#Happy asexual awareness week everybody :)

[bonescreature]

Thank you

Asexual awareness week: October 23rd-29th 2022, with Jeff the land shark!

[mitamicah]

Having just a bit of artsy inspiration juice left for today I spend 20 min to make this little Nachito for a late ace week drawing :'D happy asexual awareness week everybody <3 (one day late maybe but hush xD)

[cryingpariah]

Happy asexual awareness week everybody!

(Yes it technically started yesterday which means yes! I was in fact not aware but shhhhh)

[snugspheal]

Happy asexual awareness week!

To everybody who falls under the ace-spec umbrella, you are so valid and loved! No matter how much attraction you do or don't feel. No matter your favourability-repulsion in regards to sex. No matter your "reason" for being ace. No matter your macro or micro labels. No matter whether you are also aromantic or not.

Whatever other labels you might have, you ace-spec identity is still 100% valid! And its damn awesome!

[dimensionjumpingartist]

THE AMOUNT OF JOY I GOT UPON SEEING THE AEGOSEXUAL FLAG AND A FELLOW AEGOSEXUAL PERSON!! /POS

HAPPY ASEXUAL AWARENESS WEEK EVERYBODY!

Shoutout to all the milfs and milf lovers on the asexual spectrum!

~Your favorite aegosexual milf connoisseur

[actuallyasexuality]

Attention everyone, this week is asexual awareness week!!

Asexuality is a severely underrepresented sexuality, even in lgbtq+ spaces and media.

This week, I encourage everybody to take some time to learn more about asexuality. I will be posting a few times a day, but recommend you check out other social media accounts and websites dedicated to asexuality as well. A great place to start is AVEN, linked below.

Happy asexual awareness week everyone 💜🖤🤍

[celosiaa]

comfortable, proud, safe, home

Hey everybody!! Couldn’t let Ace Awareness Week slip past me without writing a little something. I was so inspired by @lylahammar​ ‘s wonderful art here that I couldn’t resist writing a fic loosely inspired by their Jon--who uses he/they pronouns and is asexual (of course!). I hope you will enjoy :)

Comfortable.

This should be comfortable.

I should be comfortable.

I am home, I am safe, I am loved.

I am loved.

I am…

“Oh, look out, love—” Martin warns softly from the other side of the bed, reaching over to point at a spot in his knitting. “You’ve slipped a stitch, I think.”

He hadn’t realized Martin had been paying him any mind, so engrossed was he in his new book—eyes hungrily flitting over the pages in a way Jon finds so endearing, happy to see him enjoy anything so very much. Though, in hindsight, of course Martin would be keeping an eye on him. Jon is new to knitting after all, only just starting his first real project.

Well. Restarting, that is. For the fourth time.

In reality, Jon knows he had not really been paying his stitches any mind, rather focusing on looking for something to do with his hands, shaking as they were, willing to try anything to calm his racing heartbeat. It hadn’t worked—of course it hadn’t, and now he’s slipped a stitch and ruined everything once again. Without a sound, he begins to slip the rest of the stitches off the needles, starting to pull at the leading string to tear the rest of it to pieces once again—

Before warm, steady hands come to cover his own.

“Hey, hey,” Martin begins, eyebrows creasing together at once as he leans closer to Jon in worry. “No need for that, I can fix it.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Jon spits, unable to control the panicked thrumming of his chest, letting it spill over into his words no matter how hard he tries to stop it. “It’s ruined again, I can’t—”

“Woah, easy, there.”

And now Martin is leaning over him properly, carefully plying Jon’s fingers from the yarn, threading his own fingers through them instead.

“Easy, Jon. Are you panicking?”

“N-no, I—” he begins—because he isn’t, not exactly, not the same.

Not in the way that Martin seems to find so important, anyway. Although…

He’s going to leave you, whispers that dark part of his mind, the part no therapy or medication had been able to heal completely.

He will leave you. You know he will.

And now, perhaps—perhaps he is panicking a bit.

“Tell me what I can do, darling. Anything at all.”

Too good you’re too good you’re going to leave me—

Even with the pounding of his pulse, the tears springing to his eyes anew—the ache in his chest tells Jon that this is something that must spill from his lips now now now, distantly wondering if this is what it felt like for those he had compelled—

“Martin, I—”

Voice briefly falling short in a choked-off sort of way, Jon takes another shaking inhale as Martin’s arm gently comes to rest across his shoulders. Comfort, you should be comfortable, you are home and you are safe—

“I’m—I have to, to tell you something. I’m…I’m nonbinary, Martin.”

Flowing now—the words are flowing in time to the blood rushing in his ears, the overwhelming sound of everything everything everything drowning out all else but his confession.

“Oh, Jon—”

“A-and it’s okay if, if that’s…if this makes things different for you, I understand, I wouldn’t blame you if…”

“Jon.”

