance authors I like, it's crazy to return back to fanfic and just be like oh. shit. this is good. why can't I find stuff like this published??

[anundyingfidelity]

(drawing too)

[sparkyblizz]

you know what, I should write a blackbright fic in which when real Bobby wakes up from his coma or whatever (classic) and meets Simon for the first time Simon literally grabs his face and feels it (to make sure it's real but in the moment Bobby is just stunned) and from then on Bobby is into him

this would probably be good for like an emotional? angst? moment later but brief comedic moment at first I love my comedy and my emotional moments—hey I already did something similar in another fic didn't I

my tags are a little bit silly today fair warning

[nina-ya]

HI GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!! Happy Monday!! I hope the weekend treated you all well and let's make the most of this week!!

[mapplesand]

moodboard of me, an ace who never wrote smut, writing smut for the first time :

interesting experience i guess

[hussyknee]

Marriage of convenience Regency romance? No. Marriage of convenience Regency aromance. An coerced match between an impoverished libertine bisexual aristocrat with a heart of gold and an ambitious asexual commoner heiress turns into a queerplatonic power couple love. He lets her regain, repair and run all his estates and become a political player, and she lets him fuck as many people as he wants, protects his male lovers, provides for his mistresses, and co-parents his illegimate children.

Queerplatonic bonds are everywhere in history but nowhere in queer historical novels. Allos have no imagination.

[jtownraindancer]

girl help

[icycoolslushie]

Why have I not seen a single person talking about the fact that Jace is half-French?

There is so much potential to use this fact somewhere!!!!

[laufire]

ch. 8 of "investigating lois lane" talks about the period of months following superman's death and it's making me want to entertain a story where superman stayed dead, just the same way I often think about that re: batman in the late 00s era.

[wanderingblindly]

hi! just wanted to say how nice it knowing there's another fic writer out there who's also on the ace spec, finding smut as confusing to write as I do 🥺💕

omg hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm giggling that i've somehow managed to attract seemingly every ace/ace-spec person on f1blr to my blog in the last day -- but it's also genuinely lovely. I'm so glad that we all have a space to feel seen the confusion of writing hahahahha.

I hope you don't mind if I use your ask to have a little bit of a soapbox moment to talk about writing? Because being ace and writing smut was kind of daunting to me at first, even though I had an idea that I thought would come together really nicely. and it did, i think! shoutout Nouveau Hot

When I'm feeling lost in writing stuff outside my realm, I usually try to come back to like, one or two key things:

A. Don't think about the mechanics, think about the dynamics:

I, in general, find smut so much more fun to write when I'm focused more on the relationship I want to convey rather than the actual sex. Like, I'll have the emotion in mind and the vehicle just happens to be smut. That alleviates a lot of the anxiety I used to feel around "why do people even have sex" and "what about this is meant to be interesting or unique". Keep Talking, for example, was about the idea of desperately seeking closeness, warmth, and comfort. Sure, it was literally about cock-warming, but the why!!! The why is what made that fic fun to write. What did Lando need from Oscar? How does Oscar feel about giving it to him? How does this fit into their life together? The logistics were secondary to all that. Watch Me is much more PWP than Keep Talking, but the idea was the same. The dynamic I wanted to portray was desperately clinging to restraint mixed with like. Shame. Guilt. I wanted to find a situation where Oscar was so pushed over the edge that he acted in a way he couldn't stomach. It just so happened that the easiest way to do that was voyeurism, but the fun part of the fic was like.... Oscar being tortured by it. Oscar fantasizing because he won't let himself have it. Lando pushing the boundaries because he knows Oscar's watching, and he wants Oscar to have it. You know?

B. Focus on the senses, because then you don't have to think about what might be "appealing":

I personally start to feel a lot of "asexual burnout" and confusion when I try too hard to put myself in a non-asexual's shoes. I don't know what's attractive about things outside my own niche fixations (....hands....), so trying to deduce that can be more effort than it's worth. Consequently, when I find myself getting too lost in a scene, I'll just try and ground myself in the sensory experience of what's happening. Can he hear their voice really close to his ear? Does it sound different than it usually does? Does it sound like it's just for him? Does it smell different, both of them running hot and mixed together? Does that smell make him think of other things, like 'almost' and 'what if' moments when they've been too close at the club? Like. That's still fun to write about! and that fits! focus there!

[uncriticalbunny]

saw people on twitter ranting about how sydcarmy shippers are antiblack and can't stand to see sydney stand on her own and how it's acephobic to want to see syd in love. here's the thing: storer had a ridiculously strong reaction when he saw people shipping syd and carmy and not for any of those aforementioned reasons. he didn't have any phony concerns about ace rep or seeing a black woman being strong on her own [I'd barf]. he legit scoffed at romance/sex in the show when he saw how a *very small number* of people liked the darkskin black woman and the white man together. and then he introduced claire. if you are not mentioning these things or feel the need to twist what sydcarmys actually want out of the ship, your arguments are not in good faith.

the show is not void of romance or sex at this point. and I've already talked about this in depth. so no, I won't be satisfied with sydney [the only black female character in this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] not having a romantic storyline, and I'm saying this as an ace black woman. at the end of the day, the people who don't want to see sydcarmy together outnumber the number of people who do [by far]. tumblr is a bubble. and I've yet to see a sydcarmy tweet go viral like any of the ones against them. it's never any ranting about any of the actual racist shit syd/ayo go through by fans of the show. it's always "swirl ship bad." like c'mon.

