#aroaceingtheline2021

[cerulean-devil]

it’s day one of rqg aroace week! starting this off with some pride 

Day 1:  Pride - Doubt - Stars - White

[areyouokaypanda]

Earlier this week I collaborated with @kd-heart to make some topper art for a delicious cake they made, which can be found here! Now that the cake’s been posted, I thought some people might like to see the individual art files!

[sketch-cat]

a quick grizzop for @aroaceingtheline week! he’ll aro all your aces

[image ID, a coloured digital sketch of grizzop for rusty quill gaming. He is a grey goblin with red eyes and big floppy ears with small piercings on each of them. he is standing in a combat ready pose and grinning, holding his bow in front of him and pulling out an arrow from his quiver. the arrow’s feathers are the colours of the aromantic pride flag. grizzop is wearing a breastplate armor with a greed fabric underneath, and bandages wrapped around his arms and legs. his boots are black and almost knee high. he has leather bracers and black fingerless gloves. on his head is a striped green bandana. His wooden bow is simple and has fabrics wrapped around it. one is wrapped tightly and has the aro pride flag colours in mismatched orders, and the other is an asexual flag, blowing in the wind. the bow has two moons at the tips where the string connects. end ID]

[evieebun125]

Day 2 of aroaceing the line: Coming Out - In the Closest - Erasing the Line - Black

I’ve always head cannoned Grizzop and Sasha as aroace and in a qpr so i figured it would be nice if they could have sat on a nice rooftop and realized theyre a lot a like

[aroaceingtheline]

AroAceing the Line - an RQG AroAce Event

[image ID: a d20 dice in the aro colours with the ace flag in the background]

To celebrate Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, we bring you an event based around a-spec identities for the Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast! Please join us in our quest for more content and positivity around aro and ace characters/headcanons!

Prompts February 2021

22nd: Pride - Doubt - Stars - White 23rd: Coming Out - In the Closest - Erasing the Line - Black 24th: Relationship - Single - Dancing - Pale Green 25th: Awareness - Secrets - Flowers - Purple 26th: Family - Friends - Magic - Grey 27th: Love - Sex - Experimentation - Dark Green 28th: Spectrum - Dessert Toppings - Discovery - Rainbow

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[kellanswritingblog]

Day 6 of @aroaceingtheline!  Today I went with the prompt Sex.

Zolf is asexual, and doesn’t generally care that much about the more intimate aspects of a relationship, even if he does enjoy them sometimes.  However, he wants to make sure that Wilde is aware of this as their relationship progresses in case it turns out to be a dealbreaker, but Wilde wouldn’t change a thing about how they are together.

Discussions of sex but they’re vague and not at all explicit

With one more deep breath, Zolf knocked tentatively on the door to Wilde’s impromptu office aboard the rebuilt Vengeance.  They were on their way back to populated lands, but the voyage still had a long way to go.

“Come in!”  He called, and Zolf obliged.  “Oh, Zolf, how are you?”

“I’m alright, I… there was something I wanted to talk to you about.”

Dammit, he had this whole thing planned out in his head, and here he was, mucking it up already.  He knew not to start a conversation like that, with one of the most anxiety-inducing phrases in any language.

“Okay, sure.”  Wilde set down his paperwork to give Zolf his full attention.

“That sounds bad,” Zolf added hastily, “it’s not a bad thing, it’s just… something I feel I ought to say.”

Despite Zolf’s rambling, Wilde smiled, then teased, “It’s not as if you were ever the eloquent one between the two of us.”

Zolf chuckled. “True.  Anyway, I wanted to say… about the two of us…”

Now Wilde cocked his head to the side, his gaze a mixture of curiosity and concern.

“That sounds bad again!” Zolf cursed himself silently. “Anyway, you know I’m asexual, right?”

“You mentioned it at some point, yes.”

“Right.  Well, listen, I know that there are so many more important things going on right now, but… it’s important for you to know that sex isn’t really something I’m super interested in?  So, once we set the world right, if you wanted to, say, find another partner who is interested in a more romantic or sexual relationship, that’s totally fair and I understand.  I just ask that you don’t forget about me.”

Wilde stood from his desk and stepped up to Zolf.  “As if I could forget you, even if I wanted to,” he breathed.  Then he continued, “Thank you for talking to me about this, really.”

