[pride-4-you]

They/them pixel pronoun icons

Pt. 4/4

Grey Ace × Alloaro × Alloace

Achillian/Vincian/MLM × Sapphic/WLW × Diamoric/NBLNB

Intersex × Polygamous × Two-Spirit

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[lil-aro]

sending moral support to aros having to suffer the “so are you dating anyone?!?!” conversation from relatives this holiday season

[zemathememequeen]

[gamerism]

Hot take but… some fiction is just better without romance in it and y'all don’t need to rabidly search for romantic undertones where there are none

[justangrymacaroni]

A witch puts a spell on a girl, a sleeping spell that promises the girl shall wake through true love’s kiss. Men come and kiss her. She slumbers. Women come and press their lips to hers, but still she sleeps. Many years past, and the girl remains still. One bright morning,  a lost little boy finds her resting spot and clears the dust and grime from her face. He offers her a kiss on her forehead, and her eyes flutter open. She never feels romantic love for a man nor a woman, and she cares for the boy until the day she dies.

A young woman is imprisoned in a castle by a monstrously formed prince. The servants of the castle hope for them to fall in love, and when the spell is broken they assume their prayers have been answered. They are all surprised, but nonetheless pleased, when it is revealed to them that the young woman and prince are the truest of friends, and nothing more.

They say the kingdom is ruled by an evil queen, a woman who is incapable of loving. She is unmarried, she has no consorts, and she wishes for no partner. She is the wretched queen, the heartless queen. She must hate her daughter, for her daughter is beautiful, and women are incapable of liking another woman who’s prettier than themselves. It must be for this reason that the princess was sent away, not for how she was attacked by a man in the woods. They say the kingdom is ruled by an evil queen because she cannot love. The queen loves her daughter, and that is enough for them both.

There lives a prince who is forced to choose a bride at the ball. He meets many beautiful women, but find none which he loves. He spies one in a gorgeous gown and wonder in her eyes, and he dances with her all night long. The kingdom is sure he has found his bride. When the clock strikes midnight he tells her how he will never love a woman, or a man, in the way he is expected to. The beautiful woman smiles and tells him she expects nothing from him. The next morning the prince and the beautiful woman are missing, having run off together to see the world. They leave their shoes behind in their haste.

Many kinds of love exist. It doesn’t all have to be romantic.

[tsunamikillershark-deactivated2]

Love this so much

[quoth-the-sparrow]

I would love a whole book of fairy tales featuring folks who are on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum!!!

[khadij-al-kubra]

this is giving me many ideas

[unstoppablecass]

@atrast-nal-tunsha

[curspect]

alloaro & aroace dragons!

[nocturnalchangeling]

ok but i want aro representation that’s someone actually really loving to death towards their friends, not just someone who doesn’t care 

[clumsywaffle]

I wasn’t happy with the quality of the original pride landscapes... so I repainted all 10. Hope y’all like the new versions of disguised pride flags!

[raavenb2619]

[ID: At the top, text reads “Aro blogs be like”. Below is the solidarity meme. Five people form a circle by holding on to the wrist of the person in front of them. Each person’s hand is labelled “reblogging from another aro blog”. End ID]

[lil-aro]

aros reblog if you have fantasies where you reject someone’s romantic advances (bonus points if it’s to prove it to your family)

[yourfavekilledromance]

The Goose from the Untitled Goose Game killed romance with their honks!

[femme-idgie-threadgood]

Shout out to alloaro wlw: you're all doing amazing. Especially if you're an aro wlwoc, or a butch aro wlw, or a trans and aro wlw.

Your sexual attraction to women alongside a lack of (or limited) romantic attraction does not make you inherently predatory, or dirty, or bad, or whatever bullshit people have tried to shame you with. You are allowed to exist as an aromantic woman who is also sexually attracted to women.

[aroddish]

I pretty regularly doubt if I’m truly aro, not because I think I’ve felt romantic attraction, but because I get so utterly convinced that it can’t ACTUALLY exist. And if it doesn’t, then how can I be aro?

[aroddish]

The sequel, me doubting that anyone feels an innate connection to their assigned gender. If no one does, then how am I nonbinary?

[raavenb2619]

Did you know?

Romance is a scam that was invented by Disney in the 1950s to sell more movie tickets

[imtryingmybestoklmfao]

Just because the split attraction model may have slowed you personally down in realising your true orientation, for some of us it literally is the answer. Your personal bad experience doesn't mean the entire concept of split attraction is harmful. That's a you problem. For some of us it has helped us immensely.

[umberarts]

PHEW FINALLY, these took way too long but here’s some pride-inspired environments!! I’m not super used to working with palettes this way but it was still fun to try. sorry if I missed yours– I tried to get as many as I could but I was def running low on ideas/energy towards the end

[aspecpplarebeautiful]

You don’t need a romantic relationship to have sex. Sex can be healthy and good without involving romance at all.