A World Without Trans People Has Never Existed And Never Will

Ngl this sounds too much of my ocs...

broke: enemies to lovers

woke: two nemeses who use romance as a weapon of choice against each other bc they are both romance hating aros

“You can’t joke about being aro/ace makes you better than others as you don’t care about romance/sex, that’s offensive to non aro/aces!”

Listen carefully, you can JOKE about it. The same way lesbians joke about being better as women as better, same way that bisexuals or pansexuals joke about being better as they have a taste of everyone. Same way trans women joke about being better as they’re now the “better” gender in dress/aesthetic.

It’s a joke, just like every other “I’m better jk” joke in the queer community.

You just don’t like it as you feel like not having sexual/romantic attraction is a bad thing. You see being aro/ace as a bad thing. That’s why you don’t like it. You don’t like the idea that someone can be happy with the fact they don’t experience romantic/sexual attraction.

In my personal opinion, I’m incredibly happy about being aro/ace and I feel like I am the BEST version of MYSELF no matter what other identity I could/“should” be.

And yes I make jokes like “ew romance” and “ew sex” and “bro just break up” and “so glad I’m aroace and don’t have to deal with that shit” BECAUSE I CAN.

Note: obviously/srs people with it aren’t great, but they’re not bad people either. You can say “being aromantic is actually the best /srs” you probably shouldn’t say “being aromantic is the best and superior to all other identities making me better then all non-aromantic people” unless you’re joking

Aromantic Bucky Barnes presents:

An Aromantic Bucky Adventure!

Welcome to Aromantic Bucky Barnes' first event!

This event is stress free, no sign ups necessary. As long as Aromantic Bucky is the focus of your creation, all kinds of works are allowed - no minimums or maximums. You're also allowed to choose more than one prompt from each category.

This event isn’t anonymous, so please feel free to share your progress! I’d love to see your WIP Wednesdays/Seven Sentence Sundays, ect, and if you tag @aromanticbuckybarnes they'll be reblogged here.

There's a text version of the graphic under the cut, and you can find other relevant information below.

Rules and FAQ: here

AO3 Collection: AnAromanticBuckyAdventure

Creations due/posting: June 5th, 2025 (aka Aro Visibility Day).

An Aromantic Bucky Adventure

First, pick an AU/setting: 

Modern times

Fantasy AU

Ancient Egypt | Ancient Greece

Cottagecore

Wakanda

Soulmate AU

40s

Comics

Omegaverse AU

Cyberpunk | Steampunk | Futuristic

Second, pick a trope: 

Aromantic joy

Green | Nature

QPRs/non-traditional relationships

Fluff | Slice of life

Found family

Lesser known identities (eg. nebularomantic)

5 + 1 things

Lovers-to-Friends

Badass Bucky

AroAllo Bucky

BONUS / Alternates: 

Kinky aro

Old man Bucky, living his best life

Platonic affection

Trans/non-binary Bucky

AroAce Bucky

Age regression

Fake dating

FWB/fuck buddies (that doesn’t end in romance)

Realisation moment | Coming out | Self acceptance

Alpine

Due/Posting: June 5th, 2025 (aka Aromantic Visibility Day) 

"Friends don't look at friends that way" I think some of you just need to be nicer to your friends.

making fun of a trans persons name is ghoulish behaviour btw why do we have to keep going over this

If your gonna talk shit about me, at least do it correctly lmao. Yeah, I misread you to be 20 in your blog when you actually wrote yourself as 'late 20s' in your bio. That was my bad. With the 'infantilising aces' claim though...

"Aint no way you call infantilisation a privilege" suggests that aces portrayed as "uwu innocent aces" or "pure aces" are infantilising. You were comparing the portrayal of aces vs the portrayal of aros. You did not claim that aces were innocent or pure, you were accounting the portrayal of aces. Thus, you didn't infantilised aces and there's no evidence of me claiming that you were infantilise aces. And given your response, "not being stereotyped as a sexual predator is a privilege" instead of something like "I am not infantilising aces" means that you knew my intended message was about the infantilised portrayal of aces, not accusing you of infantilising aces.

"are aroallos old evil predators or are we young people not knowing what we're talking about?" How did I even imply your a predator? Is it this reply?

Because that doesn't even suggest aroallos are predators. It's talking about one of asexual's major struggles; corrective rape. It is a type of rape specifically to "fix" someone's sexuality. According to sources such as MCSA, 43.5% of Asexuals experienced sexual violence. This was in order to highlight that the infantilised portrayal of asexuality is not a privilege due to not only the portrayal was in order to make asexuality invalid or not to be taken seriously, but it is even more of a disgusting portrayal when combined with the fact that asexuals have gone through sexual violence for their sexuality to be "fixed." In no way does the reply even mention aroallos in any form. How you can even come to that conclusion is beyond me. Plus the "or are we young people not knowing what we're talking about?"

"Your 20, aren't you going to college?" Suggests that you should be more smarter because you are an adult/at least older than me and college is one of an advanced form of education as a highlight. Me thinking you were 20 didn't mean I thought you had no idea what you were talking about. If anything, it was the opposite because I thought at the age of 20, you should already know better. Your not 20, I know that now, stupid of me as I misread your bio. My point still stands that it's not that your age makes you dumb, it's that you said something dumb despite your age.

"i'm a predator until you don't like my opinion." What does this even mean and who even said that to you? Cuz it's definitely not me.

All of this also shows that there was no arophobia and aroallophobia. My guy, if you don't like the criticism I gave you then that's fine. It's you making false claims about me to not be though.

not arophobes complaining about me "infantilising aces" (which i didn't) but then deciding that "late 20s" actually means 20. which one is it? are aroallos old evil predators or are we young people not knowing what we're talking about? i'm a predator until you don't like my opinion.

if you can't even tell the difference between 20 and late 20s you shouldn't be on the internet. aroallophobes are fucking cretins my god.

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

Alright, from the top guys!

Acespec = Asexual spectrum, from asexual, to demi, to ageosexual etc.

Arospec = Aromantic spectrum, from aromantic to demi to ageo and on.

Aspec: Asexual, Aromantic, and Agender spectrums.

after 5 months since my birthday i finally required the appropriate batteries and plug adaptor for my gifted cassette player that came from eastern europe and I'm finally playing the Afro-Peruvian mixtape with handwritten notes that I got from my fav thrift man next to my previous apartment oh and also playing paisley park by Prince on tape and feeling the 80s aliveeeeee