These are games, books, zines and other materials that have themes of being asexual (ace) or somewhere on the spectrum of asexuality: aromantic (aro), demiromantic, gray-ace, queerplatonic, and more.
This collection is part of my directory of other people's creations on itch.io, Curated Collections of LGBTQIA, where you can find more collections about other topics. I personally select and review each creation in them, even if they are different than my own views or experiences as a queer person myself.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A mini zine designed to be printed on one sheet of paper and folded.
About: Platonic poetry about the zinester's own aromantic experiences.
Queer themes: Aromantic, which is an orientation in which the person doesn't tend to feel romantically attracted to anyone.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: Zine.
Genre and subject: Nonfiction.
About: The zinester explains what demisexuality is, in a way that would be easy to understand for someone new to the idea. She explains it in general, as well as how it was in her own personal experiences as a demisexual.
Queer themes: Demisexuality, an orientation in which a person only feels very rarely attracted to others.
Vibe: Simple and friendly.
Content: Rated R. "The game features an optional sexually explicit section, which requires the player’s consent before moving forward, and can be skipped in its entirety. The Abridged PDF removes this scene as well."
Medium: "a digital comic with light choose-your-own adventure mechanics". More than 130 full color comic book pages.
About: "... an award-winning interactive graphic novel telling the story of ... two men, with two polar opposite sexualities, working together toward one mutually fulfilling relationship."
Queer themes: Polyamory. Gray-asexuality. Men loving men.
Vibe: "gentle, optimistic, and optionally erotic".
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: A wiki poem (made of excerpts from other texts) in a zine.
About the assumption that everyone's goal is romance as the ultimate form of relationship, and what it might be like if friendships were valued as highly.
Content: Rated R for references to some sexual topics.
Medium: Full color illustrated zine. There is a version designed for reading on screen, and one for printing.
Genre and subject: Nonfiction. Memoir. Humor.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A set of give phone wallpapers that are each an abstract design inspired by a pride flag.
Relevance: One of these is the asexual flag.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A short comic book zine. Black and white. There are separate versions for reading on screen, and for printing and folding.
About questioning whether you are asexual.
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: A computer game created in Bitsy.
Duration: Four minutes. No choices, so one play through will be enough.
Story: You walk around and reflect on your relationship.
Queer themes: An aromantic person in a happy long-term relationship with an agender person. This talks about discovering what being aromantic means, worrying about it, but ultimately finding understanding and happiness together with your partner.
Vibe: Cute, happy.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: A personal zine, full color, created in Electric Zine Maker.
Accessibility note: The text in this is difficult to read because of artistic choices with contrast, colors, and shapes.
About: The author's experience with being demisexual, and how that is a part of asexuality.
Content: PG-13.
Medium: Zine. 56 pages. There is a version for reading on screen one for print, and an accessible one.
About: An anthology of essays and stories about the relationships of asexual people.
Content: Rated R. There is dialog about sex, but no sex scenes.
Medium: A computer game created in Bitsy, which runs in your web browser.
Story: Wander a twisting maze and talk with your friends who you run into.
Queer themes: Much of the dialog is about being asexual or aromantic.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: "A set of phone wallpapers for pride month! Featuring two charismatic fox species, PLUS a layered .PSD so you can create a version with the flag (or other color scheme) of your choice + your fox OC. You can even replace the fox with a totally different animal :3"
Relevance: The most relevant designs in this creation come from the flags for aroace, aroallo, aromantic, asexual, demiromantic, demisexual, gray-aromantic, and gray-asexual.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A huge set of graphic designs. Flags, banners, stickers, emotes, palettes, and more.
Relevant flags: aroace., aromantic, asexual, demiromantic, demisexual, graysexual, greyromantic, queerplatonic, quoiromantic, quoisexual, and reciprosexual.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A custom emoji pack for using on Mastodon, Discord, or Signal. These are cartoon octopi in the colors of various pride flags. There is a blank one that you can fill in with your own colors.
Relevant flag: Asexual.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A custom emoji pack for using on Mastodon. Each design has a pigeon holding a heart with a pride flag design on it.
Relevant flags: aromantic, asexual, demiromantic, and demisexual.
Medium: "580 flags, in 16 and 32 px format. This pack includes flags from Europe, Asia, Australia, nautical and LGBTQIA+."
Relevant flags: Aro-ace, asexual, and demisexual.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Pixel art heart graphics to use in your Twitch streams.
Relevant flags: aromantic and asexual.
Medium: Cross stitch patterns for DIY patch kits.
Relevant flags: aromantic, asexual, and demisexual.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Custom emoji for the chat software Discord. These are in the shape of characters from the computer game Among Us, each in the colors of a pride flag.
Relevant flags: Aromantic, asexual, demiromantic, demisexual, grey-asexual, and grey-aromantic.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Pixel art pride flags. 320x320 pixel GIF animations.
Has these relevant flags: aromantic and asexual.
"Tell people that you didn't mean it like that with this aromantic flag patch. Pattern is in color in SVG form and in black and white in PDF form."
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Custom emoji for Twitch and Discord. Each one is an animal waving a pride flag. Cats, crows, dragons, frogs, pandas, and wolves.
Has these asexual spectrum flags: aromantic and asexual.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Mod pack for the computer game Minecraft. "Includes: Bread Swords! (to invade Denmark, obviously) Ace Shield! Ace Cake! Ace Paintings! Ace Bows! Ace Hearts! (from Robyns Ace Hearts) Dark Mode! (from Dark Mode)"
Flags: Asexual, asexual spectrum, and aromantic.
A solo TTRPG that is a metaphor for what it's like being asexual in this society.
Content: Rated PG-13 for talk about sexuality. Not explicit.
Medium: An interactive text created in Twine.
About: You watch paint dry, grass grow, or wait for a kettle to boil, while random ruminations come up about the author and author's relationship.
Queer themes: All of the ruminations are about being aromantic and asexual and recently realizing that.
Vibe: Quietly pensive, frustrated, alienated, with some humor.
