An Ace Week Fiction Podcast Fan Event

Sunday, October 19th - Saturday October 25th 2025

[acepodcastweek]

Ace Podcast Week 2025 (October 19-25)

Our third-ever Ace Podcast Week (APW) launches tomorrow! This is a casual event celebrating acespec representation and community in the fiction podcasting space.

This year, we've decided to run APW 2025 along the same lines as the Fiction Podcast Zine Festival: no assigned prompts, no schedule besides a start and an end, and no grand expectations.

So, How Do I Join In?

At least once during APW, make something related to fiction podcasts and acespec identity. It's that easy. It doesn't need to be polished, just creating something is more than enough. It could be celebrating acespec characters, themes, creators, or the identity itself, or just whatever feels right to you.

If you're comfortable sharing them, you can tag them with #ace podcast week, or even @ me here at @acepodcastweek. I'll be checking tags daily up until November 1st, and late entries are always welcome.

Some things you might make include:

Polls

Zines

Visual art

Music & playlists

Fanfic

Media analysis

Recommendation lists

Shoutouts or highlighting creators

Poetry

Baking

Cosplay

Sharing headcanons

And whatever else might strike your fancy.

If you need a little extra inspiration, you can also look through all the brilliant entries we had last two years in the #ace podcast week tag, or on this blog.

And if you would like to use prompts, we've got sets from 2023 and 2024 that you can sample from.

Creator Featurettes

Podcast creators and contributors who are acespec or have acespec characters are very welcome to put together little features of their characters and/or projects, which I'll reblog here.

Resources

There are plenty of acespec characters in audio fiction, and I've attached two lists below to get you started:

Ace Rep!, a podcast list curated by tals on Podchaser

A podcast list curated by tals. Fiction podcasts with ace rep! Shout out to additional compiliations at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet

2022 Canon Aspec Podcast Character List

Questions & Queries

If you have any questions, concerns, ideas, or anything else in that realm, get in touch with me here. You can also drop them in the comments, my DMs, or send me an ask. Be aware that I don't always see comments in my notes (wizard curse), so the latter two options will be more reliable. If there's something I can be doing better? Let me know.

A list of asked and anticipated questions from our first APW can be found here, and will be updated as additional questions are asked.

[asalesbian]

belated Ibra from The Wandering Path for @acepodcastweek <3

[fictionfrequency1]

7 Podcasts with Ace and Aro Characters

It’s Ace Podcast Week, and audio drama fans are flooding the internet with zines, art and more about their favourite asexual and aromantic c

Here’s a late addition to @acepodcastweek! This has been published since 24 October, and now it’s finally on Tumblr

[scifikimmi]

Shows up one day late to @acepodcastweek - (I was busy with work and didn't have a chance to make something until sunday sorry!)

Even though I'm late, I had to make something since I am ace myself and its always so cool to see ace rep in media.

I made some fan art for the two chars from @thepenumbrapodcast Jet and Tal who are ace and aro. So, even tho its ace week specifically, I included the colors of both flags.

It's a collage made with cut paper, pen, and marker. :)

If you haven't listened to The Penumbra podcast, I highly recommend it. The two stories that these chars are from (Second Citidal and Juno Steel) are finished (and so so so good) and they are working on a new story (Thirst) right now!

[artsying-ifer]

sister carpenter drawing finished just in time for the end of @acepodcastweek - I was very stuck for inspiration this year so ended up using one of my all time fave ace memes tee hee

if you guys like my art please do check out my commission info - see my pinned post for details!

[acepodcastweek]

Ace Podcast Week 2025 (October 19-25)

Our third-ever Ace Podcast Week (APW) launches tomorrow! This is a casual event celebrating acespec representation and community in the fiction podcasting space.

This year, we've decided to run APW 2025 along the same lines as the Fiction Podcast Zine Festival: no assigned prompts, no schedule besides a start and an end, and no grand expectations.

So, How Do I Join In?

