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My favourite thing abt being aro is the ability to just Not Give A Shit abt how people percieve my attractiveness. Like yesss categorise me as a solid 3 out of 10 it Literally does not matter to me im having a good time out here. Im listening to the birdsong. Im painting a duck.

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happy pride month to my fellow non-bitch needers

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pov an aro person makes a post

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if you have time, please watch the japanese drama 恋せぬふたり (koisenu futari; the two people who can’t fall in love) which focuses on two aroace characters

Sakuko finds it difficult to live in a society which operates under the assumption that people will fall in love with each other. She meets supermarket employee Takahashi when she goes to support a "fall-in-love" campaign by her junior at work. She is startled when she hears him say that there are people who don't fall in love. As Sakuko's mother keeps hurrying her to get married, she decides to move out and rent an apartment with her friend but her friend backs out at the last minute after reconciling with her ex-boyfriend. Just when Sakuko is about to give up, she ends up living with Takahashi under one roof because of their similar values towards romance.

(how to watch)

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I think it's very cool and sexy of me to be loudly aromantic. I think I deserve to be really vocally proud of such an important part of myself, and I think all other aro people deserve to be loudly aromantic too

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"fanfic tropes" it's ok bro you can call them what they really are it won't hurt you..... it's okay say it with me.... "romance tropes". they're "romance tropes"

fanfic isn't a genre, it refers to derivative fiction written by a fan of the source material... it's ok you can just call them romance tropes bro

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i am just so so exhausted of all the ppl who just pick the two conventionally attractive men from a franchise to ship regardless of if they’ve met or bonded and have that be the first thing they do when they get into smth new bc they view media as a farm for bland ships. it’s always obvious from a mile off and so alienating and weird to run into immediately when u look into a fandom

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Thinking about that post that said "people canmot conceptualise a lack of attraction unless that attraction is directed elsewhere" because it summarises the tacit aphobia a lot of aro and ace ppl face just casually really well. People will accept that, say, a straight person is not attracted to the same gender, because they are attracted to the opposite gender, and they will accept that a gay person isn't attracted to the opposite gender because they are attracted to the same gender. But suddenly, if you're not attracted to anyone, it's difficult to believe, because there is no "alternate avenue of attraction" that explain's one's lack of interest in a certain direction or in general. People just aren't primed to believe that.

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Swinging the bat at the hornets nest by criticising fandom again but the fact that it is a given that any fanworks will be romance and shipping focused (and it IS, exhibit A being goddamn ao3 has the / tag type to list romantic relationships and another, &, for every other type of relationship ever, exhibit B being all the "fanfic tropes" are romance tropes common in romantic fanfic, i could go on) is so alienating as an aromantic person, especially as a romance repulsed person. I can understand romance being a fandom focus for fandoms of romantic media, but irrespective of what the fuck is going on in canon fandom is ALWAYS shipping-centred and its so isolating.

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oh my fucking god can we kill the whole thing of “platonic friends don’t DO that!” shut UP oh my god. fuck offfff pleaseeee <33333 platonic friends can be the most important people in the world to each other, platonic friends can think about each other a lot and be inspired by each other and choose to live for each other and be possessive in life or death situations and be intense i’m so tired of people acting like platonic friendships can’t be that i’m tired of them being viewed as less as!! this is exactly what i mean when i say platonic relationships are not less than romantic ones!!!!!!!! and i’m so so tired of people misinterpreting that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I've been thinking about the whole "aro people can feel other types of love" thing, and I think that while we should be careful to not disregard loveless aros, establishing that some aro people do feel love is still important. "Aromantic people can feel love" and "love of any kind is not necessary" are two statements that can and should coexist. To many aro people, those other types of love are an important part of their experience, and should be acknowledged as such. This can be done without alienating loveless people. A big part of this is that those other types of love should not be used to justify the existence of aro people. Not only does it imply that loveless people are lesser, but it implies that aromanticism is something that needs to be justified. You can discuss your experiences with love as an aromantic, but you do not need those experiences to justify your existence. Aromanticism does not need to be justified.

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“sex/romance/empathy makes us human,” they say. awful. pathetic. what makes us human is the urge to set things on fire

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Hot take: if your reason for not including aro or ace characters in media is because “they’re not marketable,” then that implies that the only way you know how to market things is through sex and romance, which in turn implies you are horrible at your job.

Like seriously, there are other marketing tactics, use them

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oh wow new sideblog