[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[depsidase]

[faeriekit]

Some libraries can even get you hooked up with social workers and local aid programs. The important thing is investigating what YOUR library can do for YOU.

[our-trans-punk-experience]

I have been pushing the library agenda hard recently

[worstgirleva]

Long magical girl transformation and the whole audience is so excited to see how I will subvert it, but in the end I just look like a normal magical girl and they're all booing me because I didn't subvert the genre and I'm crying because I just wanted to be a normal magical girl

[worstgirleva]

i made this post to make fun of irony poisoned people who have to subvert everything, but this is literally just what being a trans woman is like

[arofutures]

As someone nonpartnering, I'm always dancing on the razor's edge of relating to and having no patience for "forever alone" sentiments from alloro single people.

Because on the one hand, to be perfectly honest, yes, I am lonely! And while there's numerous factors involved in that, my being single is one of them. It's hard not to feel isolated as a single adult and I'm very cognizant of my friends, coworkers, family members etc... who have this whole category of social life that I do not.

However. While if someone individually happens to want a partner, that's fine and well and good, but 'everyone must partner off' cannot continue to be the broader social model. If your mentality is 'I'll get a romantic partner and that'll be that', then you're contributing to the problem -- for both yourself and everyone else.

Community has to be the real focus. When I think about combatting loneliness, I think about universal basic income and affordable housing, walkable neighbourhoods and robust public transit, free community events (both in-person and online), access to high-quality affordable healthcare, access to public restrooms, etc...

Even if we woke up tomorrow to find sudden cultural acceptance of permanent singlehood as an option, I and many other people would still be lonely! We need to support social infrastructure outside of romantic relationships and nuclear families at the policy level. If you have to work multiple jobs to afford a place to live or if you have a 2 hour commute because the local bus service sucks or if the best spot in town to meet new people is an accessibility nightmare, all of these things are going to stifle community and we're still going to be lonely. I genuinely do sympathize with the plight of the single alloro, but there has to be an understanding that your individual loneliness is not the end of the line.

[anistarrose]

manic pixie dream aromantic old man

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is wow people are underestimating non romantic relationships so much that they get mad when a platonic bond is sturdier than a romance powered relationship.

relationship hierarchy as a social construct is baffling

[starsandscars81]

i think what really cemented my identity as a person on the aroace spectrum is realizing that people actually find people attractive just looking at them once

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.

[rachellephant]

the most important thing to me ever is bi kids knowing that it’s ok to be 10% attracted to women and 90% attracted to men or 10% attracted to men and 90% attracted to women and still feeling ok to identify as bi, and still feeling like their identity is valid, and still feeling like they can lead fulfilling lives with both (or other) genders. like that’s just so fricking important.

[baital]

I’m a bi adult and you know what? I needed this. Thank you.

[alder-greatly-approves]

it’s also important to remember that it can be a fluid % like sometimes it’ll be 50/50 some times 10/90 and then drift into a 45/65 or even 2/98 and it’s still okay. It’s just where you are at that time in your life. 

[poly-wrath]

That shift is called the bicycle

[swords-and-aros]

Sex Indifferent Ace: wait a second

Sex Indifferent Ace: if I’m ace

Sex Indifferent Ace, pointing at Sex Repulsed Ace: and you’re ace

Sex Indifferent Ace: then who’s giving a fuck

Sex Favorable Ace, trying to control the five dragons Indifferent and Repulsed adopted without asking: that would be me

[thatgarden]

Me when asexuals just say "asexual" when they mean ace AND aro:

[Image ID: An emoji looking exhausted at a phone, with a translucent aroallo flag overlayed on it. /end ID]

[cherrytea556]

As an aroace, I hate that.

[thatgarden]

YES YES that's a huge example I was thinking of with this post. In fact, there's this one example in those comics where they're discussion queerplafonic relationship and:

God this just pisses me off. Not to downplay the involvement asexuals had with creating QPRs at all, or to say aces never get into QPRs, but queerplatonic relationships are way more important to the AROMANTIC community, not JUST the asexual community.

And the only times aromanticism is said in this comic is when they remember to say it alongside asexuality. It's disheartening.

It's a huge issue for asexuals (even including some aroaces unfortunately!) to completely ignore aromanticism when discussing the aspectrum, even if what they're discussing IS aromanticism. And I hope to see these aces be better allies to aros in the future.

[swords-and-aros]

Sex favorable aces should be talked about more

[weirdplutoprince]

ACE WEEK COMIC...01!!

[selkielore]

negative space

[morallyambiguous]

rick bursky / the man with a hole in his head

[aro-culture-is]

Aromantic being in a relationship culture is making your partner realise he's maybe aro-spec too

hell yeah!

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is having an identity crisis every time you feel queerplatonic, alterous or exteramo attraction.

.

[kindlyanni]

🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🌈

May I interest you with some light queer reading in the form of a PDF comic zine? It's an autobiographical comic about living by myself, partner-free, with posi vibes! 24 pages!

PDF available in my ITCH.io shop in English and in Finnish!