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ineffable-gallimaufry · 4 months

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💚 💜, or 🏵️ for your wips!

okay so answering for the golden ghosts because. yes. i like em. and since you didn't specify characters... well i can't do every character because. there's too many. but i will answer with the characters i have the most interesting facts about honestly

also putting this under a cut because it might get a bit long (and there are spoilers)

💚 {green heart} - what is this character's heart's desire? will they obtain it? find out that it's different in the end?

hunter- at this point in the wip, hunter's main goal is to be accepted and be a good golden guard. but, as the wip goes on, she's going to realize she's trans, realize that belos does not want the best for her, and her goals are going to shift more into living a life that's happy with her friends and family! that's eventually going to happen but it's gonna be hard...

caleb- caleb's heart's desire is kinda in a weird space because before he died, he just wanted to live a normal and happy life with evelyn, raise their kid together, etc. but ever since his death, he's been wanting to let the guards live out his dream and also he's kinda in a bit of a revenge thing but that usually takes a back seat. he does fail for a really long time on the first thing and the second thing he definitely fails on pretty much forever but he realized at one point near the end of the story that... he doesn't really care about making belos pay as much as he wants the ghosts to be able to move on and live better lives, which they eventually do.

joseph- joseph's the only guard who i've really thought a lot about internal motives for, his first real want is to be able to get off the mountain he's been living on forever (i promise i'll post chapter three soon it makes sense there) but after that (and after he is taken by the collector) his main want is just to be with hunter/bailey because they really care about her.

and then all of the other characters, i haven't really thought through as much, a lot of the other ghosts just want to be alive again, a lot of the other characters are just like. power. or . having a good life. those are just the three most interesting ones for you

💜 {purple heart} - is this character queer? in which ways? (or are any of your characters queer + which ones? if asker can't think of a character to ask about)

OH BOY THERE'S LOTS I'LL GO THROUGH THE ONES I FIND THE MOST FUN

hunter- using hunter right now as a name is a bit of a misnomer because what's eventually planning to happen is that she's going to be transgender! she's going to eventually start going by bailey, using any pronouns, and she's also aroace!!

alexandria- alexandria is also a trans girl, also she's an ace lesbian!

sebastian- now seb's a bit complicated because of the system thing, i'll put the other members of the system in their own places but seb himself is alloaro and gay!

roslyn- roslyn is one of seb's headmates, she's a trans demigirl, ace lesbian, and uses she/they pronouns<3

mars- another one of seb's headmates, mars doesn't use pronouns and is aroace/agender. triple a for the win i suppose

atlas- last of seb's headmates i promise, atlas uses she/he pronouns and he's gnc and gay

oliver- oliver is just ace and gay it's cool. i said he was bi before but he just uses the word gay honestly.

joseph- this is a HUGE spoiler but after hanging out with the collector for long enough, he realizes he's also a demiboy and starts using they/he pronouns and going by the name puck

as for canon characters that have queer headcanons in here (excluding bailey i already talked about her): eda and lilith are both demigirls and use she/they pronouns, adrian is a gnc gay and uses he/she pronouns, darius is gay, willow is alloaro and pansexual. and also trans and uses she/they, luz is fully just gnc and uses they/she/he pronouns, gus is trans and aroace, i think that's it for things that are different

and then i also have some side characters, the scout squad that i can put in really quick:

eloise- he/they pronouns, gnc lesbian

sparrow- they/them pronouns, agender and polysexual

jade- she/they pronouns, transfem and aroace

eclipse- she/he/it/xe pronouns, genderfluid and abrosexual

agnes- he/she pronouns, boyflux and achilliean

roza- she/her pronouns, queer and polyam

jamaal- any pronouns, arospec and bi

everyone is just a bit queer in my heart okay (has no self-control)

🏵️ {rosette} - talk about where your inspiration comes from!

the inspiration for this au came from coraline because. i love coraline and the idea of the ghost children was my inspiration mostly. and yeah, it kinda went from there

#asks answered #the golden ghosts #sorry that was long i can't just keep things short sometimes okay

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aro-who-reads · 3 years

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Aro book review: The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez

Had the unusual experience of starting a book without knowing it had aro rep beforehand! It was a lovely surprise.

