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Welcome to MCYT Aro Week!
What's that? MCYT Aro Week is a week to celebrate aromanticism in the Minecraft YouTube fandom! We noticed there wasn't a lot of hype for aro CCs, characters or headcanons, so we want to celebrate them! As with most appreciation weeks, you can create any kind of art (including writing, music, webweaves, playlists, anything really!) inspired by the prompts!
How will it work? The event will have two prompts per day, and participants can choose between them or combine them! During the week of the event, please tag our blog and use the #mcyt aro week tag on your post, and we'll reblog your creations! The event will run from March 11-17th, with different prompts assigned to each day, but if you need to post your creations a day late that's okay too! We'll reblog creations for the event for at least a week after the event ends, so that all late submissions still get to be featured!
Who's running it? This event is run by 4 mods:
Mod Rain (they/them) - @stardustanddaffodils
Mod Khads (she/he) - @rabidcanadagoose, formerly @/clethos
Mod Pixie (she/they) - @severevoiddragon
Mod Vwoop (they/it/ey/vwoop) - @ranvwoop
Okay, when is it? 11th - 17th March 2024!
What are the prompts?
March 11: Unconventional relationships / Trope subversion
March 12: Loveless / AU
March 13: Solidarity / Hobbies
March 14: Aro joy / Adventure
March 15: Spectrum / Baking
March 16: Coming out / Found family
March 17: Aromantic (free day!!)
FAQ under the cut!
FAQ
"Can I do headcanons?" Absolutely!
"What is aromanticism?" Aromantic means you do not feel romantic attraction to others, but it's a wide spectrum ranging from absolutely no attraction, to little, or anything in between!
"Can I do asexual instead?" We're prefer you not to. You're welcome to do aroace (aromantic asexual) characters, as this still includes aromantic, but we'd prefer not to swap to asexual, as they are two separate identities!
"How about NSFW stuff?" We'd prefer not, but since we can't stop you, we simply won't reblog any NSFW art!
Do I need to create for all the days? Nope! However much you want to or are able to participate is perfectly fine!
"What counts as aromantic?" However you want! Any portrayal is great!
More questions to come!
#mcyt aro week#mod rain#mod khads#mod pixie#mod vwoop#hermitcraft#hermitcraft smp#qsmp#dsmp#pirates smp#empires smp#rats smp#outsiders smp#lifesteal smp#aromantic#mcyt#aro#aro pride#arospec
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@mcyt-aro-week day 3: solidarity / hobbies
It's a quiet day in Pixandria, all things considered, which is nice and rare these days. That is, until Pix hears the telltale sounds of rockets and someone skidding to a halt in the sand outside his storage room.
Pix closes the chest he was rummaging through with a sigh and walks outside to figure out which of his friends has appeared on his metaphorical front lawn. As he pokes his head out the door, he catches a flash of bright green- Jimmy, then, so this will probably be a relatively normal conversation, all things considered.
"Jimmy, hey, what's up?"
Jimmy turns around, frowning, and pulls his codboy hat lower than it's supposed to go so it covers his eyes- bad day, then.
Jimmy sighs, "Pix, can I talk to you about something?"
"Sure, sure, come on in," Pix ushers the man into the top area of the storage room and leans against one of the walls. "What's going on?"
Jimmy buries is head in his hands even further somehow and groans for a second before he starts talking. Very bad day, then.
"Well, I just left Rivendell cause Scott invited me to some sort of alliance meeting, except it wasn't really an alliance meeting, it was a date, and it was really clearly a date cause he had this tunnel of love thing going on and a picnic and it was really nice but I don't- I wasn't prepared and I don't know if I even like him- or anyone- like that but I didn't know how to tell him that in the middle of a date, so I pretended that I didn't know it was one, except it was so obviously a date so now he either thinks I'm even more of an idiot than he already did or that I was, I don't know, playing hard to get or something? I don't know how people think about these things, I just-"
Jimmy, who had been pacing and gesturing wildly the whole time he spoke, stops short, digs his palms into his eyes, and shouts a bit before stopping and looking up at Pix desperately.
