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Aroace skywing icewing for pride month :}
Reblogs greatly appreciated:D
Finally realising I'm aromamtic (or at least om the aro spectrum) really made me think about all those past experiences as to why I was so bewildered that people like people THAT way irl. Kinda crazy to think about
Wdym you wanna do more than hangout and do those stuff?? You mean that happens in thsi world?? Whaa
Pops giving the finger to amatonormativity
Here’s a silly little metaphor for my aroace experience, as someone who grew up with romcoms and shipping and “romanticised” romance. Because I can’t express my emotions in a non-jokey way.
CW: kind of a vent so it’s a bit depressing
It’s like someone who really wants to eat meat, has to be vegan. Not by choice, but because they physically can’t eat meat. Let’s say they’re allergic or something.
Sure, there’s vegan substitutes for meat and milk etc, like facon (fake bacon) and vegan cheese. And sometimes, it tastes good, maybe even better than the real deal.
But they’ve heard of how great meat tastes, and to such details that they can imagine the exact sensation. Though they’ve never had a bite, they’ve always thought that one day, they’d be able to eat all the meat in the world.
Recently, it dawned on them that they can never take a bite. And they’re fine with that, they have to be. Eventually, they move on with their life. They try to avoid thinking of meat as much.
They see people eating meat, everywhere. And it’s much more noticeable, now that you know you’ll never be able to taste it. And you get more curious, and jealous. You want to ignore it, but people eating meat is all around you, it can’t be ignored.
And the way people describe the taste is so glorious that you can’t help but feel happy seeing other people enjoy their meat. You feel happy thinking about the unattainable. But at the end of the day, that only makes you feel more miserable and empty inside
I made a tiktok for this! I’m drawing one aro character a day for aro awareness week!
Friendly reminder that Alastor is aroace. I personally think you can ship him however much you want, I can’t control that, but it’s disappointing that a majority of the fandom choose to romanticise and hyper sexualise him. It makes it so that he’s only portrayed as aro/ace in a minority of the fandom. A lack of sexual or romantic attraction isn’t boring, it’s not uninteresting. I want it to be normalised. Yes you can ship him but respect his canon sexual orientation, as much as you’d respect any other part of the community 💜
If anyone for some reason want to use this as any kind of profile picture you’re totally welcome!
Hello, yes, I think this addition is extremely important.
There is almost twice as much written in the exclusionist tag, let that sink in.
So if y’all like writing fanfiction...
Say what you like about weird, cringy, or bad ao3 tags, I’ve found the absolute worst one ever, nothing can beat the horridness of this tag
Fuck you yes he fucking is. Stop erasing his identity you asshats
I barely get any notes for Archie fanart, but goddamnit Jughead is my comfort character and I draw what I like
So here’s a screenshot redraw featuring aroace betrayal™. The shading looks a bit dirty but I don’t hate it. Idk which issue this is from btw, but I’d love to know!
Costume
Look at tumblr butchering the quality! I am 11 days too late for drawtober, ik. But I only had two prompts left and now I am finally done! Characters from @directdogman
Masterpost
I made this a while after pride month and finally decided to post it! Don’t mind me making my faves say aspec rights. I also decided to add plushies of the others because why not! 💜🤍🖤
If you can’t tell: Lion= Roman, Owl= Logan, disturbing looking frog= Patton, spider= Virgil, snake= ...Thomas and finally Octupus= Remus 💚🤍🖤
Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals
It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals
No, wait, because why is this literally me……
Aroace Experiences We Don't Talk About Enough (Infographic)
Icon Credits: hands with hearts - @blackholemojis face holding flag - @sammywammyclone paw - @paw-pride hug - @eldritch-emojis gem - @genderdoomed
Some @'s for reach: @our-aroace-experience @gray-ace-space @aroaceculture @acespec-ed @acexualien @cordwaner @asexualadvice @aromantic-diaries @aroacespecsafeplace @arospec-daybook
exclusionists can go fuck themselves. they have no right to gatekeep the LGBTQ+ community unless it puts the community in danger (such as when the MAPs tried to get in the community). /srs
Anyways, I hope you all have an amazing pride month! /gen
since exclusionists are coming out of the woodwork for pride month, just a friendly reminder that this blog is a safe space for bi, pan, ace and aro ppl :]
confused arospec & fed up arospec
I have so many thoughts about each of them, but I can't put them into words. I just love them so much. I just love characters that defend importance of platonic love, especially in romance genre. I just love characters calling out bullshit of "you can't be close friends with opposite sex". I just love them so much
I wanted this post to be funny haha meme, but I'm not normal about them
I found this on Pinterest and I shared it because I support ace and aro folks.
l am Demisexual and Demiromantic but l hope it still proves your point :)
I need to prove a point to my mom. Reblog if you can realize you’re asexual/aromantic in your teens.
