#happy aro week btw

[sentienceisoverrated]

I just read bf as ‘best friend’ and I think that accurately describes me

[clangenhead]

diversity win! the bloodthirsty leader of your clan thought about his sexuality once

[slightlyplant]

i love anghel specifically bc everything you could about his sexuality/gender is true.

yes he’s gay. yes he’s bi. yes he’s aroace. yes he’s transmasc yes he’s transfem yes he’s non-binary. he is unknowable

[super-oc-creator]

Happy Aromatic week! This celebrates everyone on the Aromatic spectrum, and I thought I would introduce one of my Undertale oc’s who is canonically Aromatic. This is Charity, she is half human half skeleton and is a huge fan of Undyne, who she trains with. She lives on the surface so no trauma for her lol. Anyway the art was done by a friend of mine, so shoutout to @synthace for creating this character! Anyway, remember that you are who you are, and you are not a mistake or weird for being different. I love you all, have a great week! (Sorry I’m late, I wanted to check it was actually aromatic week after last time, Looking at you @synthace)

[super-oc-creator]

THIS. This needs to change! Aro characters can be so entertaining and interesting, especially since I have some Aro friends of my own. As an artist and content creator, I will try my best to make the Aro community proud, and together we as a whole community should strive to give this part of the community some more representation. 

aro culture is being treated as too boring, even more than asexuals at this point, to appear in media. even if we have the capacity to feel a wide range of emotion, create meaningful connections, and be interesting and well-rounded characters in general, we're not written because what makes a character relevant is apparently that they can experience romantic love.

even if aromantics have so much interesting commentary on society. even if we. have so much relevant and insightful human experience that doesn't have to be conflated with romanticism all the time. even if there's space for some extraordinary character arcs. even if these characters could ALSO establish dynamics that are emotionally raw without being confined to the grounds of it having to be 'love.'

and how the fans influence people to never try and create these characters since they are so ignored in fandom. everyone's so on board, so excited with queer headcanons when they're hinted at. that is, unless they are presented with the idea of aromanticism because it makes for a boring character.

arophobia is so, so constant in spaces that discuss fiction.

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[omegalomania]

What are some of your favorite aro-/ace-coded fob lyrics?

oh fuck yes a little bowl of seeds just for me

boycott love from disloyal order of water buffaloes is a personal favorite of mine. its a lyric i really really want tattooed at some point. that's not the only lyric i latch onto from an aro perspective but it's probably the biggest one

basically the entirety of it's hard to say "i do" when i don't but a special mention goes to you are appealing to emotions that i simply do not have as well as the only ring i want buried with me are the ones around my eyes

it's true romance is dead / i shot it in the chest and in the head from the music or the misery is also a favorite of mine, also just that whole song in general

i thought i loved you but it was just how you looked in the light in hum hallelujah resonates with a lot of queer folks i've found, and it's no different for me

same goes for it's a strange way of saying that i know i'm supposed to love you from g.i.n.a.s.f.s.

i'm outside the door, invite me in / so we can go back and play pretend from alone together brings me back to when i was trying to perform heteronormativity/amatonormativity even if it was making me miserable

i also hold to a very similar vibe with she said "i love you 'till i don't" / i am just playing house, no idea what i'm doing now from sunshine riptide and also most of burna boy's verse, frankly. i fell in love but i didn't fall down and feel like i'm bulletproof, baby in particular

american beauty/american psycho, particularly the first verse. i think i fell in love again / maybe i just took too much cough medicine

golden is a big one for queer folks in general i've found. the chorus especially hits hard from an aro and/or ace reading. and i saw god cry in the reflection of my enemies / and all the lovers with no time for me

i've got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth is a heavy song no matter how you slice it. but that chorus gets to me in particular: we can fake it for the airwaves / force our smiles, baby, half-dead / from comparing myself to everyone else around me

the kids aren't alright reads to me as one big anthem for platonic love above anything romantic, which resonates super hard with me. the second verse has a lot of good lines that i latch onto from an aroace lens too. your love is anemic and i can't believe / that you couldn't see it coming from me

pretty much the whole chorus of HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON'T does it for me, and those verses have got some good aroallo vibes too! i never really feel a thing... confidants but never friends...

the whole of fake out is a gimme. that chorus rings real true. starts with love is in the air, i just gotta find a window to break out and finishing with but it was all a fake-out

i've got all this ringing in my ears and none on my fingers is one that has another highly applicable title but the whole refrain of the truth hurts worse / than anything i could bring myself to do to you paired with the one-two punch of that second verse REALLY gets under my skin

and of course, the culminating one: you are what you love, not who loves you from save rock and roll. obviously there are a LOT of ways to read that line

there are a couple other songs i latch onto - wilson (expensive mistakes); a little less "sixteen candles", a little more "touch me"; the (after) life of the party to name a few - but the ones listed above are the big lyrics that resonate with me on a personal level

just in general i have a shitton of fob over on my aro playlist (which doubles as a general aroace/queer playlist but has a lot of emphasis on aromanticism) in case i forgot to mention anything but like i said those are the big ones

