#old aro posts

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

REBLOG IF YOU’RE PART OF THE HOLY TRINITY OF FORGOTTEN SEXUALITIES

Aromantic, Asexual and Aplatonic

[mossy-aro]

aroace gummy worm ghoulia be upon ye

[styrofauxm]

Yeah you support aro people but do you listen to aro people when we tell you something you like doing hurts us?

[heartless-aro]

Context:

Most of this is pretty self explanatory, but here’s the meanings of some of the old aro slang and references used above that people don’t use much anymore.

aromate - an “aromantic soulmate.” aka someone, usually a friend, who you think of as a nonromantic soulmate

lush - the sensual equivalent of a crush. relates to sensual attraction (a type of tertiary attraction involving a desire for nonsexual physical closeness or contact. this can include a desire for hugging, cuddling, or nonromantic kissing)

aardvark symbol - the aardvark was commonly used as an aromantic mascot, especially in memes, similar to the asexual axolotl. (personally, i still use the aardvark as an aro symbol because i like those funky little dudes)

In anticipation of Valentines Day and Arospec Awareness week, I made a set of Arospec valentines. Feel free to use them and send them to friends! But pls do not repost them, thanks!! <3 

[leshyleaf]

happy valentine’s day yall :-) !

[alterousuggestion]

alterous attraction is like,, i know you exist. i have felt you before. please stop by again

[the-aroace-artist]

Happy birthday to this silly little demon💙⚔️

[heartless-aro]

Here’s an old aro meme from 2011, which was before the rise of the “Ace Discourse” around 2015 (which may have started out as backlash in response to The Trevor Project deciding to include asexual people around that time). This meme format uses an aardvark to represent aromantic people. At the time, axolotls were often used in similar memes to represent asexuals, so the aromantic aardvark was chosen as the aromantic equivalent of the asexual axolotl. Aardvarks were considered to be somewhat of a mascot for the aromantic community for some time, though they have become less popular as a symbol in recent years.

[image description: image of an Aardvark with grey, yellow and white in the background. Text says “Parents say they just want you to be happy and get married” at the top and “Oxymoron” at the bottom.]

[under-a-shady-ash-tree]

(shaking you desperately by the shoulders) Mabel isn’t guilt-tripping Dipper in the time travel episode she’s SAD that she lost her PET and Dipper chooses the timeline where she gets to keep Waddles over the one where he wins the prize for Wendy because he’s a GOOD BROTHER who doesn’t want his sister to be sad

[retropineapple]

Me when someone only mentions the asexual part of an AroAce character's identity:

[yardsards]

a thing i enjoy: putting characters that aren't even aro (like not even in a headcanon way) in a qpr. because some allo people irl can be happy in qprs too. bc qprs aren't just an offbrand replacement for romance, created just for ppl who can't have "the real thing" to settle for

[ebonytails]

Hiii, I’m currently revamping some of our old pride animal designs :-] i’ll post the LGBTNRD soon! Lots of animals to draw

[bandtrees]

iv been doing a lot of ddadds reminiscing lately. that game is very very close to my heart and has been for years - it's kind of surreal to return to the fancontent i made for it having grown a bit, and seeing precisely why i latched onto mary as a character as much as i did. (hmm, the guy who'd just gotten out of a bad relationship and was also an unknowing aroace latched onto the character with relationship troubles and conflicts about presenting as someone in love, who would've thought?) (also she's autistic) (i'll still fight people on this)

mary still continues to be one of my favorite characters of all time - and i still have dream daddy to thank for a lot. it's just such a genuinely warm and sweet and funny game. it's got such a kind and lackadaisical approach to adulthood that spoke to and continues to speak to me a lot as someone kind of terrified of growing up, in a lot of ways. and despite being such a silly game, joseph's ideals of the "margarita zone" spoke to me way more than i care to admit.

i wonder if the people i'd shared ddadds servers with and the like, way back in 2019, are doing well. i wonder if the old friend i did that batshit insane mary-damien cult ending rp with that read like a damn slasher film remembers it at all. i hope the people i talked about my ocs with are doing well. i hope the mary rper i lurked on the blog of is doing well. i hope the person who made the official character spotify playlist knows how much they shaped my music taste and how much i listen to them to this day. i hope the developers of this game know it's more than a silly gimmick dating sim that was popular for a year to people. (i hope they know how much damn gender euphoria it gives me lol)

i'm a huge sap with my fandoms in general. but dream daddy's such a spot of comfort for me even now. i still think about it, and maybe one day i'll properly revisit it. and i know i'm going to be so insufferable about it when i do. my own special little margarita zone.

[heartless-aro]

Here’s an old post from 2014 explaining the use of the word “zucchini” in the aromantic community. The aro community used to use “zucchini” as slang meaning “queerplatonic partner,” as explained above.

The use of Zucchini or other squash like vegetable was coined by someone a few years a go because they were fed up with the lack of words for QPP so they went "f*ck it I'm calling you my zucchini" and since then it kinda stuck in the community :)

Ah, good to know! :D Haha, well it worked and it’s cute!

[braincloggedwithcats]

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