Hello everyone!
Happy Valentine's day!
How am I celebrating? Let me talk about aromanticism and the umbrella.
First, Aromantic =/= Asexuality. For example, you can have that sexual attraction to someone, but little to no romantic attraction to that same person and vice versa.
I myself am aro/ace. I feel little to no romance or sexual attraction for anybody. Do remember though, everyone's experience with identity is a little different!
However, this does not exclude platonic relationships like QPR's, or 'squishes' which is one of many names for friend crushes, where I basically go 'man I really really want to be this person's friend'.
Second, I am doing another round of call outs for book rec's, but this time, for more arospec characters. This umbrella has many variants to it. Just to give an example, Demiromantic and grayromantic are under the aromantic umbrella.
In this month of love, always remember that there are many types of love, platonic love, familial love, unconditional love, self love. All these loves are valid.
If you yourself does not feel the 'romantic' love for anyone, just know that you are valid. Your identity does matter and does exist.
So, give me those book rec's with arospec characters, or books from arospec authors!