If You Believe, We Put A Man on the Moon

[21//questioning gender//aroace] Aroace flag by aroaesflags. Aroace brick wall by  pride--edits. Icon by me.  Mainly talking about the ace, aro, aroace, and aspec communities. Absolutely, positively no discourse whatsoever allowed. No excuses.

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What’s up with the fairly recent trend of leap years all being bad fucking years like 2008? Shit. 2012? Fucking shit. 2016? Absolute fucking shit. I’m just gonna predict 2020 is gonna be the Most Absolute Stinky Piece of Shit year to date

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Date of Origin: July 3, 2018

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[the-aro-ace-arrow-ace]

[parkchanwoohoo]

I love Twitter bc everyone is dumb

[perestroika-hilton]

Just pronouns in general

[deadboytryingtosurvive]

Are- are you trying to tell me "no one" is a pronoun? Is that what this is saying??

[parkchanwoohoo]

Yes

[summerstormsandnoodles]

So if I choose to go by nobody/no one are those nemo-pronouns

[parkchanwoohoo]

i see through your tricks, odysseus

[amazoogle]

[thatssomanda]

My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.

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every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post

[gallusrostromegalus]

1.  If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.

2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:

[zillyirk32]

THIS IS GOLD

[aprillikesthings]

oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet

[artikgato]

When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT

STILL FUNNY

[ruelukas22]

The bell

The last question

The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time

It’s all beautiful

It’s all

So beautiful

[explorerrowan]

I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.

[caterinas80]

“I do not feel capable summarizing this article”

Same

[hummingirls]

i was desperately hoping for a flowchart slide that would zoom in on the last bubble, which of course would say: CHICKEN???

[pbscore]

Guys...

At some point, we really do need to talk about how A LOT of anti-arospec (I use ‘arospec’ here for alloaros as well as folks who only ID as aro with no other identity) sentiments are born out of really gross ‘slut-shaming’ ideology and that’s why so many of y’all have a hard time accepting arospec folks.

Like, I really don’t have the spoons to go into detail like I want to but just to kinda give an example of what I mean:

I’ve been aroace for a while but during my time just being aromantic and queer, I witnessed so much dehumanizing against anyone with an aro identity. This was primarily due to so much misinformation that perpetuated the stereotype that all aros ‘are just men who want to have sex without love uwu’ and that’s...not a healthy way to see ANYONE’S sexuality.

It’s only a few years back when all the intersectional feminists and LGBTQ+ activists were all about ‘sex positivity’ and ‘sex education’ and all that but now, some twisted form of ‘purity’ sex ideology has been sweeping through the online community, again, and I’m starting to see those really gross ‘slut-shaming’ posts.

I’m talking about seeing things like ‘uwu if you have sex without love, then it’s not real,’ or the more passive aggressive one, ‘I couldn’t EVER have sex with someone without love! That’s the problem with these people nowadays, they don’t love and they just wanna f*ck,’ or even just classic anti-aro bullshit like, ‘you’re not special for wanting to have sex with no romance, you just wanna hookup and your making (insert LGBTQ+ identity) look bad!’

Like...when are some of y’all (this also includes ace people who say gross shit about aros, too) gonna realize just how unhealthy it is to insinuate that someone with no romantic attraction is some sort of predator? When are y’all gonna realize that it’s hypocritical to say ‘sex positivity/education’ in one breath and then ‘if you have no love for your partner during sex, then you’re an abuser uwu’ in the next?

You realize that the only people dehumanizing arospec folks based on their identity are the same folks who, only just a few years ago, would have been mighty supportive of people’s own sexual agency, right?

Leave arospec people’s identities alone and learn how to boost their voices on issues that concern them more! Trust me, you’ll learn a lot more about their identities that way than you will assuming that every aro person is only aro because ‘they’re lonely’ or because they ‘don’t have friends’ or because ‘they just wanna hookup with no romance/love’.

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[icecream-noodle]

The mental shift between realising this is animated.