"Help?"
Pix nods slowly. "Yeah, ok, that's... that's bad. So, first things first, the thing about not being sure if you like him, or anyone like that?"
Jimmy takes a deep breath and shakes out his hands a bit. "Yeah, I don't know, I think I've had like, one crush ever? And I don't even really know if that was a crush? And I like Scott, I do, even though he's kind of a jerk sometimes, but I don't think it's like that? I'm not sure."
"Ok, well, do you want to be in a relationship with Scott?"
Jimmy pauses, visibly considering. "I... have no idea."
"Ok, so, first step is, despite what you might think, not figuring that part out, because that's going to take forever. First step is getting on the same page with Scott.”
“Does it have to be? Can’t I just figure out what my deal is and then everything is fine forever?”
Pix chuckles. “If only it were that easy.”
“It’s just-!” Jimmy walks over to where Pix is leaning and joins him for about two seconds before sliding down the wall to sit on the floor. “I don’t know. I don’t know how any of this is supposed to feel, I don’t know how I’m meant to know if I like someone like that or not if I want to be in a relationship with them or what and I don’t know how everyone seems to have it so figured out!”
“I mean, I don’t think everyone else does, to be totally honest. But even if they do, well, it probably felt a lot more like… something for them.” Pix joins Jimmy on the floor, staring straight ahead as he tries to think. “Because in my experience, sometimes it feels like nothing because it is nothing, but sometimes it feels like nothing because it’s something but not with this person, but other times it feels like something even when it’s nothing-“ Pix has no idea what he’s talking about, at this point. He’s not equipped for these things, and he says as much. “Why did you come to me for this, I’m not-? Your sister’s married to your best friend, I feel like they’re much better equipped to answer the question of ‘How do you know when you want to be in a relationship with someone?’”
“I mean, probably,” Jimmy says, finally letting his codboy hat go enough that Pix can see his eyes again. “But, well… you’re you. We’re us, y’know?”
Pix does know. He knows that Lizzie is Jimmy’s sister, but Pix was the first person to see Jimmy without the Codfather head on. He knows that Joel is Jimmy’s best friend, but Pix is the one he asked to build the cod statue in his base. He knows that he’s Jimmy’s… something, and this is what they do. And that, however unfortunately, he probably is the best person to ask about this type of thing, even if he doesn’t feel like he knows what he’s talking about half the time.
Pix reaches out and puts his arm around Jimmy’s shoulders, and Jimmy instinctively moves to lay his head on Pix’s shoulder. Well, they’ll figure it out eventually.
#mcyt aro week#jimmy solidarity#pixlriffs#empires smp#i’m not tagging this as shipping but you can if you want#they’re a qpr it’s whatever you want it to be#though i will say that the crush jimmy mentions IS pix#like they’re a qpr but they don’t really call it that and jimmy did think he had a crush on pix for a bit cause he has no idea what a crush#is quote unquote supposed to be#also scott doesn’t know it but he’s also aromantic#but he’s So far from realizing that#my writing
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Mcyt Aro Week Day One: a little late, but aroace and poly boatem!!!
#ron.art#grian#gtwscar#gtws#goodtimewithscar#impulsesv#mumbo jumbo#pearlecentmoon#pearlescentmoon#impulse fanart#impulsesv fanart#grian mc#boatem#mcyt aro week#aroace#oriented aroace#cupioromantic#aroallo
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it’s been pointed out that Etoiles is the aro flag but I haven’t seen anyone notice that his t-rex is the aroallo flag
Mcyt aro week day 4 | prompt - aro joy / adventure
#deterg-art#mcyt aro week#qsmp#qsmp fanart#qsmp Etoiles#most of these colors where color picked from the aro and aroallo flags
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Day Two: Loveless/Au I kinda did both because I didn't understand loveless and also non-minecraft Au (NOT RPF THO)
Character(s): Mumbo, Scar
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Scar woke up to the smell of something burning...wait burning?! That itself was enough to get him to jump out of his bed, and very gracefully and definitely not clumsily grab his cane. Rushing into the kitchen, the smell got really strong, but it also mixed with the smell of...pancake mix? That was strange. Stepping into the kitchen Scar was greeted to the sight of Mumbo, looking very very embarrassed and a pile of burnt pancakes and what looks to be eggs, possibly?
