Interstellar Love Song: Content, Tropes, Kinks & Triggers

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Content, Tropes & Kinks: 

  • Queer joy! In space! (Still sci-fi lite tho).
  • Established MM couple with mutual obsession (“Loving, sweet, freaky lil horndogs.” —my editor).
  • BOTH our Bad B’s level up (Micah is a certified space sorcerer and Ziggy finds his witchy bitch ish).
  • Ziggy proposes (multiple times… with countless missed social cues and several misdemeanors…).
  • Yes, there is a space wedding!
  • YES. There Will Be Mpreg. (Mission: Knock Up That Alienussy COMMENCES!)
  • Oops! We gotta save the universe.
  • More lore for the Lore Whores.
  • Actual science for the science ho’s (feel free to skim if it’s not your kink, but there’s a handy list in the glossary).
  • It’s like Guardians of the Galaxy, but with more fucking.
  • Grumpy/sunshine, hurt/comfort, found family & all the schmoopy feels.
  • The usual unhinged humor + witty banter.
  • The plot thickens. So. Thick.
  • Our intrepid explorers picking up the crumbs of intel along the way (just enjoy the twists and turns in the Lodger 79 Mystery Machine).
  • But beware all the red herrings… (SO many red herrings—this author is the worst).
  • Ziggy finally accepting having a family (who wants to aggressively love him, whether he likes it or not).
  • “Do you ever think about dying?” (Or… Ziggy Having One Existential Crisis After Another).
  • Using the “Space Married to My Space Husband” Pinterest board as mission directives.
  • Alien polycule in the house! (But only my patrons get the spicy deleted scenes).
  • Micah. In. A. Little Black Dress. (Courtesy of slutty bestie, Gabe).
  • Taking advantage of the stellar collision mental connect to spy on dirty dreams.
  • …Dreams that juuuust might be “I’m fucking my mpregged mate” fantasies (the shared breeding kink is still going strong).
  • Blanket permission for free use (between Micah & Ziggy. As stated many times, polycule action is NOT on page in the trilogy).
  • A little light somno to keep babygirl under during Tendril Touchy Time.
  • Ziggy topping from the bottom (before turning into sloppy babygirl).
  • “Good boy. You’re so fucking good for me.”
  • Dr. Micah likes to talk things through (healthy communication is a kink at this point).
  • Ziggy discovers firsthand that empathy is not, in fact, a made up new age term (gasp!).
  • Honnor and Theo both getting second chances to parent (and grandparent—ferocious Baby Pedro cameos!).
  • That competency/intelligence kink is still going strong.
  • A sexy lil Groot suit.
  • SEX POLLEN, Y’ALL!
  • Micah enters feral sex beast mode for a little game of chase.
  • “Imma fuck my babies into him.”
  • Thorny vine restraints (causing a smidge of bleeding) & fungi frotting (yes… I said Fungi. Frotting.).
  • “It doesn’t matter what form you take—I would still know you’re mine.”
  • Lesser supe/Resistance mentioned! (Just a juicy little hint at a future spin-off in this universe…).
  • Baggage doesn’t just magically pack itself up and leave on the first try (but Dr. Micah never sleeps).
  • Micah finding the delicate balance of respecting Ziggy’s boundaries while also practicing “exposure therapy” to yank him out of his comfort zones.
  • Micah is a motherfucking SPACE WIZARD, y’all! (And he had the glittering robe to prove it)
  • A little Captured By the Enemy Alien role-play in the skinsuit closet.
  • “My safeword is Stormtrooper, and  you can leave the scary Space Daddy armor on.”
  • Tendril penetration + asphyxiation (as one does).
  • Coming on the Space Daddy’s armor (then licking it off…).
  • “Feed me your dick. I need more of you inside me.” (Never enough.)
  • Sneaky side quests because this duo is incapable of taking a day off.
  • Ziggy continuing to stand up for his people—even when it means confronting the NEW Astrum Force Command (just like a true hero… gross).
  • Micah HYPING up the savior of Stellaria at every opportunity (even when he doesn’t wish to be perceived).
  • More TRUTH about True Stellarians & stellar collisions.
  • The lifespan problem gets solved, so everybody chill.
  • Not Micah being legit excited to be threatened by an omnipresent celestial entity.
  • We FINALLY learn what Ogorn’s milk is!
  • Intermission for a SPACE WEDDING (with ALL the flair and ALL the feels).
  • Using a lightsaber to cut the cake, as one does.
  • That’s my husband, y’all!”
  • A bougie, semi-aquatic honeymoon with a verrrry special skinsuit.
  • What babygirl wants, babygirl gets. And babygirl wants to breed me.
  • Size. Difference. (Head to… tail).
  • Ziggy did some research for reproduction (aka, hot-nerd foreplay to Micah).
  • Space Daddy being shy and babygirl in his new skinsuit… (Please see the NOT Triggers section and the Body Dysphoria & Genderfluid Skinsuit Note below).
  • “Parts of me are… different from what you’re used to.” “Show me. Please, baby.”
  • Micah getting the full-shaft, car-wash experience.
  • Ziggy whining, Ziggy blushing, Ziggy looking so pretty when he comes.
  • “So you’ve never been fucked in this form before? This tight little cloaca is all mine?”
  • Mine, mine, mine (the usual).
  • Stabby pillow talk & mate marking.
  • Nipple play and pillowy pecs.
  • “Deeper please, babygirl, I need it.” (Tendril tag team fucking for the win.)
  • Ziggy being the last to know he’s pregnant (who’s gonna tell him?).
  • MICAH going into feral protective mode (YAS, COMMANDER BABYGIRL!).
  • Ziggy fighting the patriarchy by learning to embrace his emotions and refusing to continue that toxic cycle of generational trauma.
  • Running out of space for certificates on the cockpit wall.
  • TMI family tea time in the video chats.
  • Tendril Touchy Time sex ed.
  • Theo being weirdly astute (and even more weirdly sympathetic).
  • Stellarian parenting being read to filth.
  • A reminder that science-talk is foreplay (and thoughts and prayers if you don’t feel the same).
  • Micah fulfills his fantasy of fucking Ziggy while pregnant (although, sadly, we don’t get to see pregnant Zig with a gun in each hand… paging Dr. Lem!).
  • “Look at you—looking like a wet dream…”
  • Oh, just Ziggy topping from the bottom again.
  • Breeding kink dirty talk… while already good and bred.
  • Micah being a sassy yapper (but he regrets nothing).
  • “Bad bitches don’t die, Zig.”
  • “I would recognize you anywhere and I will come back to you.”
  • So. Many. Tears. (from the author too—does that mean our emotional constipation is healing??)
  • “I would recognize what’s ours anywhere.”
  • YES, WE MEET THE SPACE BABY! (And space bb meets the extended family).
  • Ziggy gives VERY pregnant Balty some sage advice (Dr. Ziggy in the house!).
  • So. Many. Babysitters in the Suarez-Salah-Stellari clan.
  • No take-backsies. Ever.
  • “Until we return to the stars.”