“I also want to say, though, that… if our relationship does progress that way, then those more intimate things aren’t completely off the table,” Zolf said, looking at his hands as Wilde held them in his own.  “It’s not a big thing for me, but I do like feeling close to someone I care about, so… maybe at some point…”  His cheeks flushed red.  “And, listen, I’m not saying that we should hop in a bunk right now, I just want to explain everything before things go any farther.  Maybe it doesn’t matter, maybe-”

“It does matter,” Wilde insisted, and he squeezed Zolf’s hands.  “It’s important to set those boundaries.  And I would never seek to pressure you or make you uncomfortable.”

“Likewise.”  Zolf now looked up from his hands to meet Wilde’s gaze for the first time in the whole conversation, and he smiled.

“We’ll see where things go, once we’ve saved the world, yeah?  And we’ll work it out together.  But, regardless of how intimate we ever get, are hugs still okay?”

Zolf beamed. “Absolutely.”

The pair collapsed into each other and embraced tightly.  Zolf buried his face in Wilde’s chest as the fear he felt going into the discussion faded away.  It certainly seemed that sex was something Wilde enjoyed, so it wasn’t impossible for it to be a dealbreaker.  But that Wilde still held him, still told him that he cared and that they would sort it out together… Zolf knew his nervousness was for naught.

“Thank you for listening,” Zolf said some time later as they pulled apart.  “And for being so understanding.”

“And thank you for talking to me about this,” he replied.  “I imagine it can’t be easy for you to just go up to someone and say ‘hey, I want to talk about whether or not we’re going to have sex in the future.’”

“No, it’s not the easiest thing,” Zolf laughed.  “But it’s important.  And you’re important.”

“I like to think so,” Wilde teased with his telltale smirk, and Zolf rolled his eyes even though he couldn’t stop smiling.  “But it’s still nice to hear you say it.”

It wasn’t usual for Wilde to blush or get flustered, but the faintest tinge of red crept into his cheeks as he carried on.

“And, Zolf, listen, for what it’s worth… I do kind of hope our relationship goes that way.  You are a very handsome man, and I already feel closer to you than I have with almost anyone.”

Zolf let out a cough in surprise and his eyebrows skyrocketed.  The earlier blush in his cheeks hadn’t yet faded entirely, and now it came back brighter than before.

“Well, you know… I have always said that you have a really nice bum,” Zolf stuttered out when he finally regained a bit of composure.

“Yeah, yours isn’t half bad either.”  Wilde smirked, then added, more seriously, “But I don’t necessarily mean anything by all this.  If we never have sex, that’s fine.  If we never kiss or anything like that, it doesn’t change the fact that I love you, okay?”

Zolf nodded and smiled. “I love you too.”

“And, like you said, there are a lot of other things going on right now.  But that doesn’t make what we have any less significant.”

“We’ve got to fix the world so we can go on a proper date,” Zolf said.  “Flying around and nearly dying is fun and all, but I think a nice dinner is more my speed.”

“How boring,” Wilde laughed, and Zolf chuckled too.  They both knew how much they craved a taste of normalcy after months and months of chasing down leads that threatened to lead nowhere.

Zolf didn’t know what else to say.  He was so filled with relief and gratitude, even though he was still rather flustered by Wilde’s remarks.  In the end, he decided the best choice was to embrace Wilde again, to hold him tight and dream of a day where they wouldn’t have to fight anymore.  And, as Wilde pulled him in closer, Zolf believed that that day might come sooner than he ever could have hoped.

[plasticcyborg]

who put the flowers there?

in my head it was either sasha or wilde and if anyone so much as acknowledges them it will never happen again. 

aro/aceing the line

feb 25 - Awareness - Secrets - Flowers - Purple

[makesometime]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Zolf Smith/Oscar Wilde Characters: Zolf Smith, Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming) Additional Tags: AroAceing the Line 2021, Asexual Zolf Smith, Flirting, Developing Relationship, 18-Month Time Gap (Rusty Quill Gaming), Coming Out Series: Part 1 of AroAceing the Line 2021 Summary:

It's definitely not the first time he's come out. Probably won’t be the last. Life's full of those little moments, after all.

It's just probably the only time he's wished he said it better. Clearer. Sober, for fuck's sake.