Happy Acespec Day from your friendly neighborhood Grey-Ace author! 41 turns around the sun for me, born on this most perfect of days. Of course, i had to make my annual Ace Art of my oc Johnny O’Sullivan in all his teenage glory for this year, because I realized I have never made a piece of his younger self, and because his young version is a reflection of me in so many ways, it felt right.
You can read his story in my webcomics Seemingly Dark, and Mil-Liminal, or you can read his asexual experience in a mini comic I did called Ace of Hearts, on Tapas HERE or on Webtoon HERE. 🖤🤍💜
Feel free to use as a phone background, and if you’d prefer the dark mode version of that let me know, I’ll send you a file. Happy day of loving yourself to all my Ace followers!
These are Aliyah (they/them) in the back, Horace (e/em) in the middle and Rumi (he/him) and they are the ace main characters from The Chronicles of Nerezia!
The first one, Awakenings, is already funded on Kickstarter, but you can still help!!!
Blurb and Description
As the city’s eternal apprentice, Horace has never found a clan to belong to. E has joined Trenaze's guards with hopes to finally earn eir place during eir trial day at the Great Market—that is, until the glowing shards haunting the world break through the city's protective dome. Armed with a sword and too little training, Horace doubts in eir ability to defend the market-goers. But eir last stand is interrupted by a mysterious elven figure who can dissipate the shards with a single, strange sentence: your story is my story.
From the moment it is uttered, Horace knows the sentences holds true for em, too—and when the elf collapses in the middle of the market, e carries them to safety. After an afternoon of board games in their quiet, sharp-witted company, Horace is ready to follow this elf as they seek the forest that haunts their dreams, and answers to the confounding events at the Market. Their story is eir story, and e is willing to confront the dangers of the road to hear their laugh again and finally feel like e belongs.
The Chronicles of Nerezia is a series of nine queer fantasy novellas with non-binary aroace MCs that marries the quiet moments of cozy fantasy and the sweeping twists of epic fantasy. It’s currently running on Kickstarter!
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Author Bio
Claudie Arseneault is an easily-enthused aromantic and asexual writer with a never-ending cycle of obsessions but an enduring love for all things cephalopod and fantasy (together or not!). She writes stories that centre platonic relationships and loves large casts and single-city settings, the most notable of which are the City of Spires series (2017-2023) and Baker Thief (2018).
In addition to her own fiction, Claudie has co-edited Common Bonds (2021), an anthology of aromantic speculative short stories. She is a founding member of The Kraken Collective, an alliance of self-publishing SFF authors, and the creator of the Aromantic and Asexual Characters Database.
Happy Ace week by the way, from me, your friendly neighborhood Grey-Ace author! Here's a round up of many of the pieces I've done of Johnny for Ace week or Ace day in april.
You can read his story in my webcomics Seemingly Dark, and Mil-Liminal, or you can read his grey-asexual experience in a mini comic I did called Ace of Hearts, on Tapas HERE or on Webtoon HERE. 🖤🤍💜
Happy Asexual Awareness week to all my ace pals, here's your annual ace-spec art of Latte King Johnny O'Sullivan from your friendly neighborhood ace-spec author!