[yugirimistwalker]

there are so many things great about this aside from how hardcore this mosh pit is

- the shield that gets launched into the stratosphere as soon as the armies collide - the guy on the left side who somehow manages to do a complete 180 in all of the mayhem and dives out of frame -the guy on the right side who decides not to get involved and runs right past the camera - the final dude who trips in the least natural way possible

[bradspace3000]

Finally CGI has advanced far enough that we have the ending to Monty Python and the Holy Grail that we deserve

[arokaladin]

ten quick and easy ways to be an aro ally (because my previous posts have been about allying in specific ways and/or just said shit like ‘dismantle amatonormativity’ and I appreciate none of you knows what the fuck that means):

Think critically about how much work you put into your freindships as opposed to your romantic relationships and if necessary (hint: it will be necessary) try for a more even balance. That way you have a better spread out support network and your friends get more of your time and love, which will be especially nice for the aromantics in your life.

Read up on relationship anarchy! A quick google search will bring up some super interesting articles, and they may also help you to support and better understand the polyam people in your life.

Aim to see aromanticism as on the same level as importance as other queer identities: include us in pride edits and posts, make aro headcanons along with gay/bi/trans/etc. ones, and when you say LGBT+? mean it, and discuss the + identities just as much as the original acronym.

Don’t ship aro characters. Doesn’t matter if you think their canonisation was ‘dubious’ or ‘applies in the books but not the films’. This is an area where you have to accept that your alloromantic (that’s our word for non-aromantic!) opinion comes second. Aros need all the rep we can, so it’s disrespectful to ignore even the vaguest of canonisations.

Listen to aromantics rather than asexuals about aromantic issues. This seems obvious, but unfortunately some alloromantic asexuals present themselves as authorities and may even act like they are exempt from being arophobic (prejudiced against aromantics). The asexual and aromantic communities are close and share some of the same goals, but still don’t speak for each other.

Try to stop using phrases like ‘just friends’ or ‘more than friends’, as they contribute to aros feeling like our relationships don’t matter. This will also help with steps 1 and 2 as the aim once again is to stop seeing romantic love as ‘better’ than friendship and to start seeing it as ‘different’, but just as beautiful.

Don’t make fun of our terms even if you think they’re ‘weird’. You may not understand alterous attraction, squishes, or queerplatonic relationships, but that’s not to say you never will and it doesn’t mean you should mock them.

Think about what content you put on your blog, and even if you think its cute, consider how it might make you feel if you didn’t experience romantic attraction. (ship meta is a good place to apply this step).

Although some see it as silly, tagging things like ‘kissing’ or having a general ‘romo’ tag, can help aros avoid upsetting content. You might also want to avoid personalised ship tags because they make it harder for us to blacklist the ships. Romance repulsion is serious and it sucks a whole lot.

Accept criticism if you do something wrong. You probably will at some point, because some things which intuitively seem helpful are not. For instance lots of people like to add to their soulmate AUs that ‘of course, aros have platonic soulmates!’, but that still enforces that we need some kind of ‘other half’ and can be annoying to see. I also saw someone include the aro flag on lgbt valentines day merch and while I guess it was well meaning…. yeah. don’t. Listen if we tell you to stop something, and apply the new knowledge next time.

[weloveshortvideos]

so cute

[redvelvetnegro-deactivated20161]

the age old tale

[excima]

oh my god…

[catchymemes]

[bloodytales]

This is legitimately the fucking funniest star wars post I have ever seen. Thank you for this.

[queersona]

here's another fave tiktok

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[tockthewatchdog]

#this gets funnier the more time goes on

[arrowlock]

[Image ID: A comic by theodd1sout about a baby playing chess against a strong computer. The baby is rejoicing in a 'win' while the computer pats him on the head. The baby is labeled "Alloromantics learning it's ok to be single" and the computer is labeled "Aromantics". End ID]

[isappho-deactivated20240418]

ace people deserve to feel safe in queer spaces

[animatedtext]

just went through some old requests in my archive. have we ever been ok?

[itsaudreynotaubrey]

This will never NOT be funny

[tigersquash99]

I’m so glad this is on tumblr

[tropic-mews]

My favourite thing about this is, he didn’t even have to call him ‘Captain’ he could have used the screen-name but he was SO MARRIED TO THE IMMERSION that he DID.

[raavenb2619]

[ID: In the first panel, a person holds a pill jar labelled “Hard to swallow pills”. In the second panel, their hand holds three pills, labelled “some aros don’t feel love, and that’s okay”. End ID]

[valtsv]

my favorite thing about humanity is that we saw multiple creatures and were like “wouldn’t it be cool if that had wings” and we were right every single time

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