aros are splendorous

An affirmation blog for aromantic and arospec people of all kinds. You are valid and wonderful exactly as you are! || on a hiatus for original content

[starlet-girls]

shipping characters who are just friends in canon is more than okay but what’s annoying is when people take screenshots of them touching and say “friends don’t do that!”. i hate to break it to you but friends do hug and hold hands and cuddle. saying ‘friends don’t do that’ is reenforcing the idea that physical touch is reserved for lovers

[anistarrose]

Oh, this red string you see wrapped around my finger? You're asking if it connects me to my one true love? An understandable mistake, but I'm aromantic. This is for my conspiracy board.

[bumblebee-madgirl]

Sorry, excuse me, one more question. Why are you on your own conspiracy board?

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

OCD symptom

[knifearo]

as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where people are fucking normal about aromanticism

[floralasshat]

At first I read “as an optometrist” and was just ready to accept the statement as is like oh yeah maybe some kind of pun about if people’s views weren’t clouded by hatred and biases they could be normal about aro and aspec in general but then I reread it was like “sigh, time for my nearsighted ass to go back to the optometrist.”

[knifearo]

as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where all these beautiful aromantic people get to go to the optometrist

[squidong]

misread aromanticism as astigmatism

[earhartsease]

some of you need to get new aspecs

[lgbtqiauserboxes]

Requested by philosophershroomie

[sillyme1]

I made a Demi-sexual and Demi-romantic flag ! You can give it a name and rate it :3

[infiniteorangethethird]

[gently holding the hands of those who mourn the loss of their dream futures after they realized they are aro] you're still allowed to do all those things you wanted. You can still find yourself a lifelong partner, you can still dedicate yourself to another person, you can still share your life with someone you deeply care about. You're allowed to date and you're allowed to be in relationships with people and you can still form those deep bonds without romantic attraction. You don't need romantic attraction to do all those fun couple-y things alloro people do. You're allowed to parttake in that fun if that's what you want to do.

You can still have your dream future. You just need someone who's willing to have it with you.

[aspecpplarebeautiful]

You don't have to make up for romantic attraction by having more/stronger platonic relationships. You deserve to navigate your relationships and your relationship to love on your own terms and not out of any kind of obligation.

[arokalypse]

platonic wife as a term fucks very much i like it

[starlightlibraries]

[theaceofarrows]

[negativepeanuthoarder]

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

[bestiarum]

the white-green gradient of a freshly chopped spring onion…. c'est magnifique

[bestiarum]

isnt this beautiful

[wasabi-ribs]

sorry i was struck by a vision

spring onion colour picked aromantic flag

[aromanticofficial]

official aromantic post

[moonblossom]

official aromatic post

[the-indigo-symphony]

Haven't found the apl post in my drafts yet but I just want to let people know that you can be outgoing and a people person while still being apl. Not wanting friendships or not feeling platonic attraction doesn't mean you can't enjoy other people's company. I like talking about my system and hearing from others about their own; I like being in fandoms where we build off each other's ideas and additions; I like doing things for others and seeing them happy because of something I did. None of this requires friendship. None of this requires me to feel platonic attraction. I don't have to make friends with everyone I interact with – I don't even have to make friends with those I interact with on the regular. Even when your interactions with others look like platonic relationships to someone else, they doesn't have to be if you don't want them to be. You have a say in the relationships you enter. Just because you're chatty, or extroverted, or outgoing, or any other variation of "social", doesn't mean you can't be non-friending or aplatonic. You are apl enough, just as you are.

[arroscnleche]

aplatonic snake!!!

[fiskdoesnotexist]

Hi aplatonic people, thank you for existing

[leftyousleeping]

hi reminder that aromantic people don’t have to compensate for their lack of romantic attraction with familial or platonic attraction. “aros still love their friends!!” sometimes they do. other times they don’t, and that’s okay! using non-rose attraction as a stand-in for romance invalidates loveless, afamilial, and apl folks. we don’t have to make up for our existence :3

[auggator]

not having sex is morally neutral. having sex is morally neutral

not engaging in romance is morally neutral. engaging in romance is morally neutral

not having friends is morally neutral. having friends is morally neutral