#aawfc 2017

Is there a fandom challenge for AAW this year? I’d love to propose some prompts if not!

Asexual Awareness Week 2017 is October 22 - 28!

Responses can be canon, headcanon, a simple statement, fanfic, fanart, aesthetic/moodboards, photomanips, playlists, meta, analysis, gifsets, quotes, etc.! Any kind of fan produced content that you believe fits within these prompts is welcome! Let’s generate as much content as we can!

As always the tag is “#AAWFC”.

Sun 22nd, Day 1: Post about canon and headcanoned asexual/spectrum characters in books and comics.

Mon 23rd, Day 2: Post about canon and headcanoned asexual/spectrum characters in shows and movies.

Tues 24th, Day 3: Post about canon and headcanoned asexual/spectrum characters in games and any other media not mentioned in the previous days.

Wed 25th, Day 4: Post about how a canon asexual/spectrum character came out or how you believe a headcanoned asexual/spectrum character would come out. Or post about them not coming out and why they haven’t.

Thurs 26th, Day 5: Post about how a canon asexual/spectrum character shows their pride or how you think a headcanoned asexual/spectrum character shows their pride. What kind of merch would they wear/display, would they go to pride, would they talk about being ace/spec, etc.?

Fri 27th, Day 6: AU day! Post about what canon/headcanoned asexual/spectrum characters from different fandoms that you would like to see meet. What would their meeting would be like, why would you like to see them meet, what sort of relationship do you think they’d have, etc.?

Sat 28th, Day 7: Post about asexual representation in general. What does it mean to see asexual/spectrum characters in the media you consume? Why is it important to you to see asexual/spectrum characters in the media you consume? What sort of stories/plotlines would you like to see about asexual/spectrum characters? What genre do you really want to see asexual/spectrum characters in? How would you like to see asexual/spectrum people represented?

Damn right!!

Bi ace Harry who doesn’t exactly know how to identify while he’s at Hogwarts but who doesn’t let that stop him from asking people out and enjoying most of the attention he receives from people of all genders/no gender.

Bi ace Harry who knows his boundaries and won’t tolerate someone who disregards them. Plus once his friends find out you disrespected his boundaries oh boy are you in for it.

Bi ace Harry who has to put everything aside for horcrux hunting.

Bi ace Harry who learns new words that resonate with how he identifies after the war.

Bi ace Harry who is so comfortable in his identity by the time he’s a top auror at the Ministry.

Bi ace Harry who is a role model for all the multisexual and ace-spectrum kids at Hogwarts for generations to come.

- Mod Snafu

Asexual Awareness Week 2017 is October 22 - 28! This year, we at aroacehogwarts would like to pose some of our own unique, HP-themed prompts for the annual Fandom Challenge.

As usual, you should tag any Asexual Awareness Week Fandom Challenge with #AAWFC. However, for us, you should also tag your posts with #aroacehp so we can find your HP content!

Responses can be canon, headcanon, a simple statement, fanfic, fanart, aesthetic/moodboards, photomanips, playlists, meta, analysis, gifsets, quotes, etc.! Any kind of fan produced content that you believe fits within these prompts is welcome and will be reblogged by us! 

You can submit directly to aroacehogwarts or post the content on your own blog and @ us. Don’t forget, you can earn House Points if you include your House/House initial in your post/tags! You will receive DOUBLE POINTS this week for whatever you post (ie a headcanon will be 2 points, fanfic 10 points, etc.). Without any further ado, here are the HP AAWFC prompts:

Sun the 22, Day 1: Post about your favorite/long-held ace/spec HP character headcanons.

Mon the 23, Day 2: Post about a new/recent HP ace/spec headcanon you came across and like.

Tues the 24, Day 3: Post about an argument for any HP characters being canonically ace/spec.

Wed the 25, Day 4: Post about ace/spec HP characters who are in relationships. 

Thus the 26, Day 5: Post about magical, HP-inspired ace/spec merch and pride items.

Fri the 27, Day 6: Post about being ace/spec in the magical HP-based community. What sort of clubs and activities are there for acespec wix? What does magical pride look like like? How do ace/spec wix find each other and connect?

Sat the 28, Day 7: Post about ace/spec HP characters dealing with acephobia or perhaps even standing up for you and the acephobia you face.

If you’re not going to be around for AAW, you can go ahead and submit/post responses now; we’ll save them and wait to reblog for AAW.

So this isn’t related to fandom... but for Asexual Awareness Week 2017’s Fandom Challenge:

http://angstsplatter.tumblr.com/post/166316156988/asexual-awareness-week-fandom-challenge-2017

Mon 23rd, Day 2: Post about canon and headcanoned asexual/spectrum characters in shows and movies.

