#unhinged aromantics

[arthurtaylorlester]

this isn't going to stop the john apologism btw. nothing can stop the john apologism. he had his reasons. can't say i agree with him but he had them.

[oldmrfroag]

Me doing a sick trick on my skateboard: yeah romantic John and Arthur is fine but aren’t you tired of love stories? Don’t you want to go feral? *does a 180 in the air* have you considered the appeal of unhinged aromantic Arthur Lester? Greyromantic John who doesn’t know what this emotion he’s feeling is but is probably illness? *does a backflip over a hill* have you considered the deep and unhinged queerplatonic tension of two dudes holding hands and touching foreheads *does a sick backflip-*

[vidra-comprehends]

July Break Bingo: "(insert)'s perfect for you."

Fandom: Malevolent

Character: John Doe

Prompt by @julybreakbingo

"Your undefeated. John is not Yellow. He's gold, Arthur. A gift."

[picturemecountingcards]

don't look at me

[idiotwithoutagoodname]

The audiodrama/queer media experience is having the one good episode of fluff to forget you are consuming a horror/drama and then be surprised when the mcs don’t get to run away together to live their merry gay lives the way they promised in said good episode.

[teliathetv]

“well what if you haven’t found he right one yet ?” what if beat you with a hammer? :D

[happilyghostlyarie]

Here's a joke:

God enters a room and stands in front of a human, they say to the human,

"In my hand I have four qualities for you to have before you go down to earth. I want you to tell me what you think."

The human is surprised by this but excited to hear what God says nonetheless. "Well, okay, let me see what you have for me."

God raises one finger and says. "First of all, I will give you both asexuality and aromanticism."

"Cool and what else? Also is that one or two things?"

God smiles at this, ignores the human, and raises another finger. "And here we have high libido and a penchant for romance novels."

The human blinks at God confused. "Wait is that all four? And don't thoes things contradict each other a bit-"

God interrupts. "And finally I have a special little gift!" They open their hand to reveal a word. "Alexthymia. That way you won't be able to differenciate all thoes traits I gave you earlier. Isn't that cool?"

The human looks at God. "Fuck you."

God smiles at this. "Well, do you want to fuck me or do you just want to read smut about me and the Devil having at it? You'll never know!"

[mx-myth]

Personally as an aroace being in a queerplatonic relationship and/or a poly relationship sound really freeing to me. I feel like in a QPR there would be less pressure to be more amatonormative or present that way. The kind of "omg I totally thought you guys were dating" sort of relationship that just comes from the pure intimacy of willing to be comfortable around each other and to be intimate without necessarily having to involve kissing/sex/"real" intimacy (and the possible aro or ace solidarity). Meanwhile in a poly relationship I feel like at least for me there would be less pressure be "involved" to an extent. A whole other person (or people) would negate a lot of anxiety on my part enough not being enough (especially if one or more of them are alloromantic). And potentially that's someone who can provide romance or sex that I just can't.

Obviously these are still relationships that you consciously need to put work into maintain and have open lines of communication and discussions of boundaries, etcetera, just like any "normal" relationship but that's really the point here. I'm not allo (and I'm perfectly fine with being "abnormal" by most societal standards, but that's obviously not true for all of us) in any way, shape, or form, so why should I have to fit myself into a little allo box?

[arthurtaylorlester]

malevrptwt is so funny

[oldmrfroag]

Crawling through a pile of viscera as an unholy terror beyond comprehension growls behind me: oh disembodied voice in my head we’re really in it now

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is being pissed off when you are on a colleges website completing their "fun" little quiz that reccommends what majors you should look into and HALF of the questions are about romance or dates and you are just sitting there wondering how on earth this even slightly relates to what you want to study

.

[bloodshotgun]

looking back as an aromantic writer who's really into shipping and realizing that none of the works i've written in my life are actually about romance. like, i used to say that despite not feeling it "i just love love!" and um. how do i put it. it's just not true lmao instead of romantic love all of my works To Me are about friendships/qprs, obsession, or good old sex/kink. or some combination of those. the only old work of mine that's actually flat out romance i can't even look at because it repulses me so much. so uh. guess signs really were there all along

[idiotwithoutagoodname]

“I wanted today to be just you and me…

…

…..as *friends* CANONICALLY just FRIENDS”

HARLAN I AM IN YOU WALLS

[teliathetv]

🌱 - How would your younger self act if your current self told them they were queer?

she would be confused but I don’t think she would be upset

i just don’t think she would understand what aroace means and how someone could just not feel like that

[queer-pagan-witch]

One day I will learn, that just because the bottle is low, does not mean I need to finish off the bottle.

[just-a-music-and-poetry-lover]

Before I came out as trans, when I was 16, I rarely saw myself as feminine and in those few, spaced-out times, I ended up not liking what I was seeing. I saw femininity as something futile, lesser than and not something to be proud of. I blame the patriarchy entirely.

But I have come to a better understanding of things. No, I am not a woman but I have a connection to womanhood that can never be severed. I lived 16 years of my life as one, but that's not the main factor here. I do have a feminine side and I no longer loathe or fear or reject it. I love it and, even though it's not a sentient being, I think it deserves an apology from me.

To my femininity: I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't treat you with the respect you deserved. You're such a marvellous part of me and I denied it for far too long. I look forward to spending the rest of my life correcting my wrongs towards you.

It's such a funny thing that I spent so long restraining my girlhood because I was ashamed of it, as if it wasn't as part of me as my brown eyes or my love for poetry. I learned in Biology class that a glucose molecule has three different elements: hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. Trying to tear away my femininity and expecting to still be myself in the end would be the same as trying to strip the glucose molecule from its carbon atoms and still expect it to be glucose.