[the-fandom-crossroads]

My Thoughts on the Alastor Ace Erasure rampant in the Hazbin Hotel Fandom

Disclaimer i am one Ace and don't speak for all Ace's when I say the fandoms treatment of Alastor makes me uncomfortable. I was and still am open to shipping alastor with other characters. But the constant Acephobia and Ace Erasure I see in this shipping content is to a point where I have to point it out.

First off I'm so tired of the "loopholes" folks list off for why they want to write smut with one of the only cannon ace characters we've gotten in years. I had to blacklist "nonsex repulsed asexual alastor" on ao3 because they aren't even bothering to list him as greysexual. Sure an ace can have sex with a partner once or twice. But they act like nonsex repulsed means the ace person can be written having sex every other chapter. AT THAT POINT IT'S NOT AN ASEXUAL PERSON ANYMORE.

At this point I'd honestly prefer it if they just said their fic au is that he's a homosexual. Because half the time them trying to work in "he's still ace guys! he's just also okay with doing a different sex position for each day of the week!" just comes off as Acephobic. And the few times they write him uncomfortable with the start of the sex it just sounds like Acerape or corrective rape. "He just doesn't know he likes it cause he's a virgin." or "he's uncomfortable until this partner starts making him feel good". The WORST ones are the "heat" fics where they have alastor think about if he had proper control of his body he wouldn't want to be having sex right now. because at that point it's just a date rape drug and they are using a fanfic trope to FORCE him to have sex against his will. And it's just so fucked up man.

Yes he is only confirmed as Ace and not Aro. Viv is intentionally not saying he's Aro because she knows it's a lost cause to tell the fandom he's not romantically into people. Because fandom will ship him regardless. So she prioritized making it clear he's at the very least Ace in cannon and there's no plans to give him a partner in cannon. I feel like the HuskDust bits in the final series is because she saw how much the fans shipped alastor and angeldust after the pilot. Alastor was locked in as Ace by the time the pilot was released and she said it on multiple streams afterwards that he would be Ace. Giving AngelDust a different love interest target just seems like the easiest way to shoot down the biggest Alastor ship at the time without saying she's doing it to sink the biggest alastor ship. Of course fans just latched onto Vox and Lucifier but made it worse by feeling the need to say Alastor's ace before putting him in a sexual situations anyway.

Sexuals have thousands of cannon sexual characters to choose from, from countless other series but they feel the need to fight to make the one Ace guy have sex. We get an Ace character and fans immediately try to work around it to still write smut with him. Aces can't even have one character. I'm looking up fics about a psychopath cannibalistic serial killer because he's the only Ace rep I've seen in years that isn't just fan headcannons and I'm getting punched in the face with so much Acephobia and corrective rape, it's horrifying. Aces can't go through the tag of a cannon ace comfort character without facing triggering amounts of acephobia. And that's just wrong. How can the fandom see this as okay??

If he was a gay character constantly being written into a straight ship with people excusing it as "well sometimes gay guys will have sex with women" people would be up in arms about gay erasure. But because it's an Ace character that they personally want to still ship with characters it's not Ace erasure. He's just an Ace that likes to have lots and lots of sex.

ALASTOR IS ASEXUAL. If you are in anyway trying to write Alastor in character or close to cannon. Then he does not desire sex that is the basic definition of Asexual. But yall can't except this tumblr sexy man doesn't want to have sex (because everyone wants to have sex\s). So you bend over backwards trying to explain to an actual Ace person why we are sometimes pushed or pressured into sex and how that's okay. How it's okay for you a not Ace person to write this Ace character being forced into sexual situations. Because "sometimes" Aces have sex. You're right we do sometimes have sex. I'm not saying everyone has to write Alastor as a virgin. But he's had sex once or twice in the last 80 years at most. It's more likely he's gone the last 80 years without any desire to have sex at all. So to go from that to suddenly having sex even once a week is too much sex for him to suddenly put up with. God my Ace brain can't even wrap my head around having sex every week (do you sexuals really do that?). And I haven't gone 80 years free from sexual expectations. To expect Alastor to magically be open to a bunch of sex is ignorant at best. Regardless of what character or ocfemalereadersona you try to push him to have sex with.

I don't know what else to say other than that i'm just tired. Tired and sad. The Ace community should be celebrating the fact that we finally have another Ace character in media. A character the show and creator have openly and constantly confirmed is Ace. But instead we are having to defend ourselves from our own terminology being weaponized against us to erase that characters Ace identity for smut fics.

[full-of-malice]

none of my favorite character are safe from The Aspec™ preexisting fandom or original character it doesn't matter i can project on them all the same

[queen0funova]

So I wrote a poem about my struggles with potentially being aro, but when I showed it to someone once, they said "This feels like something you'd give to someone you like."

And then like two weeks later, they made a comment about wanting to meet my partner, and I was like "I don't have one?"

[theaceofarrows]

I'm doing it. I'm actually doing it

I've started writing a one-shot of my Nimona, Hunter and Lloyd crossover au

I have no idea how it will be or what day I will post it, but it's HAPPENING

[lord-squiggletits]

IDW1 must take place on an alternate Earth where no one has ever heard of ACAB and everyone wears "thin blue line" merchandise because there's literally no other way that a single Autobot killing a USAmerican cop in self defense would be such worldwide news that even Mexican journalists would go "OMG???? You like, killed a cop?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?" and it wasn't even framed as like, "you killed a human," the phrasing every time any character talked about it was very specifically "he killed a cop".

The cop was also threatening to shoot a group of surrendering/not-attacking/injured Autobots btw which is just the icing on the cake honestly lmao