Aro/Ace Gremlin

I am a gremlin I am immune to such things as attraction I crave Garlic Bread

[anonymous-collective]

Aromantic Ask Game

(Reblog and get people to submit a number, then answer the corresponding question.)

What is your aro-spec label?

Where do you fit in the aro community (ex, alloaro / aroace / nonSAM aro / etc)?

Do you consider yourself lgbt+?

Are you out as aro?

How did you figure out you are aro?

What is your favourite part about being aromantic?

What is your least favourite part about being aromantic?

Do you associate anything with being ‘aromantic culture’?

What is your favourite aro-spec identity flag?

How long have you known you are aro?

What is one thing you wish people knew about being aro-spec?

Do you have any friends, acquaintances or other people you know that are aro-spec?

What do you wish you could tell your younger self related to being aro-spec?

Do you have any other attraction labels (ex, sexual orientation / platonic orientation / etc)?

What advice do you have for other aro-spec people (or those questioning being aro-spec)?

What are your views on romance? Could include if you are romance repulsed / favourable / etc?

Do you have any aro related labels that don’t fit into the other groups (like loveless / lovequeer / amatopunk / etc)?

Do you have any aro-spec headcanons?

Is there a song that is very aromantic to you?

What kind of relationships are you interested in, if any?

[aroacegremlin]

1. I’m just Aromantic. Although sometimes I wish I could feel romance. I’m not saying I want a relationship, cause I am more than happy by myself. I just sometimes feel like I am missing out on something really cool that most other people in the world get to experience.

2. I identify as Aroace. I am immune to attraction. I have nothing but aces up my sleeves and am immune to goo goo eyes.

3. I do consider myself a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. That’s what the A is there for. (agender too)

4. I am only out to a couple people. Those who are either also queer or who really don’t care how I orient myself. I am not out to my parents. The few times I hint or test the waters they say stuff that makes me feel like shit. So. Not out to them.

5. I figured out I was Aro while in the midst of a DEEP dive into asexuality. Was doing lots of research when aromanticism smacked me in the face.

6. When I figured out I was aromantic, it felt like some societal burden was lifted off my shoulders. Other times it’s lonely.

7. My least favorite part of being aromantic is when my brain convinces itself that I am not aromantic and there is nothing special about me and I was just making it all up for attention.

8. I don't really associate anything with aromanticism. I guess the color green is the closest thing that I would think to consider "aromantic".

9. I may be a little biased but I would have to say that the Aroace flag is my favorite aro-spec flag. The warm to cool is very attractive to me.

10. I have known about my being aro for almost a year now. When I first started questioning, I made the wise decision to journal my thoughts and feelings. December 21 was the first time I recorded feeling aroace.

11. I wish more people knew that aromanticism existed and that it does not mean I have sworn off all attraction completely. I do feel platonic attraction, just romantic attraction has never been a thing for me.

12. I have a couple ace friends for sure, and I have a couple friends who share a lot of aro experiences with me, but they do not (to my knowledge) identify as aro.

13. I wish I could tell my younger self that they don't have to keep looking for something that's missing. There is nothing missing. There was no point trying to logic my way into liking people. All I had to do was enjoy all the greek mythology I was devouring in my spare time.

14. As far as other orientations, I do identify as Asexual as well. Aromantic/Asexual. I do experience platonic attraction, and oh boy does aesthetic attraction knock me onto my feet sometimes. (Have you seen Elizabeth Olsen and Katie McGrath? GORGEOUS!!)

15. Advice I have for others is don't force something that doesn't feel right. Don't force yourself into a box that doesn't fit, and don't try to force yourself into a box that isn't there. Life is meant to be comfortable, and if you discover it is most comfortable by yourself, so be it! Enjoy spending quality time with yourself! Or if you desire, go find a partner! Hang out with friends! Your world will not end if you discover you are really not into dating.

16. My views on romance vary. If I am reading a fantasy book where the romance is carefully woven into the story but does not drown out the plot, great! I love that! But when the story is going great, this character shows up out of the blue, sparking goo-goo eyes from everyone, who has nothing too big to add to the story, then it's a little rough. Romance in real life freaks me out. It feels gross and I want nothing to do with it. PDA grosses me out to no end.

17. I don't know if my labels fit into other groups or not. I do know that aesthetic attraction is only triggered by women for me, so that would be closer to lesbianism than anything else, but that is as far as it goes. I only find women breathtakingly beautiful.

