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aroacespecwithknives-archive · 2 years

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Happy pride month to aromantics, asexuals, aplatonics and agender people!!

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pokimoko · 1 year

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It's Aro-Spec Awareness Week and I thought I'd celebrate it my favourite way, by making all of you some simple little critters (their ace friends can be found here and here)! ✨Don't forget you're amazing, fellow aros✨

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aya-corolla · 1 year

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#aromantic #aro #polls #lgbtq #lgbtq polls #queer #queer polls #poll #lgbtq+#lgbtqia+#lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbt polls #lgbt+#arospec #aro-spec #aspec #a-spec

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waterberry-strawmelon · 3 months

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being an aromantic fan of dimension 20 means never being able to listen to brennan tell riz, "the years will go by, and everyone will find someone that matters more to them than you" without crying a little

#aro #aromantic #aro humor #aromantic humor #aroace #aro ace #aro/ace #arospec #aro-spec #dimension 20 #d20 #riz gukgak #aromantic riz gukgak #aro riz gukgak #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #fantasy high season 2 #baron from the baronies #it's hard to explain what it feels like when i cry to this. part of it is grief and sadness and fear—because this really is one of my #biggest fears as an aromantic person.#but at the same time i feel so seen. because while i dont know how knowledgeable brennan is on aspec identities/experiences #from this scene alone i can tell he understands the oppressive shroud of amatonormativity well enough to see how scary it might be for #people like me.#and even more than that—he describes it as a fear that might not necessarily come true. and thats important for me to remember.#as much as amatonormativity is real and hurtful; these fears also have equally as much to do with self-doubt and insecurity.#and you can work through that with yourself.#idk if this makes any sense but i find myself crying every single time i re-listen to it #and ill tbh i havent even gotten to season 2 yet—i just saw the baron clips some time ago and attached myself desperately to riz gukgak.#and i havent let go of him since.#i hope we'll get some more in junior year.

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thatnerdyqueer · 11 months

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ok so I know that the terms lovequeer, loveloose, and lovepunk all refer less to an 'orientation' as such, but a way of viewing the concept of 'love'.

For example, you could have a romantic partner, but choose to prioritise or at least equate platonic relationships with an equivalent or higher level of commitment.

With that said. I have never seen any alloromantic people using these terms! So, humour me, and vote

#lovequeer #loveloose #lovepunk #aro #aromantic #aro-spec #a-spec #oriented aroace #platonic #platonic intimacy #queerplatonic #amanormativity #fuck amatonormativity #aroallo

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chaotic-carnifex · 7 months

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I just realized that most ppl who know I'm aromantic... don't know that I used to be alloro. And then greyro.

No, I don't mean I identified that way until I figured out I was aro, I genuinely was alloromantic until like, summer or autumn 2015? Then I noticed that I was getting fewer "casual" crushes (y'know, not those full-blown ones, but the ones that are like a spark of interest that you know could turn into something stronger under the right circumstances?) and that they were generally getting weaker. I found myself fantasizing less and less abt romantic relationships. And y'know those fictional crushes where you'd imagine being romantically involved with a character? Yeah, I started imagining more platonic scenarios instead. The romantic ones just... became less appealing.

Basically, over a span of several months my interest in romance diminished until, sometime in early 2016, it was just. Gone.

And I've been aromantic ever since.

The cool thing about all this is that 1) I knew about the aro-spec before then, so I never thought I was broken or mentally ill or anything, I knew it was okay to be greyro and then later aro and 2) I never had to question whether I was really aro, I never had the "how do you prove a negative?" problem, because I knew what being alloro felt like, I could feel the difference

The weird thing is that to this day I've never heard of anything like this happening to anyone else. But I guess that's why I'm posting this, so if anyone stumbles upon this post who has experienced this as well, they'll know that they're not the only one.

Now, I know a lot of you may be wondering: If my romantic attraction just went away one day, does that mean it might at some point come back?

And, well, it might. I don't know, I didn't know it could go away until it did. I can't see the future, but yeah, maybe one day I'll feel romantic attraction again.

I hope not though.

#aromantic #aro #aro-spec #actually aromantic #safeforaro

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jaydenchip404 · 29 days

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*Happy Trans Noises*

My youngest brother got a bunch of bracelet-making stuff for his birthday and he is obsessed with it. He made one with all the siblings' names on it, and it made me feel really bad about myself because that wasn't me. I'm not [deadname]. So I told him to make one with the name Rowan on it, and while he was making it he asked if Rowan was my nickname now, I said it was my name-name, and he said people are going to think Rowan was my boyfriend so I told him it was a gender-neutral name. I then asked him to make half pink, purple, and blue, and the other half, orange, yellow, white, light blue, and dark blue. Without him even knowing, he made a bracelet with my real name on it and the bisexual and aroace flag on it. I feel so HAPPY now! I went to his room and we went through all his beads to see if he had the colors, and didn't have the right pink for the trans flag and the black beads for the non-binary flag. I'm so happy right now. Having my flags on my wrist. I asked our grandma if she had the right bead colors and she didn't have the big beads but she did have the seed beads. I finished making one bracelet with the seed beads with the trans, non-binary, bisexual/romantic, and aroace flag colors! I'M SO HAPPY! I LOVE IT!!!!

Something as simple as beads and string can become so powerful.

Just so you know, I didn’t tell my youngest brother to make a bracelet with the bisexual and aroace flags on it. I just told him to make a bracelet with the colors pink, purple, blue, and orange, yellow, white, light blue and dark blue. But I did tell him that my name is Rowan.

