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You know what? Forget the discourse. This is no longer my hill to die on.

You wanna ship canonically aspec characters because “aro/ace people can still date/have sex”? Okay, then. LET’S DO IT.  I wanna see an aromantic character with an alloromantic love interest. I wanna see that confession of undying love and the moment when the aro character says they will never feel the same way—not romantically.

I wanna see the asexual character with their allosexual partner. I wanna see that moment when the ace characters tries sex with their partner for the first time because they want to make them happy only to realize that they are 100% sex repulsed.

I wanna see the two demiromantics who don’t even know if what they feel is romantic attraction, but they adore each other and just want to make healthy snacks together and destroy each other at Mario Kart.

I wanna see the two aces who love sensual affection and are figuring out what they define as sexual or not.

I wanna see the romance + sex neutral aroace who happily and consensually does whatever makes their partner happy…but their partner still struggles with feeling undesired. 

Oh, babe. You thought shipping an aspec character would be just like shipping an allo character? 

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Once you understand Trump molests children, everything else is just obvious.

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Paramount/CBS will die like cowards a thousand times. May they never recover from this pathetic embarce of fascism.

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◦˚~ ANIMATED MOON & STARS DIVIDERS ~˚◦

Requested by: @inkyprince Info: these were all drawn/made & animated by me. please reblog/like if use!

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"aros can still date" well i don't want to. "aros can be in qprs" well i don't want to. "aros can still get married" i cannot stress enough how much i don't want to do that. "it can be completely platonic" i don't care i still don't want to. "aros can still go on dates and kiss people and act indistinguishably from an alloromantic person" why are you so hell bent on us fitting into amatonormative society as much as possible. "aros can still love" is this just to make you feel better? it feels like it's just to make you feel better

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M6, Butterfly Cluster

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“It doesn’t matter if your skin is brown. It doesn’t matter if you’re white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a veteran or you serve this country. They don’t care. They’re just there to fill a quota.” Those are the words of George Retes, a veteran and U.S. citizen who was detained by federal agents during an ICE raid at a Southern California farm. Despite identifying himself as a citizen multiple times, federal agents pepper sprayed him and dragged him from his vehicle. He was thrown in a cell for three days, where he was not allowed to contact his family or a lawyer. He was forced to remain covered in tear gas and pepper spray, as he was not allowed to shower or change clothes. When he was finally released, agents gave him *no explanation* for why he was arrested and detained. When immigrants don’t receive due process as required by the Constitution, no one does. We are no longer on the path to fascism. Fascism is here. Now more than ever, we must protect each other – especially the most vulnerable among us. Keep speaking out. Keep standing up. Tyranny only wins if we submit to it.

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Craving Intimacy, Not Contact: A Reflection

Whispered through candlelight and the hush of moss-covered roots, I speak this truth not to the world, but to the moon and the wild within me.

For most of my life, I thought there was something wrong with me.

I could appreciate beauty, feel attraction, even fantasize about intimacy. But when it came time to actually be in the moment with someone else, something always shut off inside me. I felt disconnected, like I was watching myself from the outside. It wasn’t about fear or trauma. It was deeper than that, like the act itself didn't belong to me. Like it was never meant to.

I’ve faked a lot. Faked interest. Faked desire. Faked orgasms. All in the hope that eventually something would click into place. That the switch would flip. That I’d feel what everyone else seemed to feel. But it never happened. And for a long time, I internalized that. I blamed myself. Maybe I was broken. Maybe I was too complicated, too sensitive, too cold.

Then I found a word: aegosexual.

Also known as autochorissexuality, aegosexuality is a type of asexuality where a person can experience sexual thoughts or fantasies, but doesn’t feel the desire to participate in sexual acts themselves. They may enjoy the idea of sex, may even feel desire, but as an observer, not a participant. Desire exists, but it’s removed—detached from physical reality.

Reading that definition for the first time felt like exhaling after years of holding my breath. I wasn’t broken. I just experience desire differently. Quietly. Internally. Safely removed from the messiness of real-world intimacy.

It explained so much: why I’ve always craved closeness and affection, but not contact. Why I can fall into deep, soulful emotional connections but recoil when they turn physical. Why sex feels like something I can watch, write, imagine—but not live.

There is peace in naming something. In saying: this is who I am, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

I don’t know if I’ll always identify as aegosexual. Sexuality is fluid, and I’m open to growth and change. But for now, this word gives me room to breathe. It lets me take ownership of my experience without shame.

I’m not cold. I’m not broken. I’m not confused.

I’m just craving intimacy, not contact.

And that’s enough.

This truth is wrapped in lavender smoke, held close by my spirit guides, and sealed under the waning moon.

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i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

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it is my aromantic right to loudly and obnoxiously write one thousand love stories that are deep and complex and intimate and wrenching and life changing and not at all even a little bit romantic.

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Bisexuals of color <3

First picture credit: Luis Camacho / EL UNIVERSAL

4th one

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Letting rapists/abusers control the narrative is the foundation of Republican politics and corporate media. #TrustWomen

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Firing the prosecutor. Installing complicit ex-FL AG who refused to prosecute Epstein.

The MAGA loyalty to sexual assault/rapists is manifest.

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