#fandomaspecfest

It's that time of the year where I start seeing if there's interest in a fest this year! How is everyone feeling about writing?

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Zari Tomaz & Team Legends, Ray Palmer & Zari Tomaz Characters: Zari Tomaz, Ray Palmer, Amaya Jiwe, Sara Lance, Mick Rory, Jefferson "Jax" Jackson, Martin Stein, Nate Heywood Additional Tags: Mention of future Ray Palmer/Nora Darhk, Blink and you miss it mention of Sara Lance/Ava Sharpe, Panic Attacks, Aromantic Asexual Zari Tomaz, Asexual Character, Episode: s03e04 Phone Home, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Platonic Soulmates, This seems like a lot of tags but I'm trying to cover everything, Scars, Mention of future Wally West/Jefferson "Jax" Jackson, Aromantic Character Summary:

By logical conclusions, according to ten-year-old Zari Tomaz, soulmates were, and forever would be, bullshit.

The Legends wholeheartedly and emphatically disagreed.

In celebration of Asexual Awareness Week, have a ficlet with my AroAce Zari and some soulmates for @fandomaspecfest <3

So, what does the theme “trope inversion” mean?

There are so many common tropes in fanfiction that we all love... but don’t quite work when you’re writing an asexual, aromantic, or aspec character. 

Bed sharing is phenomenal, but what about an asexual character who feels uncomfortable with that moment of sexual tension instead of an allo character who embraces it and suddenly realized they like their bed partner?

Enemies to friends to lovers is a classic, but a lot of times fics rely on the idea that anger can lead to sexual tension easily. What if you’re writing a repulsed character who tries to avoid the confrontation because their counterpart keeps trying to turn it sexual and/or romantic? An acearo character who isn’t able to read the signals that the other person is trying to give off? What about an aromantic character whose enemies to friends to lovers doesn’t have the romantic aspect to lovers?

How about a fake/pretend relationship or woke up married fic with a demi character, who doesn’t realize their feelings, but instead develops them as they get closer to their partner? A grey character who is trying to figure out what these new feelings are that they’ve never experienced for someone before. 

A kidfic with two aromantic queer platonic partners coparenting, instead of the characters falling in love as they raise a child. The character trying to explain to nosy neighbors that no, they’re not dating, and actually mean it.