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FAQ

Who can follow this blog?

Please do not follow if you are any sort of bigot, a TERF/SWERF, truscum/transmed, or an ace/aro exclusionist, or a panphobe, or REG of any stripe. Other than that, feel free to follow!

How can you be bi and aroace?

I’m a bi aroace because I’m attracted to multiple genders and I’m on both the ace and aro spectra.

What is the definition of bisexuality?

Attraction to more than one gender.

X blog is a shitty person and you reblogged from them! Should I let you know?

If the person is extremely racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. or is a TERF, truscum, or exclusionist, yes! Please let me know so I can delete the post immediately. But if you’re just trying to start a fuss because someone ships something that you don’t personally like or because they’re kinky, no, please don’t. I’m a grown ass adult who doesn’t have time for your sex negativity or your shipping wars. This blog supports m-spec lesbians and gays. This blog supports she/her gays and he/him lesbians. This blog supports MOGAI identities. Battleax bis are not welcome here. This blog supports pan and other m-spec people.

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lauravian

Happy Aro week of visibility! 💚

(and an ace knight because these two often go hand in hand 💜)

[PRINTS]

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goldenasters

Happy Halloween! This is what I look like btw

monochromeguyemrys

Peak

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what-z-creates

Embr-ACE-ing Difference: A [brief] introduction to asexuality (October 2025)

Happy Ace Week! This was tough to put together - there's so much to talk about and nuances/intersections to get into, and a minizine only has so much space.

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plegberb

Happy Ace Week!!! 💜🤍🖤🩶

Made this banner a while ago, but today seems like a great day to repost it!

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silvermoon424

As an ace this is the only time "you just haven't met the right person yet" has made me laugh lmaoooo

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stemmehistorian

Being black and Aromantic is an experience. When I came out through social media my family felt the need to drill me with questions about my past romantic relationships and why now all a sudden, I’d chosen to go by Aro. I remember talks of bandwagons, even though I can count the number of aro-spec black people I’ve met on one hand with like three fingers. In church when my oldest sister led the prayer, she alluded to how younger kids had so many demons they had to fight, and I instantly knew what she meant. Subsequently, my being Aro had become a thing to pray off and use as a talking point in Sunday school rather than being discussed on a deeper and serious level with just myself. But when we did speak about it the conversations felt like an interrogation. It always felt like black culture couldn’t align much with Aromanticism, especially cause growing up I was taught that marriage was the end goal and that’s what I should want but I don’t think marriage was in my plans. I would dream of having dogs and living alone in a big house instead of having a romantic partner. For me being Aro and black is an interesting intersection because romance is very much portrayed in black narratives in both good and bad ways, but it’s never talked about in the capacity to which I experience alloromanticism. Alloromanticism is never ‘the decline of romantic attraction’ or ‘the strong romantic attraction to people only when I know them just as well as I know myself’. With my demiromantic identity people don’t understand the difference it has from regular attraction . My attraction is fluid so in the case of when I feel more Demi I’m glued to one person and one person only for a really long time. Attraction like that is what I wish was shown on TV and not just packaged as someone who's got an obsession and needs to get over someone. They could be Demiromantic. A thing I love about being Aro-spec is how comfortable it feels. Like I don’t feel this overwhelming need to perform. If my partner knows I’m on the Aro-spec they know it’s best not to try to force romantic gestures or even be offended by my lack of attraction at times. ... How come black women just can’t experience attraction a bit differently from how everyone says we should. So many black and brown men and women probably have to repress the way they feel and run the risk of being the bad guy because no one would understand or want to navigate the ways in which they experience Aromanticism. They bottle it up and when things go wrong probably find it easier to just blame themselves for not being enough or their partner when really, they just have to look into themselves and their orientation. I think black women could feel more assertive in themselves if they realized that they can be Aromantic and not pushed into this box where they have to play a role they don’t want to play. Black women deserve to explore romantic orientations as well as sexual ones and have a deep dive into how they feel. And that should be respected. To black Aromantic people I say keep pushing the odds, keep daring to form a new mold for black kids to come because we’re drowned in content and media that tells us we’re overly sexualized and romanticized and that can change with us. Our families and friends may not understand, the world may not even understand, but as long as you get who you are that’s honestly all that matters. As a collective we can help each other learn and grow, we can push each other in our advocacy and know it’s not a competition. All our efforts should be us trying to get Aromanticism to be taken as seriously as any other orientation.

Being Aroflux and Black by Kimberly Butler (@/TheAsexualGoddess) on AUREA (2021)

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your-fav-is-a-spec

As a silly one, could you do one with a finger pointing to the camera that goes “YOU are aspec”? /very nf!

You from Real Life are Aspec

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cattermater

Truer words have never been spoken.

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mousegirlheart

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oxymoronicdumbass2

i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”

dark-nights-bright-lights

I think these are two sides of the coin called "sex should not be such a big deal"

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arocalypse

It is fine if you tried sex and it wasn't for you. It is fine if you haven't had any and you know you don't want it. It is fine not to want sex.

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aiko-moon

i said it

i feel it

no one is like him, he's the only one who makes me experience sexuality as something less scary

you're fantastic, thanks to you i also understood who i am

🖤🩶💜🤍

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princessgemma12

If you like the word “queer” reblog.

incandescent-creativity

#fun umbrella. we r all sitting under it like the big rainbow thing in elementary school gym class

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ultrainfinitepit

Demisexual Angel - final version. Flat colors, transparent background, linework under the cut.

Read the FAQ and follow the campaign: Pride Angels.

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Today's design is the Demisexual Angel. This might be one of my favorite designs out of the new series, I think it would make a cool tattoo!

The 2022 design was meant to be a pair with the Demiromantic angel, being a sword and a shield.

And it was meant to rhyme with the Asexual angel, having shared design elements of smoke and eyes. For these elements I was also inspired by a character from a podcast my friends like (the Magnus Archives), that has lots of cool fanart with smoke and eyes. I haven't personally listened to much of the podcast but I do enjoy the fanart for it.

For the redesign I initially wanted to keep the sword concept. I was thinking of one of my favorite video games, World of Warcraft and specifically the sword Frostmourne from that series.

From there I thought of a lion-angel shield for Demiromantic to go with it, continuing to take inspiration from Warcraft. But I felt like the shield was a little lamer than the sword. People tend to like swords over shields, so I didn't want to disadvantage Demiromantic by making it the lesser of the two options.

Still wanting Demisexual and Demiromantic to be a pair, I tried going in a completely different direction, thinking of another classic fantasy weapon pairing: poison and dagger. For these I was also inspired by a video game: specifically Baldur's Gate 3 where there is a rogue character who gives me demisexual/demiromantic vibes.

But upon further reflection of these designs, I decided they were unremarkable compared to the others in the series. I also got some feedback that they were too simple compared to the others. So, I decided to go back to my sword idea since I still liked it, and it stands out more. And I made Demiromantic into a lich-angel to pair with it.

Now, I don't think these are as strongly a matching pair as my 2022 designs, so as of the time of writing this post (April 2024) I'm not sure if Demiromantic will stay as a lich-angel. I guess we shall see in a future redesign post!