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"can i identify as aro even if-" you can do whatever you want forever👍

sometimes finding aromanticism in media isn’t literally about aromanticism… sometimes it’s about the deconstruction of love as a concept and the subversion of its perception as inherently humanising. it’s about the decentering of romance as a driving force in the narrative. and also sometimes it’s about love being central to the narrative but in a way that defies all traditional categorisations of romantic / platonic / anything else. it is the secret third thing yet so much more and less at once. the point is aromanticism is everywhere for those with eyes to see

chemicalico

me and the no one i pulled by doing nothing

icedandcubed

@funnier-when-aromantic

stephexmachina

proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up

redstonedust

your blorbos don't have to be romantic to love each other (#platonic love wins) but also they don't have to love each other to be romantic. ship those characters as a loveless marriage. make their feelings tragically one-sided with no hope of change. put them in a dead end relationship that they both know needs to end but neither are willing to admit it yet. more bad ships forever. its enrichment for me.

silverirony

unreliable narrator but it's just an aromantic writing romance

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

in hindsight, growing up as an aromantic person who didn't know aromanticism was a thing...it woulda been really easy for me to assume that something was wrong with me, that I was "broken" or "missing" some piece of humanity.

luckily I was autistic, oblivious, and had a huge ego. it literally never occurred to me to frame it as a "me" problem. i just thought every single person i knew was a dumbass

panic-at-the-aromantic

redstonedust AND biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist are aromantic??? are all the famous tumblrinas aromantic??

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

OKAY LISTEN

aroace-ryland-grace

hi aromantics and asexuals and aroaces. I love you.

aroace-ryland-grace

also everyone who's anywhere else on the aspectrum and everyone who's questioning if they're aspec. hi I love you too.

gremliinpriince

i desperately need more people to understand that you can want to have sex with a person and not be sexually attracted to them. you can love a person and not feel romantically attracted to them. you can want relationships, sexual and romantic, and still be ace, aro or aroace.

benjaminbadger

I think there's some medias that you just cannot meaningfully engage with if your main priority is shipping

benjaminbadger

(Tired aroace voice, metaphorical cigarette in hand) You don't have to make them kiss... they don't always have to kiss...

bear-ylee-stable

So many other kinds of human connection get put to the wayside with our current culture’s obsession with romantic love.

Don’t get me wrong it’s ok to ship romance but it doesn’t have to be the only type of relationship we celebrate in media, fandom space included.

benjaminbadger

completely-sane-scientist

i-am-bic

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

astriiformes

To be quite honest with you all I do think that aro/ace-spectrum fans in fandoms where people are desperately inventing crossover ships and humanizing non-human characters in order to have a conventionally attractive guy to ship the main character with, instead of possibly having to enjoy a story with no romance in it, have the right to refer to everyone else as cowards.

itsgotgills

It’s impossible to convince everyone to retroactively use the tag system properly but as a fix-it I’m going to start tagging all my non-crossover Iron Lung posts with #just blood if anyone wants to join me?

(no hate to hail mary but the shipping has eaten the smaller fandom alive & it’s legitimately impossible to search for anything else atp)

itsgotgills