At least once during APW, make something related to fiction podcasts and acespec identity. It's that easy. It doesn't need to be polished, just creating something is more than enough. It could be celebrating acespec characters, themes, creators, or the identity itself, or just whatever feels right to you.

If you're comfortable sharing them, you can tag them with #ace podcast week, or even @ me here at @acepodcastweek. I'll be checking tags daily up until November 1st, and late entries are always welcome.

Some things you might make include:

Polls

Zines

Visual art

Music & playlists

Fanfic

Media analysis

Recommendation lists

Shoutouts or highlighting creators

Poetry

Baking

Cosplay

Sharing headcanons

And whatever else might strike your fancy.

If you need a little extra inspiration, you can also look through all the brilliant entries we had last two years in the #ace podcast week tag, or on this blog.

And if you would like to use prompts, we've got sets from 2023 and 2024 that you can sample from.

Creator Featurettes

Podcast creators and contributors who are acespec or have acespec characters are very welcome to put together little features of their characters and/or projects, which I'll reblog here.

Resources

There are plenty of acespec characters in audio fiction, and I've attached two lists below to get you started:

Ace Rep!, a podcast list curated by tals on Podchaser

A podcast list curated by tals. Fiction podcasts with ace rep! Shout out to additional compiliations at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet

2022 Canon Aspec Podcast Character List

Questions & Queries

If you have any questions, concerns, ideas, or anything else in that realm, get in touch with me here. You can also drop them in the comments, my DMs, or send me an ask. Be aware that I don't always see comments in my notes (wizard curse), so the latter two options will be more reliable. If there's something I can be doing better? Let me know.

A list of asked and anticipated questions from our first APW can be found here, and will be updated as additional questions are asked.

[sketchy-drawer]

AAAAHHH

[thegospelofhaven]

Happy ace week from Isiah Whitlock, god's most autistic, aromantic and asexual little soldier. And from me, the guy so passionate about destroying allonormativity that he made a podcast about it. We have nothing to lose but our chains

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Hampton Fawx from Fawx and Stallion is aromantic asexual!

[starplanes]

Here's some of my favorite fiction podcasts with ace rep!

[deckofmanyaces]

"Welcome to the Adventurers Research of Abnormal Civilian Experiences - or Project AROACE for short."

The Tall Girls in an Ace Flag for @acepodcastweek !

Black = asexuality

Grey = grey-asexuality

White = allosexuals

Purple = community

[starplanes]

Finding Asexual Representation in Indie Audio Drama

This piece was originally published in Discover Pods in 2021. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve written, and I want to share it here as…

Happy Ace Week! Here's something I wrote 4 years ago about ace rep in audio drama, a piece I'm really proud of!

[kit-n-kboodl]

It's ace week and also my birthday this week, twice the reason to donate to our crowdfunder in support of me (asexual birthday haver) and our Captain Crawford (asexual Minus 219 guy)

Minus 219 Arc One Crowdfund by Delaney Sutton - Indiegogo

Minus 219 is a sci-fi audio drama following a crew of 5 sent to explore the aquatic planet 15-DS3.

[worlddevotionproject]

HAPPY ASEXUAL WEEK!

Happy Ace week to our Raegen and Kassandra, saints of the God of Desire.

Happy Ace week to everyone all across the asexual spectrum, swers, ace lesbians, stone tops, pillow princesses, ace trans people, ace straight people, ace gay men, ace bi people, disabled ace people, ace autistic people, ace people with trauma, ace people without trauma, sexually active ace people, celibate ace people, greyace people, ace nsfw artists, ace nsfw writers, sex repulsed ace people, sex indifferent ace people, ace people into kink, ace people still figuring it out, ace people in therapy, ace people navigating it with partners, ace people with unconventional sexual expression, ace people everywhere of all kinds and all experiences.

WDP as a project and myself (Kit) want to contribute this story to the deconstruction of allonormativity and spread of asexual awareness and understanding as much as we can!

Remember that sexuality is different for absolutely everyone, and you never ever have to do anything you do not want to do. Being asexual can be such a varied experience, and so much love goes out to each and every one of you.