[just-a-normal-potato]

Some old drawings I made for last year Asexuality Awareness Week

(Kinda of a long post)

Also my signature it's sopused to be the aro flag but it wrong and I can't fix it now

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

diversity win! the guy who hates you wears aro and ace rings

[sentientsky]

last day of aro week and i am peeling an orange and eating it all by myself >:)

[asfarasicouldget]

my contribution for ASAW inspired by this post!

i struggled a lot to come up with something but at the end i managed to make something :-) happy aro week to all aros out there <2 (btw i think capybaras should become one of the aro symbols)

[ID: illustration of a capybara covered with the aromantic flag on a light green background. it is facing left and the flag covers its back, the front legs visible. next to it there’s a text that reads: “aromantic awareness week” in dark green. end ID]

[urautismdiagnosis]

Ships hehe

BOATS (ships)

OK SO I won't tolerate anyone trashing aro ace people or queer platonic relationships or invalidating them, THAT OUT OF THE WAY TIME FOR HEADCANONSSS

barnacles and kwazii 🐻‍❄️💛🐱: I originally shipped them when I was like 12 lol

To me they're going to become a QPR and they mean the world to me.

I need to start actually posting my stories to showcase what's gonna happen BUT CMON GUYS THEY HAD AN ENTIRE EPISODE ABOUT THEM BEING A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP?!

Like I'm gonna be so real they were octopod POD mates. (Their rooms in the same bubble lol)

Kwazii is his ✨first mate✨

They're a married couple that doesn't realize it yet!I'm going to trauma bond them and no one can stop me. Cuz I've already done it 😎👍✨

They deeply trust eachother! I'm going to make barnacles hold what he thinks is kwazii dead in his arms! Barnacles loves this silly cat man! Kwazii loves to be appreciated and make barnacles proud! They emotionally support eachother! Kwazii is going to have nightmares about the captain dying in a horrific way that totally doesn't relate to the intens epsychological trauma I've given him! Barnacles wants to be useful and have someone to love but also someone to tell him its ok and that he doesn't have to be perfect or brave all the time! Kwazii wants to not be alone and prove himself to someone who truly sees the worth in him while being able to trust that they'd always stay loyal together! They have so many inside jokes and shared moments of near death experiences! Accordian music and shanties!

anyways onto SHELLINGTON AND DASHI AY AY AY AYYYY

Uhhh so I haven't posted their designs and my headcanons but yes Shellington is autistic to me (totally not me projecting but yall see the username. Ill get into why I think he's autistic on my character design post for him) and yes I think yk what? Maybe he was a little lonely and weird as a kid and yk what also? Maybe he does have some chronic pain too I dont make the rules (yes I do)

Anyways like shellington, I'm giving my baby issues and fears relating to not being like part of the group lol. Subconsciously anyways. And yk he found his people, the octonauts who value him and his interests and dont blame him for messing up lol and he likes himself as a person

(BTW he wouls totally try to adopt a cryptid like creature (new species!) abomination and name it Steve I already have an entire plot)

Do yall remember when they were sent to spend several weeks alone together in the midnight zone cuz I do

Regardless i think dashi just casually asked him ayyo wanna date and then he bluescreened LOL

As for dashi well, I'll get into her headcanons when I post her character design as well, but regardless she needs someone who understands and supports her passions without judgement yk?

She is so incredible,like photography, computer specialist, apparently technically a scientist, a surfer, able to pilot deep marine vehicles, got swallowed by a whale, did a flip from the manta ray while diving FRKM SEVERAL METWRS IN THE AIR INTO WAYER THAT WAS ABOUT TO HAVE LAVA POUR INTO IT???, and is a whole pilot now apaprently???

Like holy-

Anyways yeah dashi thinks shellington is an amazing single father with so much kindness and emotional intelligence and many many charming qualities 🥰

Shellington thinks dashi is Like actually a really really awesome person??? Like they both like organizing things!! Shes funny and smart!! They can both talk about eachothers interests and he likes to make her happy!! She's really cool and kind and helps him with stuff and she's super intelligent and charming! He just thinks she's oh so very cool. She's so confident and has kind eyes 🥰

Anyways yes

Btw just wanna say that tweak is like if u were aro ace to the max lolll shes just content with her life and friends lol

now for the penguin(s) in the room

ok so shes gonna be a plot relevant character in a story I've got in the works (The Oil RIg) it'll be a fun ride dw, but we love medic x depressed woman its great and yes I do think peso could pull any gal just by existing like straight up fight me on this fight me fIGHT ME-

ok not fight I'm not like that but I will stand on this hill till I die

but fr tho it was a whole telenovellahow they met omg- I'm talking the drama- thelore- thesoftmoments and the heartbreaking goodbyes- not to worry tho they do meet again and are like long distance(with tons of visiting) lol they have a very healthy relationship tho considering that shes like idk, ig fresh out of a like, very unhealthy environment

i ain't gonna spoil anything rn tho lol but she Gon save his life and he gon save hers and its gonna be beautiful<3 <3 <#

[zedleaked]

Happy Aro Awareness Week!!!

