#aspec falls

[anistarrose]

gravity falls finale 10th anniversary on the first day of aromantic spectrum awareness week is huge

[anistarrose]

aromantic flags color picked from mabel's sweaters! (part 1)

aromantic:

[ID from alt: aromantic flag with green, light green, white, gray, and black stripes. Mabel's green flamingo sweater and green/yellow star sweater. End ID.]

aroallo:

[ID from alt: aroallo flag with green, light green, white, yellow, and gold stripes. Mabel's green puppy dog sweater, green flamingo sweater, and green/yellow star sweater. End ID.]

aroace:

[ID from alt: sunset aroace flag with orange, yellow, white, blue, and dark blue stripes. Mabel's blue UFO sweater, orange Ducktective sweater, and yellow/red unicorn sweater. End ID.]

non-split attraction aro:

[ID from alt: non-split attraction aro flag with blue, light blue, white, light green, and green stripes. Mabel's blue seahorse sweater and watermelon sweater. End ID.]

quoiromantic:

[ID from alt: quoiromantic flag with black, green, blue, and gray stripes. Mabel's blue disco ball sweater and green flamingo sweater. End ID.]

(part 2 here! happy aromantic spectrum awareness week!)

[anistarrose]

aromantic flags color picked from mabel's sweaters! (part 2)

frayromantic:

[ID from alt: frayromantic flag with black, gray, white, light blue, and dark blue stripes. Mabel's blue disco ball sweater. End ID.]

aroflux:

[ID from alt: aroflux flag with red, pink, and light, medium, and dark green stripes. Mabel's pink lightbulb sweater and watermelon sweater. End ID.]

cupioromantic:

[ID from alt: cupioromantic flag with salmon, pink, white, purple, and black stripes. Mabel's pink lightbulb sweater, pink butterfly sweater, and pink doughnut sweater. End ID.]

lithromantic:

[ID from alt: lithromantic flag with red, orange, yellow, white, and black stripes. Mabel's yellow/red striped unicorn sweater. End ID.]

gray-aro:

[ID from alt: gray-aromantic flag with green, light gray, dark gray stripes. Mabel's green puppy dog sweater. End ID.]

(part 1 here!)

[anistarrose]

consider: aroace Ford who had sex with an alien or two in the 80's, thought: "perfect, now my curiosity is satisfied! 🙂" and literally never felt the need to seek out anything like that ever again. ironically realizes he's aromantic the moment Mabel introduces the possibility to him, because he'd felt different because of his romantic confusion throughout his life, but takes a lot longer to realize he's asexual because he's convinced his experience with sex is actually the most "normal" thing about him and 100% just the experience of the majority. still not entirely sure that sex for reasons other than scientific fascination is a thing

[anistarrose]

so first things first, every art post of Stan Pines with an aromantic flag adds years to my lifespan, and every time I see one, I feel an urge to dedicate my life to winding up on the Nobel Committee so I can somehow campaign for the artist to get a Nobel Prize. hence, this is obviously a pro-"throw aro flags onto Stan until he's drowning in them post," because we love our aroallo king. however, in my heart, there's a somewhat different headcanon about Stan's relationship to his sexuality that's canon to me, and it's something like:

Stan's known he's bi for at least as long as he's known what bisexuality was, and that's been a long time. he thinks he and bisexuality have always gotten on just fine, so if it ain't broke, why cough up the money (ahem. rather, the self-reflection) to fix it? of course, he still listens when Mabel tells him all about all the new terms, 'cause it makes her happy and that's just more pride flags to sell and get rich from! but it's not for Stan, he always feels.

but after a few years, Mabel starts trying out aro-spectrum microlabels, while still being pan, and Stan's internally like. huh. didn't know you could do that. and then Wendy comes out as aro and bi, and Stan's like. huh. Wendy makes an offhand remark about relationships losing appeal every time she actually got into one, and Stan's internally like. who the hell gave you permission to plagiarize my life story.

so, Stan doesn't go on to talk about "his romance thing" a whole lot. old habits die hard, and "bi" gets across everything he's every really felt like sharing, anyways. if you wanna know more than that, buy his dang memoir! (which he still hasn't written, 'cause Wendy went and pre-emptively plagiarized.) but Stan knows himself better now — and, you know, it's sappy, but he's actually kinda glad he does. old "failures" feel just a little less like failures, now.

[anistarrose]

do you think Ford would wear double the ace black rings and double the aro white rings because extra fingers. I think he would.

[anistarrose]

for your consideration: frayromantic mabel pines