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  <title>Aroworlds: Aromantic Creativity</title>
  <subtitle>Aroworlds: Aromantic Creativity</subtitle>
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    <name>Aroworlds: Aromantic Creativity</name>
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      <name>k_a_cook</name>
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    <title>About, Templates and Profiles</title>
    <published>2018-12-05T13:22:26Z</published>
    <updated>2018-12-06T00:14:51Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='k_a_cook' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://k-a-cook.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://k-a-cook.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;k_a_cook&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello! I'm K. A. Cook and I'm better known on aromantic Tumblr as the mod of &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://aroworlds.tumblr.com'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico' alt='[tumblr.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://aroworlds.tumblr.com'&gt;&lt;b&gt;aroworlds&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. I'm looking to make a another space where aro-spec creatives can safely share their creations with aro-spec audiences, along with discussions about creativity, media, aro-spec representation and aro-spec community. Sadly, Tumblr is making this rather difficult at the moment...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; require that works posted or linked here be solely about being aro-spec. People are welcome to provide works that aren&amp;rsquo;t really about aromanticism, like gen fanworks, but just happen to have an aro-spec character or are low romance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aro and aro-spec folks of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; aro-spec, orientation and gender identities are welcome to subscribe and post. Works that depict QPRs and the romantic relationships and attractions experienced by folk who aren&amp;rsquo;t alloromantic (demiromantic or aroflux characters, for example) are &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; welcome. Low or no romance is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a requirement for posting if the work contains aro-spec characters (but please tag as such for romance-repulsed subscribers).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Works recommended &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; aro-spec folks do not have to be specifically aro-spec; a lot of us relate to Word of God aromanticism or just no/low romance narratives, and these are absolutely worthy of discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Creators do not have to be aro-spec, but aro-spec creators will be prioritised. Please note that this community does not accept content centred on alloromantic asexuality without an aro-spec character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This community will not accept posts by alloromantic creators enquiring after aro-spec sensitivity readers or the best ways to write aromantic-spectrum characters.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This community welcomes the following:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Original media submissions with aro protagonists, aro themes, aro storylines or low/no romance (poetry, prose, film, music, comics, artwork&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fanfiction and fancontent (poetry, prose, comics, artwork)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reviews, links, recommendations and discussions about aro fictional media (or media that appeals to aros)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aro creators seeking to connect with other aros for editing, sensitivity reading, support as creators, promotion, advertising, networking, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Conversation and discussion posts about aro-spec experiences and the aro-spec community&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if you are professionally published, self-published or a hobbyist creator. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if your work is flawless or a messy first draft you just want &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; to read. It is &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; welcome here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexually-explicit media is allowable here as long as it is flagged as 18+, placed behind a cut and tagged as explicit. &lt;a href="https://aroworlds.wordpress.com/about/"&gt;Fuller descriptions of permitted and unpermitted content and interactions are described on the Tumblr about page&lt;/a&gt;, but it's worth noting that works celebrating or romanticising violence, rape, paedophilia, abuse or hatred are not allowed in this community. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For information on how to format creative content, &lt;a href="https://aroworlds.wordpress.com/templates-media-submissions/"&gt;please see our media templates page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to creative media, I also post aro-spec artist profiles--interviews with aro-spec creatives--to our &lt;a href="https://aroworlds.tumblr.com/"&gt;Tumblr&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://aroworlds.wordpress.com/"&gt;WordPress&lt;/a&gt; sites. If you are interested in participating, please see the &lt;a href="https://aroworlds.wordpress.com/aro-spec-artist-profiles/"&gt;aro-spec profile master page&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="https://aroworlds.wordpress.com/templates-artist-profiles/"&gt;profile template and submissions information page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly, as I am coming here from Tumblr, I don't yet have a tagging system in place for others to use. I kindly beg your patience while I take a couple of days to come up with this and decide on a better theme/style for this community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for reading, and I look forward to seeing your work here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=aroworlds&amp;ditemid=266" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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