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✨️ TOMORROW ✨️

Hello, fellow fandom-obsessed creatives! Please join us for the 10th (!!!) edition of #AggressivelyArospecWeek!

Every year, #AggressivelyArospecWeek (#AAW for short) is an occasion to promote the creation of arospec fancontent by arospec creators. For an entire week, people on the aromantic spectrum celebrate their experiences through fandom and art.

For this event, "fancontent" means any creation related to a fandom, whether it's a headcanon, a piece of meta, fanfic, fanart, a playlist,... All fandoms are welcome!

The content created for this event should center a character's arospec identity (this can be a canon identity or a headcanon).

We only accept entries from creators who identify as being on the aromantic spectrum or who are questioning whether they might be.

This event is an opportunity for creators to explore their identities through fanwork within a supportive community. It's also a perfect way for fans of all kinds (arospec or not) to enjoy art and have fun!

Join us from June 22 to June 28 2025 for an explosion of arospec fancontent on your dash!

To submit content to the event, please make a new post between June 22 and June 28 and tag it as #AggressivelyArospecWeek. You can also submit your work directly to our blog through the ask and submission boxes. Your post will then be shared on the Aggressively Arospec blog.

A collection will also be opened on Archive of Our Own to round up all the fanfics posted on there. Just search for "Aggressively Arospec Week '25" in the "Post to collections" tab when you're posting on AO3.

Help us make the 10th year of this event another success! We've only come this far through your support and creativity.

Please, take a second to share this post so your followers get to join in the fun as well 💚

(For more information, check out our "About" page or our FAQ section. If you need some inspiration, you can also check out all previous submissions in our #AggressivelyArospecWeek tag.)

[aggressivelyarospec]

Aggressively Arospec Week 2025 is fifteen days away!

Let’s take a moment to remind everyone how you can submit your fanworks to this event:

- Make a new post on tumblr and use the tag #AggressivelyArospecWeek (in one word) in the first five tags.

- Make your post on your blog and then submit a link to it through our submission box.

- If you don’t want to come out as arospec on your personal blog, you can submit your work anonymously 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 #AAW25 collection here or by searching the collection’s name (Aggressively Arospec Week ‘25) on the settings of your fic. The Collection is currently closed, but we'll open it the first day of the event.

If your post hasn’t appeared on our blog three days after you have posted it, please do contact us directly and link us to your post! Sometimes things get lost in the vast web of the internet, but we promise we actually want to see and share your work!

Also, you can check our tag FAQaaw25 to see the questions related to the event we've received so far.

We can’t wait to see all your contributions!

[aggressivelyarospec]

This might be a dumb question, but do the moods read the stories in the AAW collection before approving them? Or they get approved just with the tagging?

Hello! It’s not a dumb question at all.

It depends on the story, but I usually read it until I reach the point where the aro character is established as such in any way or form.

That paired with the tagging is what gets them approved.

Thank you!

— Caro

FAQaaw25

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For aro tunes Thursday - Leave Me Alone by Renee Rapp!

I'm a real bad girl, but a real good kisser Leave me alone, bitch, I wanna have fun

Added!

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Wannabe by Spice Girls!

I see it as an aro ally pov song, because of the whole "If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. Make it last forever. Friendship never ends.", as well as the end of the song introducing her friends to her possible-lover.

Or you could see it as a romance-favorable aro who prioritizes friendship.

Or it could be a demiromantic song if you interpret the song as saying "You need to be a part of my friend group before I date you."

Added!

[aggressivelyarospec]

Check all your favorite songs and share with us the ones that make you feel proudly arospec or just about any song you feel like claiming for the community for no specific reason.

Send them our way and…

don’t forget you can now check the new master list* here!

*The list is still under construction to add more details, but you can already check all the songs submitted so far.

Note: We only include the songs we get in our inbox, so, please, submit them there.

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Check all your favorite movies or TV shows and share with us those you identify with from an  arospec perspective or the ones you think the community should avoid.

Send them our way and remember to add this info in order to get them included in the list:

Name

Release year

Does it contain romance? How important is it to the story?

How many stars do you rate it with from 1 to 5? (optional)

A short commentary about it (optional)

You can now check the new master list* here!

*The list is still under construction to add more details, but you can already check all the media submitted so far.

Important note: You can send your recommendations through our inbox or submit page. We only include those that come with the required info, so make sure you don’t forget it!

[aggressivelyarospec]

Hello, fellow fandom-obsessed creatives! Please join us for the 10th (!!!) edition of #AggressivelyArospecWeek!