This is a book about a trans boy (the author is trans!) who decides to run for student body president after one of his friends is bullied for being gay. It was a fun and fast read that I got through in a day or so and stayed up late to finish (even though it was an ebook and I'm usually very slow with those.)

The main character's group of friends are very diverse, and this book definitely has one of the most authentically feeling group of diverse friends I've read. This includes one of his closest friends being alloaro!

The alloaro character has a number of hookups for sex throughout the book, and it was really nice to see a character do this without it being portrayed as a bad thing, and have casual sex being normalised. There is also some discussion about her getting slut-shamed for this, which was good to see included.

So while being aro is not the focus of this book, it was really nice to see an aro (especially an alloaro!) character being included in the story, and even having their identity have some discussion.

#aro #aromantic #aro books #Side note as an Australian I will never stop being confused by American voting #There's all this talk about 'oh no we'll split the vote' we'll that's what preferential voting is for #I know it's only a high school thing but at my high school the school captain elections did actually have preferential voting #But I guess school voting systems are probably usually just based off the voting system of that country's government

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representativecharacters · 4 years

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Moonbase Theta, Out Multipost

Character: Roger Briagado-Fischer

Representation: MLM

Their Importance: A major part of the first season is the deeply moving messages he sends to his husband Alexandre which is the main source of emotional moments. Also, having a male/male relationship as a major center of a story with no mention of homophobia or indication that it’s unusual still isn’t common enough.

Character: Alexandre

Representation: LGBTQIA+ (MLM, nonbinary), Brazillian, depression

Their Importance: In the 2nd season we also hear his responses to his husband’s messages, which shows just how strong and deep their relationship is. His heritage is relevant as he frequently quotes poets from the same background in his recordings and he also has several lines of Portuguese. In the 2nd season he talks extensively about suffering depression after a trauma and seeing a therapist to help resolve it which is presented as a completely normalised thing. He’s also nonbinary as is shown in the episode descriptor where he’s stated to use both he and they pronouns.

Character: Ashwini Ray

Reprsentation: Nonbinary

Their Importance: Zei’s eccentric and reclusive and morally ambigious in a genuinely cnvincing and interesting way. Having a nonbinary character who use neopronouns (ze/zir) who is just another member of the crew is still unusual, particularly for AMAB people. Ze also gets a good line about respecting other people’s pronouns. Ze’s also voiced by a nonbinary voice actor.

Character: Michelle L’anglois

Representation: Trans man

Their Importance: The hot-headed and blunt head of security. A lot of the stories with trans characters cast them as helpless victims so having a more domineering, passionate character who is also, frankly quite a jerk a lot of the time was refreshing. Having a trans male character who’s a bit older and in a position of authority was also a The fact that he’s had little done to physically transition and has a more feminine-sounding voice is never used to invalidate his identity. He’s also voiced by a trans voice actor.

Issues: A major part of his backstory is based around an incident where he was subjected to friendly fire motivated by transphobia

Character: Nessa Cheong

Representation: Korean, LGBTQIA+ (aromantic/alloaromantic)

Their Importance: She’s the only alloaro** I’ve seen in anything. Contrary to stereotype she is a kind person and has fondness for her past partners even without romantic attachment and is mentioned to have much-adored children of her own. This is particularly significant as Alloaros are particularly popular targets of vitriol as they’re commonly assumed to be cold and manipulative to sexual partners and incapable of deep emotional relationships at all. She explains her orientation with a beautiful colour metaphor in the 5th episode of season 2.

**Does not desire romantic attraction while still desiring sex.

Issues: She tragically dies in an accident mid-way through the series. One of her focus scenes is her recalling a past attempt at a romantic relationship with an a(ro)phic partner who attempted to intimidate her over her orientation.

