Whirl

Hola!! :)

"is it really a folk tradition if its not horny as hell"

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Well, I don't know if I have a proper "type", but confidence is very attractive to me. 

Hola Alice! Que bien que haya más gente hispanoablante en arocalypse!!! Cuando quieras hablar español con alguien aqui estoy.

I also love d&d! Maybe we should all play one of these days :)

Hi! Welcome!!

Type: Nonhuman (yesss)

Representation: Appearance headcannon fodder

Tarot: Cups (the description was very accurate 😌)

Flag: Aromantic!

Like a lot of things related to romance, in theory I love it but when it actually happens I feel repulsed and terrified. But after the negative feelings have passed I do feel a lot more confident. 

13 hours ago, roboticanary said:

Its nice when someone thinks highly of me.

Exactly, to have someone think highly of you is great! I just wished it was more normalized in a platonic way :/

A lot of my "crushes" were just people I deeply respected and admired, but back then I didn't even know that you could feel those things without romantic attraction, so I mislabeled my feelings.

I have some characters of my own (I don't have any art of them, but I have to say that I love y'all's art!) A couple are aspec and, oddly, only one is arospec, but he's one of my favorites hehehe

Mine is from a comic! (The Transformers Holiday Special) The character's name is Whirl, which is also where I got my username :D 

He's very aromantic coded and I love him and his character arc so, so much! Also I just love his design and his cute eye-smile

So a guy texted me after class one day something along the lines of "I liked what you said in the debate today. You looked very cute." And I was figuring out a way of expressing that I didn't want to be called cute without sounding like an asshole. So I went with something that I thought was casual and funny "Thanks, but I really just want to inspire fear in the hearts of my enemies 😈 " 

The guy kept complimenting me and eventually asked me out. I declined. I had no clue where he'd gotten the idea that I was interested in any way. I talked about it with my friends. And they said that it was because I'd used this 😈 emoji.

Apparently using the smiling devil emoji means you're flirting?! Like what?? I knew that some emojis had double meanings like that but this one seemed so weird, because I loved using that emoji. I was just left wondering how many other people thought I was flirting because of that emoji.

I just wanted to be funny and text in peace 😭

7 hours ago, Lynx said:

I adore flirting. It's all playful. I will flirt with most people as long as I'm fairly confident that there's an understanding that I'm not trying to actually go anywhere with this.

Exactly! Me and my bff call each other increasingly corny pet names all the time because we both know we're not into each other like that. And it's much more fun to call someone the love of my life than it is to call them by their name 

There was a book fair in my city today so I bought some books! Good Omens (that I've been meaning to read for years), a book on writing, and an indie new weird anthology of (mostly) colombian authors. 

On 4/19/2022 at 3:31 PM, DeltaV said:

INFP aros are similar to aros liking the romantic era. Superficially it seems contradictory. But in fact, it’s just the modern era that reduces rich, intense emotions to romantic love. 🤷‍♂️

As a fellow INFP aro, you're so right! 

I came out as arospec for the first time to two of my closest friends today and it went well! It was very casual, they asked me about whether I had any crushes atm and I seized the opportunity to tell them. They were very supportive :D

But I don't have any plans of coming out to anyone else soon. And I think that's fine. There's no rush or need to come out. Plus, it's none of their business, y'know? Maybe if there's an opportunity were it feels right to come out I will, but rn I'm good like this!

Hello! 🥰

I've always loved the idea of love, but it just- never really happened for me? I've never really had a crush or felt that romantic love that everyone talked about and when I was young no one actually had feelings for me or anything. So I didn't really question my feelings or relationship to love? I was just like "It'll happen eventually! I just need to find the right person :D" I actually thought I was bi/panro for the longest time, cause the difference between everything and nothing is pretty hard to tell when you've never felt anything.

That all changed when people actually started being romantically interested in me. I had waited for so long for this to happen and when it finally did I wasn't excited. I didn't feel anything. In fact, whenever someone showed romantic interest in me I just recoiled away? And it kind of peaked with my first kiss. A kiss that I initiated because... well, I thought I had to. She had shown interest in me and I thought I had to be interested back. I convinced myself that I had to want it, because who didn't want love right? (I was, and kind of am, struggling a lot with amatonormativity). Let's just say it wasn't a very enjoyable experience.

I later told my friends about the whole ordeal and concluded with the idea that "I was so carried away with the thought that someone loved me, that I never thought about whether I loved them back" And that was the first time that I questioned if I was aromantic!

9 hours ago, queer_kaleidoscope said:

Welcome to arocalypse! :)

10 hours ago, Sili said:

Hi Whirl! :)

Hi! Thank you so much for welcoming me :)

10 hours ago, Jackson_Glass said:

Hello nice to meet you to hope we can be friends :D

And I'd love to be friends!!

Hello!! Nice to meet you too! I'm also in that stage of acceptance rn and it's so scary but also so so exhilarating! Like "OMG! This is me!!"

I've been thinking about this a lot the past few months and I've come to realize that I fall somewhere along the aromantic spectrum 😄 Last week I found this forum and loved the idea of being part of a community of other arospec people and finally find a place where I could talk about my experience and be seen and understood <3

..that's just a long way of saying hello! Nice to meet you!