#asaw2020

[shades-of-grayro]

psst... you should check out the new aromantic spectrum awareness week website

arospecweek.org

[junietuesday]

[image description: a man labelled “me” points at “a character I like” and asks, “is this an aromantic?”. end description.]

[rowersdelight]

It’s that time of year again. Let’s get it my funky, little aros and nifty, little arospecs!

Check out @aromantic-official for history of asaw and prompts for each day! Responses to the prompt are tagged #ArosAndArrows and #BeingAromanticIs

[image description: one square with the aro flag as the bacground. Text is on each stripe of the flag. The stripes read: arospec, awarness, week, feb 16 - feb 22, #ASAW2020 #arospecawarnessweek. The text colors are black, dark green, light green, white, and grey respectively for each stripe. End description.]

*there was a brief correction of the end day from feb 20 to feb 22*

[wish-ful-thinking513]

Am I A Monster?

“To love is to be human.”

That’s what you tell me, anyways.

          But what if I can’t?

                      What am I then?

                                                       Am I a monster

                                        With green scaly skin,

                Long black nails, sharp as a razor,

        Blood spatter all around?

You tell me it’ll happen one day

That everyone eventually will.

                                                    Am I a monster?

You tell me that I’m a freak

Manipulative, disgusting, heartless.

                                                      Am I a monster?

You tell me you can fix me

And that I should swoon into your arms.

                                                      Am I a monster?

You tell me that you love me

But blame me when I can’t reciprocate.

                                                      Am I a monster?

                                           Every word is a knife

                                  Cutting me to shreds 

                   Blood spilling onto the pavement.

As I kneel, I look into your eyes

                                              Cruel, hollow, soulless 

Flower petals tumble out of your mouth

Pink leathery skin, rough to the touch

You sneer, revealing your jagged yellow teeth

                                          Really,

                                                     Am I the monster?

[asexualawarenessweek]

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! How are you planning to celebrate this week?

[the-quiver-of-aros]

Shout out to aros who have no previous experience with dating or people having crushes on them

These things aren’t essential for figuring out if you’re aro or not. You’re aro if you feel like you are and that’s pretty awesome of you.

[aroworlds]

[image description: a square aro-ace cross-stitched flag patch sitting on a blue microfibre blanket. The patch bears the orange/yellow/white/cyan/blue horizontal stripes of the aro-ace flag and is finished with an edging embroidered in bright orange thread.]

Aro Week Patch Giveaway - Aro-Ace

To celebrate Aro Week, I’m doing a week of patch giveaways. The aro-ace patch features @aroaesflags​’s blue/yellow design with a bright orange border.

These are all handsewn pieces. They will have the small imperfections that come from being hand-embroidered. They’re also made using using a mix of Sullivans colourfast thread and thread from eBay that I will not promise is colourfast. I have also used a little clear nail polish in their construction (hidden underneath the embroidered edge).

Colours may not precisely match the flag colours (colour-matching thread to a backlit screen is difficult and/or I don’t have a better match in my thread stash). Since I like to play with different stripe and border combinations, every patch will feature a one of a kind, never exactly-repeated colourway.

Patches will come with a length of thread matching the embroidered edge for sewing onto your bags, coats or hats. I’ll be posting a tutorial about how to do this on my Patreon and WordPress site in the next few weeks.

These patches have been made by someone in a pet-free household who doesn’t wear artificial fragrances or perfumes but does wear deodorants and use shampoos containing essential oils.

I will ship these (sealed in a plastic zipseal bag) with a card in a standard letter envelope to any postal address accessible to me through Australia Post. (In other words, global with a few odd exceptions.) The giveaway ends at 12 PM AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) March 2.

To enter, you need to do the following:

Follow me at @aroworlds​​ or @alloaroworlds​​

Be an aromantic of the identity listed in the header or entering on behalf of someone who is

Have your ask box or DMs open

Be an adult or have an adult’s permission to give your mailing address to an adult online

Reply to this post with the word “aro-ace” somewhere in said reply. Reblogs, while awesome, will not count as entries.

(I’m autistic. I can’t always tell the difference between “reblogging to signal boost” and “reblogging to enter” responses. So all reblogs will be accounted as signal-boosts and replies accounted as entries. I apologise to anyone who’d prefer to enter under the anonymity of a sideblog, but I need to make this as uncomplicated as possible.)

If you’d like to support me in future aro-community pride craft giveaways, I do have a Patreon (Aro Worlds, link in description box), where I’ll be running a subscriber-only giveaway for a dragon patch in the pride colours of your choice.

Good luck and thanks for reading!

[antongaloca-archive]

I kinda forgot to post here but oh well!

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (ASAW) day 1: "Visibility"!

"February 16th: Visibility - Share a photo or drawing of yourself with arrows, roadsigns, or pointers, whether ones you made yourself or that you find."