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I grew up in a family which used pet names a lot and that rubbed off on me so I'm pretty much fine with it! I'm fine with anyone apart from like complete strangers using pet names for me, it feels kinda natural to me.

Personally it's more the other way round for me. The aromanticism made me genderqueer. I think it personally has something to do with me viewing society treating gender roles as something that don't matter a lot of the time but absolutely matter when discussing romance and relationships so not doing romance led to me letting go of gender more easily than I would have if I had to participate in all that. If that makes sense, I guess.

1. Voidpunk aro (fuck yhhhhh i love voidpunk aros <2)

2. Appearance Headcanon Fodder

3. Swords (i dont have an activism account but id have an aro sideblog, does thta count?)

4. Aromantic (!!!!)

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its absolutely real, though its a bit of an older symbol! i have one myself, a friend got it for me though, so i wouldnt know where to get one myself

honestly from what ive seen of the crushes and relationships my friends have, it sounds like so much work and fluff and nonsense and im super happy that i do not have to deal with that kind of stuff. ive got more time to spend on things i actually care about!

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25 minutes ago, Frogrobin said:

I like it so much I played through five times, characters and music are great and story fascinating

It's about a man named the Batter who has to kill specters in different zones and then purify (kill) the guardian of said zone

damn if you liked it that much ill definitely play it! thanks for the rec!

Just now, Frogrobin said:

Do you have OFF? It's surreal horror

no i dont! but ive heard a lot of really good things about it! it sounds right up my alley, so i might play it after im done with the current batch of games! do you like it? whats it about?

4 minutes ago, Keith said:

W takim razie polecam Ci przeczytać! A moje ulubione historie ze ślepej uliczki to "Miasto bez ulic" i "Modelka".

brzmi ciekawie! napewno poszukam to nastepnym razem kiedy pozwole sobie kupic ksiazkii lmao, dzieki za polecenie!

ive recently downloaded a ton of rpg maker horror games from itch.io so im probably gonna be playing exclusively those for the next couple months

oh gods i went through so many name and pronoun changes over the years that my friends STILL joke about it but theyre all still amazing about using my proper one! i went by my initials for a while, then i tried out some other names, but i eventually settled on andy-short-for-andromeda. i liked that i could have a more masc nickname with a more fem full name, the andromeda galaxy is very pretty to me, and im a huge mythology fan and i liked having a name from mythology. i still occasionally question if i like my name, but im pretty happy with it. i guess my advice would be to just... steal one from something you like? media, myths, celebrities, just steal their names. (this just makes me sound like the fae lmao) i think that if you already have a positive association with a name, it might make it easier to use? ig?

im technically a middle child? im the third of four, an older brother, sister, and a younger brother. none of my siblings have come out or told me about being lgbt so im saying im the only one for now.

when i came out to my brother and sister they both tried to make sure that i wasnt being hasty or trying to box myself into a label but were otherwise supportive, though my sister did tell me that after her first relationship (with one of my brothers friends) she thought she was aro because of how bad it was. so that was pretty funny

oh absolutely. i have really supportive friends that accepted me being aro super easily. (though that might be cause i went through more labels than there is letters in the alphabet but oh well) i never really minded it, i never had crushes or cared much for marriage or kids so i adjusted pretty easily. i occasionally have moments where i get upset about it but im happy as i am

On 12/28/2022 at 9:26 AM, Keith said:

Nie przeczytałem jeszcze wszystkich, ale jak na razie to "Tomie" i "Ślepa uliczka"!

ooo ja slyszalem troche o Tomie, jest bardzo ciekawa kolekcja historii! ja mam Shiver i Dissolving Classroom ale tylko przeczytalam Shiver, dopiero dostalem Dissolving Classroom na swieta. Bardzo mi sie podobalo Shiver zato, Painter jest moja ulubione historia chyba i ona jest o Tomie! Nigdy nie sylszalem o Slepa Ulicka, jakie sa twoje ulubione historie z tej ksiazki?