We are excited to share different types of ace stories with you here on World Devotion Project! ✨🫧❇️⭐

[deckofmanyaces]

Been thinking a lot about how Ace Week is 13 (!) years old and I thought it would be fun to do a "teenage dirtbag" themed Ace Podcast Week post

Anyway, behold and enjoy some (head)canon teen facts about Toz and Raina from Deck of Many Aces

@acepodcastweek

[glassfullofsass]

A (platonic) love letter to InCo

There are a few cut and dry aroace podcast characters, and even some that don’t end their story in some sort of long-term committed relationship. Attraction is a spectrum and having a variety of identities and experiences is important. I just happen to fall at the Strong No end of those spectrums, so the ‘but in this way’ and the ‘when it’s you’ and the ‘yes romance, no sex’ characters don’t really do it for me.

Don’t get me wrong. I am all for a QPR. I have an extensive Elementary tag and an absurd number of fics/wips that are just the same QPR recycled into different fandoms. But what I play with in fandom isn’t necessarily what I want.

So a character that hits nearly every note of: 

how I feel 

how I don’t feel 

what I want out of life 

That hits pretty hard. 

For me, that character is Nova Nostar.

I mean, she’s not a perfect comparison. She’s not also agender, for one thing. She is deeply messed up in a way that makes her deliciously compelling as a character, but I dearly hope is never that relatable.

But, she doesn’t have a type. Romance isn’t for her. The idea of being in a relationship with Hatov – someone who is, truly, very important to her, even if she struggles to verbalize it – is laughable. Even from Hatov’s perspective, the suggestion is deeply uncomfortable. Not because he doesn’t care about her – because he does, immensely, desperately – but because that’s not who she is, and that’s certainly not who she is to him.

Also, she enjoys soap operas and trashy novels and yelling at characters who persist in making terrible choices – just as long as all of that is fiction (to her; fiception, if you will), it’s interesting and fun and enjoyable. Personally, I can’t deal with the never-endingness a soap, but I will read a romance. I’ll enjoy it, even. I’ve written plenty of shippy fanfic. I’ve read a lot of shippy fanfic. Just as long as it stays over there (in fiction), I’m all for it.

And Nova’s happy ever after? Leaving her friends, people she has developed deep and meaningful relationships with, to go back to space. Those relationships aren’t over – she’ll call and write and visit again – but the point is her future is not some version of an intimate relationship. It’s her, and the life she wants to live. It’s the life she’s worked for, the life that she has been saying she wants, and that isn’t taken away from her. It isn’t changed to fit around another person. 

Because it feels disingenuous to get into Nova’s character and not address the Alula of it all, I’ll mention it briefly. InCo does many things well, and portraying deep, abiding, profound grief is one of them. Nova loves Alula, and Alula’s death weighs heavy throughout the story, showing up in unfinished sentences, misdirection, and locked doors long before the fact of it is said out loud.

Nova tells Jeanne that Alula was different. She also, in her most vulnerable and unguarded moment, tells Hatov that Alula wouldn’t leave her alone, that Nova thought she wanted to be left alone, and it’s so clear that Nova desperately wanted to keep Alula in her life. This is the same Nova that deliriously remarks on just how pretty Hatov’s eyes are - something that isn’t unrelated to Alula. 

I don’t read this as Alula being an exception, that she would have been Nova's fairytale ending. I read Alula as being the first person to see Nova. And that's a hell of a thing. Nova was always going to grow up and fly her own ship. But Alula cut through Nova’s defensiveness, her self-protection, and taught Nova that she could love people in ways that were comfortable, and safe, and not the ways expected by society and portrayed in fiction.

And then she went and got herself thrown out an airlock with Nova watching, but that’s really going beyond the scope of my point.

Just to tie up loose ends, about Hatov being pretty, about Alula’s intense eyes – that’s not sexual attraction. People are pretty. I don’t want to fuck them about it.  

[re-dracula]

It's ace week! Happy ace week!