I was 2 days late posting for day 1 (about books): http://luvtheheaven.tumblr.com/post/166759537232/for-the-asexual-awareness-week-2017s-fandom

and now I'm 3 days late for the beginning of day 2, but before I even get into it for real... before I begin to catch up...

TV SHOWS AND FILMS I asked myself, where do I begin? As this is my life, mainly the television series part of it. So are there any movies worth mentioning here for me?

And really I don’t do ace headcanons in movies that often because I don’t watch movies nearly as often as TV, especially in just the past 4 years since knowing I was asexual. However... the (A)sexual documentary is super important to me. Canon asexual representation is the wrong way to phrase it for a work that isn't fiction lol but this movie is well made and I've seen it twice, the first time on Christmas day in 2013 with my dad and brother and it helped me explain a lot to them, we kept pausing it too discuss so it took us like 3 or more hours to get through it. We were bored and there was nothing to do because everything is closed on Christmas. We also went out to Chinese for dinner and saw American Hustle in theaters and I recall nothing about the plot there but the (A)sexual documentary stuck with me. David Jay's struggles snapshotted in that 2011 movie especially became more poignant as the years go on, as I found myself trying navigating a dating life as an Asexual person myself, as I went through ups and downs... and I saw the movie again in summer of 2016 with a group of aces and I love so much about it, even if it isn’t completely perfect. It captures A LOT. And now to know David Jay has achieved his dream of becoming a parent in a totally nontraditional type of relationship: https://theestablishment.co/my-path-to-becoming-a-third-parent-41b823809c14 just gives me so much happiness for him (and I’ve actually met him in-person once and chatted with him on the phone on another occasion in a capacity as an ace meetup organizer so it feels a little personal) but also it gives me hope for myself. I want a somewhat different future than what David Jay has, but to know that what he did is even possible really does mean so much to me. This has become a tangent far away from the (A)sexual documentary... but anyway if you haven’t watched it yet you should.

On that note, I’m gonna make a point to watch THIS which I have not yet seen when I can get a chance:

Sun 22nd, Day 1: Post about canon and headcanoned asexual/spectrum characters in books and comics.

So I’m about 2 days late with this post, yes, but whatever. I really do want to participate this year, as I think I kinda skipped last year.

I recently read How to Be A Normal Person by TJ Klune! Actually, to be more specific, I listened to the audiobook and I highly, highly recommend it!! (Check out the reviews for a hint: https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/How-to-Be-a-Normal-Person-Audiobook/B01E9E61ZK ) It might take a few chapters before you’re fully sold on how wonderful it is but as far as I’m aware, canon ace representation doesn’t get much happier and feel good and in depth and it is such a good little book. It’s also a sex-averse ace friendly work of fiction. There are no sex scenes, and friendship and family are big themes and bonds in the story too. The ace character, Casey, defies most ace stereotypes and it’s a really sweet romance. The brief mentions of aromanticism are not hurtful to aros even if aromanticism is not a focus at all. I wish more people knew about this book. I found out about it partially by someone commenting on my blog post about how to write humorous fiction that contains asexuality and this is CERTAINLY a good example, because it’s laugh out loud funny the whole book, start to finish, but the asexuality just isn’t the part that’s at all being played for laughs.

I also recently read The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow. I really loved this book and I have not read the sequel yet, but the protagonist, Greta, I headcanon as asexual-spectrum, maybe demisexual, maybe sex-favourable asexual, maybe aromantic-spectrum too, Idk. The audiobook for this, as well, was lovely, and was available for free in my public library. I’m not the only person who half-thought near the start of the book that Greta was going to be revealed to be ace, as this review exists:

http://www.glbtrt.ala.org/reviews/book-review-the-scorpion-rules-by-erin-bow/

Sara K. wrote this post on her WordPress blog.

“This is for Asexual Awareness Week Fandom Challenge 2017 (even though I am not on Tumblr - if you are on Tumblr, feel free to share a link to this post under the #AAWFC tag).

Sun 22nd, Day 1: Post about canon and headcanoned asexual/spectrum characters in books and comics.

In the past year - since a I read a bunch of ace fiction for Asexual Awareness Week last year in fact - I’ve written plenty about canon ace characters in books. So I’m going to talk about headcanon ace characters instead.

Yes, you guessed it (if you read my blog in a regular basis). I’m going to write about Yang Guo and Guo Jing from the Condor Trilogy (or more accurately, the Eagle-Shooting Trilogy, but whatever).”

Check out the post for her in depth analysis!