Bonus epilogue-specific CWs:

  • Heralding Micah’s space boner with a Silver Surfer/T-1000 (liquid metal)-style skinsuit, latex vacuum bed-style bondage, and sex on an asteroid. Only the best send off for our space sloots!

NOT Triggers. More like FYIs:

  • The ongoing use of they/them pronouns. Stellarians (and most other aliens encountered in this series) are nonbinary at birth (*see updated Nonbinary is Normative Note, below*). Therefore, our MCs don’t assume gender until told otherwise. It’s not that hard of a concept and “they/them” is used in real-life conversations anyway, so why this is still an issue for anyone is beyond me.
  • AGAIN, while the on-page focus is on Micah and Ziggy’s relationship in this trilogy, they are part of a larger, resonance-based polycule. This is canon and has been explained so many times, but as a reminder, the existence of the polycule does not detract from the “specialness” of each relationship within. Besides making perfect sense for those who understand how resonance works, it was by design (by the author—me) to create a strong, resonance based family (because that’s what this polycule is!) for Ziggy’s sake, because our starry bb (Ziggy) deserves more unconditional love than one person can give him. Please see the Off-Page Developments note from Space Daddy’s Guide to the Galaxy for a more robust reminder.
  • A skinsuit with a vulva-like cloaca. For more information, see the Body Dysphoria & Genderfluid Skinsuit Note (with Possible Mpreg Spoilers) below, but if you’re cool with the infamous “cockpockets” of monster romance (of which I have written a few myself), I can’t imagine why this would hit different.
  • And, as with ALL my books, we have underlying commentary related to classism/racism and rebellions against oppressive regimes within the backdrop of a queer-normative world. If this surprises you… HAVE WE MET?

Possible Triggers (please also check list to the left and note this section may contain SPOILERS):

