#user: officiallydivinity

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Transcript:

[The video shows two people, Divinity (left) and Nik (right). Text above their head says "Happy Aromantic Awareness Week". Their socials are also above their heads, with "@/officiallydivinity" and "@/nikhampshire (ig)". Divinity has the label "Aromantic/GreyAce" under her and Nik has "AlloAromantic".

Divinity: "What's up potatoes, it's Divinity."

Nik: "I'm Nik Hampshire."

Divinity: "Some of you may know it's Aromantic Awareness Week and we're both aromantic. We wanted to do a fun little video of some things we may find repulsive or that we may be into as romantic repulsed aromantics."

Nik: "True."

Divinity: "So we just wrote down a couple of things and we actually don't even know each other's answers yet, so this is gonna be fun. Hand holding. One, two, three."

Both of the hold up a thumbs down.

Divinity: Same! Cuddling. One, two, three.

Both hold up a thumbs up.

Divinity: (laughing) Yes!

Nik: Non-holiday gift giving. One, two, three.

Divinity holds a thumbs up. Nik holds a thumbs down. He switches to a thumbs up.

Nik: Nah. Like it depends who it is though. Like if its somebody that I-

Divinity: It depends what it is as well.

Nik: That too, yeah. So really there's like a lot of context that comes into that.

Divinity: If it's a funko pop, I- I want it. If it's flowers for no reason...

Nik: And it's like if we don't know each other, if we're just hanging out as like we're hooking up or it's just something casual and you start giving me gifts. I'm like... nah.

Divinity: That's suspicious. Nicknames. One, two, three.

Both give a thumbs down.

Divinity: No! Do not call me babe!

Nik: Pop Ins. One, two, three.

Both of them give a thumbs down.

Nik: Don't come by my house.

Divinity: You better text, call, send a smoke signal.

Nik: Don't call, don't call either- Good morning/good night text. One, two, three.

Divinity keeps her thumb sideways while Nik gives a thumbs down.

Divinity: I'm indifferent! (laughing) It just depends on who it is.

Nik: True.

Divinity: PDA. One, two, three.

Both give a thumbs down. Nik moves himself out of frame completely.

Nik: Uh, playing with a partner's hair. One. two, three.

Divinity gives a thumbs up and Nik gives a thumbs down. He switches it up and down a few times.

Nik: Eh, kinda depending on context.

Divinity: I mean it's a wig, you wanna wear it. You know. Cooking for someone. One, two, three.

Both give a thumbs up.

Divinity: I love cooking!

Nik: I love to eat.

Divinity: I love cooking!

Nik: Covering the bill. One, two, three.

Divinity gives a thumbs up. Nik hesitates before giving a thumbs up.

Nik: Uh yeah it depends.

Divinity: I like to go dutch though because if someone is paying for everything I start to feel like-

Nik: Yeah that's kinda how I feel.

Divinity: It just feels so much like a date.

Nik: So I go halves.

Divinity: Yeah, I'm a halfsies...

Nik: Again, until there's like a repertoire and we know we're friends then I'll cover-

Divinity: Yeah.

Nik: That being said, obviously what is and isn't romantic is subjective per person and even per incident. Like sometimes with the same person something might feel romantic at one point, it might not feel romantic at the next. So it's up to you guys.

Divinity: Never let what the appearance of what something looks like stop you from enjoying the activity with someone because you're afraid of being "perceived" as something.

The text "Bloopers" appears on screen, showing parts they messed up on.

Divinity: All that being said, I forgot what I was about to say (laughing). That's what she said, I'm sorry. That being said I hope that you all know romantic gestures- what are they?

Nik: Gestures.

Divinity: Yeah.

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Note: This video is at least a year old (maybe 2??) but it's been in my drafts forever so better late than never! Also happy aromantic spectrum awareness week (I'm so late I'm sorry)!!!

[kodzukoi]

"I'd rip my own eyes out before I let her heart turn as black as mine. So, I poked holes in my darkness and named each star after her."

—tiktok user officiallydivinity (with my modifications/edits to the original)

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Description: [A black femme lip syncs along to different songs while text on screen changes to match both song name and singer/group. At the beginning of the video, text above her head reads "Songs that give me Aromantic Euphoria".

First is "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" by KYLE . The lyrics heard are "Let's go back to only being friends. Sorry girl I hope you understand its just. I don't want to fall in love. Nope".

The next song is "Good Thing" by Kehlani. The lyrics go " 'Cause I already got a good thing with me. Yeah I already got everything I need".

Next is "Soulmate" by Lizzo. The lyrics are "Yeah I'm my own soulmate. No, I'm never lonely".

The next song is "You don't own me" by Saygrace and G Easy. The lyrics heard are "You don't own me".

Next is "Never been in Love" by Will Jay. The lyrics are "I'm not missing someone that I never met. Maybe a little scared, still I don't care".

The next song is "Idle Worship" by Paramore. The lyrics go "Don't let me let you down. Hey baby I'm not, your superhuman".

Next is "Famous Last Words" by MCR and the lyrics are "I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone". Next to the song listed she put "(bc I'm emo)".

The song next is "This is me" from The Greatest Showman. The lyrics in the video are "I am brave, I am bruised, I am who I'm meant to be. This is me".

The last song is "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles, with the lyrics "I'm not gonna write you a love song, 'cause you asked for it". At this point in the video she is pointing at her spotify playlist while text on screen reads "Aromantic Bops On Spotify".]

Playlist link here.