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@aro-frog
Shout-out to aromantic people whose lives are so fucking busy that they periodically forget what day of the week it is. today is Wednesday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.
Today is Thursday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.
It's June 5th again!
momentarily had the thought “shout out to my platonic harem” and then remembered that’s called friends
at least the colour green exists
There is a little girl, with a messy braid.
And that little girl comforts me, whenever I'm afraid.
I've never known a person kinder, than that child in pink.
She smiles so brightly, and she tells me what she thinks.
She has dreams so large, and that makes my stomach churn.
She is a moth to a flame, but I know what it's like to burn.
That little girl is so sure, so full of belief,
That she sees the good in me, even when i'm drowning in my grief.
Sometimes I yell at her, call her stupid and naive.
A foolish little girl, so easy to deceive.
I see her eyes go wide, but her smiles always returns.
full of forgiveness that I didn't even have to earn.
She asks me what it's like to be so grown up.
I tell her that I find it hard, to even wake myself up.
She asks me if I've fallen in love, like in a tv-show.
And I tell her falling in love, is something i'll never know.
She never really understands,
her world so much simpler than mine.
But still she holds both my hands,
completely sure that i'll be fine.
She tells me that I'm pretty, that I'm smart, and that I'm cool.
And I tell her to be careful, and to have fun at her school.
I tell her that I miss her, and she scrunches her little brow.
And she asks me how it's even possible, to miss yourself.
Sometimes you try to write one research paper and your subjects inform you that you will be writing an entirely different one.
murderbot and ART have the type of bond that only makes sense to the aromantic gaze
Do Not. insinuate romantic relationships are more important than friendships on my post.
I'm imagining a fortune teller who's also a child so her idea of what a good fate is vs a terrible one isn't really in line with her clients at all
Imagine u go to visit the oraclet (oracling?) and she tells u there's untold riches in your future and later it becomes very apparent that what she was predicting was you winning $20 from a lottery ticket
She dismisses every wedding she predicts as a Terrible Fate because she thinks the kissing is cringe
I am watching HeyRowanElis’ video “The ‘unbearable loneliness’ of aromanticism” and she quoted something from “Romantic Love is Killing us” by Caleb Luna— “It’s difficult to see it as anything other than a choice. To put it another way: those around me deprioritize our relationship for the sake of prioritizing their romantic and sexual one.” And it just has me really thinking.
Firstly in that amatonormatism is just so wide spread and expected of others. When I assumed I was alloromantic, and saw other alloromantic get into relationships, there was this pressure that you Had to prioritize your romantic relationship over every other relationship in your life EVER. All of your friends, all of your family, your children, co-workers, every single person in your life (oftentimes including yourself) MUST take a back seat to your romantic and sexual partner. And it’s ridiculous because I am also sure that most people don’t actually want that.
When I was in my toxic relationship, I was essentially expected to stop talking to all of my friends. Most of that was just due to the controlling nature of my ex but it was also the expectation from everyone else in my life too. People who weren’t negatively effect by the harmful nature of that relationship distanced, people who didn’t even know what he did to me and didn’t experience my negative outlash from being in that position still left and distanced. Everyone assumes you’re prioritizing them now and they react accordingly. I hated this, and so did many of my friends. But it was just the assumption.
I’m loosing track of my thoughts but my other thought is just that— it’s so expected yet literally no one I know actually wants that. So many people have expressed to me sadness and anger and lonliness when their other important friends got in a relationship and stopped talking to them, I’ve felt and seen other people experience the pain of the pressure to have to stop being as close to their friends as they once were— stop talking, stop engaging, no more touching ever, no more sleeping over, no more intimate private conversations. You seemingly have to forfeit the depth of love for everyone else you have.
I have also had potential partners + people I’ve engaged in more-than-platonic behavior with get visibly weirded out when I prioritize my relationship with my friends. They see it as weird when I tell them there are things I will only tell and do with them, that I will never tell them. They get weird when I prioritize my friends over them. They get weird when they see that romance isn’t my priority. This goes even with relationships that it’s been made clear it’s only sexual/platonic but engaging in more actions that are seen as romantic.
Idk. Being aromantic is weird. And it sucks sometimes.
oh yeaahh i forgot i had this gif from aaages ago lolz ,
deciding one day that you want to build a life for yourself is so scary. like damn I really want to live… I’m new to this. where do I even begin
My relationship is the opposite of "aromantic meets The Right Person and falls in love" my partner is alloromantic but loves me so much that he cannot fall in love with me and romance is basically irrelevant to him now. I met the right person and he's basically an honorary aromantic now
this is aromantic joy!
As a romance repulsed aromantic, i would like to take a moment to thank the humble star shape.
Thank you for standing strong against all the heart shaped stuff out there
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
no i actually don’t think that romance is an inherent good
i just remembered i once accidentally stopped a game of never have i ever by asking what counts as the same gender as mine when the question was if we had ever made out with a person of the same gender as our own. and then we had a two hour discussion about gender and aromanticism it was fantastic
oh also i had made out with exactly one person before that and they sure didn't have a gender that was really similar to mine i just asked out of curiosity
so freeing to be aro lowkey. kissing's just a thing. hugging's just a thing. consent extends to all interactions. the boundaries of a relationship are solely determined by those involved. just do what you want and call it what you want the lines are made up reject the cages of society kiss your friends be gay platonicly no one who matters cares
