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as an asexual who likes to imagine sex but doesnt actually like having sex, sometimes it just feels like sex isnt real but i wish it was. and post

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i am so pro abortion it actually makes me mad when a character in a show is revealed to be pregnant & she immediately doesn't get an abortion

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TO ALL AROACES:

*Includes online interactions and sex work

**Amatonormative romance, conforming to typical ideals of romantic partnership

I’m an aroace guy trying to take a census of how many of us are partnering vs non-partnering. Please reblog to increase reach!

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everyone's all about queer subtext until it's aromantic or asexual

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I feel the phrase “Aro/Ace people can still date/have sex” has just morphed into a new version of “you just haven’t found the right person yet.”

Yes we can. But it’s our call if we do. And it’s certainly not gonna be with anyone who tries to use the fluidity of our experiences as a clap back to break firmly set boundaries.

And that fluidity doesn’t make sexual/romantic repulsion that some of us experience any less true or valid.

I’ve never had sex and I never will. The sheer concept of it viscerally disgusts me.

I’ve never experienced any form of sexual attraction and know at this point i likely never will. I have zero framework for it when people talk about it. It confuses me.

“Little to no romantic/sexual attraction” has a no in it for a reason. Because aro/ace people who don’t experience sexual/romantic attraction at all regardless of circumstance are in fact real.

Other ace people have different experiences. They’re allowed to. Their experiences aren’t mine or anyone else’s to make. Nor are mine theirs.

Sexualities are complicated and often fluid sure. But one thing they’re not is negotiable.

Ace peoples boundaries are ours to make and yours to respect. No ifs or buts. You don’t get a say in it.

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Whoa, this film opens up with the main character saying she rejects the idea that you need to fall in love/get married to have happiness and she isn’t interested in finding a partner, surely THIS time she won’t fall in love by the end of the movie

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first try at making comics since this feeling won't die down

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My fellow Aros let's stick together during this Pride!! 💚🤍🩶🖤

These are all available on my RedBubble page!

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It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"

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unreliable narrator but it's just an aromantic writing romance

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I'm pretty sure we all hate soulmates, but I would like to propose a ship trope that I like in an aspec way: childhood friends to lovers! This is a particularly well established trope in Japanese media so that's where I see it most. They've been best friends since they were kids, inseperable up to high school and beyond, they know each other so well they're almost the same person, they're always there for each other no questions asked. You could stop there and it sounds like a queerplatonic relationship. Add some romance in there and it sounds like a demi-aro/ace experience.

I also found out from talking to a friend about why I like a particular childhood friends ship that I kind of yearn for a childhood friend. I struggled with friendships growing up and especially around puberty I always found myself losing friends when they started being interested in romance and I wasn't. I wanted someone to stay with me, to know that they would always be my best friend no matter what life threw our way. It feels deeply connected to my aro identity. I'm non-partnering, but I have always thought a qpr would be really nice, to just have a person to go through life with. And somehow, childhood friends to lovers seems like the best way to achieve that, but I already missed out.

idk if this is just very specifically me and my aroace experience that makes me like childhood friends to lovers, but maybe some other people can relate!

Curious, I haven’t really seen any real trend among aspec people and the ship tropes they do like, however I think I kinda seen a trend in what they dislike. So in the tags tell me if you’re aspec (ace and/or aro) and if you dislike soulmates, and I mean the most straightforward romantic non subverted kind (but if there are versions you like feel free to elaborate)

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why isn’t there a single god damn movie that doesn’t have a romantic subplot. why is everything centred around romance. a story can be still be interesting if the boy and the girl don’t kiss at the end ??

i’ll be enjoying a movie and then BAM the male and female leads just admitted feelings for each other. it’s not even a trope at this point because it’s literally EVERY film. what the hell is going on?

is that not like. a major flaw in the film writing industry if every film does like same thing like i am actually so confused about this

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You're allowed to find pride in your asexuality and aromanticism. I know it can be difficult, between people not knowing or believing it exists and people who might accept that it exists but will always see it as pitiful and insignificant, something to be silent about, something shameful or "tmi", something to mention as an afterthought. But aromanticism will always be far more complex and far-reaching and life altering and significant than people who brush it off as "doesn't date" are able to understand, and asexuality will always be more nuanced and eye-opening and liberating than people who brush it off as "doesn't have sex" will ever understand. You're allowed to find meaning in these labels and in the communities surrounding them, and you're allowed to show pride for who you are.

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Day 2 of Aroallo pride art! (I don't plan to post a piece everyday but we'll see just how many I can pop out)

TOPH! With a bonus disability pride flag! So so important to me that these flags be allowed to go next to eachother sometimes.

I have no explanation for this one asides from "Have you met her?" LMAO Canon in my heart

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I'm going to frame this in my house

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Arches National Park, Utah photo: Elliot McGucken