18. I, unfortunately, do not have many aro-spec headcanons. The couple I have gathered are either canon or headcanoned by literally every other aro.

19. The song "Never Been In Love" by Will Jay is blatantly aromantic and there is literally nothing you can say to change my mind.

20. Relationships? I guess I really like found family. I really just want friends who choose me first instead of me being a last resort when all their close friends are busy.

[writing-prompt-s]

You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.

[dycefic]

The stone was immovable, in the past. Indestructible. A spire of granite no mortal hand could even alter.

But mortal hands build clever tools, and these last few hundred years I have lived in dread that they will break this, my sacred stone, the last link that preserves me, a faint shadow of a forgotten god. While my sacred stone stands, I do not, quite, fade away.

I am in a park, now, clipped and tamed, my forests long gone. But they landscape around me and my stone, admiring its beauty, so I do not complain. While they take pleasure in the stone, I am safe.

There is a playground a few lengths away, and the laughter and happy shrieking rouse me a little from my sleep. I watched over children, once. It’s nice to hear them again.

But I don’t truly awaken until the Offering is made.

Little hands touch my stone, with curiosity and a sort of reverence that only the very young feel now. For a child young enough the world is still a mystery, and even an ancient granite stone provokes wonder. So I stir, when she touches the stone, becoming hazily aware.

And then, solemnly, the child places a tiny colourful object in the roughly shaped alcove in the stone’s side, the place where offerings were laid two thousand years ago and more, and I awaken. Many people have put things in that alcove, of course… to take pictures, usually, these days, or putting a lost object where it will be seen. Merely to place an object in the alcove isn’t enough. A true offering is given as a gift, with intent.

As this is.

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[writing-prompt-s]

You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.

[elidyce]

I was twenty… twenty-five, I think?… when I was sentenced. Four hundred years was a length of time I couldn’t even imagine. It was a length of time I don’t think anyone could imagine, even the judge. It was just a big showy number that let everyone know I’d never see the light of day again. The mages who cast the spells were dramatic about it, practically shouting the part about ‘until death claims you, or four hundred years hath passed, forsooth, thou shalt be imprisoned here’. They don’t waste that kind of magic on most prisoners, but I was special.

The Slayer, they called me then. The Monster of Sentan. I’d killed nineteen people… I remember that number because I was so furious that they stopped me so close to my goal of twenty-one. And I didn’t just kill ordinary people, no, but the Chosen of the Gods. The Great and Good. They were terrified of me. So they locked me away, to die forgotten.

It had been a little less than a hundred years when the king died without heir, and a civil war tore the country apart. When the fighting was all over, the losers were dragged down to the deepest cells under the castle, and the new king and his soldiers stopped and stared at me. “Who… who is this?” he asked, frowning. “Some victim of the usurper?”

People like cooks and jailers and scrubbers don’t change as easily as kings. The same man who’d been bringing me my meals since there was still brown in his hair and beard shuffled forward, hunched and grey now. “No, yer majesty,” he said humbly. “That be a special prisoner, from before the old king died.”

“Special? Special how?” He frowned, moving closer to my cell. “The old king died more than ten years ago. This woman must have been a child then. What could she have done to - “

“Don’t get too close, yer majesty,” the old man said sharply. “That’s the Monster of Sentan… an’ she bites.”

That was true. I do bite.

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[aliteralchicken]

If an aroace beats you up

is it a double A battery?

[aroacegremlin]

So only a couple of my friends officially know I’m Aroace. What makes me giggle is when we are in a group, and they all start talking about dating, romance, boys they think are cute, etc. My friend and I will just make this knowing eye contact and laugh. No one understands why, and I think that makes it even funnier.

[arandomuser17]

Learning about aromanticism and understanding that I'm also part of the aro community has helped me so much.

Like, I've questioned how I had been viewing romance, romantic and non-romantic relationships before.

I've had four crushes in my entire life, and now that I think about it, I don't even know if they were actually romantic crushes, lol. But besides the headaches trying to understand this, aromanticism has given me much more.

It has helped me realise that, for me, no type of relationship is inherently more important than the others.

That friendships are just as worthy as romantic relationships.

That two or more people can be in a relationship that is neither platonic nor romantic, and that's okay.

That defining a relationship is up to the people involved and, as long as there are consent and respect, there's no wrong way to do it.

That having strong feelings for a person / certain people doesn't mean being attracted to them romantically.

