#grey aromantic

[aroacearchangel]

hey. do whatever you want btw. it’s your identity. kiss people for fun. enjoy sex. nobody’s stopping you. being aro and/or ace doesn’t mean you have to be repulsed by romantic or sexual activities if you don’t want to.

and also! things only mean what you meant them to mean. you can have platonic sex and platonically make out with your friends. it’s true. just be sure to communicate so that everyone involved understands and you’re good.

[samsayswhatever]

Shout out to the people who wake up a woman and go to bed a man. The the people who wear lipstick and have a beard. To the people whose gender is complicated. To the people who need a minute to think about it. To the people who don't really care. To the people who never stop thinking about it. To the people whose gender and sexuality are the same thing. To the people who like people in a way they can't explain. To the people who don't like anything. To the people with a thousand crushes. To the people who never had one.

[isobug]

So the state of Virginia has "Virginia is for Lovers" as it’s tourism tagline. A friend and I thought that editing the logo to be Aromantic would be Incredibly Funny and I'm happy to say we were right. So here's some Aromantic Virginian pride edits.

General Aro / Aromantic flags

Arospec / Arospectrum flag

Aroflux

Demiaro / Demiromantic

Greyaro / Greyromantic ( or Grayaro / Grayromantic )

Litharo / Lithromantic

and finally, a template for any flags I didn't include!

Free for anyone to use anywhere as always because this is just for fun; I don't need credit but I'd Love ( ha ) to see if anyone else makes anything with these so feel free to tag me if you do !!

( This is just a silly joke for a friend. I don't claim to own anything about this logo and if this already exists than I'm sorry, please link me to OP !! )

If you want the exact border outline to make flags with white stripes more visible, the line is just a 3px layer style stroke effect that's the same color as the letters. Be Free.

[sillysecretwriting]

Being somewhere on both aro and ace spectrums and having a partner is such an odd type of erasure. Like up until accidentally starting to date my current partner, I'd always just say "I don't really date" if people asked about my romantic life and just left it there. I knew that I was so rarely romantically attracted to people, it wasn't never, but the number of people I've been romantically attracted to in my entire life is maybe three? My partner is one of the three, so I ended up having this cute person that I'm romantically attracted to and now share large portions of my life with, but my identity hasn't changed. Our relationship is the rarity, not the normal for me, but now when people ask, and I tell them I have a partner, that larger portion of me that doesn't always understand why other people are so set on having a partner or why there's so much stigma around being single, is just erased in that person's eyes.

I was happy alone and didn't feel like anything was missing. I'm also happy with my partner. But I just hate that the aro (and ace) spectrum parts of my identity become invisible as soon as I mention my partner.

[scribe-cas]

Any other aroace people feeling this one in the club tonight

idk my wife and I were discussing actual traditional romance and I brought up how feeling "crushes" came across as feeling physically ill in my brain and due to that it was so sensory overloading any fragment of an irl experience of it was just unpleasant and unnerving for me. Like trying to eat a raw oyster

Like yeah wow your brain is telling you this is good and so are other people! And maybe it could be if you changed some things or made it differently or tailored it to your tastes but even though you know you could make it more tolerable, you aren't really sure you could ever like it.

Because sure. Hypothetically, it sounds like it could be good.

But right now, you're feeling something that's so unsettling it's making you physically nauseous.

And that's all you can think about.

Idk food for thought. (Ba dum tsss)

[bisexualsafespace]

smashing amatonormativity doesn't mean adding qpr's to amatonormativity

it means smashing amatonormativity! no relationship is inferior to another!!

a qpr is that a platonic relationship that is "queer" as in different from more common platonic relationships.

[cowheist]

Aro and Ace fantasy flag designs! A tree going on a walk and a dragon playing cards.

Please remember to check out “I Spade You” on Kickstarter for more aromantic and asexual content!

