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I've got some beautiful characters gathering dust with me, so I'd like to give them a chance at being used elsewhere lol~ Here's the for sale folder! Please do not offer on characters from other folders and please abide by the key! I will be accepting USD, da points, character trades, & art trades. However, please note that all characters are not available to be purchased with all payment forms so please check out the key before offering! Offer to adopt! I will provide price ranges upon request as well^^ You can contact me here, on da, or on toyhouse! Many of these characters have art by me, and if you'd like to order additional art of the character I'm willing to add that on at a discounted rate! Please read my ToS

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Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2021 is here!

February 21st - 27th

This is my first time making a post/participating in ASAW and I’m super excited! Also! I recognize that some of the terms I may use are not universally understood and that some people may be new to this entire thing so I will include definitions for any terms I use beneath everything^^

What is ASAW?

In the same vein as Pride Month, ASAW is a week dedicated to celebrating as well as spreading awareness & acceptance for those who identify as belonging to the Aromantic Spectrum!

You can read more about it and it’s establishment here: https://aromantic.lgbt/AAW

What is Aromanticism?

Aromanticism is the blanket name for a spectrum of romantic orientations which are characterized by little to no romantic attraction at all! However, it’s important to recognize that it is a spectrum united by not experiencing romantic attraction in the societal “standard” way; what it means to identify as aromantic can differ wildly between two aspec people. Aromantic people can be completely fine with romantic interactions, indifferent, totally repulsed, or any in-between! There are a ton of more specific identities that fall under the aromantic spectrum: Lithromantic, Grey-romantic, Aroflux, Quoiromantic, and tons more with even more micro-labels! Please note; aromanticism is distinct from choosing not to be in a relationship. We haven’t decided that we just don’t want to participate in romance, we inherently experience it differently.

My Aromantic Identity

Okay so I’m pretty open about my identity and belonging to the aromantic spectrum, but I’d like to offer just one perspective. Just to make it all clear: I generally identify as Aromantic Queer or Aromantic wlw!^^ I have several sonas that are canonically lithromantic, but I identify just as “Aromantic.” I typically am indifferent to romance/romantic interactions, but sometimes I swing between indifference and being completely repulsed by romantic interactions.

Growing up, I didn’t think anything of my aromanticism for a long time. Obviously media (at least in Western cultures, I can’t speak for other cultures) is INSANELY oversaturated with romance, and I had SEEN romance in movies and shows, but I mean there were also dragons and lightsabers in those movies so I never really thought it was weird that I wouldn’t relate to the romantic subplots. It was fiction and it was all produced, I didn't need to relate. 

Then suddenly, all my friends had crushes. People started dating in school. Everyone I communicated with just wanted to talk about some person they were interested in or how excited they were to be asked to some dance. I didn’t get it, and I started getting worried. You know how you kinda just assume that everyone experiences life the way you do for certain things? I just assumed that everyone felt the way I did about romance, but it was just a thing that people did and they were just better at playing the role than I was. I figured everyone was faking it til they made it. So when my friends would finish telling us about their crushes/relationships and would turn to me with, “What about you Ban? Who do you have a crush on?” I panicked, racked my brain for any guy in any class who was generally nice and said, “That one; I have a crush on that one.” 

It would be years of this point and choose technique until I would finally talk to a member of my school’s LGBT+ group and learn what it means to be “aromantic.” I cannot describe the relief I felt when I found out that, no, everyone isn’t just faking it til they made it, you’re just aromantic Ban. It would take me a few years of digging my feet into the ground against arophobia and self-consciousness before I would really come out as aromantic, but I have now and I have literally never felt more assured in any aspect of my identity than my aromanticism.

Do Aromantic People Date?

This is by far the question I get the most when I talk about aromanticism, but don’t feel bad if you were thinking it- I get why alloromantics ask this question and I don’t mind answering it! The honest answer is: it depends on the person. Sorry, that might not be the solid answer you wanted, but it's the true one. Of course, let me elaborate. In my experience, those on the aromantic spectrum may date only other aromantics, prefer queerplatonic life partners, or even be in romantic relationships with alloromantic people! The real keypoint is that dating often looks different to aromantic people than the social standard.

I have an alloromantic girlfriend! I’m happy in my relationship! However, the relationship was entirely instigated on her end and I explained to her in depth that I am aromantic and I can’t always be the romantic partner that society tells us we should be, and she understands that. I guess the takeaway here is really just: ask. If you have an aromantic person in your life and you’re curious, just ask them if they are open to dating or life partners. But respect their answer; and respect their choice to not tell you if they decide they don’t want to.

So Happy ASAW!

