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epic aro sculpture i did for class

the heart is made out of plastic bags wrapped with tape, so it's squishy ^_^ and the knife is qtips hot glued together. the knife is also removable!

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Aroace fingerless gloves by FrogsMakingToast

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Murder bb

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ahaha no don't call me heartless... nooooo that's so mean... no really it would hurt me sooooooo bad if you said it again... you should say it again

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Can someone please tell me where some aroallo rep is? Something where it's actually part of the story and treated like it does in fact matter. Hopefully books, I need some books to read and I need some motivation to read.

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It's always "I may be aromantic but I still love my friends!" and never "I'm aromantic, but that does not mean I have to 'make up' for the love I 'lost' or am 'missing out on' by loving friends or family."

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"being queer is about love" hmm actually being queer is about defying societal norms about gender and sexuality and does not depend on feeling love at all

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Alloaro Hearts

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yes there are the horrors but at least im aro

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i can never write a soulmates au cause i very quickly stop thinking about romance and start thinking about the sociological implications of a world where soulmates are a confirmed verifiable thing

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I LOVE BEING AROMANTIC

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Aros, which of these terms do you identify most with?

Aroace

Oriented aroace

Angled aroace

Aroallo / alloaro

Non-SAM aro

Neu aro / aro neu

Aromantic / aro

Aro-spec

Multiple of these equally

Results button

was considering adding adding an "other" button, and also considered changing aroace to just aro to not lump the two together, but idk what anons intent was so we're keeping their poll as is :) /nm

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6/7: Frodo Baggins

Having no family of his own, Frodo left his estate (Bag End) and passed on the Red Book to Samwise Gamgee, who named his son after Frodo. [...] Frodo would spend the rest of his days in "a period of reflection and peace" on Tol Eressëa, giving him the opportunity to truly understand his position in Arda before passing beyond the Circles of the World." — Tolkien Gateway

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Staring a mini series of aro-coded characters for Aromantic Awareness Week! Some are canonically coded as Aro, some are just my projections. Either way, I hope you like them :)

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as someone in the aro community (and i think this is also applicable to the ace community, which is why y’all are included), i think there is something to be said about people trying to find a moral explanation to their repulsion. in a some situations, it is helpful and there is a conversation to be had about it but in a lot of others, it’s just recycled purity culture, i’m going to be honest.

before you send a post about how you think it’s actually exhibitionist to kiss in public, or predatory to talk about people you want to sexually pursue with your friends, please ask yourself first if there is genuinely something wrong morally going on there, or if it’s just something that grosses you out. it’s completely okay if it’s something that grosses you out. you don’t need to make up a moral reason behind it. you can just say ‘it grosses me out’ and find a way to remove yourself from that situation, for exemple, by looking away, or asking your friends to not talk about those topics around you (if they refuse, that’s another problem entirely and you should get better friends).

it is as unhealthy for allo people to repress their romantic and/or sexual attraction than it is for us to repress our aromanticism and/or asexuality. this isn’t like an theoretical extrapolation, this is a proven phenomenon, we’ve seen it with the catholic church. i understand and empathize with the fact that it feels like all of this is forced upon us, because it is, but there is a difference between someone telling us ‘i like this’ and someone telling us ‘you’re weird/broken if you don’t like this’.

anyways, sorry for the rant, i keep seeing posts in the aro and/or ace tags that try to justify their repulsion with morality, and i don’t want to single out anyone so i thought i’d make this post. there is no issue with posting about repulsion itself, for the record, it’s the moral justification that i think is unhelpful.

you don’t need any justification for your repulsion, you can just be repulsed. that’s fine.

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Made some earrings