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god I'm so glad to be aromantic. now more than ever I just don't even worry about being single or having to rely on a partner for everything. everything I've ever heard about what allos are dealing with makes me so so so glad that my priority will always be my friends first. fuck expectations fuck amatonormativity fuck relationship standards and predefined boxes. I love my friends more than anything in the world and romance needs no place in it! everyone get aromantic with it!!!!

kiwymelody

The best thing about Fairy-types being added as a counter to Dragons is that the type no longer has to be given exclusively to Legendaries and Great Beasts of Immesurable Power and instead they get to go a little freaky with it

What if worm in an apple but like, wyrm in an apple haha. Let's make 5 of those

aropride

i’ve got a partner?!???!! yay!!!?

i’m so confused on how i got here

pubbiboii

arofutures

I do sometimes feel a bit between worlds in aro spaces as someone who is both aro & ace, but views them as entirely distinct identities.

Over the years, there's been a shift from "aro ace" (with a space) to "aroace" (no space) in popular usage. And I get that for a lot of people, it is a single entity. And even absent that, that it's a bit silly to quibble over a space. But for me personally, it feels as nonsensical to combine into one as, say, my height and my religion. Both true, sure, but way out of left field.

And of the two, my aromanticism is vastly more important to me than my asexuality. My being ace is a footnote vs my being aro is a multi-volume saga. And given that, I get the frustration from alloaros or non-SAM aros about the conflation of the two. Aro and ace represent a single identity for some, but in the broad scheme, they are distinct.

But I feel like an intruder weighing into those conversations, because I am the guy that's both. I don't know what it's like to be alloaro or non-SAM aro and have that be erased or demonized. But on the other hand, I'm aro first and ace like....eighth, so I often feel myself relating more to the thoughts/experiences of non-ace aros than my fellow aro aces.

So I end up in this sort of counterintuitive venn diagram scenario, wherein I am in the middle, yet somehow feeling more alone for it. And I just never know how to talk about that without feeling like simultaneously I'm overstepping non-ace aros and accidentally snubbing aroaces.

going-to-the-sun

"average age of an MCC team is 42 years old" factoid is actually just a statistical error. the average MCC team is 25 years old. Pink Parrots, who were all born before the invention of the world wide web and dvds, are an outlier and should not have been counted.

beloved-birch

I feel like no one's mentioned this yet but Joel seems to be really good at turning himself into not the but of the joke

Like at the start of the neck kisses bit, everyone was just making fun of Joel's slip up and him insisting "I don't kiss people's necks"

But by the end of the stream everyone was groaning when he made the joke and now he's signing books with "neck kisses"

Now with the Etho's obsessed bit, somehow all the hermits are actually making fun of Etho over Joel for being obsessed, even though Joe started this two years ago by wearing Etho's face on his chest

How's he done this?

voidoffline

With shrek magic

i love putting the aspec lens on explicitly romantic songs. like no this isn’t about dating this is my exact feelings for pasta

really loving english analysis and also being so oblivious is so weird. what do you mean that during class i can write pages and pages about the symbolism and meaning and techniques of a single chapter. but when it just reading for fun at home i literally have no intelligent thoughts. i can’t remember what happened two pages ago, i don’t pick up on foreshadowing, i don’t even remember any of their names. where’d my brain go

crystaleevee4

i am going to start a collection

if you have any other posts of this kind please send them to me

kittyb1tz

torglives

etho is getting the full-force of joel’s homosexual tendencies right now because his real work wife (jimmy) isn’t on the hermitcraft server & he needs his enrichment time where he pesters some slightly* pathetic guy or he’ll wilt like a sad neglected plant

solbellaria

The Ethogirls

stworzonka

Oriented aroace label is so dear to me. Aroace and a secret third thing which I don't actually understand the nature of but I know it's there and it's important