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#aro week 2024
pokimoko · 2 months
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It's Aro-Spec Awareness Week again my friends, and that means it's time for more silly little critters! (You can find last year's here.) ✨Keep up the amazing work, fellow aros✨
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aromanticofficial · 3 months
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as a small reminder aro week 2024 is february 18th through the 24th
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aro-bird · 2 months
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I feel like some people within the aspec community need to check themselves for aphobia like it's seriously concerning. I'm not just talking about internalized aphobia btw, I'm also talking about straight up aphobia against other members of the community.
If you're ace, that does not mean you are immune to being arophobic. Same goes if you're aro, you are not immune to being acephobic.
If you're aroace, you could also be aphobic without it necessarily being what could be considered as "internalized" (e.g. being aphobic to a favorable aroace when you're repulsed, being aphobic to aroaces who are non-partnering when you're partnering, being aphobic to loveless aros when you aren't loveless or lovequeer aros when you aren't lovequeer, etc. etc.).
That's not even talking about the amatonormativity in the community either.
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monarch-of-jack · 2 months
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A reminder that this is a very special Aro week this year!
Because our lovely Aro flag is turning 10 years old!
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Let this year also be a reminder of how far we've come as a community!
When I was a baby AroAce out in the early 2000s, Aromanticism was virtually unknown. It was attributed to misogyny, misandry or being anti-social. But I've seen you guys prove it for almost two decades now, that Aromantics are some of the most wonderful, inclusive and welcoming people out there. And true revolutionaries that redefine what relationships and love and family truly means in this world.
From the loveless Aros to the high love Aros. From the Queerplatonic Aros to the Aplatonic Aros. The AlloAros to the AroAces. The Demiro, Greyro, Lithro, Frayro, Recipro, Quoiro, Aegoro, Aroflux and all the other Arospecs under the umbrella. Whether you are starting to be recognized or still fighting to be visible.
We are all valid, and we have all come so far! So celebrate yourselves and your community this year! We're all amazing!
I can't wait to see how far the next decade will take us~
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itsguysnightitsironic · 2 months
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Kith and kin.
Sometimes peace doesn't mean a lover's embrace, it means, well, peace.
Love loses! Happy aromantic week!! To me, to you and the whole cast of Avantris characters that have not shown any sign of romantic attraction, adore you.
EDIT: Since Richie asked for Art notes, here they are:
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thanks for coming to my aro-talk.
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Aro Week 2024: Let's Talk About the Limits of Representation
A lot of the discussion around writing marginalized identities comes down to one thing: representation. Representation in the books versus the authors, what the representation looks like, the variety of representation, what representation is present and allowed, what diversity is there and what isn’t.
For aro week, I want to talk about how limited that is for aro (and ace) people. Because the thing about representation is that to be exist beyond Word of God, it’s got to be discussed in the text. And that means romance (or sex, for ace people, but while I’m ace, and most of this is going to cross-apply, this post is for aro week so this is just a global note) has to be discussed in the text.
But a lot of time what I want as an aro person is to just not have to think about it. I think in general I’ve seen similar sentiments expressed across marginalized groups: we always have to think about our differences, and it’s a mental load and burden that other people don’t have to deal with. And as an aro writer and reader, a lot of the time what I want, and what most allows me to lay down that burden is to just not have romance in the damn thing. It’s hard to figure out how to write sometimes, it’s something I have to mentally keep in mind while I read.
While I go through life in general, I often just…forget it’s a thing. I forget when Valentine’s Day is often. I forget that people are normally dating. I forget people want to discuss with their romantic partners when making plans with friends. I forget they want to go everywhere as a group. I forget things look like dates. My life is one in which romance is rarely a factor unless imposed on it by outside forces. It’s not relevant.
But if I write that for characters, or for readers, a place where romance is not just imposed on their mind, the characters aren’t actually…aro. A story in which romance, romantic attraction, or interest in such things never comes up is one in which no character is canonically disinterested in or not in possession of such thing. It’s one which has no moments of obvious recognition of the aro experience or joyous bursts.
It’s a story in which, “Eh, they could or couldn’t be attracted. It never came up, so anything is valid because nothing is canon.”
The definition of being aro might lie in not experiencing romantic attraction. And sure, the character might not. But this is fiction. Not reality. And in reality, aro people’s experiences are more than the dictionary. People have relationships to romance and attraction and interactions with the concept are often recognizable and definitional. No real person can live without interacting with romance and attraction, and those relationships to it are as definitional and important to being aro or being gay or being straight or bi or whatever as the dictionary definition is.
