LINKDING

➤ 19th century short story with an aro-ace main character. EXTREMELY bad OCR but this is the only copy of it I can find online

<blockquote>Laurence is content living with Tharkay after the war, but he wishes their relationship could be more... defined.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A zine from under the asexual umbrella about experiences with(in) modern Christianity</blockquote> ➤ a collection of personal stories from ace people about their experience of church.

<blockquote>“Are we dating?” Breha said to him one afternoon in the Academy’s library. Or, the life and times of Breha and Bail Organa.</blockquote>

<blockquote>and then one day while beauty’s re-alphabetizing her magic library and trying to decide where to put that enchanted mirror the beast comes up and he’s like hey so this is awkward but are you like………………………………..in love with me……????????? and beauty’s like oh uh wow haha um sorry no you’re…sort of a tiger and the beast is like thank goodness because if you were i’d have to turn back into a human and i’ve kind of gotten used to being a big lion thing with horns and the ability to speak english for some reason like why would i want to go back to being a spindly little man and then beauty laughs and she’s like okay well can you go catch us a wild boar for dinner, dear</blockquote> ➤ this is the best beauty and the beast retelling

<blockquote>Of all the things that had and could happen to Carlos in Night Vale, becoming a vampire was practically mundane. Hardly worth mentioning, really. One day you're a regular mortal human, and the next night you wake up with fangs...</blockquote>

<blockquote>Carlos runs into yet another Night Vale peril, but maybe he shouldn't have called Cecil for help this time.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Cecil has tentacles. He minds this far more than Carlos does.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The night that his research partner (and sort-of ex) shows up at his apartment with a gun, Carlos decides to take a mysterious but exceptionally well funded two-year research posting in a town called Night Vale. A story in which Night Vale is there for the people who need it, Cecil's propensity to wear his innocent heart on his sleeve is perceived as a threat (until it isn't) and no one is allowed to hurt the Scientist. No one.</blockquote> ➤ I was wary when this fic introduced Cecil with sweatervests and sleeve tattoos (...that particular headcanon seems to go along with fics/arts/ideas I'm not into) but no turns out this fic is awesome ➤ ALSO it's an asexual romance that DOESN'T involve the romance partners engaging in sexual activity but instead involves the sexual partner being extremely respectful of the asexual partners boundaries! ➤ Also this is the fic with the Orphanarians and the invisible orphan lab assistant ➤ as of bookmarking it says it's one chapter short of being finished but it reads as finished as it is so I'm guessing it's just an epilogue coming.

<blockquote>This was what Bilbo noticed: for all that the dragon was a monstrous thing beyond Bilbo's imagination – it reminded Bilbo of the little lizards that would sometimes sunbathe on the rocks in his garden back home in the same sense that this mountain palace reminded him of those rocks – the dragon seemed prey to the same ordinary failing as any creature that thought rather too much of itself. And that was, of course, its vanity.</blockquote> ➤ this is not a story I would ever have expected to read but it is amaze and I love it

<blockquote>"I can want to spend my life serving someone and not want to have sex with them," Grantaire says. "I am capable of that. My submission is capable of that."</blockquote>

<blockquote>The day her mother gives birth to a horse is the day Persephone decides that she really needs a plan.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Science was his mistress and his lover and his bosom companion. Carlos was happier losing himself in the ecstasy of discovery, stealing secrets like kisses from the endlessly beautiful universe, than he could be trying to satisfy any human partner. Then he came to Night Vale.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Charlie joined Carlos' team hoping to gain some practical experience, contribute to his field, maybe get a paper published. He definitely wasn't expecting...well...Night Vale. (A series of vignettes about everyone's favorite scientific researchers and their handsome leader.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>or in other words, “Why Nonhuman Homosexual and Asexual Behavior has both Survival and Reproductive Benefits" aka that lit review i’d like to write if i could ever be arsed to get around to it</blockquote>

➤ does what it says on the tin! ➤ Also includes download links for Melannen's ace playlist as one folder, and the songs suggested by others in the comments to Melannen's post

➤ does what it says on the tin

<blockquote>In which Valjean asks about Javert's super old-fashioned ponytail. Ridiculous established relationship kinkmeme fill.</blockquote>

<blockquote>On their final night in Lake-town, Bilbo accepts a bedfellow. (Spoilers for middle of the book.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Alexios finds that first winter in Belgica very cold, but not without its merits.</blockquote>

<blockquote>a tendency to flirt shamelessly with anything that moves is making it really hard to convince people that he is asexual, but he's not going to stop.</blockquote> ➤ The listy bits at the beginning of the fic are the best part and can be seen as a fic in its own right

<blockquote>Nhen runs into Gaila at a bar.  She isn’t pleased.</blockquote> ➤ An ace Orion! http://archiveofourown.org/works/944610

<blockquote>All John ever wanted was for people to stop meddling in his personal life. Too bad he has so many well-meaning friends.</blockquote>

<blockquote>John finds what he's been waiting for when Teyla places it on his chest, warm and heavy and smelling of milk. Or: Six people John never told, and four he didn't need to tell.</blockquote> ➤ John is asexual. And it is a story about asexuality that's not about sex.

<blockquote>Because really, how can you explain a polyamorous relationship consisting of an asexual domme, a lesbian sub, and a vanilla bisexual? They fit. They love each other. Isn't that enough?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Actaeon was lucky.</blockquote> ➤ Written in blank verse.

➤ A series of gorgeous and depressing looks at their relationship and at Kierkegaard. The fourth one got me a bit teary.

<blockquote>A look at Nan, on the day of Tommy Bang's wedding.</blockquote>  ➤ Written for me for Yuletide

<blockquote>The prompt in this case asked for Spock not particularly enjoying sex, but doing it anyway because Jim likes it, etc., and the two of them coming to terms with the fact that it doesn't mean the same thing to both of them.</blockquote> ➤ And then there are negotiations and logical conclusions.

<blockquote>Ivan has one mother. Unfortunately, he also has an aunt.</blockquote>