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Hello fandom, we hope you are enjoying the feeling of mounting dread as season 5 approaches. This is your not-so-regular reminder that The MagnACE Archives is here for your ace-related TMA fanwork needs!

The What?

The MagnACE Archives is an ongoing challenge for creating works focused on or related to asexuality. Our main venue is Dreamwidth, where you can post and read prompts or fanfic “fills.” We also have AO3 collections and (obviously) this tumblr for sharing unprompted works, so if there’s something you’ve been meaning to create, there’s no time like the present!

Regardless of platform, all of our submissions are divided into SFW vs. NSFW/Kink categories, and subject to specific tagging guidelines to make sure that readers are informed and comfortable.

1) Check out the links on our (updated!) Asexuality Resources page for neat information about different asexual experiences and what’s up in the community.

2) Make some ace fanworks for our challenge by responding to a prompt or following your heart’s desire.

3) Ask for some sweet ace fanfic catering to your tastes on the TMACE Dreamwidth.

What is this?

It's a chance to celebrate everyone's favorite asexual Archivist by writing fic or creating fanworks that focus on or address Jon's asexuality! There are a million and one different ace experiences and we believe that every ace deserves the chance to see their own experiences reflected in a canonically asexual character.

How does it work?

From now until November 10, our Dreamwidth community will be open to prompts. If you've always wanted to see a particular kind of fanwork but haven't felt confident in your ability to create it yourself, this is your chance! There are separate NSFW and SFW prompt posts and prompts are submitted anonymously. A moderator will review your prompt and it will be visible to others as soon as possible.

If you want to fill a request, dive right in! Fills will also be posted anonymously, although you're welcome to cross-post your fill elsewhere under your name as well. We are asking that everyone tag their work very thoroughly; we know that content that some aces find important and validating can be triggering to other aces, and we want people to be able to find what they want without wading through anything that makes them uncomfortable. See our Tag Guidelines for more info.

We also have an AO3 Collection where you can post your work anonymously or under your own name, and you can post to Tumblr with the tag #tmace. Don't feel you have to stick to the prompts! If you've been waiting for an excuse to finish that ace-centric fic, here it is.

More questions?

Hello TMA fandom!

Though asexual awareness week is almost over and the season finale is nigh, there’s no reason we can’t continue to live our best lives by celebrating everyone’s favorite ace archivist! Thus, we’re announcing a brand-new event focused specifically on works relating to asexuality.

The Basics:

We want to create space for all of the many, many aces in this fandom to represent and see themselves represented in TMA fanworks, and also engage with those works in a comfortable and positive way. Because everyone deserves that sweet ace rep!

In this event, anyone will be able to contribute prompts for ace!fanfic on our Dreamwidth memes. Writers are then invited to fill as many prompts as they like, and/or post any other ace-related fics they like to our AO3 collections or on tumblr. Art is welcome too, and will be reblogged on this account! (Also, please note that you don’t have to be ace to participate - we just ask that you do your due diligence, and will be providing some guidelines and suggestions to that effect.)

We’re doing our best to make this as inclusive and welcoming as possible. In addition to having open submissions as mentioned above, this means:

Anonymity - Both prompts and fic “fills” will be posted anonymously on Dreamwidth. The AO3 collections will also be anonymous, though you are welcome to have your name revealed or cross-post your work with your name attached if you wish.

Separate collections for SFW vs. NSFW - Both Dreamwidth and AO3 will have separate sections to make it easier to find or avoid certain stuff!

Mandatory tags - We’ll be asking (and moderating) writers to add appropriate tags to indicate the kind of asexual representation they’re including in their work, again to make it easier to find and filter what you want to read.

For more information on our goals and methods, check out our About the Event page!

Important Dates:

31st October - Dreamwidth opens for prompts

2nd - 10th November - Prompt fills and fanwork posting

That’s it for now, but the full Rules, FAQ, and Tag Guidelines will be available soon. In the meantime, we encourage you to think about what kind of prompts you may want to post and what fanworks you want to create!

You’re also free to send us any burning questions or concerns you may have. We can’t guarantee that we will implement all suggestions, as there are a lot of competing interests at work (for instance, we’re not going to be outright banning any type of content), but we are doing our utmost to run this event in a thoughtful and considerate way.

Happy excruciating hiatus TMA fandom,

Thank you to everyone who has contributed prompts or fills to the collection thus far!

Several people have indicated to us that they would like to add more prompts and write more fics but simply didn’t have the time to do so within the event period (which goes for the mods as well), so we’ve decided to leave this open as an ongoing challenge. That means you can continue adding prompts and fills to the Dreamwidth, or submitting your works to the AO3 collections (SFW / NSFW) for the foreseeable future. We’ll be doing a post about once a month or so to remind y’all that this exists, and likely some mini-events too.

We interrupt your screaming over the season finale to bring you this message:

The Dreamwidth community is now open for ace fic prompts! You’ll find all of the instructions you need over there, but you can always let us know if you have any questions. Please keep in mind that your posts may take up to a couple hours to appear, due to timezones and the mods’ need for sleep, etc.

(If you have no idea what this refers to, check out our announcement post and about page.)

That’s it for now; we’ll be back on November 2nd when the event officially begins to give details about posting prompt fills and other ace-related fanworks.

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