#aro-ace

[platoniromantic-feelings]

I don't want to date you. I just want to go places with you.

I don't want to marry you. I just want to know that you won't leave me.

I don't want a shared bank account. I just want to go grocery shopping with you, put my arm around your waist in the supermarket, and have pointless, fun conversations about aioli and potatoes.

I want to not need an excuse to hang out with you. I want you to ask me for help and know that it will be given, and for me to ask you for help without worrying that I am burdening you or asking too much.

I want to not have to censor my facial expression when I look at you lest people think I am in love with you. I want to stop worrying about whether your girlfriend will tell you that you can't be friends with me anymore. I want to know that you won't listen to her if she does.

I want a friendship I don't have to worry about.

[wtv-i-feel-like-saying-atm]

the day so-called “sex/kink positive” ppl accept & respect the fact that ppl r allowed to be uninterested and/or even disgusted by sex & kink w/o instantly or automatically being anti-sex or anti-kink is the day that sex/kink positivity actually becomes a real thing and i can finally rest.

[secretly-neurotic]

Quick aro-ace rep painting in the form of our lord & savior, Murderbot

[eve-of-halloween]

Happy Pride!!!

As someone who struggled a long time with finding my own identity over the years I am happy to embrace my identity now adays. I grew up being told how one day I'll meet a nice boy and get married and yadayada. Well sorry grandma sadly turns out that I HATE being touched. Like being kissed or hugged or carressed by a partner would make me feel like my skin was writhing (in a bad way) and make me wanna rip it off See I tried the whole dating thing several times in the past, cause that was the normal thing to do, but each time I never felt that desire, passion, or spark that I was told people should have. It was actually thanks to two of my previous partners and their insight that I discovered that I was Aro/Ace this whole time, and it all made so much more sense.

And life has been so much better since discovering that. I no longer have to wear this mask or pretend to feel love or desire like "normal" people are supposed to do. I don't have to force myself to tolerate being hugged or kissed.

[reasonablysurmised]

Okay, all my aro and/or ace umbrella folks deeply invested in representations of platonic or queerplatonic relationships that supercede romantic ones, HOW are we all sleeping on The Decameron?

Panfilo and Neifile, fucking CANON-TEXTUAL QPR of all time! I am giddy yet unwell.

[starbvg]

✦ SCRAP BURROW ENTRY

“something was almost formed here, then it wasn’t.” 🦝 recovered from lower strata

[ex-foster]

"yOuR aCePhoBiA iS sHoWiNg" 🙄

What's with all the aro-aces suddenly interested in adoption/fostering lately? These people are beyond annoying.

"Bigotry" is such a loaded word for anyone considering adoption or fostering. News flash: the process of applying to become a foster or adoptive parent is a discriminatory process and it's supposed to be. This is about what is supposed to be in the best interest of the child not in the best interest of you.

The actual absurdity of telling a former foster kid that they are a "bigot" for outlining concerns with aro-ace single parent adoption. They are so entitled.

It's like I've said before, these people use their ridiculous sexual identities as a battering ram to get whatever they want. The alphabet needs to be stopped.