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Happy aromantic spectrum week!
Happy pride guys WOOOOO!!!!!!
I would totally do more characters bc this is definitely not all the characters that I have that are in the LGBTQ+ but that would’ve taken way too long lol.
Tropical Storm is a lesbian who is dating the pansexual Queen Calamity, their relationship is totally the GuardxQueen trope bc that’s one of my favorite tropes.
I’ve explained Taipan and Neptune before so I don’t think I need to again lol. But, Taipan is Bi, like me, and Neptune is gay.
Moth is based on a dead moth I had seen in my math class one year lol which is kinda sad but it’s ok bc I am recognizing that moth with moth. Moth is aroace and nonbinary, they live in Pantala and they’re a writer.
The other aroace dragon I have is the queen of the icewings, Evergreen. She takes over for her mother at a young age, as her mother was killed in battle, and has been running the kingdom pretty damn well for her age.
Chalcedony is demisexual, she is Neptune’s mother and Evergreen’s personal guard. Chalcedony was the previous queens guard as well and regrets not being able to save the late queen and leaving her children without a mother. She tries everyday to make up for it.
Queen Moi is the spouse of the current seawing queen, she is trans and bisexual. I created her back in Mermay for the prompt royalty and named her after the moi fish, the species means “fish of kings” so I did a little spin on it.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the drawings and have a wonderful pride month!
Aroace skywing icewing for pride month :}
Reblogs greatly appreciated:D
WHY ARE ALL THE HOT PEOPLE AROACE OR LESBIAN
Rest in Grass! 😇🍎
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Shading!,!! ^ _ ^ 🍟🔥
Same artstyle, different outline color and color brush! 🖌🎨
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 am SO happy to celebrate the first international asexuality day.
So here’s some of the asexuality-themed art (and pictures) I’ve made throughout to years.
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!
Jughead using the aroace-flag colours
I have a tiktok, go follow!
TW: IMPLIED DEATH, SCREAMING^
No art for today. But here, have some memes I made, I think that’s fine to post on my art account?
I actually love Reggie’s design and the artsyle, don’t take it the wrong way! But his squinting eyes impulsively reminds me of Trump...
Reminder that Jughead plays Zelda
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!
Recently got really into the Archie comics, realised Jughead definitely is aroace and now I’m pissed at Riverdale. He is very much neither emo nor straight, thank you. That is the basic context as for why I’m doing these sloppy sketches at 4 am. (On the right I drew Alastor from memory. I know it’s not accurate at all so let’s just call it ✨stylised✨)
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 💚🤍🖤
Inktober Day 1: Ring
NSFW I guess, sorry.
Deceit showing off his rings in his... own way.
Very rushed since I’ve been busy today with theatre
Masterpost: https://alwaysdamfangirling.tumblr.com/post/188070519351/inktober-masterpost
Couldn’t have said it better, yes I know none of those Alastor ships are canon but it is frustrating to see such a large amount of that kind of content of a confirmed ace character; as someone on the ace spectrum it hurts that no character can exist without being shipped, for the most part I’m not against shipping but in this case, it feels like erasure. And I don’t think it’s fair to say that just because it’s not canon doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an impact, because when the content is as widespread as it is in this instance, it overshadows Alastor’s canon orientation. Just my thoughts, I know not every ace person is bothered by this but I just thought I’d offer my opinion.
The Hazbin Hotel fandom’s issue with accepting aromanticism and asexuality
Now that it is officially Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, I want to talk about this!
I find that, as an aroace myself, I am constantly grasping at good representation and coming up empty— it usually ends up in one of two ways.
One: the character is portrayed as emotionless, cold, and robotic in nature. It’s the question aromantic and/or asexual people are often asked: “Are you heartless?” The answer is no, of course, but general media makes it out to be the opposite.
Or two: Their lack of attraction is seen as something to “fix” because they “haven’t found the right one yet”, and they end up with a partner as a “happy ending”.
It frustrates me greatly because of how little people actually see aromanticism or asexuality as a true part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
So when I watched Hazbin Hotel, and I found out about Alastor being aroace, I was over the moon. I was on cloud nine. I also saw how his voice actor has looked up the term as an attempt to learn about aroaces, which makes me OVERJOYED?? Amir is truly a blessing, and I love that he’s proud to embody a character that’s part of our community. It’s so beautiful to finally have a proper character, a fan favorite at that, who just so happens to be aroace— and that’s another thing I love about this.
