#repulsed

[redysetdare]

Hey... Hey if you say you support aspec people that means you also need to respect repulsed aspecs. Non-partnering aspecs. Loveless aspecs. Platonic aspecs. Other a-attraction aspecs. Old aspecs. Young aspecs. Aspecs who use labels you don't understand. Non-sam aspecs. Traumatized aspecs. Dysphoric aspecs.

You cannot only support part of the community. It's either all of us or none of us. You can't play favorites because one kind of aspec makes you feel more comfortable than others.

[howifeltabouthim]

And I felt immediately repulsed by all of it—by men, by aging, by humanity, by my disgusting needs.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, from Fleishman is in Trouble

[tai-janai]

I love how forceful Protector can be

Honestly it's kinda adorable

i louve him :D

(he cannot catch a break)

[104-days-of-gifs]

Another 104 Days of Phineas and Ferb GIFs: Day 94

[avenpt]

im aroace, im also afab, whenever im about to be on my period to the first day of my period i feel very, ya know, and it makes me feel so gross and icky, but if i dont do anything about it it gets worse and then i sometimes have sexual dreams which makes me not be able to sleep but if i do something about it i feel dirty and disgusting, i just was wondering is this normal and do other ace people feel like this?

This is very normal! Ace people aren't immune to sexual thoughts/feelings/dreams/sensations (or libido in general)...and for many, that can be disturbing. You're not alone. It's very normal. Some aces might not mind it, but some might feel the same as you do. It's called being "repulsed." Sex-repulsed, romance-repulsed, touch-repulsed...these all exist. So yeah, once again, totally normal! I'm sorry you feel this way, though. Wishing you all the best. <3

[nex-does-film]

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[tenth-sentence]

But the fallen student, still on the ground, vigorously repulsed his efforts.

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" - Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh

[feathered-serpents]

If anyone gets this ask

This is fake

This is a false story using a separate real fundraiser you can find here's, words and an amalgamation of images on a new blog to scam people into donating money.

The "donate to help my cat/dog" scams have upgraded to exploiting an ongoing genocide to try and scam good people out of their money. This is disgusting. This is one of the most heartless scams I have ever seen

[whosebob]

I truly can't believe the couples being photographed for the NYMag article The Age Gappers.

Being photographed in their beds with bad feng shui! Arm weights on your bedside table? A shelf over your head? Ew no thank you.

[hybrix-hidings]

Honestly everyone give it up for repulsed aces/aros. Yall get so much shit for having boundaries and its frustrating to watch. You're all getting sent complimentary gift baskets

[redysetdare]

If you're first response to a repulsed person's identity is "As long as you're not sex/romance negative" then you don't ACTUALLY support repulsed people. if you're first response is basically "this is the qualification you have to meet for me to view your identity as valid and it's up to my interpretation on if you reach this unknown criteria" then you don't actually support repulsed people.

you can't go around saying how repulsed people are valid ONLY IF they're the "good ones" that's not how that works buddy.

[howifeltabouthim]

But he had come to her and asked her for a kiss, and she had shuddered before him, when he made the demand. Then that other one had come and had touched her hand, and the fibres of her body had seemed to melt within her at the touch, so that she could have fallen at his feet.

Anthony Trollope, from Can You Forgive Her?

[blestpoetplace]

empty people seem beautiful until you get close and see who they really are

then what?

you feel repulsed by their presence.

[lunarlegend]

y'know, one thing i don't see get talked about much in regards to asexuality is how it feels to never be 'sexually motivated' by anything

and not just when it comes to advertisements using 'sexy' models to try and sell you stuff, but like. in general

sex as a favor, sex as a bribe, sex in exchange for whatever

casual sex, 'friends with benefits' situations, even simple flirting

it all looks a whole lot different from the perspective of someone who's immune to manipulation via sex appeal, who has virtually no understanding as to why sex would motivate someone to cheat on their partner, etc. etc.

sex is worthless to me

i mean, it's useful as a story element in fiction, but it genuinely perplexes me that sex is such a driving force behind so many aspects of irl society & of people's individual lives, for better or for worse

and that it's so deeply ingrained into how the average person views the world & various situations, because the average person feels sexual attraction, whereas i do not

i think the barrier between aces & allos is actually even deeper than it seems on the surface at times, because it's more than just the grating expectation that everyone must want to 'settle down' and have kids, it's also the fact that the majority of the world is sort of 'in' on a joke that aces will never truly be a part of

[jerich0two]

Quick sketch for aro awareness week! Very much enjoying all the Alastor redesigns with ponytails I've been seeing, so I decided to give him one too! Rosie is SO much easier to draw than he is ... lordie

[fun-k-boards]

If I ever make a book it's going to be so painfully aromantic and asexual that any allos reading will die from a heart attack because of the lack of romance and sex