Character: Wilder

Representation: LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, nonbinary, polyamorous), disabled (has prosthetics)

Their Importance: Wilder is just about the only crew member free of major angst and dysfunction (mostly). She’s another casually portrayed nonbinary character who goes by “they” a well as “she” pronouns. Another prominent part of her characterisation is her tinkering with her prosthetic arm. Unlike most other depictions of sci-fi prosthetics she still has realistic, relatable disabilities like pain in the affected limb and having to carefully monitor the prosthetic in case of malfunction. In episode 8 of the second season she conforms that she’s “gay as hell” and she also speaks fondly about the two women she’ in a triad with which is implied to be a normal part of the setting.

Issues: As the official description calls it as a “sci-fi tragedy” you can guess that there’s an overall pessimistic atmosphere and strong implications of an unhappy ending (though we still have another season to go).

Thanks for anon for the write-up!

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aromoji · 4 years

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So I’m finally getting around to do that aspec Q & A that @ace-and-aro-wlw-positivity posted, and I have quite a few aspec ocs so this could get rather lengthy but here we go

1. What was your inspiration for your character(s)? Are they modeled on yourself, a person that you know, or a character that’s already been established?

My first aspec oc, Abby Scott, was based on myself when I thought I was a biromantic ace girl. So she takes a lot after me.

Theo Yamada, on the other hand, was a completely new character. I don’t exactly remember why I made him alloarospec, and I’ve been flipping from one arospec identity to the other, but no matter what he always remained alloaro.

Mina Nicholson was my first character that I had predetermined to be alloaro from the start. She’s based on an old tumblr post about some super hero series idea called “Aces and Arrows.” I obviously didn’t make Mina into some superhero, but her guitar skills make her come pretty close :D.

Brittany Olajobi is also based on an old tumblr post. Remember the “All or Nothing” idea thing that was floating around here?(Yes, I’m aware it turned into a scam, but I thought the premise was cute). Since no one actually made anything out of that I decided to make the characters my own. The asexual and pansexual girls were roomates....but also girlfriends. That idea kinda evolved into one of my newer series called “Play the Rainbow”, but that’s gonna take a while to explain.

Queenie Brooks...is based on a crude caricature someone made of an ace person (the “artist” has probably never talked to an ace person outside of tumblr but whatever), so I took that character and fleshed her out. She’s an aroace trans girl who’s evry big in activist circles, especialy the sex worker industry

2. How much, if any, has your character(s) changed since they were first created? What caused this change?

Abby and Brittany haven’t changed much besides in their appearance, Queenie and Mina underwent drastic appearance changes since they were created, and Theo’s kinda been going back and forth on the aromantic spectrum, from strictly aro to demiromantic to aroflux. I’ve finally settled one greyromantic, which coinicdentially is what I identify as.

4. Do you intend on publishing your story one day? Why, or why not?

Probably not. I’m closeted in real life and likely to stay that way as long as I’m financially dependent on my parents.

7. Time to get serious for a bit. There’s been heavy debate on having non-human characters identify as ace, aro, non-binary, etc., but never actual humans. As someone who’s aspec, how would you explain to someone who’s allo why this can be and is seen as hurtful?

Ace and Aro people have been seen as inhuman and robotic for not feeling attraction, especially not in the same way that people who aren’t aro or ace do. Please reconsider making that animal/robot/alien oc aspec unless all or most of your characters aren’t human as well.

8. It’s a sad reality that many stories in mainstream media don’t have characters that are aspec, not to mention without resorting to harmful stereotypes. Besides there being nothing wrong with IDing as aspec, why did you choose to have your character ID as such? What would you tell other authors who’re interested in writing characters that are aspec, but are afraid of offending the community?