  • A super fucking stressful first chapter (I fix things right away, don’t fret) and another super stressful vision (also fixed quickly!).
  • An ongoing, looming threat to loved ones by a Big (VERY BIG) Bad.
  • Ziggy occasionally trying to hide behind his mask, but Micah says OH, NO YOU DON’T!
  • Despite Dr. Micah’s best efforts, there are still moments of miscommunication, like any REAL-LIFE relationship (but they clear things up quickly nowadays).
  • Oh, just Micah using his childhood skill of placating volatile, violent narcissists with humble apologies and shaky promises to save the day (RIP, Mom & Pops!).
  • Ongoing reminders of Stellaria’s unsavory past (but Ziggy’s better at sitting with the discomfort).
  • The disappearance of an entire planet of a side character’s “children.” (The term is loose but the trauma of the event is still valid.)
  • Ziggy gets TRIGGERED by old memories of his Astrum Force commanders (but Micah steps up and Honnor stands down).
  • Brief moment of worry that size matters (spoiler alert: it doesn’t. Cue more unconditional love).
  • As usual, kink and other sexual experiences are explored in ways that could be deemed unsafe were the MCs human (but prior discussion is key with these two CONSENT KINGS).
  • Old baggage concerning Stellarian body autonomy and forced procreation battle with a MASSIVE breeding kink (good times).
  • Feelings of inadequacy related to the struggle to get pregnant (but unconditional love is always offered in response). See Infertility Note—NEWEST UPDATE (with Mpreg Spoiler) below.
  • Unconventional pregnancy (I mean… it’s mpreg).
  • Ziggy is NOT a happy preggers (neither was the author, full disclosure).
  • Separation during pregnancy causing extra stress to our starry ball of anxiety (Gabe sending cat videos and platonically cuddling helps).
  • Delivery via cesarean section (no gory details or complications, I promise!).
  • Sweary dialogue.
  • Naughty, medium-dark humor.
  • Unhinged (some might say excessive) inner thoughts.
  • Aside from Ziggy’s usual thinly-veiled threats (and Micah attempting to sound as scary as his effortlessly sexy man), and the looming dread caused by our Big Bad, Interstellar is strangely NON-violent compared to previous books. I guess I’m in my soft era…
  • Return of the snake-headed aliens (no beheadings this time).
  • More vague references to Micah’s parents’ death (again—GOOD RIDDANCE).
  • Nerdy pet names used as both nicknames and honorifics.
  • Using religious phrases in an overtly sexual context (oh my god/Jesus Christ), along with the use of the words slut/brat/whore/etc in the bedroom (consensually and enthusiastically). 
  • The word bitch is also used, but as a compliment (eg. Bad Bitch Mercenary, which Ziggy—and Micah!—are).
  • Still more dick eating (gotta share the joy of Corpus spongiosum with the fam!).
  • A cutthroat, dubious moral code for supes (and aliens!) that isn’t meant to be understood by normies. “It’s how the game is played.”
  • Parody references to Star Wars/Queen Amidala, Guardians of the Galaxy/Groot, Galactus and Silver Surfer, Mr. Terrific and his T-spheres, David Bowie’s music/albums, Trumpet of the Swan, Area 51, Cap’n Crunch, and a very vague reference to The Big Lebowski. **Please see note on parody usage rights in the Copyright section of the book.**

NONBINARY IS NORMATIVE IN SPACE—REMINDER:

Being an alien whose true form is a cluster of stars, Stellarians are nonbinary by nature. They do occasionally end up identifying as male or female, or a mix of both, over the course of their very long lives, but nonbinary with they/them pronouns is to be assumed until stated otherwise.

In general, gender is not as black and white as some Earthlings we know believe it is. Therefore, aside from the side characters who openly identify as he/him, etc., the species we encounter throughout this series are also treated as nonbinary.


INFERTILITY NOTE—NEWEST UPDATE:

As previously established in Earth Boys and Space Daddy, both Ziggy and Micah have expressed a range of emotions from annoyance to frustration to sadness concerning their apparent “incompatibility” (especially when it comes to reproduction). In Space Daddy, they decided Ziggy getting pregnant would be their best option, due to his ability to exchange bodies, but with no clear path to follow, there was inevitably going to be trial and error (and all the valid emotions that accompany that journey) in Interstellar before they found their happy ending. 

This is an ongoing theme that could be triggering to those who’ve experienced infertility (especially the feelings of inadequacy that come with that experience), so I felt I should flag it.


BODY DYSPHORIA & GENDERFLUID SKINSUIT NOTE (POSSIBLE MPREG SPOILER):

While Ziggy identifies as he/him and feels most comfortable in his male presenting Earthling form, in the interest of becoming pregnant, he makes the decision to inhabit an aquatic alien form that is also male—with a vulva (actually a cloaca, like a shark would have). 

Despite Micah having told him countless times that he does not care what form he takes, our starry ball of anxiety has a moment of major self-consciousness, assuming he will be rejected by his mate. Communication King that he is, Micah reassures Ziggy with a quickness that he wants/loves him, no matter what form he takes. 

I did bring in a sensitivity reader to look over the scene (Ch 23 & 24) and give me notes, but I still wanted to flag it as potentially triggering for anyone on their genderfluid/genderqueer journey, especially those dealing with acceptance/rejection and disappointment in relation to their corporeal form.

In general, I like to err on the side of caution when it comes to my readers’ potential triggers. Your mental health is more important to me than page reads.



Villains in Space is the first (of many…) Villainous Things spin-off series and features the adventures of Micah Salah (superhero) and Ziggy Andromeda (morally gray alien).

The first book – Earth Boys Are Easy – is an idiots-in-love, MM romance tale (where the spice heats up quick but the eMOtioNs are glacially slow), set in space, with only one sleeping pod, and an entire skinsuit closet full of alien accessories. While each book in this trilogy follows the same couple (who find their HFN/HEA in book 1!), our one MC (Ziggy) is the type of alien who can inhabit other forms, so the spice will be varied and full of fun accessories (much to Micah’s satisfaction).Things are gonna get weird, but if you’re here for it, dock yourself to my spice-station and hang on for the ride!

Chronologically, Earth Boys occurs after Enter the Multi-Vers (Villainous Things, Book 4) and before Rabble: End Game (VT, 5), so you will get more backstory if you read Villainous first. However, you can start your adventure here before orbiting back to the series that started it all.

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