That everyone has a different view of the concept of "love", and that feeling or not feeling love doesn't make a person any less worthy.

I am very happy of being on the aromantic spectrum, and I wish all aros a nice day :)

[arguablysomaya]

mostly aimed toward aspec people but everyone can take it! this is just a handy little guide to sort out those pesky attractions. please don

for the girlies that don't know wtf is goin on

[echo-at-the-pond]

Reblog if you're not straight, I want some notes

[aroacegremlin]

I got a Dragon at Walmart!!! His name is Pete. Fear him.

[the-ineffable-ace]

Aroacephobe: Me:

[e-the-village-cryptid]

thinking about that time I was at some kind of diversity and inclusion thing that involved discussion in small groups and one straight girl said she really wanted to be a good ally but sometimes there were some things she just didn’t know and was too afraid to ask for fear of accidentally being offensive. and as the only queer person in this 4-5 person group I said well go ahead and ask me, I don’t care if you accidentally use the wrong term right now or whatever, it’s better to talk about it and learn something, I love talking about queerness and I’ll answer the best I can. and she just looked so nervous and in the end wound up refusing to ask for fear of causing offense. and it wasn’t just the group setting, I’ve known straight people to act similarly even when it’s just one on one

and just. you guys. this is what purity culture and the “if you don’t know something you were never a real ally in fact you’re a bigot in fact you’re worse than bigots because you pretended not to be one” attitude does. how can our allies be allies if they’re scared to talk to us? to ask questions, to make mistakes, to learn? can we please bring back the idea of “in good faith”? there’s way more to say here about identity politics and virtue signaling and acting like language is more important than action but I’m too tired for that right now

please feel free to add to the discussion (regardless of if you’re queer or not), I would love to hear about people’s experiences with this and if others feel differently about it

[frankchurchillsaysrelax]

on etsy

[theaceofarrows]

[aroacegremlin]

Sleep. Sleep is good

[justanaroacedisgrace]

being aromantic, asexual, or nonbinary is cool as hell. if you're aro or ace you're literally immune to romantic/sexual attraction. If you're nonbinary you exist outside of the gender binary. It doesn't make us less of people, it makes us more powerful than the average person

[rainbowcrate]

🌈 Happy Palentine’s Day! Love can be romantic, and we love that (hah), but there are a lot of other ways to love! This year (and every other), grab a book or ten with aromantic leads to learn or celebrate what else is out there! Also, our February box (in the items shop right now) features aromantic characters in a lot of the books we highlight, including our botm, Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor! Grab one on our site before we ship them out at the end of the month!

🌈TITLES LISTED:

Loveless by Alice Oseman An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault Common Bonds by various authors The Last 8 by Laura Pohl Take Me to your Nerdy Leader by Hailey Gonzales Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan Not Your Backup by C.B. Lee Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp Syncopation by Anna Zabo This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria A Murder’s Hunt by Danica Taylor Sincerely, Confusingly, Yours by Hailey Gonzales Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters Sal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez Holding Onto Day by E.H. Timms Come Drink With Me by Michelle Kan, Were Cockroach by Polenth Blake City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault Immaculate Conception by I.J. Miller Uniting the Heavens by Emily English Elephant Shoe by J.S. Edge Switch Back by Danika Stone An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Mirror, Mirror by Jessica Jesinghaus Themis by Paul Weil The Liar’s Guide to the Night Sky by Brianna R. Shrum Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller A-Okay by Jarad Greene An Aromantic’s Love Song to the Populace by Niko Bouvier Capricious, issue 9 The Trouble by Daria Defore Second Chance by Chelsea M. Cameron Rainbow Lights by Polenth Blake Warrior by various authors No More Heroes by Michelle Kan Sea Foam & Silence by Lynn E. O'Connacht Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland Myriad Lands by various authors A Word and a Bullet by Rachel Sharp A Faerie Godmother’s Apprentice Wore Green by Nicky Kyle Stake Sauce by RoAnna Sylver Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk Margins and Murmurations by Otter Lieffe The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion by Lynn E. O'Connacht Queerly Loving by various authors A Promise Broken by Lynn E. O'Connacht

Which books are you picking up or adding to your TBR?

🌈 Don’t forget to #ReadQueerAllYear!

[ID: 10 images with an aro-striped border that display the book covers and dates listed above. The first slide says “54 aromantic books to read to celebrate love all year long.”]

[aro-rambles]

Sometimes being aro feels like the whole world is dating and I'm the only single person on planet earth