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[skellydun]

hey good luck today with whatever u got going on. u got this. and i hope something really nice happens to u today. u deserve it. 

[yayculture]

let's all have fun because it's better than not having fun

[bychanfilm]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[mgmt2]

happens

[redstonedust]

i dont envy youtuber friendship fallouts like im imagining the times ive had to ditch a toxic ex-friend but with the additional baggage of a) having to maintain some professionalism as a public figure and b) there being hundreds of gay teenagers on the internet who headcanon us as found family and/or lovers. i think i would crash out.

[brawltogethernow]

[my-dailydreams]

[alvallah]

One of my favorite things about loving someone or developing a closeness or fondness towards someone is also loving and developing a fondness for the things they care about. When you learn to see the world in a new way, or you learn to appreciate the things you’ve previously overlooked, or they become your excuse to get into an interest you always thought was cool but thought you didn’t have time for. When a connection makes your world bigger and warmer and fuller and more beautiful.

[i-am-a-fish]

don't be mean to yourself that's you

[i-am-a-fish]

you live there

[aro-sora]

the most important part of life is love? how sad to reduce all of existence down to just one thing

[cosmicredcadet]

enough stories about how someone learns to truely be happy through love. i want a story where someone is desperately seeking out love thinking it's the only way to be happy only for them to learn by the end that happiness is what they make of it and they don't need love at all to make it.

[gazazabad]

Being aro & or non-partnering does not equal a less happy life.

So many partnerships can be toxic and ARE toxic. No relationship is inherently good and btw romance will not save you.

[arowitharrows]

My aromanticism is not a soft suffering waiting for you to shape it, lovingly, into something you can pity. I am not seeking your tender validation.

I do not need you to explain love to me.

Were we not hand fed the same dreams, the same wishes? Were we not given the same template, told to fill in the blanks with the same values? I've spent all my life being forced into the shape of someone like you.

I know what love is.

Let me explain lovelessness to you.

Let me press my hands deep into something you never questioned and let me break it open. Let me show you the rugged edges, the sharp teeth buried inside. If I bare my heart to you, will you see me as human?

My aromanticism is wrapped in bitter sharp barbed wire edges. You may lay your hands upon me but beware of shaping me.

[neptune-scythe]

I hate the idea that the opposite of love is straight up evil, and that love is required to experience any positive or caring emotion or be "a good person" (whatever tf that even means)

anyone can have empathy or compassion or respect without "love"

you can be social and have community and close relationships without having "love"

you can never experience "love" and still be kinder and treat people better than people who do experience it

and it doesn't make you evil

even if you don't experience empathy or compassion or really any emotion like that it doesn't make you evil

not experiencing any emotions at all doesn't make you evil

and being empathetic and loving and compassionate doesn't make you immune to being evil or hurting people either

nothing is that black and white

love is in fact not what makes us human

it's literally just another emotion on the same level as all the others ... and not everyone experiences it, just like any other emotion

and while I'm at it there is nothing wrong with being anti social or having a hard time connecting with other people or having no desire for human connection

as long as you're not purposely hurting people, or unintentionally hurting people but never taking accountability or responsibility for it then you're doing okay

stay loveless stay heartless be social or anti social whatever it is you are

thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[hehebrainrotgobrrrrr]

scrolling through posts on multiple platforms on aroace day is hell. 'they still love their friends' WRONG 'they still love their family' WRONG 'they still feel love' WRONG 'they still form deep connections' WRONG.

Stop erasing other parts of the aspec community challenge IMPOSSIBLE apparently!

DOES THE WORD 'SOME' NOT EXIST??????

'Some aroace people feel love, others do not..'

'Some aroace people choose to be in QPR's...'

So simple!

Yes I will be annoying and inform every single person I see make this mistake!

I wave my apparently 'evil' and 'nonhuman' flag high!

^ heartless aro flag (every time I see 'we are not heartless' I have to refrain myself)

[verysillything]

i think the funniest thing you can ever do with a character that has a lot of focus on a specific type of attraction is headcannon them as aspec for specifically that attraction. my favourite example of this would be an aplatonic Twilight Sparkle.

[everydaylouie]

mother's day