"Well, good morning my lovely Mumbo, whats uh, whats going on here?" There was slightly teasingly tone to his voice and he ended his sentence with a chuckle.
"Ah! Well uhm y'know I was trying to make breakfast and, oh gosh, it went a bit...wrong? Very quickly." Mumbo turned around so quickly Scar was worried he was going to trip over his own feet. And Scar just laughed softly and walked over to Mumbo, pulling the taller one into a hug.
"Mumbo, we both know you can't cook, you should have just woken me up." Scar whispered in the others ear, which caused the other to make a few sounds of shook.
"Scar! I was just trying to surprise you with food!" Scar didn't have to look at Mumbos face to know the other was probably beet red. He pulled away from the other, keeping his hands on Mumbos shoulder.
"You are just adorable, but that doesn't change that you can't cook and almost burned my house!" Scar tried his best to sound mad, but it was hard to keep it up and ended up laughing in the middle of his sentence.
He decided it was time to clean up, and fully detached from Mumbo, walking over to the stove and examining the food, and yep just as he thought, they were unsaveable. He grabbed bother plates, still not knowing what the egg-possibly sausage burnt to a crisp things were and throwing them into the trash. The batter looked good enough to cook, so he buttered the pan and pour a decent amount of batter into the pan.
After making about 5 or so pancakes and plating them he grabbed the egg carton from the fridge and cook both of them an egg, Mumbos being sunnyside up and Scars being scrambled.
"Breakfast is served darling!" He said, handing Mumbo a plate. He felt a sense of accomplishment when he saw Mumbo blush a bit, that man is always so easy to fluster.
"Thank you Scar" He was smiling while grabbing his plate from Mumbo.
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March 11: Unconventional relationships / Trope subversion (for @mcyt-aro-week)
“Right, I’ll count to three,” Cleo said gently. “One.”
“Don’t baby me!” Bdubs pouted. “Just yank- OW! Hey!”
Cleo rolled their eyes and put a cloth over the, frankly, small cut from the berry bush on Bdubs’ calf. “Do you need me to kiss it better?”
“No!”
“No?”
“I was so brave.”
“You were so brave.” Bdubs put his hand over Cleo’s, and they move theirs back, leaving him holding the cloth. “Just hold that until it stops bleeding.”
“I know.”
“I’m just reminding you.”
Bdubs studied their face, and they met his gaze. He blinked slowly. They blinked back.
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Day 2 of @mcyt-aro-week was way harder for me for some reason. I decided to do the prompt "loveless" so for context, in this headcanon Gem is a loveless aromantic, however she doesn't actually know it yet. ALSO, i am not actually a loveless aro, I am in fact the opposite, so if I got anything wildly wrong please tell me <3
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Gem had never liked romance. Even as a kid, she'd wrinkle her nose at kiss scenes, complain when her parents called each other pet names, and gag whenever anyone asked about “her future boyfriend.” Back then, though, it was less apparent. Easier to ignore. Sure, it was a bit strange, but she'd been a kid, and kids do strange things all the time.
The first time she remembers being aware of this, is also the first time she got in trouble at school. She was eating lunch with a group of kids, when one of them started bragging about how he'd kissed a boy. All the other kids were oohing and aahing, asking him what it was like and acting all together more impressed then she thought was deserving. If she was honest, she had thought it was gross, so when it came her turn to speak she said as much.
The reaction she got for that was surprising, even to her child mind. Up until then she'd been under the impression that romance didn't appeal to her, so why would it appeal to anyone else? The boy had started crying, and someone got a teacher involved, which all led to a very reluctant apology from Gem and a very awkward ride home with her parents.
Even that, though, was quickly forgotten. Sure, it was a bit strange, but strange things happen all the time, and for now Gem could easily go about her day talking to her friends, and drawing, and definitely not thinking about romance.
As a teenager she was well and truly sick of it.
