[Image description: Drawing of jack of clubs. The jack is looking to the side at a handful of mushrooms. The jack is wearing a green hat and has blue-green hair. The Jack’s sleeves are coloured with a dark blue-black stripe, a green stripe, and then five stripes in the colours of the aromantic spectrum flag, some of which are decorated with circles or a zig-zagging pattern. The main body has more pattern stripes, and has the aromantic flag going across. Above the aromantic flag is a stripe containing traingles. The triangles are coloured in the philly pride flag colours. Vertical stripes contain the colours of the aromantic flag in their triangles. A white-yellow stripe goes across the jack and contains blue-green arrows. End description.]
i’m not aro but can you scrap the white ring and change the universal aromantic symbol to a ring with pyridine or at least hexagon ring. “but why?” i hear you asking?? quick chemistry lesson, aromatic compounds are a specific type of ring in organic chemistry that are flat and have delocalised electrons, this is benzene (C6H6) which is one of the simplest aromatic rings
if you have a keen eye you may be able to tell that aromatic is only one letter from being aromantic so lets chuck an N in there shall we
each of the corners of the hexagon represents a carbon atom and when you swap one with a nitrogen (N) then you get pyridine. pyridine is also aromatic itself but it is also an aromatic ring + N and therefore an aromantic ring!
Therefore if you make pyridine the unofficial ring for the aros then it’ll literally be an aromantic ring! aros pls get behind this <3
I’ve actually embroidered a patch using this symbol & pun! One way to represent benzene/the aromatic ring is to have a circle inside a hexagon instead of showing the three double bonds (partially bc of resonance with double bonds). So yeah, the gold in the patch is the aromatic ring and then I have the word aromantic where the “n” is a different color so it’s aromatic aromantic.
So yeah, 100% agree with using this as an aro symbol.