It’s an anthology (collection of short stories and comics) all created around the theme of asexual relationships (romantic and platonic). My comic “Killer Arrow and Ace Assassin” is in there, so I’d really appreciate you checking it out :-) it has an aro-allo and allo-ace queer platonic partnership between the two main characters.

Here’s the pitch for my comic:

Arrow and Ace are partners in life and partners in crime. The two assassins need to go under cover on a dating show in order to hit their target, the bachelor. Between contestant interviews and speed dates, the aromantic and asexual duo might need to step out of their comfort zone to not blow their cover. Please back the Kickstarter to see their story published!

[cookthepenguin]

being aroace is so hard sometimes. there’s a guy in my class I’m 100% sure is gay and he tried to make moves and he’s really cute and I wish we could have something but I’m just incapable of loving the way he’d like it and now I feel like a horrible person.

and we can’t even talk about it because he isn’t out (and apparently no one sees it)

pls someone shoot me

[aroacearchangel]

at any point in time i become so overwhelmed with adoration for my friends that I wanna kiss them but if it’s read as romantic i will feel violently ill

[matcha-milo]

Was I the only aro-spec person who had the experience of thinking that I had crushes growing up, but looking back, they might not have been crushes because 1. I could never or only rarely name any traits that I liked about them (and those rare times that I could were traits that I simply admired), 2. I felt immense relief when they rejected me, or 3. I just wanted to have a crush, so I chose a person and consciously decided to develop feelings for them, not knowing that it doesn't work like that?

[genericartist27]

Hey, have you ever head cannoned a character as Aroace because you thought it would be a fun idea but then you realise that it might be bad to have the one Aroace character be the dumb one so you make the smart one Aroace as well since all your ships with him have fallen though the floor and you get invested on the conflict that could happened between them and then you make the dumb one Grey Aroace because you just learnt that there’s a different group and flag for that?

probably not but yeah fun story.

[leresq]

How and why is 'im not attracted to anyone' or 'im not attracted to most people' controversial on the eve of 2024 the year of our lord.

[tator---tot]

Am I sometimes attracted to people romantically or am I just histrionic?

Do I like them romantically or am I just splitting/excited by a new person?

Do I want to be *with* them or do I just want to be them?

[asexualconfessions]

I'll go first; "trying to understand friends to lovers for an aro is like trying to use cactus needles as braille"...I'll kill you...

[cowheist]

Pride flag designs! Pan, aro, and ace. I’m gonna use this post as an update for what I’m gonna be posting on my blog now that my most recent project is over :)

Recently, the Kickstarter for a comic anthology (collection of short stories) I’m apart of got funded, so super excited about that. It’s called “I Spade You” and it’s about aromantic and asexual partnerships.

My plans now that the Kickstarter is over is to make a fur suit lol. Hopefully finish that by the end of July. AND script my next comic before August ends.

The Great Cow Hesit RE-VAMP is a fantasy western set in 1950s Texas, it’s about vampire cowboys, parents, and personality disorders lol. It has an aroace and a pan grey aroace as the two main characters. Their sexualities aren’t super important to the story, but they’re mentioned in passing and I wanted to mention their identities to make it relevant to the current post lol. No concept art yet, but I can’t wait to share with y’all when it’s out. It’s called “re-VAMP” because it’s a remake of an old comic I made when I was 15 under the same name. Also, in the new version, all the characters are more explicitly fantasy creatures instead of just twinks with animal ears lmao.

Hoping to remake and do it justice because the story is close to my heart. I <3 1950s Texas, cowboys, vampires, centaurs, queer people, personality disorders, and trying not to become like your parents.

[is-the-character-aroacespec]

Is he asexual and greyromantic?

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Grayromantic meaning:

It describes those who experience romantic attraction with a lesser frequency, or with a lesser intensity, than would be considered average for an alloromantic person. People with a greyromantic identity come to feel a sense of relatedness to the aromantic spectrum due to this discrepancy.