She didn't get it. She'd never gotten it, and if her luck held she never would. She didn't know how, or why for that matter, but even with their exams only a few weeks away all anyone ever talked about was love, love, love. She didn't know where they got the time.
One day, while she was complaining to her parents on the floor of their living room, and working on an architectural sketch for her portfolio, her dad told her something that would stick with her forever, though not for the reason he probably thought.
“Everyone falls in love. It's what makes us human.”
He'd said it with a patronising grin, like he thought her feelings were childish, and her childish to feel them.
She took it as a challenge.
From then on, she stopped referring to her feelings as love all together. It was a subtle change, one you didn't notice until you did, but once you did you couldn't unsee. She adored it. She'd always felt divorced from what others called love, and being able to reclaim that discomfort, that disconnect as her own? It was nothing short of delightful.
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“Hey, Gem?” Pearl asked.
Dappled light shimmered though tree leaves, spreading across a stepping-stone path as if someone had splattered the ground with paint. Gem and Pearl walked slowly, enjoying the view and each other's company. A bittersweet atmosphere stuck to them like glitter, since this would be the last time they could talk before Pearl left to her new server, the Empires SMP.
“Mhm?” Gem hummed
“Are you aromantic?”
Huh?
Gem cocked her head to the side, her red hair flowing over her shoulders. “What's that?”
“It's where you don't fall in love”
Well, that was unexpected. Neat.
“Huh. Guess I am.”
#geminitay#hermitblr#hermitfic#hermitcraft#mywriting#mcyt aro week#i hate doing italics on tumblr fr
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MCYT ARO WEEK DAY 2 - AU YIPPEE
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This is my Hermitcraft Portal AU, where Pearl takes the place of Chell, and Mumbo takes the place of Wheatley. They're both aromantic to me (Pearl aroace, Mumbo bi aro).
I didn't wanna render this properly so oh well
#pixies rambles#hc portal au#mcyt aro week#pearlescentmoon#mumbo jumbo#drawing#day 2#prompt: alternative universe#<- again adding the mcyt aro week tags so its easier for me :D#they're probably discussing something interesting like Portals#mumbo moustache was fun to draw :D
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I HAVE FINISHED THE FIC FOR @mcyt-aro-week! not posting a summary because my computer's about to die, but here's the link:
the title is from one of my favorite, incredibly underrated bands, the Beths. :)
Fic was an attempt to combine several prompts on the list!
#mcyt aro week#skizzleman#scott smajor#impulsesv#tango tek#ethoslab#pearlescentmoon#grian#trafficshipping#but also not#he's grayro. because projection#hermitfic#(actually it's.#trafficfic#but whatever)
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@mcyt-aro-week Day one - Unconventional relationship
Aroace and happily long-distance married. He’s reading her letters :]
#this is canon for the record#mcyt aro week#next day edit: changed my mind i'm maintagging this#showtime smp#violettafire#endrin’s art#endrin’s posts
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🌵/💣/🦙/🌵/💣/🦙/🌵/💣/🦙/
a bit late but heres my piece for @mcyt-aro-week (and my first time making a stimboard!) these two defo have an unconventional relationship, albeit one punctuated with a weird amount of explosions (ig that actually adds to the unconventional part?)
#mcyt aro week#stimboard#grian#goodtimeswithscar#desert duo#day 1#prompt: unconventional relationships
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MCYT Aro Week Prompts List!
March 11: Unconventional relationships / Trope subversion
March 12: Loveless / AU
March 13: Solidarity / Hobbies
March 14: Aro joy / Adventure
March 15: Spectrum / Baking
March 16: Coming out / Found family
March 17: Aromantic (free day!!)
Participants are welcome to choose between the two, create something for each, or combine them. You're under no obligation to participate every day, and you're free to interpret the prompts however you want! This list will also be on our pinned post. As always, any and all questions are welcome!
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@mcyt-aro-week days 1 and 2 because i missed yesterday.
prompts: unconventional relationships / trope subversion, loveless / AU (blaseball au)
(remaining post under the cut)
"God, at this rate I'm never saving anyone's life ever again," Gem sighs as she puts her phone on Do Not Disturb.