When I was showing my grandparents the bracelet I even said, “It has my name on it!” and showed them the beads that say Rowan. My grandma smiled but my grandpa didn’t see anything.

The one I made ↓

The one my brother made ↓

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bloompawz · 2 months

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Imagine:

an aro-centric friend-finding/qpr/dating/hookup/etc. app called "Cupid's Aro"

#I wish this was a real thing #just having a way to find other aro people who are looking for other aro people #want a queerplatonic relationship? cupid's aro #want more aro friends? cupid's aro #want to start or join a commune full of aros? cupid's aro #want to date without worrying too much about how your partner would feel about you being aro? cupid's aro #want to just have fun [wink wink nudge nudge] without worrying too much about it getting romantic? cupid's aro #want a dating app/adjacent app where you can highlight tertiary attractions? cupid's aro #want a dating app/adjacent app that caters to aromantic identities and experiences? cupid's aro #like. someone make this a thing #I just don't know how to make it real #aromanticism #aro-spec #arospec #aromantic spectrum #aromantic #aro #aromanticity

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voidwithtoomanygooglyeyes · 6 months

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Inclusionists and Radqueers

(quick note, I use the term "queer community" instead of "lgbtq+ community")

I think that many people need to know the difference between inclusionists and radqueers because a surprising amount of people don't.

One of the main differences is that inclusionists know the difference between valid, good-faith terminology and bad-faith, troll terminology, while radqueers do not (or don't care). This means that both inclusionists and radqueers accept communities such as xenogenders, neopronouns, a-specs (asexual spectrum, and aromantic spectrum), m-specs (multigender spectrum), and m-specs (multi-sexual/attraction spectrum) as valid parts of the queer community. However, radqueers take this many leaps further by accepting (harmful) xenogenders, (harmful) neopronouns (usually nounself pronouns based on sensitive topics or offensive words), and just generally harmful terms (e.g. transracial, z00philes, pokesexual, MAPs), as a part of the queer community.

This again, is one of the largest differences between inclusionists and radqueers. Many inclusionists understand the harm radqueers cause the queer community, and do not associate themselves with them due to this fact.

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isobug · 1 year

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Amorous Aro

An aro-spec individual who desires some form of intimate, long term partnership(s) and/or considers themself to be Amorous in some way.

Amory here is defined as a relationship style that includes intimate, long-term partnerships, or an individual's definition of one. The opposite term is Nonamorous.

Made by combining this Amorous flag with the Aro flag.

Requested by Anon.

( ID: A flag with seven stripes. The second, third, fifth, and sixth stripes are thinner than the others. In order, they are teal, seafoam green, yellow-green, white, mauve, pinkish-tan, and black. /End ID. )

#amorous aro #aromantic #aro #aro-spec #arospec #aro flag #aro term #aro umbrella #mogai flag #liom flag #mogai coining #liom coining #mogai safe #liom safe

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skykrystalai · 6 months

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For the love of all things holy, if you're aromantic and romance-repulsed, try not to go on holiday with friends who are a couple.

You don't know where you're going 90% of the time because they're too busy talking with each other about where they're going and never actually tell you where to go and how you're getting there.

I'm having fun but also just blindly following the blind who seem to talk only to each other and don't actually know what I'm doing until someone says something 20 mins later.

#aromantic #aro-spec #aromantic spectrum #just aro things #arospec #I'm conflicted #on one hand the two people I'm on holiday with are so organised #and this is the first time I've been on holiday with them and I'm enjoying spending time with them #but at the same time #I'm that person who even though they didn’t make the decision on where to go still wants to know exactly where and how to get there #just general anxiety about making sure I'm getting the right transport and going the right way and all that #and the late communication from the other two who only discuss travel amongst themselves and don't inform us till later really bugs me #I'm having fun but also just majorly lost half of the time

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aroacespecwithknives-archive · 2 years

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People who are on the aro spectrum but aren't strictly aromantic are important to both the aro community and the queer community. People who are on the ace spectrum but aren't strictly asexual are important to the ace community and the queer community. Sex favourable aces and romance favourable aros are important to the aroace community and the queer community. Kinky aces, hopeless romantic aros, aces in sexual relationships and aros in romantic relationships are all important to the aroace community and the queer community.

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borderline-culture-is · 20 days

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BPD traits + aromantic/aro-spec culture is Love For Love By Love Of Love

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#bpd traits culture is #bpd traits culture #bpd traits #borderline culture is #borderline personality disorder #bpd culture is #bpd culture #bpd #bpd safe #actually bpd #actually borderline #aromantic #aro #aro-spec #song recs

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onlyasimp4-2dbitches · 2 years

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yk what? fuck you, maybe I WILL make a high-school-gangster-action webcomic with entirely aro-spec characters, what’re you gonna do about it? cry? suck it

#aromantic #aromanticism #aro #arospec #aro-spec #aro spectrum #aromantic spectrum #aro memes #aromantic memes #aromantic oc #aro characters #aromantic character #hidden in the tags but I've gotten back into japanese subcultures #ITS JUST SO INTERESTINGGGG #BOSOZOKU?? HELLOOOOO #teenagers whos entire criminal record revolves around being annoying???#just chefs kiss ykwm

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sentient-seafood · 2 years

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didn’t have much to do at work the other day, so i made some water puppies for the alphabet soup :-) if you don’t mind the lack of transparency, these are free to use! just to be sure to leave a like if you do~

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your-blorbos-are-queer · 1 year

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kyana from rolling with difficulty is demiromantic and asexual (headcanon)

submitted by @blazestar345

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