#aromantic feels

[aroworlds]

Did I create this display to celebrate Aromantic Visibility Day? Nope, this is how my dolls dress every day...

(Between my doll dresses, backpack, jewellery, bookmarks and writing, aromanticism looms large in my creativity. Visibility, though, isn't just about pride colours or fictional representation. It's about making space for the diverse experiences, fears, needs and hopes of aromantics living in communities that struggle to reckon with our existence.)

[oidickhead]

The little face Brian makes when Michael tells him Ben proposed... My aromantic heart cracked in two I've seen this film before I Get It it says

I'm happy for you and it's what you want and all I want is for you to be happy because I love you but love just does not mean the same to you and me and I keep losing you to romance, the people I love keep "growing up" and "settling down" like it's the natural normal progression of life but I don't get that and I don't want it and I just wish people didn't see platonic relationships as lesser than. I will always be lesser than.

[green-electrons]

Carnival of aros, November: Prioritization

I am aromantic, and probably asexual but i prioritize my aromantic identity. I could probably be considered non sam aro but i don't use the term.

Why do I feel like that's the most important part of my identity? Because it's at the front of my mind during every interaction with friends or new people. Will they think i am interested? Do i come off as flirty? Will this physical touch be interpreted as romantic?

It's a lot to think about. For the first time i have come out to friends before/when ambiguity started to arise, and tho it was awkward, i could now be as affectionnate as i wanted! It's very freeing

As with gender, i identify as genderqueer but i don't feel the need to put one before the other as i feel that the two play on different parts of my life. I think the only part where they overlap would be my presentation:

The meme of wanting to be a sexy genderless vampire doesn't really apply to me, i would rather look like a friendly wood creature ! So less attractive, more friend shaped!

My heart loves in green, but i am very much yellow

Thank you for reading my entry and happy ace awareness week to all of you lovely aces!

[m0therflunker]

god you know those posts that are like ' I wonder how many ppl are trans/n-bi and don't know cos they haven't heard of it before' that but ab aromanticism

like my uni house watch a lot of dating shows (a tradition started pre-lockdown, we just have bad taste) and like this one guy goes 'im 30, and I've tried relationships but they never seem to work out?' and when he didn't get picked he was like

'ah no bother, im not fussed, im so happy just here w my dog :) '

and I'm ??? buddy??? r u aro??

hell, don't even need to bring up the labels I just want more people, men especially, to know they don't have to be in relationships in order to be 'successful' or w/e.

[downthegenderriver]

nonbinary aromantic solidarity is relating to aliens and monsters because they are the only things society tells you you can be

[kisakon]

My headcanon is that Bow is Aromantic.

[aro-gant-aro-blog]

i've gone the weekend away with my best friend and today was full on enough that i had to say i need to spend tonight alone. that would be cool any time but tonight it's especially cool bc she’d been planning to ask me to disappear so she could have some quality time with her girlfriend. which is fine and fantastic and i want that for her. but this is the best case scenario and still i'm wondering whether anyone is ever going to do that for me. will there ever be a time when someone tells their romantic partner to scram so they can spend time with me: their forever aromantic best friend. is that a reality i can have? is that a reality allos can imagine? i can hear them laughing a room away and the walls muffling that bright sound seem fitting.

[spinelessgremlin]

Aesthetic attraction is so fucking weird like i think you're cute but i dont want to date you and we're already friends so its just like ??????? What am i supposed to do with this knowledge ???