Tag: aromantic

bakaagou:

aro-culture-is:

Aro culture is trying to convince a potential date that you are capable of deep love and devotion even when it’s completely devoid of romance, and then trying to convince them that no your deep love and devotion is in no way romantic.

remember, if love required sexual/romantic attraction, then you’d have to want to snog your mom in order to love her!

a-walking-fandom-reference:

the-irken-pony:

I have a bunch of them in case you couldn’t tell 💀

[ID: Three looping animated red heart locket gifs.

The first opens up to show the asexual flag on the left side, and on the right, there is black text that says, “Asexual headcanon my beloved.”

The second opens up to show the aromantic flag on the left side, and on the right, there is black text that says, “Aromantic headcanon my beloved.”

The third opens up to show the aroace flag on the left side, and on the right there is black text that says, “Aroace headcanon my beloved.” END ID]

Source: the-irken-pony

books-andbiscuits:

not-tumbling:

thecandlesticksfromlesmis:

being an ace/aro writer in a class of non-ace/aro writers is just a huge reminder than so many people don’t view found family or platonic partnership as something deeply emotional and important. Like I keep getting the question “why does character A care about character B if they aren’t attracted to each other?” or insinuations that romance and sex are the height of love and therefore should be in every story

like I’m tired of hearing “lol I really thought they were gonna get together at the end” just because there are two characters that care deeply for each other. They ARE together dummy, just not romantically or sexually!! There’s so much more to love than those two things.

I m not aro or ace but honestly people put waaaaay too much emphasis on romance. I love romance but it isn’t the Only Thing out there

^^

aro-punkwave:

if you wanna support aromantic people you need to support every single aro person:

  • allosexual aros
  • aroaces
  • NON-SAM Aros
  • arospec folks
  • aros who are queerplatonic
  • aros who are aplatonic/nonamourous
  • aros on the aplspec
  • aros who are polyamourous/polyaffectionate
  • aros who are atheists (not religious)
  • aros who are religious
  • aros who are minors
  • aros who are adults
  • aros who are not white
  • aros who are white
  • aros who are not cis
  • aros who are cis
  • aros who are nonbinary (yes even xenogenders)
  • aros who are binary trans 
  • aros who are intersex
  • aros who aren’t skinny (fat/plus size/chubby)
  • aros who are skinny/average

and:

  • include arospecs in your pride posts 
  • know aromanticism doesn’t equal asexuality, because allosexual aros exist and lumping in aros with aces hurts us
  • don’t derail aromantic exclusive posts
  • stop arophobia/misia in the ace community
  • stop posting not aromantic related things in aro tags
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apolloendymion:

apolloendymion:

apolloendymion:

tbh it doesn’t rly hurt teenagers to incorrectly id as ace like… what’s the worst than could happen? they don’t have sex till they’re older?? lol

“ohh but it’ll take them longer to realize they’re actually gay” i know my experiences aren’t universal but like. if i wasn’t ready to face my lesbianism then i was Not Ready, you could’ve eliminated every other label in existence and i still wouldn’t have accepted it. if anything, the ability to try out different labels helped me learn about myself, explore the community, and accept that maybe not being straight wasn’t so bad.

also lots of people identify as bi before realizing they are gay, lots of people identify as gay before realizing they’re bi, lots of people identify as gay before realizing they’re trans, etc etc etc!!! exploring and getting it wrong is a necessary part of the process!!! why is it so different for aroace identities?????