#aaw26

[silver-stargazing]

aggressively arospec week: arospec headcanons

Barbie from Barbie (2023) as aroace

[aggressivelyarospec]

Hello, fellow fandom-obsessed creatives! Please join us for the 11th edition of #AggressivelyArospecWeek in what is officially our tenth year holding this event!

Every year, #AggressivelyArospecWeek (#AAW) 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 21 to June 27 2026 for an explosion of arospec fancontent on your dash!

To submit content to the event, please make a new post between June 21 and June 27 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 ‘26” in the “Post to collections” tab when you’re posting on AO3.

Help us make this year's edition 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. You can also check last year's FAQ if there's anything else you'd like to know. If you need some inspiration, you can also check out all previous submissions in our #AggressivelyArospecWeek tag.)

[litera1lywhat3ver]

he is so aro to me

[arofili]

@aspecardaweek day four | worldbuilding | aro eärnur & boromir

          Eärnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom. He was a man of strong body and hot mood; but he would take no wife, for his only pleasure was in fighting, or in the exercise of arms.           [...] Boromir, five years the elder, beloved by his father, was like him in face and pride, but in little else. Rather he was a man after the sort of King Eärnur of old, taking no wife and delighting chiefly in arms; fearless and strong, but caring little for lore, save the tales of old battles.

—The Lord of the Rings: Appendix A, “Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion”

picrew | for @sesamenom and @ravens-sanctuary

[ezekiel13]

Aggressively Arospec Week

Jayfeather from Warrior Cats

I headcanon him to be aroace because of his repeated stated lack of understanding as to why people have mates, experience crushes, or do anything along those lines.

[callonpeevesie]

I just think that arospec flavoured Lynnick. Lithro Nick who can't keep up when others reciprocate his feelings and bails when his partners get serious because he's terrible at communicating it. Aro Lynn who doesn't return any romantic feelings and neither of them expects anything beyond what the other is comfortable giving.

Also, Ira based on this post

His aroace behaviours and cringe fail personality captivated me.

For @aggressivelyarospec week

[aroastronaut]

Happy AggressivelyArospecWeek 2026!

@aggressivelyarospec

Last month I wrote a fic featuring a character I headcanon as aromantic (here he is aroallo) navigating his thoughts/feelings when he finds out his long-term friends with benefits thinks of him romantically

[Warnings: internalised arophobia + negative language, mentions of sex + fade to black]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians + The Heroes of Olympus

Relationship: Jason Grace/Percy Jackson

Rating: M | Chapters: 1/1 (4.5k words)

Tags:

Post-The Heroes of Olympus, Not Canon Compliant - The Trials of Apollo, Jason Grace-centric, Angst with a Happy Ending, Misunderstandings, Aromantic Jason Grace, Relationship Negotiation, Ambiguous Relationships, there's some form of partnership going on here but i'm purposefully not labeling it, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Sex, Fade to Black, Trans Percy Jackson, not a focus but it's there, Past Jason Grace/Piper McLean, Past Jason Grace/Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano

Summary:

"Did you not think this was a date?"

The words, tone dejected and eyes cast low, sliced through Jason's entire being before they opened a chasm beneath his feet.

His eyes widened before he had the chance to control his facial expression. "No. You didn't say."

Or, one singular word throws Jason off course yet how does one find the words to explain yourself when you don't understand it yourself?

(ps. to anyone who sees this and knows me from @owlintheskies this is my personal blog!)

[aggressivelyarospec]

Aggressively Arospec Week 2026 is SEVEN 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 #AAW26 collection by searching the collection’s name (Aggressively Arospec Week ‘26 or AAW26) 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 FAQaaw26 to see the questions related to the event we’ve received so far.

We can’t wait to see all your contributions!