“—if you wanted to leave. I—I would understand if—”

“Jon, I wouldn’t—”

“—if this is too much. I know it’s already got to be difficult, be-because I’m ace and you’re not, it’s got to be different—”

“Jon, please—please take a breath with me.”

No harshness, no cruelty—for a moment Jon almost believes that Martin may be alright, that they might stay together, that this might not be the start of being let down easy—but of course Martin would be kind of course he would this is it—

He takes a breath, steady as he can—and meets his eyes.

Finding nothing but warmth—always warmth.

Always for him.

“Listen to me. Are you alright to listen?” he asks, running his hand back and forth across Jon’s shoulders, the gentle pressure untwisting something dreadful that has been knotted away in his stomach for a long, long time.

“Y-yes,” he finds himself whispering, desperate to swallow the lump in his throat as Martin shifts on the bed to sit in front of him, pulling Jon’s forehead forward to press against his own, hands resting softly against his ears, and the line of his jaw on either side.

“I need you to know how proud I am of you.”

One sentence—once sentence is all it took, and the tears spill like rain down Jon’s cheeks, unbidden and lovely and so, so relieved.

Proud of me he’s proud he’s proud

“For so many things, I’m proud of you. And this is no exception, my darling.”

No exception?

“But you—heh, sorry,” he laughs damply for just a moment, reaching up to wipe his tears away, finding Martin’s thumbs already doing the job.

“But what?”

“I—you—I’m not, not a man, Martin. I’m not—”

“Jon, I—”

“Let me finish, please,” Jon begs as he pulls away from Martin, fully unable to stop his tears now, voice shaking on every note.

“Okay.”

“I-I know you’re—you’re interested in men, and—I’m not….that. A-and I’m not, not interested in sex, and—and I know you said it’s alright, and that you’re alright with that. But in case that wasn’t—wasn’t true, I. I can’t bear the thought of you feeling stuck here. With me. So, you’re—”

He swallows thickly, fruitlessly.

“You’re not. And I need you to know that.”

A pause, a small pause that sets Jon’s heart pounding again as Martin blinks at him silently.

He’s going to leave he’s going to leave

“Are you finished now?” he whispers, his own voice wobbling a bit as he refuses to look away from Jon’s gaze.

“Y-yes—mmph.”

Cut off by the warmth of Martin’s lips against his own, Jon finds himself melting—always melting, always for Martin.

He loves me he loves me he loves me

“Jon,” Martin murmurs gently as he pulls away in favor of resting their foreheads together once more, eyes brimming this time as he gazes into Jon’s tear-streaked face.

“I am not. Stuck here. I have never, not once felt ��stuck’ with you, my love. Never.”

Overwhelmed, too much, not enough. Never enough of Martin.

“I love you, Jon. Not in spite of who you are—I love you because of it. And nothing—nothing, you understand?—that you tell me like this could ever stop that. You are my partner. You are asexual. You are nonbinary. And I am so, so proud.”

Something small and aching in Jon’s chest shatters—and he is free, so much freer than he ever has been, in this moment. With his love. With his everything.

“M-Martin, I—” he chokes around his sobs, now with a different, smiling edge. “I love—I love you. Thank you.”

“I love you,” Martin breathes easily, pressing another kiss to Jon’s lips, before pulling him forward against his chest, ever so gentle even with all his strength.

Smiling against the fabric of his shirt, Jon finally allows himself to be.

Comfortable.

Proud.

Safe.

Home.

[quiddity-jones]

Happy Ace Week!

Andee Simon is here to celebrate Asexual Awareness Week! For those of you that don’t know, Asexual Awareness Week runs from Oct. 25 - Oct. 31. Asexuality is a valid part of the spectrum of sexuality. Andee is ace/aro and she’s pretty comfortable with herself. So, here’s to everybody on the ace spectrum out there! Have a good week.

*click on the image to enlarge it*

[choicespride]

Asexual Awareness Week started yesterday!!!! Happy Asexual Awareness Week everybody!!!

Asexual Awareness Week 2023

Hello and welcome to Asexual Awareness Week 2023!! Rules and prompts below the cut!

Rules

This event will start on Sunday, October 22 and end on Tuesday, October 31 (Ace Awareness Week is from the 22-28, but I figured I'd give y'all some extra time in case you want/need it)

Submissions must include the characters full name and which Choices story they are from.

If your work contains a relationship it must be labelled correctly, using "x" for romantic/sexual relationships and "&" for platonic relationships.

All submissions must be respectful of the asexual community as well as the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community.

NSFW/mature submissions are allowed, but must be tagged properly and have the proper community label.

You cannot submit AI generated content for this event.

