Your Daily Dose Of Aspecs.

We're back, baby! This blog is run by @coughedfeathers, a 27 yo aroace trans guy, he/they please. Please send me your aspec headcanons! This blog was not made for dickhorse, please don't do the thing. Repeat, my identity is not a cause for argument. Don't do the thing. Thank you. The mobile header was pulled from Google.

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Hey guys! This is the moderator, @coughedfeathers here. This is, at this moment in time, an exclusively mobile-run blog.

This will hopefully be a dickhorse-free blog where you can send me your headcanons of characters that you believe are on the aromantic or asexual spectrums!

Just to note that I am an adult at 24 27 years of age now, wow! that has run this blog on-and-off for like... seven years now, yikes! Also, I am a transgender/ nonbinary aromantic asexual, and I am an inclusionist.

here are my rules! ;-

- Please don’t send me real people. We’re talking about fictional characters here. (Although I will count fictional incarnations of real people, such as Hamilton or Asagao Academy, ect. )

- Please don’t send me dickhorse. I’ve no time or energy for it. I won’t respond to it. I’ll just delete and move on. I am not here to debate about my identity.

- I don’t care if you sent me a headcanon as a joke. I don’t care if you disagree with a headcanon that someone sent. It’s staying up, no matter what, cry me a river.

- I will post all of the details of your headcanon that you send me. For example, “this character from x thing is a nonbinary aromantic bisexual”. Also, for the record, please send me where the character is from when you send me your ask.

- I will post characters more than once if the request differs from the original, as long as they are both aspec headcanons. For example, if I get two asks for the same character- one stating that they are a homoromantic asexual, and another stating that they are an aromantic asexual, I will make two separate posts. The only exception to this is when a character has canonically stated to be otherwise. I’m not down with knowingly taking away someone else’s representation ie. Jughead Jones. 

-If someone makes a request for a headcanon that has already been posted, I’ll just reblog the post.

- Preferably, please send me one headcanon per ask. For example, “N from Pokemon is an Aromantic Asexual”. All characters will be eventually queued, but its easier for me if they're sent one at a time.

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Jade Leech from Twisted Wonderland is Aromantic

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is;

Kazuichi Soda from Danganronpa is an Aromantic Asexual

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Shuichi Saihara from Danganronpa is an Aromantic Asexual.

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

K1-B0 from Danganronpa is an Aromantic Asexual.

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Forrest from Fire Emblem is an Aplatonic Alloromantic Asexual

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Elise from Fire Emblem is Aromantic

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Callie from Splatoon is an Alloromantic Asexual

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Marie from Splatoon is Aromantic Allosexual.

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Rey Skywalker from Star Wars is an Aromantic Asexual.

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Tenya Iida from My Hero Academia is a Gay-Oriented Aroace.

[swampgallows]

"tbh we might have clowned on [aros & aces] a lil too harshly" bigotry. the term you're looking for is bigotry. denying communities their vocabulary and ability to safely exist because you think you're the personal arbiter of which identities are "valid" is bigotry. minimizing and infantilizing and harassing entire groups of people based on their orientation is bigotry. aphobia isn't some forgettable phase of being cringe as a teenager, it's bigotry that inflicted long term damage to these communities.

[swampgallows]

These notes are heartbreaking. There are hundreds of aspec people describing in detail how they went back in the closet or lived in denial or in fear because of the malice, harassment, and ignorance toward aromantic and asexual people. Aspec positivity tags used to be full of porn and gore. This included pictures of the corpse of a teen girl who came out as asexual the day before she was brutally murdered—and Internet strangers responded by debating her orientation.

Aphobes tried to argue that only lesbians could experience corrective rape, or that it was somehow appropriating a term exclusive to South Africa, or that an asexual person willing to have sex could not be correctively raped. They insisted any evidence of oppression was either misdirected or fabricated. Being an entry in the DSM until 2013 and developing medication specifically for treating the condition didn’t count. 

They told us all of our words were either stolen or stupid: allistic people tried to say that “aspec” was specifically about people on the autism spectrum; “zucchini”, squash, and other innocuous aspec terms and motifs (black rings, playing card suits, cake, space, dragons, etc.) got ridiculed to death; QPRs as a concept are derided as “just friends” and irrelevant to anyone but aspecs, who themselves are deemed irrelevant. In fact, the “clowning” quote in the OP was in the notes on a post of mine about the importance of recognizing queerplatonic relationships. 

Aphobes insisted that aspecs couldn’t speak other languages, that it’s a “white people thing”, that teenagers are just trying to feel special, that it’s a side effect of SSRIs, that we’re “basically straight” (straight-passing, i.e. erased). Anything to deny us our existence. Anything to minimize us, to keep us invisible and silent, to blame us for intracommunity issues, to invalidate us. 

I got attention for getting angry in 2018, and I’m still angry now. This has been happening on tumblr for over a decade. It’s been known for a long time (and even admitted by terfs themselves) that aro/ace exclusion and trans exclusion go hand in hand and contribute to terf rhetoric. When you hurt us, you are hurting your own community. Arguing that aspecs do not belong is not “discourse”. It is bigotry.

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Today's Aspec Headcanon Is:

Simon Snow from the "Carry On" YA Novel Series by Rainbow Rowell and Gemma T Leslie is Asexual

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jade leech from twisted wonderland is aromantic!!

He's in the queue now! Thank you :)

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K1-B0, Shuichi, and Kazuichi as Aro and Ace please? They’re my most beloved Aroace hcs

Of course! I've added all three to the queue.

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forrest from fire emblem fates is alloace and aplatonic

He's in the queue! Thank you :)

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elise from fire emblem fates is aromantic

I've added her to the queue! :D