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Arospec Awareness Week Day 1 Fandom Challenge:  A character you headcanon as aromantic and on the asexual spectrum.

For day 1 of AAW, I drew my favorite and also probably most unpopular aroace headcanon, Mettaton from the forbidden fandom, in the aro and ace pride colors.  It looks a little weird since he’s not wearing pink but hey at least i got this done on time, kind of

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Day 1 (February 19, 2017): [x]

A character you headcanon as aromantic and on the asexual spectrum.

Sorry for being late >< Miera is one of my OCs (sorry for taking the fandom challenge for that). She is part of Delphinium: Don’t Drink the Tea comic. A smart ass super feminine girl, that, with her brother, sells “grades” in school -tests answers, they can hack the school system and change your grade there, things like that- She is probably the most aromantic asexual character I have, at the beginning I tried to give her a partner, but the character itself didn’t seem to want ANYONE? Also, she is the character in my avatar =x

[zuckergussprinzessin]

being aro (or ace, I suppose) is a bit like being a desert plant that people keep telling about the sea.

you’re just there, hanging out in the desert, like you do, and people go: oh my gosh. you’ve never been to the sea? you poor thing. out here, in the desert, with no water, and there’s this huge body of water out there. it’s magnificent. you should see it. (they show you pictures. maybe you think it does look quite nice.)

here’s the thing though. desert plants? know what they’re doing. they’re excellently adjusted to the desert. they’re not uncomfortable. they’re exactly where they’re supposed to be.

(and I think we can all agree that digging up a desert plant and bringing it to the sea is a shit idea.)

sure, we like water. in fact, we have water. because we know what we’re doing here. you’re just so distracted by the lack of sea that you don’t notice.  and maybe we can see why you think the sea is beautiful and you want us to experience that beauty...

...but we’re still going to wonder why the flip we’re supposed to desperately need billions of litres of salt water.

[theanonymousbooks]

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week everyone!

I almost didn’t notice it come, but I’m glad I at least caught it on the first day!

I was born with a heart full of love. I loved my family, I loved the beach, I loved books, I loved my friends, I loved the trees, I loved to play. I loved and I loved and I loved and I felt this love bursting from my heart at all times. Sappy, I know. But I loved so much it felt like it consumed my entire being. And it was enough.  It wasn’t till later, that suddenly I felt like maybe all this love consuming me, wasn’t enough, because I didn’t love like that. Heck, I even loved the idea of being in love, like that, for a time anyways, but throughout my teens years romance never danced my way. It wasn’t until my early twenties, when I fell head over heals for this girl that I thought maybe finally- finally!- I had found the kind of love that was supposedly “greater” than all others. But the more I thought about her, the more I realized that while my feelings for her were great, they weren’t those sort of feelings. While I wanted something different than friendship, I knew I definitely didn’t want romance either. I was pretty easy after that to realize I was aromantic, the hard part was accepting and loving that part of myself. I had gotten so close to this girl and in the end, could not give her the type of relationship I thought I was suppose to. For the longest time I thought all this love I had for her, all this love flowing inside me, was not enough. I couldn’t understand why. My love seemed so good and pure, even if it wasn’t romantic love, so why couldn’t it be enough? It didn’t help that at the time that I had a person in my life who made me feel weird and inhuman because I wasn’t going out on dates and had no interest in “talking to the boys.” *Insert eye roll here.* As I read books and poems and experiences by fellow aromantics, however, I felt acceptance. I saw a world where who I was and the love I had to give was good enough. Eventually even, with help of my friends (who may or may not know what a role they played), I realized that the love I had to give could be better than romantic love. Figuring out and accepting my aro identity to me meant that I could not only accept myself for who I am, but also love myself, completely, for who I am. It meant I could celebrate myself and what I had to give the world, because what I had to give was good enough. Heck, sometimes, it’s even better!

[growinguparo]

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[Tuesday, February 21: Write about the things you love about your identity. If you’re struggling to love your identity, what are the things about the aromantic spectrum that resonate with you? How has finding the community helped figure out who you are? Feel free to post as many positive aromantic self-love posts as you see fit.]

One thing I love about being aro is simply that it is something that I am. It’s an identity. For a very long time I didn’t have that, and I felt incomplete, always waiting for romantic attraction to find me. I love feeling whole just the way I am.

The tumblr aro community is very supportive and always there when I need help. I wish I’d had a tumblr when I was coming to terms with my identity, and even though I didn’t, the tumblr community was still able to help me. Props to y’all 🙂

[demiromanticmickey]

Aro Spec Awareness Week Fandom Challenge

Day 4 (February 22, 2017): A character you headcanon as somewhere on the aromantic spectrum and as non-ace.

Mickey Milkovich (Shameless US). Gay and Demiromantic - how I got my url ☺️. Mickey is canonically gay on the show and imo very heavily coded as demiromantic and romance repulsed.

[e3khatena]

I almost forgot about Arospec awareness week! Day 1: write about what your aromanticism means for you. For me, it means I'm just not sure yet. I'm not too sure if I want a relationship or not, and have no problem waiting until I know for certain. Just like last year, I'll be taking a photo every day of AAW. As you can tell, I remembered while on my lunch tonight.

[astranyx]

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2017

Sunday, February 19: Write about what your aromantic / aro spec identity means to you. This can include your experience finding the identity that feels the most right to you, and can absolutely involve disclosing what your identity is (though, of course, that is not required).

I am aromantic. I figured this out when i was 19. My story isn’t exactly an interesting one (basically i just found the term on wikipedia and was like “oh..... OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH”). 

 But a few month later (i’m writing this for facebook as well, but this parenthesis bit won’t be in it) i discovered something else about myself that made the final pieces fall into place. 

I was on the tumbler, @arospecawarenessweek, i  found the terms “Romance Repulsed” and “Apothiromantic” (apothiromantic is basically a shorter way of saying Romanced Repulsed Aromantic because that is a bit of a mouthful; the apothi part comes from the greek “apothisan” meaning repulsed). suddenly more things just made sense.

I found quickly that my repulsion ranges from anywhere between a full body cringe to nausea. I also found out that this also depends on quite a few things. First and foremost, my repulsion tends to be less severe when the romance is coming from friends or family. Secondly, it depends on my mood. I’m less tolerant of romance when i’m in a bad mood. this of course means, that if the romance is from friends/family but i’m in a bad mood, i’ll be less tolerant; however if it’s from strangers (and i’m in a bad mood still) i’ll be full on nauseous.

I don’t really have a way to end this essay well, so i’m going to end this on a somewhat sad note. the reason i never really came out as apothiromantic is because I’ve never really known how the hell i tell my family. i mean, how can you tell them that you’re repulsed by them when you care so much about them (this last paragraph won’t go on facebook either)?