Tag this account on all submissions. If I don't reblog within 72 hours, please DM me the post as sometimes Tumblr tags can be unreliable.

Prompts

Meet My MC: share a Meet My MC post for your asexual MCs or OCs

Fanworks: fics/art/headcanons/etc. about ace characters (either your own characters, canon ace characters, or just characters you hc as ace!)

Ace Questionnaire: feel free to answer any or all of the questions below!

How/when did your character discover/realize they are ace?

Does your character use any aspec microlabels?

Has your character come out as ace? If so, how/when?

What is your character’s favorite thing about being ace?

What is your character’s least favorite thing about being ace?

Is your character in a relationship (i.e., romantic, qpr, platonic, etc.)?

How does your character feel about sex (i.e., sex-postive, sex-repulsed, etc.)?

Anything else you’d like to share?

(I am also going to try to find a few Ace Ask Games to reblog, so feel free to answer those for yourself or your characters and tag me if you'd like to submit it to the event! Also feel free to send me any Ace Ask Games you come across that you'd like me to reblog)

[artrmeblog]

Happy Asexual Awareness Week to everybody celebrating, please keep these ✨famous✨ words in mind! 💜🤍🖤

I remember the first time I saw this scene, my jaw literally hit the floor. I felt as if I had just gotten one of the most comforting and warm hugs (a feeling I still get even today when I rewatch it) And I hope that many others who had seen this tv show had the experienced that exact same feeling.

Once Again I wish you a happy Ace Week

[someoneq]

Happy asexual appreciation awareness week to all my fellow aces

Asexuality is real and valid. Asexuals aren't broken.

No one is owed sex. You can't fix someone's sexuality.

Now, onto the real reason for this, asexual (and aromantic) songs!

D&D + Asexuality by Skull Puppies

Hell Nos And Headphones by Hailee Steinfeld

I Miss Having Sex But At Least I Don't Wanna Die Anymore by Waterpark

Take A Hint by the Victorious Cast

A-OKAY by Adam Winney

Never Been In Love by Will Jay

Aromantic by Mike Fonzarelli Roberts

Don't Fall In Love by Danko Jones

No Lover by Jetty Bones

Everybody's Lonely by Jukebox The Ghost

NO by Meghan Trainor

Crush Culture by Conan Gray

It's disappointingly short so ifyou can add to this list of songs, please do

[i-am-the-inquisitor]

Happy Asexual Awareness Week!

Make sure your activism is intersectional!

There is still racism and a lack of representation within marginalized communities. Make sure to listen to others! Within the LGBTQIA+ community we know that media has bais', like the fact that lesbians are more accepted than gay men. And when there is representation, it's usually white people. Very rarely is it a couple where both partners are BIPOC.

With that being said, I drew (I'm still learning how to draw) some Ace representation!

Representation is SO important. To see people who look like ourselves validates us as people.

For me personally, I thought I was broken growing up because I didn't feel sexual attraction and a lot of my peers did. I missed out on a lot of jokes and I felt like an ~imposter~.

It wasn't until a saw some memes I deeply resonated with, did I realize that there are other people in the world like me.

Asexuals are VALID.

You are not broken. You are AMAZING.

Have a great day everybody!

[cosmoeulogy]

Remember that time I told some of my closest friends I was ace and they fucking dismissed me like "lmao you totally aren't, you're confused", like they knew fucking better than me what I AM.

Just because I had expressed attraction to people before doesn't mean I want to fuck them.

Anyway. Happy asexual awareness week, everybody.

[artbyanca]

Happy asexual awareness week to everybody on the aro-ace spectrum. 

[pyraelia]

What's the furthest she's gone with Aerden? Does she want more?

Well, he’s definitely seen her naked -- albeit with her illusion on to cover up all the burn scarring she has on her right side shoulder, chest and back. Not that anything in particular happened there as far as going any kind of distance. What’s a casual bath between three friends?

Aside from that they’ve made out casually; that’s something she’s comfortable enough with and experimented with in University when she was trying to figure herself out. She’d definitely like more, and is aware of what that entails, but that’s not a quick road for her and she’s very nervous about progressing past where they are now because she’s not particularly experienced and he certainly is. Plus this is the first time she’s really been genuinely kind of sexually attracted to somebody and she doesn’t want to be a disappointment, or risk missing out on a new experience. It’s a lot!

Happy asexual/demisexual week everybody! 

Thanks anon! @aerdendios mentioned. 

[fuckyeahasexual]

Hey :D since today is bi visibility day (happy bi-day everybody) I was wondering if there's also an ace visibility day. I've heard that there's an Asexual Awareness Week, but is there a specific date or does it change every year? I've been part of the community for just a few months so I'm still learning :)

AAW is always the third week of October so it does shift a little each year. I have it as Oct 20th to 26th on my calendar