#aaw19

For the fourth year in a row, #AggressivelyArospec is proud to bring you a week of celebration and fanworks! Join us!

#AggressivelyArospecWeek is a week-long event promoting the creation of fancontent relating to the aromanticism-spectrum. This event is by and for arospec people!

It is fairly common for arospec people to feel overwhelmed by all the romantic content in fandom. It’s easy to feel like fandom doesn’t care about arospec experiences or characters. But we care. We believe that fandom is a great way to share what being arospec can mean, and we would absolutely love for you to show off your creative talent!

So, from June 23 to June 29, submit your fanfictions, fanarts, fanvids, headcanons, playlists,… that feature your favorite arospec characters by tagging them as #AggressivelyArospecWeek (in the first five tags), submitting them directly to our blog or sending us an anonymous ask. They can be characters who are canonically arospec or that you headcanon as arospec, from any fandom whatsoever.

The point of this event is for arospec people to give themselves the representation they deserve and get an opportunity to share it with others, but mostly it’s also to have fun! We can’t wait to see what you all can come up with.

It's time we are aware of the ace community.

I've gotta say, I started this Tumblr like six years ago. I started identifying as Ace 5 years ago.

When I first joined the ace community, there were maybe 20 or less blogs that exclusively created ace content. It was somewhat discouraging because the only content was being reblogged by the same blogs. So I would see the same content repeated day after day.

And now, we have so many blogs. So much representation on Tumblr. It makes me happy and hopeful to see all these people making blogs for asexual people and those on the acespec.

Chapters: ½ Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Grantaire/Jean Prouvaire, Enjolras/Grantaire Additional Tags: Aromantic Character, Polyamory, Friends With Benefits, Established Relationship, Queerplatonic Relationships, Porn with Feelings Summary:

Jehan is fucking Grantaire. Grantaire is in a committed relationship with Enjolras. Enjolras wants Jehan to move in with them.

That’s it. That’s the whole fic.

Me? Writing a Les Mis fic after almost two years of absence? It’s more likely than you think…

(I am sorry this is so late, this is exam week for me and I am exceptionally tired.)

So, about a year ago (more or less), I started a prompt meme on AO3, called "Gen and Aro Prompts", to encourage people to write more gen stories, and/or stories involving aro-spec characters.

It's still open, anyone can still contribute, and if you want to write something, that would be really, really awesome. (Especially for those people who want someone to help write out their aro headcanons, but no one who knows the fandom has stumbled over it yet.)

If you want to submit a prompt, and maybe hope someone interested stumbles over it, please do!

So far, there's 31 prompts, and 26 works.

Not all of those works include explicitely aro characters, but 23 out of 26 (if I counted correctly) means that fics featuring aro characters are by far in the majority.

There's fics exploring aromanticism in worlds with soulmates, fics exploring certain characters as aromantic, people-coming-out-fics…

Some of my favourites (because there's too many of them, I can't list them all):

Of Arrows and Soulmates - the oldest fic in the collection, predating the prompt meme, featuring the Hawkeyes as platonic soulmates. Kind of light-hearted and nice and you can feel the relief when both realize they're platonic soulmates?

Immortality - I adore how comfy Pidge gets to be with being aro… , and also that this was written in response to one of my prompts; features a Pidge without a soulmate where people start ageing when they meet theirs.

Flingerlings - featuring aro Luna and Harry, and one of my favourite rejections of amatonormativity. Also starring Snape's corpse, and the rejection of amatonormativity includes Snape's actions, and just - go read it.

Pangur Bán and Me - Hermione and Millicent Bulstrode both get to be aro immortal friends. It's awesome. Also, Millicent has an immortal cat. I am probably not very good at descriptions.

The Only One They Ever Reared - Sirius and Remus have to watch tiny!Harry while his parents are away. 

Mattie vs Amatonormativity - Mattie (from the Art of Escaping) discovers the concept of being aro. And aro-allo. I really just... like this kind of fic, even if I have no idea about the fandom?

We Won't Ever Say Goodbye - another world where people don't start ageing until meeting their soulmates, and even more non-soulmated aros - this time, it's Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton and Pepper Potts from the MCU. This is one of several fics I start reading when being surrounded by romance gets to be too much.

Getting Lost With You (600800 Seconds From Valentine's Day) - where Lavender is an aro robot, and her inner monologue is awesome. Also has a ranty author's note I'm really fond of. (I should probably comment on it, finally…)

(I also wrote a fic with an aro Luna Lovegood "Romantic Love and Crumple-Horned Snorkacks (Through the Years)", that is… at least 70% me projecting my experiences growing up onto her and mixing in some bits I heard from other people about them growing up? At least some people didn't find that unenjoyable.)

I... haven't really kept up with the newer fics, because uni, and I left out a lot of good ones because this post was starting to get too long, but - yeah. 

There's quite something there already, and I really would like for a lot of those fics to get more comments and kudos, and to just see more fics in general.

(Also, question to the mods of this blog: Can I just go and submit aro fic that gets submitted to the prompt meme to you throughout the year?)

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Aggressively Arospec Week 2019 is only fifteen days away!

Let’s take this moment to remember all of the different ways to submit work to the project:

- Make a new post on tumblr and use the tag #AggressivelyArospecWeek (in one word) in the FIRST FIVE TAGS. (that last rule is super important, if you don’t follow it we won’t find your post.)

- Submit a link to your post directly on your blog.

- If you don’t have a Tumblr or if it is not safe for you to come out as aro on your personal blog, you can submit your work on anon to us and we’ll post it for you.

- For our fanfiction writers that use AO3 to publish their work, you can add your fics to the #AAW collection, here.

If your post hasn’t appeared on our blog three days after you have posted it, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly and link us to your post!

Remember this year we'll be featuring in @aromantic-official‘s Arospec Pride Month, so be sure to check that out as well!