angryaromantics

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being a non partnering aro is great because we have way more time for the killings

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Enemies to "I accidentally came across you while you were vulnerable and scared and I'm not a total asshole so I tried to help you" to "accidental mutual uncovering of softer sides and vulnerabilities" to "I can't be mean to you anymore, not out of pity but because it would feel weird betraying that brief truce we had" to "Fine I'll make an effort to be nice to you now I guess" to "actually now that we're not actively hating each other you're not so bad I guess" to "i think we're friends but I'm not going to say that because I'm afraid you're not gonna feel the same way" to "oh you also think we're friends? Great" to lovers

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everytime someone says that your romantic partner should really, ideally, be your best friend i die a little inside.

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normal way to feel

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Your first pride story was touching and all but you still married a man.

Yeah, bisexuals do that sometimes.

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critiquing marriage as an aro person makes me lose my marbles pretty frequently because basically every time i do someone says "well you can just marry a friend for tax benefits and legal purposes!" like well. first of all part of the problem here is that most of my aro friends are aro in the way where they either actively want or wouldn't mind having one (1) legally-bound non-platonic life partner, and i wouldn't want to get in the way of that (plus not every friend is someone you want to Marry, yknow). second of all i don't want to get married for a multitude of reasons (one being that it just doesn't sound like fun to me) (another being if i am ever able to get disability benefits i wouldn't be able to get married without losing my ssi anyway) (third reason it's a lot harder to leave a relationship when the government's involved and domestic violence is incredibly common) (i have more of these) and that should be a completely feasible option. third of all when i critique marriage as an institution or a concept or whatever my Point is that Nobody should Have to do any of that. there shouldn't be any social/legal/medicinal/financial repercussions for not getting married. i'm complaining about the whole system not just how it's detrimental to me specifically

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back from the friends with benefits Ao3 tag

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i firmly believe that A LOT of people are actually under the aromantic and/or asexual spectrum and they just don't know it yet

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I haven’t platonicposted in a while

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characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough

characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone

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even my shoes are aro now

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“friend” is its own deeply important relationship. why is there an insistence on qualifying friendships as “like family” to convey significance

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"Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion" story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they've been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because "they were probably just a late bloomer" or "no, you just finally found the right person!" and it's just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn't right and they can't stand it.

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I wish it wasn’t a hot take that a story in which two characters of any gender prioritize their purely platonic relationship over any other romantic or sexual interests they might have is a textually queer story

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theyre gonna fuck, yeah, but its gonna be aromantic and you gotta be normal about that

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Inspired by this

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they should make a shirt for me that says “sorry i keep turning your popular fandom ships into weird aromantic situationships”