Every year, #AggressivelyArospecWeek (#AAW for short) is an occasion to promote the creation of arospec fancontent by arospec creators. For an entire week, people on the aromantic spectrum celebrate their experiences through fandom and art.

For this event, "fancontent" means any creation related to a fandom, whether it's a headcanon, a piece of meta, fanfic, fanart, a playlist,... All fandoms are welcome!

The content created for this event should center a character's arospec identity (this can be a canon identity or a headcanon).

We only accept entries from creators who identify as being on the aromantic spectrum or who are questioning whether they might be.

This event is an opportunity for creators to explore their identities through fanwork within a supportive community. It's also a perfect way for fans of all kinds (arospec or not) to enjoy art and have fun!

Join us from June 22 to June 28 2025 for an explosion of arospec fancontent on your dash!

To submit content to the event, please make a new post between June 22 and June 28 and tag it as #AggressivelyArospecWeek. You can also submit your work directly to our blog through the ask and submission boxes. Your post will then be shared on the Aggressively Arospec blog.

A collection will also be opened on Archive of Our Own to round up all the fanfics posted on there. Just search for "Aggressively Arospec Week '25" in the "Post to collections" tab when you're posting on AO3.

Help us make the 10th year of this event another success! We've only come this far through your support and creativity.

Please, take a second to share this post so your followers get to join in the fun as well 💚

(For more information, check out our "About" page or our FAQ section. If you need some inspiration, you can also check out all previous submissions in our #AggressivelyArospecWeek tag.)

[aggressivelyarospec]

Aggressively Arospec Week 2025 is fifteen days away!

Let’s take a moment to remind everyone how you can submit your fanworks to this event:

- Make a new post on tumblr and use the tag #AggressivelyArospecWeek (in one word) in the first five tags.

- Make your post on your blog and then submit a link to it through our submission box.

- If you don’t want to come out as arospec on your personal blog, you can submit your work anonymously 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 #AAW25 collection here or by searching the collection’s name (Aggressively Arospec Week ‘25) on the settings of your fic. The Collection is currently closed, but we'll open it the first day of the event.

If your post hasn’t appeared on our blog three days after you have posted it, please do contact us directly and link us to your post! Sometimes things get lost in the vast web of the internet, but we promise we actually want to see and share your work!

Also, you can check our tag FAQaaw25 to see the questions related to the event we've received so far.

We can’t wait to see all your contributions!

[aggressivelyarospec]

aro tunes thursday: My color from To Be Hero X

Sometimes things may be so tough Feels like everything's enough, But you can't overcome it Choose your own gift

Added!

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A song for ATT? I always heard Somebody Made for Me by Emitt Rhodes as being someone in deep denial of being aromantic. Like they keep trying and dating people but nothing seems to click so they keep searching for that "special someone", ignoring the obvious hints that romance just might not be for them

Somebody made for me, somebody made for you Somebody made for me, somebody made for you Ask and you'll receive Dear God in Heaven, won't you help me, please?

Added!

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The Searcher by Nuovo Testamento is a very frayromantic song to me (based on my own experiences being frayspec)

Each time I see the way you’re falling Each time is the same as before You say it’s better than the last time, again So many heartbreaks left in store

Added!

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for aro tunes thursday: Caramel by Starlight Re:Volver ft. Lilypichu

Sometimes I don't want company I know you just wanna be the one for me

Added!

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For arotunes Thursday: All That I Remember by The Amity Affliction

The saddest parts are always true And I did love you through and through

Added!

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For ATT - Fly With You by Tota Kasamura?

You can read a good english translation here: https://vocaloidlyrics.fandom.com/wiki/Fly_With_You

The Mudkip gets into the Pelipper's big mouth, And they fly through the sky today too, far and high.

Added!

[aggressivelyarospec]

Check all your favorite songs and share with us the ones that make you feel proudly arospec or just about any song you feel like claiming for the community for no specific reason.

Send them our way and…

don’t forget you can now check the new master list* here!

*The list is still under construction to add more details, but you can already check all the songs submitted so far.

Note: We only include the songs we get in our inbox, so, please, submit them there.

[aggressivelyarospec]

are we allowed to combine AAW prompts with other events?

Hi there!

There are not prompts as such during AAW, except to explore arospec experiences in fanwork.

That said, if you want to combine this event with another one, it's totally allowed, as long as the exploration of aromanticism is explicit in the work you produce.

Hope this answers your question!

- Meeni

FAQaaw25