aro & tired

✦ names: Strawb, Fairy ✦ they/them ✦

[hcnnibal]

embracing my god complex by changing my pronouns from he/him to He/Him

[thanks-science]

Sometimes a family is a mad scientist, his assistant, the assistant’s undead adopted mother, and a cryogenically frozen scientist.

[sisaloofafump]

I started listening to podcasts late December and have been tracking the time I spend listening ever since. In honour of reaching 420 hours and over a thousand episodes (if you include bonus content), I drew this commemorative piece. Drawn on Procreate Pocket, total time: 11 hrs.

The Fiction Podcasts represented here (in order of when I listened):

Caravan

Two Princes

Gay Future

Dreamboy

The London Necropolis Railway

Crossing Wires

What’s the Frequency?

Death by Dying

The Magnus Archives

The Fall of the House of Sunshine

Within the Wires

Alice Isn’t Dead

Welcome to Night Vale

The Penumbra Podcast

Our Fair City

The Angel of Vine

Greater Boston

1994

The Lost Cat Podcast

King Falls AM

Harlem Queen

Moonface

Minefire

All’s Fair

Five Years

Nine other (primarily non-fiction) podcasts are not represented. Yeehaw anyway that was fun!

[thatfuckinaro]

having seen @alloaroworlds recent post about creating outreach into allosexual attraction communities, i thought mentioning my experience might be relevant.

A couple years ago, i (a nonbinary allo aro) moved my primary social media from being aro tumblr to a trans leftist circle of twitter. I've been lurking on aro tumblr now and then since, but not posting much.

In my time on twit, I've basically learned that it doesn't take much at all to help unknowing aros (at least those who are already out to themselves as otherwise queer) discover their aromanticism. in my time on twitter I've essentially spawned a decent-sized cluster of aros (mostly allo aros and non-sam aros) who found out they were aro through my limited aro 'activism' (though calling it that is a stretch), even with a very small following on twit.

very few people have ever been openly arophobic to me (though that's probably partly because i subscribed to a tr/sc/m blocklist early on), and there are surprisingly few excl*s**n*sts in queer spaces on other platforms, if you find the right circles.

i really think if more allo aros just existed in other queer spaces, occaisionally posted even relatively surface level aro themed posts, and were available to answer questions, it would help a lot of allo aros, and other aros whose experiences dont fit the exact norm for aspec spaces, discover their aromanticism.

this isn't meant to say that y'all here on aro tumblr need to pick up and leave or anything, you 100% have a good thing going and its not my job to tell you what to do at all anyway. I'm just letting you know, its possible.

[crayonmilkz]

wormz say aromantic rights!

[thatfuckinaro]

an aro icon

[autcore]

For the people trying not to listen: aromantic sexuality is a fundamentally different experience to alloromantic sexuality, stop acting as if alloaros are privileged for their orientations.

[lgbt-for-poc]

hey shoutout to all aro people of colour aromantism isn’t a White Only Orentation

[the-serpentine-narrative]

So, I’m getting into this year’s Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week a bit late, but here’s my contribution for Day 2: Pride. It’s my collection of aro enamel pins so far (though I’m waiting on a few more from kickstarter). I included links to all of them; most are currently available for purchase, but a few seem to have been kickstarter exclusives. (also, the images, especially the first one, are clearer if you full-screen them)

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Ice Cream Cone, by TheGeekStudio

Wing Set, by JackalandhareArt

Abstract Shape, by BiancaDesignsCo

‘Aro-venant’ Ghost, by CunningLinguistCo

Heart Shape, by Compoco

Aromantic Salamanders, by MorningWitch

Longbow Aro, by Foxflightstudios

Aro-gator, by Gay Breakfast

Mouse, by toripng

Star Wars Rebellion Emblem, by Gilles Bone

Jar of Origami Stars, by Mei Snyder

Carousel Pony, by starsalts

Axolotl, by Megan Baehr

Cake Slice, by BunMuffin

Mermaid & Unicorn, by Miskelle

‘Roll For Pride’ Dice, by Becca Farrow

Planet, by ZealoApparel

Aro-space Engineer, by gloriousweirdo

Anatomical Heart, by SyppahsArtStudio

Bee Proud, by Angelene Manalo

[thatfuckinaro]

i love these!!!

[zemathememequeen]

[arodabi]

Alloromantic voice: one time i met a lady who put her job over dating and that’s just so revolutionary

[rexuality]

Part 2 of this post, all requested!

Adding all designs to my redbubble and society6, just need time to get them up there @_@

[holisticfansstuff]

My favourite comment:

[actuallyfuckamatonormativity]

Okay but we should make aro characters part of fun fandom culture. We should have best friend meet cute aus. We should celebrate platonic character dynamics. We should have angst with happy endings, where aro characters find help and support from their found families. Just, more aro character dynamics and headcanons in general!

[arokaladin]

it gets so dark so early atm that im basically never home alone when theres enough natural light to record a video which uuuuh blows? and I’d consider like drawing some stuff for visuals and dubbing over the top but uuuuuuuuuuuh can’t draw. can i get an f?

[thatfuckinaro]

i could sketch some shit for you to dub over if u want!

[genderqueerpond]

idk if y’all are ready for this but trans people invented looking good and aromantics invented loving and caring for others

[aro-sparrow]

tag yourself: aro edition

i spent way too long on this lmao

[thatfuckinaro]

im like,,,, butterfly aro minus the soft romo and minus the friends.... i can always wish

[arotaro]

Do you think Marina and the Diamonds knows the aromantic community would die and kill for her

[thatfuckinaro]

i just went to shuffle play her on spotify and the first thing i heard was “Dont Need A Relationship!” and im happy