#aegoromantic

[all-my-simpings]

Friend: Don't you want to have a romance?

Me: I'm good, I have romance at home.

Romance I have at home:

[isaacisunsure]

HAPPY AROMANTIC AWARENESS WEEK TO ALL THE HOTTEST BITCHES THAT CELEBRATE!!!

SHOUT WITH JOY! THE AROMANTIC BEAM BE UPON YE!!!

[kindlyanni]

A comic about my aegoromantic experience I did for #aroweek in last February and forgot to post here!

Note: You don't need to find a specific label to validate your queer identity. You can have as broad or specific definition as what you're comfortable with, and you don't have to have an analysis of your identity to give to anyone else. It's no one's business but yours, at the end of the day.

For me personally finding a label that fits me perfectly was a relief. Like I've been holding this puzzle piece in my hand for a hot minute and then I finally find the place for it. Like if I found my hole.

I don't need this label to to explain myself to others. It helps me to contextualize my experience and to find my place in the ace/aro spectrum and in the queer spectrum. And I made this comic in case there are others like me, looking for that perfect hole :D

BTW YOU CAN FIND MY ZINE I THINK I'M GOOD BY MYSELF, ACTUALLY ON ITCH IN ENGLISH AND IN FINNISH FOR $4.50!

[bananahkim]

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!

[jelliedroid]

Feb 15th–21st is Aro Spectrum Awareness week!

Huh?? You weren't aware? Yippie, now you are! 🖤🤍💚

(more aro-spec flags under the cut!)

[ID: Drawing of a little guy with their arms up. Above them is a flag with dark green, light green, white, and black bands. The text says, "Happy Aro week, Aromantics!"/ end ID]

[ID: Aro week post with alternate flags: grayromantic, demiromantic, aegoromantic, aroflux, quoiromantic, aroace, and aro-spec flag. /end ID]

[aegowhimsy]

when allos interpret friendships as romantic/sexual that's perfectly fine but when I interpret songs about romance/sex as actually platonic im weird for that???

[mountainrusing]

we’re friends who are going to live together until we die without romance or sex. any questions.

[comicallyqueer]

I'm not romantically attracted to anyone, but man do I like romantic fantasy. Never with real people.

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Alt text:

I used to be very romance repulsed as an aromantic, but as time went on, I learned to tune out the societal pressures for romance. I no longer felt bombarded by it since I could separate it from my own path in life. As a result, I no longer felt the need to defend myself against the notion of romance now that I didn’t feel it’s expectations on me. I actually discovered I like romance… just in a detached sort of way. I spend hours immersing myself in romance, but only in a way I am not directly involved. I enjoy the magic of being an outside observer of a good romance story. Although I myself never appear in my romantic daydreams, I can get warm fuzzies and butterflies when thinking of a fictional relationship. Part of the appeal is that it’s fantasy. It’s not real so I ger that comfortable separation of romance from life… but I still get the thrill of love. I’m just an aro who loves his romance! I guess that’s why I resonate with the term aegoromantic despite it being a micro label.