I make my characters aspec because. I’m aspec. Also there aren’t a lot of aspec representation (the little we get lol) that isn’t white or cis or yes, heteromantic./heterosexual. Considering the fact that I’m none of those things, all of my aspec ocs are poc like me, some even trans as well. To authours who want to write aspec characters but don’t want to offend the community, PLEASE ask around. Ask more than one person of that specific demographic. Their opinion should not be the only one that shapes yours! Also, if you’re writing an alloaro character, don’t ask someone who’s alloace or aroace. Similarly, don’t ask an alloaro person about writing alloace/aroace characters. Aspec people are not a monolith, our experiences are not the same

9. If you’re comfortable with sharing, what is your characters’ identity? Do they use any microlabels? Does theirs reflect your own?

Abby is a biromantic ace, Theo is a greyromantic bisexual, Mina is an alloaro bisexual, Brit is an ace lesbian, and Queenie is an oriented aroace trans woman.

11. Why do you think that not just representation is important, but GOOD representation? Can you offer any examples?

Fiction affects reality. Therefore, how people see us in the media affects how they see us in real life.

14. What’s a brief biography of your character? Is their history, personality, and/or looks similar to your own?

Uh I don’t necessarily have biographies for them but I have an oc carrd with their details

15. What are the themes of your story? Is it a lighthearted adventure, or are we talking deep, ocean-sized levels of angst? Why, or why not, did you choose them?

It’s a mix of light hearted fun and lots of angst. But everyone (who deserves it) gets a happy ending so it’s all good.

16. How long have you been writing? Has your style changed from when you first began to now? What are some tips you’d give to those who’re interested in writing a story of their own, be it professionally or as a hobby?

I’ve been writing since I was 8. I once won an honorable mention in a writing competition in the third grade believe it or not lol. My writing has definetely changed a lot, and that’s partially thanks to my English teachers I had along the way. My advice to people interested in writing a story on their own is to invest in a laptop/notebook and find time to write. Any time at all.

17. What’s your process for writing? Do you plan your story out first, write whatever you want then edit later, or both? How might this help others?

Planning? Ha! I write as I go. Sometimes I go back and edit entire scenes before publishing tho.

18. Your book’s become quite popular, easily reaching the New York Times Bookseller list, and now, you’ve been picked to lead a writing workshop. It goes swimmingly, and afterward, someone comes and tells you that your book not only inspired them to write a story of their own, but also helped them discover and accept their identity. What’s your reaction?

I’m...not good with compliments.

20. Just for fun, write down a paragraph of your most recent writing. It can be an action-packed scene, some witty dialogue, or a colorful description that you really enjoyed. (Be sure to properly tag any possible triggers!)

Here’s what I’ve started working on:

Theo smooths out the wrinkles on his blue uniform, giving himself a once over in the mirror. All his belongings of 5 long years were packed and ready to board on the ship the higher-ups would issue to him He turns and takes down one last poster and rolls it up, placing it in his duffel bag. Perfect. Now all he had to do was go through the graduation ceremony and he’d get his first assignment. His hard work being at the top of his class was finally going to pay off.

“Heyyyy, my older twin’s looking sharp tonight!” Trent exclaims, leaning in the doorway with his own uniform in red. He whirls into the room, flopping on the now barren bed. “Ahh, this bed has so many memories. Come on, sit with me!”

“Trent, the ceremony’s so soon.”

“Theooooo,” he pouts. “This may be the last time we see this room, because we’ll be in space!”

He wiggles his fingers in Theo’s face for dramatic effect. The older twin chuckles, taking a seat on the bed.

“Let’s see,” Theo muses, tapping his chin thoughtfully. “I remember when we first got here. We were 10 years old, tiny, adorable and innocent little creatures. You were so terrified because they had put us in separate rooms.”

“I was not!” Trent argues. “It was just…a bit of a shock considering I always slept with someone else in my room instead of…all by myself.’

“Whatever. You crept into my room in the middle of the night, poked me awake and gave me the whole puppy-dog-eyes-and-quivering-bottom-lip routine to get me to beg me to let you sleep in my bed that night.”

“And you pretty much told me to go play in traffic,” he laughs. “And I still got in your bed anyway and slept there the whole night!”