It’s never explicitly stated in the show (though it is stated in interviews), but it’s rather clear when you’re watching, isn’t it? Alastor’s aversion to any sort of sexual advancement, coupled with Rosie’s blatant “I know you’re an ace in the hole” comment sort of spell out his asexuality pretty clearly, as well as what side of the spectrum he falls upon. In addition, his Valentine’s day card was strictly platonic, which caters to his aromantic side. It feels so validating to finally be represented, to finally have a character in media who shares the same lack of interest in romance and sex as I do.
When I entered the fandom to look for more content, I kind of expected to see the same respect for Alastor’s orientation there too. But that… wasn’t the case? I am fully aware that aromanticism and asexuality are both spectrums— of course, aromantic and/or asexual people can enter those kinds of relationships. I’m not denying that and they belong in the community as much as anyone else on the spectrum.
But, the more I see the same line again and again and again, the more it feels like an excuse to just ship what you want.
Usually I don’t mind shipping? I’m often a firm believer in people shipping what they like as long as it’s harmless and they don’t go crazy over it. I also know for a fact that Viv doesn’t have a problem with people shipping her characters. They are fictional, after all.
But in this case, people are ignoring the very thing that makes Alastor a part of the aroace community! People are ignoring his lack of romantic or sexual attraction!
Is this not the same as changing a gay character’s orientation to suit a straight ship? If not, how so? I’m told that we are a part of this community, so why aren’t we being treated like it? Why is it so hard to accept the people on the end of the spectrum who aren’t interested?
Something I’ve been noticing throughout my life is that society has not exactly progressed very much on the idea of accepting asexual or aromantic identities. Maybe we have, a little, since the old days— but hell, people in “the old days”, which in truth wasn’t very long ago, believed that asexuality was a medical condition to be “fixed” by taking the right medication or having sex. That’s a pretty low bar to clear. And on the romance side, you’re seen as a “late bloomer” or “boring” if you don’t express interest. These days, being friends with someone is treated like a gateway to them possibly becoming a lover. Not getting married, not going on dates, not wanting a partner— it’s all treated like a crime when it’s not.
Maybe I’m selfish, or sensitive, or I’m butthurt over nothing, or I’m making it all about me. Maybe I’m gatekeeping or whatever the term is. But please, please, please, I just want an aroace character like me who simply is not interested in sex or romance.
And I want fandom to respect that. I admire the creations that fans make— the art, the animatics, the writing and the character analysis. And I want people to keep creating because creation is indeed a beautiful thing.
But I really would like people to treat aroace identities like they’re important. Like it’s more than just a spectrum to get wiggle room to wrangle in another ship.
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
Dear Horror Podcast Creators,
Hi aroace person here. Ummm, could you stop making aroace people Standish unfriendly assholes that need to learn how to open up to people? Because three times a pattern, and I don't super love the pattern. Like we don't get a whole third of three main options for human affection. I'm an introverted weirdo who writes open letters to podcast writers on tumblr. But I do treasure and protect the few friends I have made. And I act pretty kindly to those others because, well, I'm not an asshole. It's just weird that there seems to be an unintentional correlation between being aroace and being cold and standoffish. I undertand its becuae they also happen to have trauma that makes them that way. But, for example, the sheridan tapes have two main characters. Both of them have trauma. One of them is cold and distant and the other is pretty socialble and talkative and has fucking friends. Which is the ace one and which isnt? Im not calling it out. I like the Sheridan tapes. I'm just saying it's weird that this keeps happening. So you know, mix it I guess. For me?
Sincerely, someone who will listen to the podcasts regardless because I have no morals.
P.s. TMA fans, please don't come for me. You scare me more than voltron people.
I just realized that most of my favorite characters from when I was a kid are aromantic coded which is kinda funny to me as an aroace person.
I decided to paint a double sided pride flag made out of cardboard.
Happy pride Month! Decided to draw my self and it turned out decent
Here's original base I got the pose from
I took inspiration from these I don't know the original curators I found these on Pinterest.
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
aroace flag but it's colorpicked from this image of tintin :)
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I think I'm in aroace spectrum too, but probably that's because I'm a minor and I've never had sexual interaction with anyone, but I think that bc lately, I haven't felt romantic attraction or fell in love with anyone else. But now, I'm in love with an old friend of mine, so I guess I'm in aroace spectrum now <3
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i am probably on aroace spectrum but my country's at war so idrc about that rn
THIS USER IS AROACE AND STRAIGHT ALLY!!
Yeah my little spades, I'm aroace and straight ally, I don't know what else to say. Anyways, happy pride month to all my followers and LGBT community!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💕💕💕 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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I just remembered last week was aro week
Happy belated aro week!
Sorry i missed it :(