hey! welcome to the forum! i hope you find someone you can talk to. i know nix already mentioned it but head over to the teen corner, im sure youll find some friends there :)

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On 12/23/2022 at 10:13 AM, Storm_leopardcat said:

Hello Andy! Welcome to Arocalypse, I hope you find lovely people here, and make many new friends (if that's what you want!) Pleasure to meet you!
What's your favourite mythology book by Rick Riordan, and which character is favourite? 
As for Polish aro-spec people on the forum, check this out: 

 

hi! good to meet you too! my fave books have probably gotta be either the magnus chase ones or the kane chronicles! obviously percy jackson is a classic but theres something special about those ones, kane chronicles in particular. the premise for them is just so interesting! im not really sure what character would be my favourite? sadies cool, so is magnus himself but im not totally sure. what about you?

On 12/23/2022 at 3:08 PM, Keith said:

Hello there!

I also love Junji Ito & reading (+ I'm polish 😱, but Storm_leopardcat has mentioned that already)!

yup, looks like you got there a little too late! za to, zawsze milo spotkac innych polakow, wiec sie nie martw! ulubiona opowiesc junji ito?

hi, nice to have you here! <2

i actually assumed i was pan for ages cause yknow i felt the same about everyone but uh yh. turns out that i just felt nothing all around, whoops.

one day a couple years back, i made this one friend at school and i managed to convince myself that i had a crush on her (i actually had to put on romantic music and had to think about loving her really hard, such an aro moment), i asked her out and we dated for a solid 3 days before i realised that everytime that i thought of her since we had started dating, i felt sick to my stomach. like i would think about going to school and seeing her and i would feel like throwing up. didnt help that a bunch of her classmates shipped us, which was what actually pressured me into thinking i liked her. i broke up with her over text (yikes) and looked into the arospec community. i thought i was lithro for a while, and asked her to be my qpp, though we eventually broke it off for unrelated reasons.

i tried out tons of different labels for a while, i lost count of how many but i figured myslef out eventually. i was and still am really lucky that nearly everyone i care about does not give a single shit if im aro or not, and im even luckier that my best friends didnt get sick of my perpetual identity crisis. though the two of them do still like to tease me occasionally about my 3 day long one and only relationship lmao

4 hours ago, queer_kaleidoscope said:

Hey, welcome to arocalypse! 

Also I love Junji Ito as well, his art is amazing and I really like Uzumaki. 

his art style is really cool! i have shiver and i got dissolving classroom as a christmas present this year, they both look amazing

personally, my sexuality is  like spare change between the couch cushions, i dont know where it is and i dont really care about it. if i really had to label my sexuality, id label it as aromantic because no matter i may feel, ill always view through the lens of being aro. my sexuality is not something i really think about or something that affects me. my aromanticism, however, is like super important and affects every aspect of my life and worldview. i identify with it so much more than any sexuality ive tried to label myself as in the past. i must have  found it on some random tumblr post? maybe one of those posts with a bunch of different arospec flags, or maybe during a tag deep dive, im not really sure, but tumblrs definitely where i found it :)

omg yh i hate it when shows do that! like whats the point? who cares?

hi! im andy and im a non-sam aro. ive known im aro for a couple years now but the labels have shifted a bit until i landed on non-sam. i use any pronouns and no officer i have no clue where this 'gender' you speak of is.

ive been getting more involved in aro spaces recently, really letting myself enjoy the community and while i was looking for aro spaces, i found this forum! it looks lovely.

i actually figured out that i was arospec because when i tried dating someone i immediately felt like throwing up when i thought of them. really shitty couple days and i still feel super bad for the other person.

my fave colour is purple but green is a close second. i like junji ito (only manga ill ever read), reading, weaving, art, history, and mythology! i mostly like literary books and short stories, as well as horror. i write fanfic occasionally and some original fiction too. i read rick riordan's books as a kid and now im always gonna be an encyclopedia of myth knowledge.

im polish, so id love to connect with other polish people on here that there might be!

so.....yeah!