“And you kept doing it until you turned 12!” Theo finishes with a playful shove.

#✨.txt #text #aro awareness week #aro #acetag #long post #arospec awareness week

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starswallowingsea · 4 years

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Growing Up Trans and AlloAro

Or whatever the hell this essay turned out to be. Under the cut because this got long (like 1340 words long).

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When I was younger, I never quite fit with the word “girl,” but I thought it was just because I didn’t like playing with dolls like other girls my age. I spent my first two years of school playing spies on the playground and sticking my tongue to frozen poles (and yes, it is painful but I somehow managed to not get in trouble for it).

I would sit in our office--soon to be my baby brother’s room--and build towers out of his foam blocks and make stories for people that lived in cities I built on SimCity on our old desktop. Even with my girl friends, I would get confused about why they were talking about liking boys and getting crushes.

I remember sitting in my friend’s basement during a freezing winter in North Dakota and she was shocked when I told her I had never seen Drake and Josh before and then grabbing her Magic 8ball and asking it if she would fall in love with Drake.

I moved to Wisconsin a year later and had a hard time making friends. I thought we would just move again so I only talked with a handful of people in our already small school district. We would play dolls and teacher and I would get bored most days, wanting to play with the boys and make up stories.

It was around the time that he left that I knew I was different from the other kids. They were starting to date each other as early as 3rd grade. We would tease our friends about who they were dating but I never understood why they dated in the first place. For the first few years, I would deflect questions about crushes by saying I still liked someone from my old school, but that only worked for so long.

In 8th grade I started questioning my sexuality for the first time. I wasn’t really sure who I liked, because I didn’t really like anyone at that point. There was one kid I thought was attractive and always used him as my scapegoat when asked about crushes so nobody would know. I did like him, but it felt different than I knew my cishet peers thought about their crushes, just based on the way they talked about them. I thought I was asexual, because the internet in 2014 didn’t like to talk about aromanticism, much less than it does now anyway.

So I joined tumblr in like, 2015, the summer between 8th grade and freshman year of high school and posted about asexuality, being nonbinary, toontown rewritten, all the stuff that 14-15yos are into. For a while I identified as heteroromantic asexual, and then nonbinary asexual quoiromantic, and then aromantic asexual and nonbinary? Or maybe I was really cis?

And it went like that, back and forth between a few labels. I never felt like I could tell anybody, because I went to a small school and heard all the comments people made about the LGBTQ community and what my parents said about trans people and the messages preached at church.

When I was about 16, I realized I wasn’t ace at all. I thought maybe I was a nonbinary aro lesbian, or maybe bisexual. Tumblr in 2016/17 was very against having attraction to men at all in the circles I found myself in and I pushed those feelings down so I wouldn’t make people uncomfortable. I forced myself to be attracted to women when I really wasn’t at all. Every other post about bisexuality was talking about how beautiful women were and how disgusting men were. I never felt comfortable talking about my attraction to men in public, or even in private. I felt even more uncomfortable talking about maybe being bisexual and aromantic. At this point, alloaros were practically unheard of and there weren’t a ton of trans aces, so finding someone to talk to about my identity was hard, to say the least. I just simply was alloaro, but that word didn’t exist yet and I couldn’t find anyone else who was aromantic and not asexual.

That’s how I lived for another 2 years, as a nonbinary aro lesbian (or maybe bisexual). This was around the same time as I got involved in truscum/tucute discourse. I’ve always been minimally dysphoric about my body and got attacked for it by truscum and it would take me another 2 years to realize that I was actually a trans man. Because I started associating trans men with truscum and I didn’t want to be like them because they were always the nastiest people I had ever come across (I’ve obviously since outgrown this view point and am comfortable identifying as a man now).

Another two years later and I’m outside a Thiesen’s with my parents picking up stuff for my graduation party that was happening later. My feet hit the pavement and I get a thought that said “maybe I’m a guy.” I stopped for a second and kept walking in, thinking about that, trying out he/him pronouns with myself and decided before we checked out that I was a trans guy.

