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"Love is what makes you human"

Oh thank fuck so I can't categorise myself with you bigoted losers-- oh wait was I supposed to be upset about that?

What ACTUALLY makes me human is the deal I made with Apollo to take a roughly you shaped form in order to interact with the cool bugs of the world and make snakes out of cardboard tubes. In exchange I have to drive the sun chariot every Saturday and Tuesday.

I will say that you humans are a bit of a drawback though. Whatever, back to drawing stars and rocket ships 🚀⚡

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Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

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if you're aplatonic you gotta live and make and create and exist you gotta.

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Speaking as someone who's been outed many, many times, by both "allies" and homo/transphobes, some of yall are way too comfortable sharing other peoples' queer identities.

"But what if I'm trying to be funny?" Doesn't matter.

"But what if I'm an ally?" Doesn't matter

"But what if the person I'm talking to is an ally?" Doesn't matter.

"But what if I'm queer?" Doesn't matter

"But what if the person I'm talking to is queer?" Doesn't matter.

"But what if the person I'm talking about is a stranger?" Doesn't matter.

"But what if it's really obvious?" First of all, ew. Second of all, Doesn't matter.

"But what if they didn't come out to me, I just figured it out on my own?" Doesn't matter.

"But what if they're getting misgendered?" It's just as easy to say 'actually she's a girl' as it is to say 'actually she's transgender and uses she/her'. If that person is pretransition, it's also easy to just bite your tongue and not say anything.

Unless that person has explicitly given you permission to share that information, you DON'T. No matter how certain you are that everyone is accepting, no matter how noble your intentions, it's not your information to share. Getting clocked sucks, getting outed sucks, and they're both an invasion of privacy no matter who's doing it.

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Being an aromantic, I study my friends in relationships like I’m David Attenborough or something. Like ah this is an interesting and intense bonding behavior between two Homo sapiens.

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Ok why does every aro love Van Gogh.

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biromantic to aromantic pipeline, call that bye-romantic

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“Haha this character is bi cause I say so” “I love hitting my blorbos with the trans beam!” “Isn’t fandom so fun?”

Yes and that’s all amazing and great but are you normal about when people headcanon a character as Ace? Or Aro? Or Aplatonic?

Because a lot of the times it’s all fun and all silly until someone ships characters as a qpr. Or someone doesn’t ship a character with anyone.

Fandom is fun because we can project ourselves into our favorite characters. So let’s make sure we accept everyone ok?

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Murder bb

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Am I the only person who hates telling other people about my sexuality irl? I'm proud of being aroace and all, it just gets tiring to explain it every single fucking time.

I mean, I can just say I'm not straight or I'm queer, but then people immediately default to thinking I'm gay if I say that.

It usually goes like this:

Stranger: "Are you straight?"

Me: "Oh, no."

Stranger: "Oh, so you're gay."

Me: "...Nope. Try again."

Stranger: "Bisexual?"

Me: "Nope!"

Stranger: "Can you give me a hint?"

Me: *long sigh* "I can, but I don't think you'll like the answer"

Now cue the explaining it for ten minutes and gods forbid they're aphobic (which, unfortunately, a large percentage of the people I've told are) because that's just a whole other fucking rabbit hole

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"stop playing hard to get" i'm literally aromantic

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Aspec representation is important because kids are still told in health class that everyone feels attraction

Aspec representation is important because somewhere in the world there’s a 12 year old crying because they feel broken

Aspec representation is important because I still get told “that’s not real” when I come out

Aspec representation is important because people still think the A in LGBTQIA+ stands for ally

Aspec representation is important because everyone deserves to see someone like them on screen

Aspec representation is important because people still think that asexual and aromantic are the same thing

Aspec representation is important

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epic aro sculpture i did for class

the heart is made out of plastic bags wrapped with tape, so it's squishy ^_^ and the knife is qtips hot glued together. the knife is also removable!

#good god this is beautiful #aro #aromantic #aro spec #aspec #aromantic spectrum

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I've been seeing more posts that are like "alloaros are attacking aroaces just for existing in aro spaces" and like, we're not

There's nothing wrong with aroaces posting in aro tags or joining aro spaces or existing in general. There's nothing wrong with being aroace.

What's wrong is the fact that our voices are completely drowned out by aroaces. Oftentimes, intentionally. We are called the "extra piece" or "the addition". When we tag our posts as aspec, we're called out on it and said that's wrong. When we make posts specifically about our alloaro experiences they are tagged as aroace or asexual. When we find aromantic communities we have to ask the question "am I welcome here" and the answer is "no" a lot of the time. And even if we are "welcome" we are told to censor ourselves and our experiences for aroaces. When non-ace aros create spaces specifically for non-ace aros aroaces flood in and assume it's for them or call us acephobic for not wanting them there.

Many aroaces actively encourage the silencing of alloaros. Whether that be treating us as scapegoats and pointing to us and saying "accept us because at least we're not them!" or actively pushing us out of aromantic spaces, sometimes even spaces dedicated to non-ace aros.

You cannot shut us into a fucking closet and say "what alloaros?" then when we bust out and express our frustration go "CRAB IN A BARREL!!! WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME COMMUNITY!!! WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING US!?!"

We're not saying "fuck aroaces" or "aroaces cause all the problems we face" or anything like that. We're just pissed at the fact that even our own community, people we're supposed to relate to, fucking hate us.

Our bitterness and frustration at the way we've been treated isn't aroacephobia.

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Why are heart motifs fucking everywhere. Save me, loveless aromanticism.

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What challenging amatonormativity is:

Emphasizing that there are more types of relationships than just romance

Spreading positivity for people who choose to remain single

Explaining how platonic relationships can be just as deep and meaningful as romantic ones

Deromanticizing actions like hugging, kissing, and other forms of physical intimacy

Talking about the ways that society devalues friendships in favor of romance

What challenging amatonormativity isn’t:

Claiming that friendship is so societally devalued that there’s no way aplatonics can face discrimination or stigma for being friendless

Accusing alloromantic aplatonics of being inherently amatonormative because they care more about their partners than friendship

Claiming that people are faking being aplatonic to get out of accusations of amatonormativity

Implying that you must love your friends and be friends with your romantic partners

Associating aplatonicism with aromanticism because you can’t comprehend someone who’s interested in romance but not friendship

All of these are things I have seen. This is not how to go about your activism. Don’t forget aplatonics, especially alloromantic ones.

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Another kind of diversity we need in writing is protagonists without love interests. Give me adults with full-fledged stories that don't include falling in love.