#alloe speaks

[kittenpower05]

Hiiii hello I got really busy but were so back on the isatober grindset (and by that I mean I'm going at a pace that is comfortable for me and only drawing what I can)

Heres day 19: key! Full list under the cut

If I had more time and energy I would have changed how the keys looked (cause we only really get barebones descriptions of em) but hey I'm tired and my options are limited

[kitten-on-the-puter]

In isat if the colors still exist, but people just forgot how to see them, it would be so funny if someone Changed and made their hair a slightly darker shade but. In reality they chose like a desaturated, dark yellow-green. And they would never know. We would never know. They don't know that the pants they're wearing is hot pink. They wouldn't be able to tell.

[lockandkeyhyena]

i will say. a lot of you allo people tend to only care that aroaceness is a spectrum when it pertains to shipping. i honestly agree that you can ship aro characters but you guys only ever bring up that not all aro people are romance repulsed when you can tie it into your favourite ship. maybe i’d find your statement that ‘oh this aro character can totally be shipped lol dont worry about it’ more genuine if you talked about aroace people outside of a shipping context

[lovelessrage]

An aroallo canon event is walking into a space designated as friendly and safe to "all of the aspectrum" [awesome, sounds good, I like being able to talk to people about issues that affect all of us] and realizing very quickly that you are not included in "all". It's the constant need to stick up for yourself in what is supposed to be a safe space that burns aroallos out of your community spaces. If you have a stark lack of aroallos in an all-inclusive zone, ask yourself if the environment is actually safe and welcoming, or if they are expected to constantly be their own advocate with no safety net. It's immensely common and underdiscussed.

Are you sticking up for the aroallos around you? Are you asking how you can be better? Are you expecting to rely on being "called out" rather than learning for yourself? Do you know what aroallophobia looks like? What sex negativity actually is? Please don't let aroallos fade away into the background of so many boundaries crossed and lines drawn that they have to go. We need bridges between the community now more than ever, and that means making it a two way street on each one.

[knifearo]

reminder to everyone that trauma IS a valid reason to use aspec labels. "i don't know if i'm aspec or just traumatized—" protip!!! you can be both!!!! the thing about labels is that they're not immutable states of being that you're born as. they're literally just words that we use to describe our lived experiences, and if asexual or aromantic or any related label feel relevant to the way that you experience attraction, whether it's a result of trauma or not, they're there for you to use. having trauma as a cause does not invalidate the fact that someone is experiencing lesser or no attraction. that's still the aspec experience babey. use the label if you want it's there for you <3

[tinukis]

i think ppl who arent aroace should stop talking about luffy ships and aroace luffy. ESPECIALLY if theyre very against luffy ships. (like it's fine to hc luffy as aroace and it's fine to not like luffy ships! but holy shit do NOT fill your bs in the ship tags unless you are prepared to be criticized or be sent hate (which is unfortunate bc it just makes us look worse when we're already in the dumps))

anyway fun fact of the day! i held a poll on twt (and i should here too) abt how many ZL shippers are at least on the aroace spec, and it turns out a VAST MAJORITY of us are!

and also if i may add, while it's fine to not like luffy ships bc of Your aroace hc... i find it a little odd that it's always people that arent aroace hating/disliking it. maybe it's bc there are people who know fandom etiquette and not put negativity in ship tags.

(and not to include shipping discourse... while it's not ALL zs shippers... it's somehow always zs shippers. theyre so worried about us 'icky' zl shippers when they go and ship ZS lmao...)

like im sorry but "i am not allowed to openly be your ally today it seems" and then you turn around and?? block aroace people??? that are criticizing you for being wrong??? im sorry but please dont speak for the community and how a HEADCANON is alienating us.

you want to raise awareness and yet you refuse to listen and just whine about hate instead of accepting youre wrong. should you be sent hate? no, of course not! should you listen to the aro ace people that are trying to educate you and NOT block them? YES.

sorry i ended up talking about it anyway. im just gonna trust aro/ace ppl with their luffy hcs/ships atp because... 😭

plus for some reason it's ZL always being targeted. i never see mentions of other luffy's ships, mlm or mlw. it just happens to be ZL every time.

i just think yall hate ZL and that you dont care for aroace rep. just sayin.

[kenobihater]

apparently if you pressure astarion into sex after his confession in act 2 he'll straight up dump you, which makes me happy to hear because he's developing his boundaries and relearning self worth. it's a hard scene to watch (and one i could never bring myself to play through personally), but i'm really glad the developers included it bc your actions should have consequences and you shouldn't be able to treat the characters like shit and have them still fawn over you. also, he says THIS in response to tav saying that he seemed to be enjoying himself, and i don't think he could get more explicitly ace unless he had a big blinking neon sign on his forehead that read ACESPEC

[gods-favorite-autistic]

There is no way Riz Gukgak is fully alloromantic

[dakotac0le]

Girl who is probaly polyamorus but aint got time to figure that out

[kittenpower05]

day 7's prompt is clock and I was taken back to when I was getting told jokes by isabeau and this one made me violently get out of my seat and slam my fists onto my table

Prompt list below

I changed the look of the clocktower hands to look like stars and pointing towards sifrins head for composition purposes, and because it looks so much cooler, hands down.

[kitten-on-the-puter]

Beautiful, heartbreaking ending about learning your true potential and discovering that the shards you once thought were broken were actually pieces of the real you that you've been ignoring (and also killing an old friend who betrayed you in pursuit of personal gain in a fucked up society):

Wow... this is so sad, I'm getting very emotional about it but wait!!

Limbus Beach Episode !!!!

[altschmerzes]

out there doing the lord’s work (headcanoning characters as aromantic and Not interested in romantic relationships at all actually, alienating one fandom at a time but having a fantastic blast with it all the while, which is really all that matters)

[indisputablypercy]

i hereby ban alloromantic people from using “but some aromantic people date 👉👈” when talking about shipping aromantic characters. aromantic people may use this as freely as they want. we have earned the right. however. i’ve heard alloromantic people say that so much and use it as essentially an excuse to ship aromantic characters.

[rgbfall]

Man, this might be a hot take, but I feel like a lot of the time people in fandom use QPRs as a cop-out for actual shipping. Like they'll see an aromantic character and go "hm, I can't ship them with this other character, but it's ok it's they're QPPs instead!" and then treat it exactly the same as actual shipping

Like. if you give some depth to what you mean by QPR at least? Or like. Acknowledge that aromantic people can be I'm romantic relationships and alloromantic people can be on QPRs for once

[widowshill]

happy aro week to everyone who celebrates. give your local aro a hundred dollars to compensate for their suffering (me).

[percesdead]

being ace w allo friends is insane. like WHY ARE YOU COMING TO ME FOR DATING ADVICE. EW