Happy Aro Week Btw - Blog Posts

THIS. This needs to change! Aro characters can be so entertaining and interesting, especially since I have some Aro friends of my own. As an artist and content creator, I will try my best to make the Aro community proud, and together we as a whole community should strive to give this part of the community some more representation. 

aro culture is being treated as too boring, even more than asexuals at this point, to appear in media. even if we have the capacity to feel a wide range of emotion, create meaningful connections, and be interesting and well-rounded characters in general, we're not written because what makes a character relevant is apparently that they can experience romantic love.

even if aromantics have so much interesting commentary on society. even if we. have so much relevant and insightful human experience that doesn't have to be conflated with romanticism all the time. even if there's space for some extraordinary character arcs. even if these characters could ALSO establish dynamics that are emotionally raw without being confined to the grounds of it having to be 'love.'

and how the fans influence people to never try and create these characters since they are so ignored in fandom. everyone's so on board, so excited with queer headcanons when they're hinted at. that is, unless they are presented with the idea of aromanticism because it makes for a boring character.

arophobia is so, so constant in spaces that discuss fiction.

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Happy Aromatic week! This celebrates everyone on the Aromatic spectrum, and I thought I would introduce one of my Undertale oc’s who is canonically Aromatic. This is Charity, she is half human half skeleton and is a huge fan of Undyne, who she trains with. She lives on the surface so no trauma for her lol. Anyway the art was done by a friend of mine, so shoutout to @synthace for creating this character! Anyway, remember that you are who you are, and you are not a mistake or weird for being different. I love you all, have a great week! (Sorry I’m late, I wanted to check it was actually aromatic week after last time, Looking at you @synthace)