#aro things

[aromanticduck]

"Oh you're alloromantic? But what if you meet someone one day who puts you off romance forever? I think you should put your life on hold just in case that happens."

[gender-luster]

"love is in the air" wrong! that's the buildup of static electricity before the discharge of lightning. you'll want to seek cover. quickly

[merely-a-caricature]

Society: *teenagers are crazed, horny, and lovesick animals*

Me: “Romance? Sex?! Such desires mystify me…….”

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[unromancesyourromance]

.That guy gets no bitches. .Slash positive. .In parentheses: Good for him. .Hashtag Aromantic.

[thearoacemoon]

Romance is not mandatory to have a good plot!

Let's repeat it until society understand.

[theneighborhoodcryptid]

“what if we kissed” what if we didn’t kiss and instead became such close friends that you realize that romance is unnecessary because it’s impossible for us to grow any closer than we currently are and that we’re already soulmates just not in that way

[repulsed-confessions]

i hate the amount of aphobia towards romance repulsion (& other repulsion too but i have more experience with romance repulsion)

i swear if i see 1 more post by an ace going 'u have to tag all ur smut for sex repulsed folk' (very true. i do 100% agree with this for many reasons just to make that clear) but then proceed to post so many romantic lovey dovey posts and ships with no tagging at all to say that theres romantic content i swear i am going to punch a hole through my thick brick exterior walls. tag ur romance please. and stop acting like thats so shocking or like were evil for wanting u to tag.

also this weird expectation that u have to 'make up for' ur lack of atraction through romance and platonic love and this weird treatment of romance as this amazing thing that has to be experienced and its clear theyre just trying to say fuck you to acephobes but they just end up coming across very aphobic and like they dont veiw aspecs as valid unless theyre alloro and/or allopl

and the fact that i cant bring up being aspec without it being assumed that im either alloace or completely unloving (neither true (also the fact they go to 'unloving' instead of aroace is odd (im not aroace either but still odd)))

and how very 'aspec pride post' i come across consists only of ace demiace maybe aroace if ur lucky but no aromantic or aplatonic or afamilial or anything else

and 'aspec inclusive' places/event never even having the aromantic flag available let alone other aspec flags or alloace and alloaro flags. and their focus on romantic relationships even tho they were never labeled as having any focus on romance

and the focus on needing love in aspec communities. ive seen so many posts go along the lines of 'aspec doesnt mean we cant feel love' which is true but then go on a rant about how evil and 'psychopathic' it is to not feel love and how theyre 'not 1 of them' and trying to separate themselves from loveless and love complicated folk

tldr: i dont feel comfortable in the aspec community due to the heavy focus on lovefull alloaces and how any1 who doesnt feel love or is a non-ace aspec is just left out and how romance repulsed folk r ignored and treated like were some evil anti-love villian for wanting a bit of tagging

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