Characters don’t have to interact with it. I’ve said romance isn’t relevant to my life as an aro person much of the time. If romance isn’t relevant to a character’s story—well, lots of things aren’t relevant to stories we assume are happening, like…most bathroom trips, or meals, or menstruation. A character isn’t representing an eating disorder because they’re never shown eating: it’s more complicated than that.
Being aro is more complicated than that.
A story in which character relationships wholly rely on and depend on something other than romance, a story where character relationships are undefinable and not attempted to be defined but only described and developed, a story in which characters and societies and people exist outside the omnipresent framework of romance inherently comes from a place of aroness and the aro experience. It speaks most to that place.
Most people who experience romantic attraction are often thinking about it. A story without such things is one which is lacking something they’re looking for and expecting, not a story where everything proceeds as usual without being interrupted by Oh, Yeah, That.
So, then, if alloromantic people will notice something is Different and aro people might seek it out, this way of writing around romance because it’s not relevant to the story the way it is not relevant to my life needs to be framed in the metatext so people, aro and alloro alike, know what to expect and what they’re getting into.
But when all talk about marginalized stories comes down to “What Types of Characters Are Here?” and “What Culture Is This World Based On?” there’s this empty space to explain stories like mine.
There’s so many things to the aro experience that don’t revolve around rejecting romance. But if you ever look for an aro story about something else, how can you even find it? It’s so difficult to talk about an aro story that isn’t Representative and exists in a way you don’t even have to think about it and there are no smooth bumps to remind you of yourself so you can immerse into it that…I think people forget stories like that can even exist.
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acexualien · 2 months
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Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! 🥰💚
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coxinhadoce47-art · 2 months
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Late aro week posting day 6
They're besties <3
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octolingplush · 2 months
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happy aro spectrum awareness week!! :D
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ace-of-garlic-breads · 2 months
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Aro week day one, Today's character is Lilith Clawthorne from the Owl house
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mayarab · 2 months
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Hi hello, it is stil Aro Awareness Week and I'm here to tell you guys that I'm an demiaro writer and game dev and these are (almost) all of the things I've published so far! Most of the short stories have aromantic characters!
Links on where to find the things:
Journey Home Golden Hue The Keeper of Magic Favorite Crystalline Saudade Witch's Workshop Rise Up Save the World
And you can support me on Patreon or Ko-fi and get ALL OF THESE!
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drew one of my beloved OCs that I’ve had for forever for aromantic awareness week :] (I think I’ve only posted her here once before though, her name is Fire Opal)
the week is almost over, I hope my fellow aros had a special week 💚🤍🖤
(some close-ups, lineart, and a couple sketches of her)
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aromanticofficial · 2 months
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HAPPY AROMANTIC AWARENESS WEEK
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aroace-cat-lady · 2 months
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You know, it took me a long time to accept I'm aro. At first I tried to convince myself I was an ace heteroromantic pal, even though deep down I knew I was just scared of how an aro identity would impact my life.
It took a couple years to accept it, some more time to feel comfortable with it. A little longer to embrace it.
I cried a lot to get to that point. I cried when I read one character I really liked (a mexican boy who died at the end) was aro. I cried the night a friend asked me out. I cried that time I found out the writer of a series I adore was aroace. An actual person, who had created something I connected to, that felt so human and tangible and real.
I've always been louder about my aromantic identity than about being ace. Because it took so much learning and growth, because I hated it and was so afraid of it and now I cannot imagine being any other way. Because with every valentine's and every birthday I remember being a child and knowing the world wouldn't be kind to me for who I was.
Because that child was so terrified of the future it was impossible to even see one.
The world still is not kind to us. I know we've faced so much hostility lately. That it's hard to see a way out of it.
So this is for those who are afraid of who they are or are mad at the world for how we are treated, that feel alone scared and bitter.
I'm feral for you. It doesn't matter in which part of the spectrum you are. I'm so fucking feral for you. Please, never forget that.
We are in this together. We are here and we are loud and we aren't alone. We have each other.
There's still so much to fight for, but you aren't fighting on your own.
Even when it feels that way.
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fallenrain40 · 2 months
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drew an aro colored kitty for aro week!! <3
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bunakiharu · 2 months
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Bunnnies
It's Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!
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