I don't talk about my sexuality much but I am demiromantic!! This means I don't feel romantic love a lot of the time, only when I'm extremely close to someone!

Even if I'm demiromantic I still enjoy things like cuddling and hugging and holding hands [kissing is off the table] -but only platonically,, I think you're allowed to do things like that platonically and I just love platonic love in general!!!!! And btw people don't have to be aro AND ace. People can be just aro, just ace, just demisexual, and just demiromantic. People can feel romantic feelings but not sexual feelings and people can feel sexual feelings but not romantic feelings. You don't always have to be both!

Keep reading if you wanna read about my experience with my sexuality lol [theres a bit of text]

I've been thinking about my sexuality a lot, especially since valentine's day was very recent. I always felt weird cause I never developed crushes on people and I've always been averse to having a romantic relationship with someone.I knew for a fact that I loved men and women because I still found them attractive and... had thoughts... but if I stopped to think about whether I would have a relationship with them and kiss and stuff the answer would probably be no. It's funny because when my mom would tell me I couldn't have a partner until I finished Uni I was so relieved. As a kid, I always thought it was normal to have crushes on people and I thought it was weird that I never had them so I would pick people to have a crush on despite not feeling anything for them. I thought I was just loveless... until I fell in love with one of my best friends in primary school. It happened gradually and slowly but the feelings only got stronger the more I knew them [I never made a move on them lmao] This only confused me more cause like... am I loveless or not?? I don't get it? I remember finding the term asexual but I wasn't sure if that was me. Then I found aromantic and thought I was getting closer but not on the mark. And then I found demisexual I remember seeing the definition and was like... holy shit is there an aromantic version of this I need to know- and low and behold... I found it, I finally found a term to label myself. It felt so good! I finally figured myself out! And there are others like me! it was so cool! It felt so cool to finally know that the things I was feeling was not just a me thing and was something completely normal! I felt so accomplished. I felt so awesome.

Anyways enough of my life story I just wanted to put that out because I've been thinking about my sexuality a ton and I wanted to share it I hope you enjoyed it if you bothered to read it and I hope you have a good day!!

[mephoj]

happy aro week btw here is one of my fav headcanons ^_^

(rbs > likes)

[autumnalfallingleaves]

I love my aro-spec identity btw. I may be asexual, and that may be the most important part of my identity to me, but being greyromantic is still incredibly important, as well. It affects my entire life. Even if I never find a romantic partner, that's alright. I have a few close friends whom I love a whole awful lot and want to stay with, and that's okay with me. Platonic love is just as, if not more, important as romantic love in my eyes. Being aro-spec is really cool, actually, and not something I'm upset about. Happy Aro Week to all my fellow aro-specs, no matter where you fall on the spectrum :)

[theroundbartable]

Before I knew I was aro/ace, I was really desperate to get into a relationship. So, my then bff found me one.

That alone is weird af. But I agreed to date the guy, because I felt that I owed her, cause she went through all that trouble for us to meet. Spoiler: we dated for about a week.

The day after we "got together" he was already texting me that he loved me. My mind went: what? Is this how relationships work? People actually just get together and then fake it? Is this it? (Wdym this is a typical ace expecience?)

I took it as a red flag and broke up with him as soon as I could.

Later, my brother told me that this guy told him if I hadn't stopped being so awkward around him and do more than hold hands, he would have broken up with me anyway.

I was 14. The guy was 16. This. Was. weird.

I learned three things from this:

Wanting a relationship for the sake of being in a relationship will make you miserable and lonely. Dating someone will not cure your insecurities and depression. It will be a problem on top of a problem.

Secondly, trust your instincts. The texts he sent me were the red flag that made me question everything I believed to know about love. It was too much too soon.

Btw, I know that today, he's very into conspiracy theories and went to psych ward for some of his own problems. Not that the latter is a bad thing, I'm glad he got help. But as a 14 y/o I wouldn't have been able to handle it on top of my own trauma.

Third. When I showed people pictures of my then bf, they asked me why I even liked him. They said he weren't attractive or smth like that. And I noticed then, for the very first time, that I hadn't even considered that. I didn't care what he looked like. I've never cared how anyone looked like. And I couldn't determine whether what I saw was attractive or not.

It was an odd experience. And I'm glad I won't ever have to repeat it. I wanted to share this with you, in case you're going through smth similar.

Stay safe. Become your best self first before you start dating. Be yourself, so you're able to share your life. That way around, you're able to share happiness instead of grief. And break up with your partner if you don't feel safe. Regardless of what your orientation is, your safety and happiness matters.

Some of you may not even want a relationship, but if you do, be sure you could live your entire life alone without regrets. Then you may be ready for tax evasion.

[martiwikiwi]

HAPPY ARO WEEK!

This time I want to share (again) this short comic about my fav aro OC, Prince Fireopal, and their platonic relationship with their partner. This comic is part of my FOUND FAMILY zine that features four short stories about their found family relationships.

(You can get a copy of the zine on my Ko-fi btw, both in digital and printed editions.)

I have more aro OC so tomorrow I'll write a post about my fav hetero aromantic girl.