I’m so glad to have the opportunity to share my own story and to raise awareness! To close everything out; aromantic identities are essential to LGBT+ communities because our identities allow us as a whole to ask ourselves what relationships mean and can be in the same way that nonbinary individuals allow us to question what our genders mean and can be. People belonging to the aromantic spectrum aren’t broken, we don’t need to be fixed, and we can live our lives in the absence of romance just as happy and content as alloromantics can in their romantic relationships. We aren’t “late bloomers,” this isn’t a phase, and aro kids deserve just as much respect as aro adults. Someone who thinks that they are aromantic only to come to the conclusion later that they aren’t don’t “disprove” aromanticism the same way bisexual individuals who may find out they’re actually gay later don’t “disprove” the bisexual identity. If you belong to the aromantic spectrum and you’re reading this, I’d love to hear from you! Leave your story in the comments and we can really come together and celebrate our identities! Thank you so much for hearing me out^^

Terms

Lithromantic: romantic attraction without the desire for reciprocation

Grey-romantic: a romantic orientation on the aromantic spectrum; identifying with some elements of aromanticism or the aromantic spectrum, without identifying as solely aromantic

Aroflux: someone whose romantic orientation fluctuates but generally stays on the aromantic spectrum

Quoiromantic: not understanding or actively disidentifying with romance/romantic attraction/romantic orientation as sensible/applicable categories, personally; feeling that these categories are personally inaccessible, inapplicable, or nonsensical

Arophobia: a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward aromanticism or aromantic people

Alloromantic: the opposite of aromantic; a person who experiences romantic attraction or romantic desire in a clear, consistent, frequent enough manner to have no relationship to the aromantic spectrum

Queerplatonic: an umbrella expression to indicate that a relationship defies the divide between romantic partnership and "just" friends

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Let me just get right into it. I missed last week's Missing Stars update and I was late the week before that so I feel like this isn't super out of the blue, but I'm really sorry to officially put it out there: Missing Stars is on a short hiatus and I will not be super active on my social medias for the time being. I can't help but feel a little silly abt this bc I know that neither Missing Stars or myself have a particularly large following that I will be letting down if I suddenly become inactive, but like I always told myself I would do everything in my power to not cut-off Missing Stars once I got started so like its really disappointing to myself lol. Especially since Missing Stars is only in its prologue still. I know I'm not obligated to explain myself but I do feel like I should explain a little bit about my current situation and why I'm gonna be unable to work on anything of substance. Basically, a serious medical emergency has happened in my family which has rocked my close families whole like, rhythm. On top of that I've just started a new job and it is midterm season at my uni and profs dont let you not take test just because your dad is in the ICU. Whenever I'm not visiting my dad, catching up on coursework that I am weeks behind on, or on the clock, I am either a blubbering mess or trying to destress. I'm tired. I don't have time to sit down and work on pages that I'd like to commit to and make sure theyre polished and good enough to post. I'm super sorry to anyone who likes my work or likes Missing Stars and wants to see more of my polished stuff. I want to be working on those things too and I feel horrible about my inactivity. I'm also sorry to any friends from my social medias who im probably ghosting rn. I still love you I promise and Im trying to continue to support your stuff!

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Missing Stars - Prolouge Pg.9

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Missing Stars - Prolouge Pg.8

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Missing Stars - Prolouge Pg.7

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Missing Stars - Prolouge Pg.5-6

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Missing Stars - Prolouge Pg.3-4

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Been reading Squirrelflight’s Hope and I just had to draw my lady!

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Missing Stars - Prolouge Pg.1-2

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hello??? why don’t your posts have hundreds of notes, your art is so good??????

Awwh tysm, i’m so glad u like my work^^

im kinda newish to posting and being active on tumblr, and i have a tendency to forget to update it lol but im gonna try being more active here! And i mean, so long as some people are seeing my stuff, thats more than enough for me ^^

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#96: mousefur

i thought her eyes were blue for the longest time after they described them like “sunlit ice” but they’re amber so… why not both

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This is the Start! || Next 

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Firestar is sitting up there looking down at them sitting together, remembers Mistystar and Stonefur, Feathertail and Stormfur, nods ans thinks to himself "yep those are Crow and Leaf's." and said nothing like the good dad he is.

Firestar, Sandstorm, Sorreltail, Ferncloud, and Daisy looking at “Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw’s” kits

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toby fox was like fuck you, be sad about a fictional goat. fuck you

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Hollyleaf, Crowfeather and Breezepelt sit next to each other and Leafpool and Squirrelflight BEG the universe for everyone to dismiss it XD

go ahead and throw in Jayfeather too bc them Crowfeather genes are STRONK

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Small process of painting

I created my own watercolors 🎨