"What do you mean?" False asks.
They're at a coffee shop in Houston. The Sunbeams had just finished a series with the Spies and were going home that night, while the Mechanics started a series with them tomorrow. False had decided to arrive a day early so her and Gem could do this, and after the terrible games both of their teams had had, False was particularly thankful for it.
Generally, she was thankful for Gem. About two weeks prior, False had been pitching a game in the Hellmouth, and the umpire had gone rogue. It was the ump at home plate, and it had been making a beeline for her when Gem had come sprinting out of her dugout and pushed False out of the way with more force than she'd expected the woman to hold. Gem had then tackled the umpire to the ground, taking the flames herself until they burnt out and could be safely removed from the field. Gem had barely seemed phased after the fact, just shook the dust off her uniform and walked back to the dugout. It was about as terrifying as it was impressive, and when Gem hit the game winning run off her at her next at bat, False couldn't find it in herself to be anything but impressed.
"My twitter mentions are blowing up, I think some fan or paparazzi saw us here and assumed we were on a date." Gem rolls her eyes and takes a long sip of her tea.
False can't help the snicker that comes out at Gem's words, but Gem doesn't seem particularly amused. "Wait, seriously?"
"Yup, this happens to me all the time," Gem says. "Everyone's got this image of us Fire Eaters being like, knights in shining armor, so every time I save somebody's life I have to deal with the internet being literally unusable for a few weeks if I want to avoid speculation about my relationships. Oh, and that's all the press will want to talk to me about after my games."
"Oh," False says, taking a long sip of her tea. She doesn't make much of a habit of looking at social media, and she has suddenly never been more grateful. "And this happens every time?"
"Every time! It's like they're trying to dissuade us from actually doing it or something. I'm not gonna stop, but like, sometimes I really want to. Can't they just ask me about the actual game one of these days?"
False lets the table fall quiet for a moment. She's thinking. For her entire career, she'd been a notoriously private person, both in her personal life and to the public. She'd been working on the personal life part for a long time, at the behest of her therapist, and she likes to think she's made some improvements. As for the public sphere, well, they weren't entitled to know anything about her. But- False takes a look at Gem, who's eyes are quickly flitting around the shop, like she's keeping an eye out for any cameras or fans looking too long in their direction. Maybe just this one thing...
"I think I might have an idea."
#empires smp#falsesymmetry#geminitay#mcyt blaseball au#mcyt aro week#id in alt#i put far too much work into these fake tweets for no real reason#but theyre funny to me so#i was originally gonna tell the whole story in tweets with it culminating in someone seeing false at pride w/ an aro ace flag cape#but then i got. lazy#if you see any mistakes in these tweets NO YOU DONT i am not fixing them
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Mcyt Aro Week Day Five: Baking with BigB!! Get yourself a flag cookie
Full list below the cut, since I'll probably for to tag most of em
#Or: I draw as many arospec flags as humanly possible#ron.art#bigbst4tz2#bigbstatz#bigb fanart#aromantic spectrum#aroallo#aroace#aromantic#lithoromantic#cupioromantic#oriented aroace#loveless aromantic#aromid#acemid#amid#aroflux#mcyt aro week#demiromantic#I am so tired but I have learned so many labels#This one was really late but yk#demirose#grayromantic
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Mcyt aro week day 2 | prompt - loveless
#deterg art#c!Quackity#dsmp#mcyt aro week#the idea here is that Quackity forces himself into romantic relationships in a desperate attempt to be cared about#he’s forcing himself to swallow a heart both as a metaphor for that and because… well… jschlatt’s funeral…#this is related to the loveless prompt because though Quackity is always trying to act like he’s in love he doesn’t actually have it#he doesn’t feel it himself but the people he ends up in romantic relationships with don’t love him either#tw blood#tw heart#tw gore
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day one of @mcyt-aro-week: unconventional relationships
Ethubs is literally perfect for this! They don't know what their relationship to each other is or how to define it but they're having fun <3 i love them so much
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