Why are most the characters I like ,i hc them as bisexual /arospec/trans or all three 🤨
Is it just the power of me projecting onto them 😶
Should I just do a hc list of characters that are my favorite,sexualities?
Also I feel like the majority of them are blue or have some blue in their design 🤔
funny story i was reading your bio and my heart genuinely stopped when i saw aro-ace exclusionist like. HELLO?? and then i remembered the start says DNI
thanks for the support man 😭😭
Of fucking course! I'm ace so I totally understand how frustrating it is to see others exclude us and aro people so I wanted to make it known that anyone who wants to exclude aro and/or ace peeps aren't allowed.
Actually screaming on the inside at how they basically told queerphobes and exclus to please fuck off and explicitly included us aspecs even beyond aesthetics like the pride flags and nail polishes
21 Things You'll Only Un...
We have heard all about cishet aro men (and i am grateful for that) but shoutout to cishet aro women too. I'm sure this "discourse" hasn't been easy for you either and just as much as aro men aren't "fuckboys", you aren't "sluts" for experiencing non-romantic, sexual attraction. You are queer too and the intersection between aromanticism and womanhood makes your voices a valuable part of this community.
Reblogging because I AM an arospec man 💪
Aro men. you agree. reblog.
(plaintext because idk if gradient text will show up for everyone: aro men. you agree. reblog)
why we got the same flags tho 🤨
aroace 🧡💛🤍🩵💙
aro 💚💚🤍🩶🖤
ace 🖤🩶🤍💜
apagender 🤎💜🤍🩶
genderqueer 💜🤍💚
rabies pride ♥️❤️🤍🩶🖤
make your pride flag(s) with heart emojis!
i’ll start:
aroace 🧡💛🤍🩵💙
aro 💚💚🤍🩶🖤
ace 🖤🩶🤍💜
agender 🖤🩶🤍💚🤍🩶🖤
apagender 🤎💜🤍🩶
genderqueer 💜🤍💚
lots of purple and green apparently!!
tagging @thediamondarcher @more-mousebites @paintedwingz @theo-zino-saurus @corryglover @the-world-wont-listenn @nobigdealeojustkeepitrealeo @bebop-robyn @cryingintoyourpillow & anyone else who would like to!!
y’all
aro and ace are trending?? on the eve of pride month?? this year is for the aspecs for real
TSSM ( The Spectacular Spider-Man ) Harry Osborn pride icons
I got bored, I can make more if y'all want, I don't need credit or anything but it would be appreciated
Non-Ace Aro Fanwork Week 2025
ever notice the devastating lack of fanworks that involve aromanticism without asexuality? so have i, so after a brief contemplation period i’ve decided to host a fanwork event specifically centred around non-asexual aromanticism. this is kind of spur of the moment and i’m still sorting a few things out, but, i’m confident enough in my planning to start the blog today and post up a spread of how it’s gonna go down!
but first, a little bit about your host. i am Ace (as in, thats my name), but i alternatively go by Ivory. my pronouns are it/its and neopronouns. where i fall on the aromantic spectrum is still to be determined, where i fall between strict asexuality and strict allosexuality is even less determined.
schedule
prompt submission: May 4th to May 10th prompt voting: May 11th to May 17th prompts posted: May 18th (probably wont have fancy formatting) downtime to pre-write/pre-draw: May 19th to May 31st posting week: June 1st to June 7th
guidelines
1: anyone can participate! whether you’re non-ace aro or otherwise, so long as you create works that focus on aromanticism without asexuality then you’re welcome!
2: please tag your works properly! smut is allowed and welcomed, but it’d be nice to have a little bit of warning when i’m scrolling through works
3: don’t worry about posting “late”! i’ll be scrolling around for things posted late through all of June, aim for posting during the week but it’s okay if ya don’t
4: any fandoms and any “ships” are allowed! this is a multifandom event, and, truthfully, the more the merrier
5: most importantly, have fun with it!
annnnnd that brings this post to a close!
i hope that this fandom week brings the non-ace aro community a little bit closer together, that it spreads awareness within fandom, and most importantly, that the people have fun with it.
arrow assets made by @/aroworlds, and if anyone has any questions about it, the askbox is open!
-Ivory