asexual & aromantic books & discussion

Celebrating, discussing, and promoting books with asexual spectrum and/or aromantic spectrum characters! (currently in the process of returning from unplanned hiatus - thank you for your patience!)

[no-thisisnotabby]

I would love to see asexuals better represented in modern media.

[ppelicansarchive-blog-deactivat]

write more ships involving asexual characters

and write those ships where the sexual half decides to not have sex for their asexual partner

not where the asexual partner decides to have sex for their sexual partner

[readvitality]

just because a story has LGBT characters doesn't automatically makes it good.

accurate.

also accurate: stories that have LGBT characters, especially ones that are written for a queer audience instead of a straight audience are very hard to find and our promoting and publishing them helps those who are looking for them to find them.

even more accurate: GOOD stories with LGBT characters will never exist unless people support them, are willing to publish them, and get them into the hands of the readers who are desperate to see themselves represented in quality fiction. 

thus why we’re doing what we’re doing.

[heartsoulcontrol]

ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION MATTERS

[shadovvlurking]

quit depicting aromantics as bitter unhappy people 2k15

[readvitality]

You have six four days left to order a t-shirt and support LGBT lit through Vitality Magazine’s teespring t-shirt sales! 

The last day to order is 07/20, and after that, the price will go up and only be available as print on demand shirts. 

If you’re wondering what Vitality Magazine is or why you should support it, you can download our FREE July issue to see what we’re about! (Also learn how to submit your own stuff and subscribe to the magazine) 

[idonthavealifez]

I just really want a movie or a book where an asexual or a romantic character faces a siren and the siren is really confused about what to lure them in with and the siren just kinda goes “ok you can pass then I guess”

[nonbinaryfairygodparent-deactiv]

Sketchbook doodle!

I want Orson’s shirt. I tried explaining to my friend this morning that it was an ace joke, and he just gave me a blank look. How DO you explain the cake thing to non-aces??

[asexuallalligator]

[ASEXUAL WRITERS (Asexual Alligator) DON’T JUST BANG IT OUT OVERNIGHT]

[aroacereads]

me: i really relate to this character

me: they're ace

[bygoshbygolly]

And there it was again. The feeling that came over me every time this subject came up, as though I was standing on one side of some vast and uncrossable abyss and everybody else I knew was waving at me from the other.

RJ Anderson, Quicksilver (via bygoshbygolly)

[riptidepublishing]

All Submission Calls

Write for Triton

[hexedcoffee]

So, I dunno about you, but I’m tired of media that gives subtext without actual relationships. I made a special version of the print for a particular series that always come to mind anytime I think of an example of queerbaiting. 

Patreon | Buy the Print Here! | Read My Comic! 

[queerascat]

look what the mailman just gave me!

Amazon Japan FINALLY sent me the first of two copies of “The Invisible Orientation” by swankivy that i pre-ordered nearly a month ago. why on earth Amazon could only procure one of my two copies is beyond me, but whatever.

Yuki already approves of this book and i’ll be parking myself in a cafe with it later today. i’m a slowass reader so don’t expect comments too soon, but i’m going to do my best to get through this quickly as this will be the highlighted copy that i forward to my mom. :)

[bokdragen]

Books: By Marie Brennan

[adriens-place]

Me: *points at character* aromantic

shippers: nooo but look at this ship

Me: *points at character* AROMANTIC

[lesserjoke]

so i just finished this AMAZING book and i think some of y’all would probably like it too

cool narrative structure with two parallel stories told in alternating chapters

awesome female protagonists in both

one is a first-time young adult novelist, just out of high school and nervous about editing her manuscript and establishing a new life for herself in NYC

the other is the heroine in her finished novel, a teen girl who escapes a terrorist attack by temporarily willing herself into the afterlife

the novelist is a demisexual woc with a lesbian love interest

she struggles with issues of cultural appropriation and impostor syndrome and what constitutes someone’s “real name”

there are really cool developments in the book-within-a-book that clearly reflect the stuff the writer character is going through

idk it’s just really great