[sandmandaddy69]

[foxincrocs-classic]

[allaboutmary]

[auxcored-deactivated20230124]

“Iken” (oil on canvas, 2010) 

by Paul Benney

[girldickdotcom]

for hanukkah my mom made me a jewish snoopy w a kippah and a star of david necklace and she secretly also made a scooby doo with a tallit and a star of david and a kippah and his name is scooby jew and he is my best friend

[girldickdotcom]

jewpy and scooby jew. if you even care

[apas-95]

attention cave divers

[armorawk]

[unquietgravekeeper]

Just saw the most chronically online take of the year of someone ranting unironically that you should look up every single artist with a song you enjoy to make sure they are unproblematic. And if you don't do this them you are as bad as the controversy associated with the artist, for being 'willfully ignorant.' They literally talked about how they went through more than a thousand artists they listened to and whittled it down to 200 this way. This is obsessive and they need help

[animasphinx]

what do you mean this song was written in A Minor? 🤨 cuff em boys

[unquietgravekeeper]

Best addition to this post really

[valtsv]

whoever came up with kissing someone's hand as a sign of respect knew what they were doing. slut.

[grubgirlfins]

"its a texas chainsaw miracle"

[txttletale]

im gonna have to start putting a big banner at the bottom of my posts that says I ❤️ COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[disgustinggf]

[enchantedbook]

Art by Ulla Thynell

[1-800-69-uranus]

Feeling feels I don’t wanna feel

[queer-flesh-simulacrum]

@1-800-69-uranus

[thickness-protection-program]

I hope I'm not just a mutual to you guys but also someone who makes you cream in horror

[thickness-protection-program]

I meant to say scream but y'all just let it happen anyway smh

[coat]

[olt-deactivated20180224]

[nat-20s]

I'm not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs

[glimblshanks]

I don't know how much this has actually been discussed in online spaces, but when I talk to other aros irl it's pretty widely agreed apon that being aromantic is both an orientation and a political identity. By which I mean that being aromantic requires a massive shift in world view, including the dismantling of amatonormativity, the deconstruction of what the word 'love' even means, and the realization that you have control over what your important relationships look like.

All of those things can have a major impact on your political outlooks, social outlooks, and simply the way you view the world. I've said before that even if I did experience romantic attraction some day I would still identify as aro because being aromantic has shifted my view of what relationships even are to such a degree that like... romantic relationships barely make sense as a category to apply to myself anymore.

Everyone I know who identified as aro or questioned if they were aro before experiencing attraction and identifying as allo has ended up poly for what I suspect is this exact reason. Polyamory is one of the only relationship models out there currently that allows for romantic relationships outside of the typical amatonormative model and once you've done some work dismantling how society views relationships slotting right back into traditional monogamy doesn't have a lot of appeal.

So anyways op, I know a lot of folks in the notes are taking this to simply mean 'not wanting to date' (which is fine, that is still a radical notion in our society that I'm glad the aro community can make space for) but I think your tags are absolutely right about pushing amatonormativity out of our spaces as an aro value that people can (and should!) believe in and benefit from even if they're not aro.