It took a while to get used to thinking about myself that way and I still use they/them pronouns. A few days after solidifying my gender identity, I realized I was aro and bisexual (or maybe gay). Labeling my sexuality came much easier, realizing I was a man. I’m still aromantic and that’s one thing that’s been pretty constant in my life. I never really got crushes in the typical way and I still don’t, even though you all see me reblogging yearning posts. I think that’s a byproduct of wanting to touch people in non-romantic and non-sexual ways in our society where touches have a lot of baggage with them.

I came out as bisexual and aromantic to my roommates in September. It came up in casual conversation and I felt comfortable enough to tell them, since they were all from the city and city-folk tend to be more accepting of queer identities (not to rag on rural folk, since I am one, but rural Wisconsin is not the place you want to grow up trans and queer). One of them came out as straight in October on coming out day and I forced myself back into the closet on coming out as trans. We had a falling out with her earlier this semester and she moved out.

Literally the night she moved out, I came out to the other two roommates as trans and they took it very well! They call me by my preferred name when we’re around people I’m out to and they even bought me a trans flag that we have hanging in the common room of our dorm (and at least one person has told me they say “trans rights!” whenever they pass by as soon as they found out it was mine). I’m still working on being socially out at college and need to call gender inclusive housing at some point, but I keep putting that off.

And recently I’ve decided I’m trans, aro, and queer. I still use the word bisexual, but really thinking about what genders I’m attracted to is super complicated and the word bisexual doesn’t convey that to most people. And queer just fits better some days.

I don’t really have a tl;dr for this, but if I had to pick something from this to hammer home, it would be that it’s okay to change labels and question your identity. It’s okay to change labels frequently or once every few years if you feel like they’ve changed! It’s never too late to figure out who you are and there will always be people who will accept you for who you are.

Also tumblr is the worst place to try and figure out your identity, but sometimes its all people have and I want my blog to be a safe space for people questioning their identities.

#transgender #alloaro #aromantic #aromantic experience #growing up trans #growing up aro #long post #shay speaks #shay writes #okay2rb #honestly idk how much sense this makes but i felt like i needed to get this out there #there's so much shit that gets thrown around this site and i know what it feels like to not see yourself in any of the content on here #ig that's what im trying to say?#also i wasn't particularly close to anyone in hs can you tell?#i had like 3 friends lol #but do with this what you will #it isn't meant to be an academic essay or anything. just getting my experiences out there #looking back on 8th grade me is like 'YOURE TRANS AND ARO AND QUEER AAAAAAGHHHH'#but alas i can not scream at my past self in real time

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alloaroworlds · 5 years

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Allo-Aro For Allies: Link Post

It says something about Tumblr’s culture of activism that my “can you please first read through our blogs and tags if you want to learn how to be an ally to allo-aros” post provoked certain asks in response. What you think I can do to be a better ally to you? Can you recommend any good informative/resource posts allies should check out? Since my post discussed what allies can do to support us and educate themselves before asking questions, it’s hard not to feel like some folks completely missed my point.

The lesson is that my future safety and acceptance as an allo-aro in a-spec spaces is too dependent on my ability now to present and re-present information. (Irrespective of the limitations on said ability, which was why I wrote the post in the first place.) So please find a list of the activism-focused posts I’ve written on this blog. I insist, though, that this post only serves as a launching-off point for your investigating and supporting other allo-aro bloggers, activists and creatives. This post collates only one person’s view on being allo-aro and it does not (and should not) stand for a whole community’s activism.

For further information and resources, tags specifically relevant to allo-aros include #alloaro, #allo aro, #allosexual aromantic and #allosexual aromanticism.

In terms of learning what it feels like to be allo-aro, the best way to learn really is to read through our tags and our blogs! There’s so many expression and identity posts you’re missing out on when you don’t! It’s also worth keeping in mind that most allo-aro resources are going to be grassroots and informal: Tumblr posts. If you’re waiting for fancy websites and mainstream journalism discussions, you’re doing allo-aro activists right now a grave disservice.

Allyhood and How to Ally

Why posts encouraging allo-aros to do the labour of correcting and educating our allies isn’t true allyhood.

Why allies framing allo-aros as a valuable addition to the aro-spec community, as opposed to our being unquestionably part of it, provokes further feelings of alienation.

Why it’s important to give allo-aros non-activist posts and spaces to vent to each other about our experiences, alienation and frustration.

Allo-Aro Alienation, Erasure and Antagonism

A list of forty-five ways allo-aros are erased in a-spec and aro-spec community spaces.

Why the flooding of aromantic tags with asexual-only and non-aromantic content is an accessibility issue that denies allo-aros equitable access to our own spaces.

A screencap essay demonstrating some of the asexual-only content dominating aromantic tags and how it makes me feel as an allo-aro.

Why it bothers me to see asexuals using my allo-aro posts to start conversations about asexuality and asexual activism.

Why “aro-ace” doesn’t mean “a-spec”, and why we need to avoid sexualising discussions of sexual attraction in a-spec spaces.

Why accusations of “splitting the community” or “hating aro-aces” in response to allo-aros voicing antagonism or erasure is doing nothing to benefit the aro-spec community.

Why the assumption that allo-aros have a complete or even any separation between our allosexual and our aromantic spectrum identities alienates many allo-aros.

Why I feel required to check my allosexuality at the door in order to participate within the aromantic community as an aro-spec.

Several allo-aros talking about the need to push aside our allosexual experiences in order to engage with the aro-spec community.

A-Spec Community Inclusion and Terminology

A list of ways in which you can make your a-spec community more welcoming to allo-aros.

Why it’s important to use “allosexual aromantic” alongside “non-asexual aromantic” in positivity and informative posts when referring to allo-aros.

Why “allosexual” is a word without contention in the aro-spec community and a hesitancy in using it is harming allo-aros.

Why I think “allo-aro” means “someone on the aromantic spectrum who experiences and/or wishes to equally centre their sexual attraction”.

My feelings on feeling a-spec enough against a context of a-spec community language not being made by or for allo-aros.

Why the historical, erasing use of “asexual community” meaning “all a-specs” requires asexuals to clearly label asexual-only spaces.

Why you need to specifically mention that your general aromantic community, project or event is inclusive of allo-aros.

Why “aro” as a non-SAM identity is open to any aro-spec, including allosexuals.

My allo-aro manifesto, part one: terminology definitions and a-spec community expectations.

Creative Media

@arotaro created the dark green/light green/white/yellow/gold flag gaining prominence as allo-aro-specific pride.

My free to use watercolour version of the above allo-aro flag.

The tag #alloaro on my aro-spec creative media Tumblr, @aroworlds, collects a range of allo-aro stories, crafts and visual art pieces.

Hallo, Aro is my ongoing flash fiction series about allo-aro experiences and the intersection of aromanticism with sexual attraction. You can find these stories on Tumblr, on my WordPress site and as a PDF or EPUB ebook.

Love in the House of the Ravens is my serial novelette about an autistic allo-aro character’s discovering his aromanticism. You can find installments on Tumblr and on my WordPress site.

I also have a master post collecting all my fictional works with allo-aro narrating protagonists. All of these pieces are available for free as either stories posted to my website or downloadable digital books.

Lastly, in light of the time it took to collate this post, I’ll mention that I have a ko-fi account and I enthusiastically and desperately welcome all purchases of digital beverages. I’m a multiply disabled, trans allo-aro who is not as supported by our government as I need to be to pay my bills and fill my prescriptions, so this is how my allies can help me stay alive to keep making resources like this post.

If you can’t support me financially, then I’d be grateful if you would consider reblogging my allo-aro book master post, my aro-spec book master post or my Hallo, Aro stories. These posts--not my community discussion pieces--are what let me grow my audience for a future of being able to market my creativity.

Thank you for reading and thank you for your support!

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