sergeantsporks:

“Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion” story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they’ve been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because “they were probably just a late bloomer” or “no, you just finally found the right person!” and it’s just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn’t right and they can’t stand it.

incompetentmedic:

anyway alloaro/alloace/aroace solidarity is more powerful than 200 hydrogen bombs

heartless-aro:

Alloaros are not inherently more sexual than anyone else, and they don’t have to have sex to prove their alloaroness. An alloaro who has never had sex or who no longer has sex — whether due to not being able to find a partner, being celibate, experiencing trauma, not being ready, or any other reason — is no less alloaro than someone who has had lots of sex or who has one or more foveo(s)/FWB(s). There is no shame in an alloaro person having sexual relationships that don’t involve romantic feelings (or even platonic feelings!), but being alloaro without having sex isn’t a contradiction either.

calamity-crows:

cxyotl:

make that character aroace. NOW!

doodle-girl:

pixiecaps:

pixiecaps:

pixiecaps:

you’d never get it i have sick and twisted fantasies (making every character aromantic)

sometimes u see people talking about two characters dating and getting married and you know deep inside your heart those characters would be repulsed at the prospect or At most if they were to marry it’d be from an internal conflict with their own feelings and almost out of obligation to conform to what they think they want and the marriage would end in a divorce after a year once they finally realize they never felt a romantic desire for each other in that way. tbh.

i just think more people need to realize that dynamics between characters dont need to become romantic for them to subsequently progress more deeply in each others lives.

a lot of people get caught up in the “Oh but i want them to be the most special people to each other so they have to be romantic?” and well.. no👍 you can explore dynamics and what characters have without defaulting them to a romantic category just for the sake of saying they’re each others person

i think sometimes a lot of people, unintentionally, by doing that miss the actual potential and interesting element of what makes the dynamic appealing in the first place

ALT

Reminded me of this bit from “Loveless” that I’d taken a picture of.

makemeyours-29-deactivated20241:

“Are you good in bed?” No, I can’t sleep.

gayhenrycreel:

something that would be great for the aspec community would be acknowledgement that allos dont always enjoy a given type of relationship. some alloros never date. some allosexuals dont like sex.

im aroallo and dont like sex because of dysphoria. i would be okay with staying a virgin hypothetically forever. im still allosexual.

amatonormativity is so pervasive that people genuinely dont realise that attraction says nothing about what a person might prefer in relationships. just like how aspecs can still be in relationships, allos sometimes dont like relationships.

genderkoolaid:

you see there’s nuance between the generic valentine’s day hater (is single and distressed by this, unaware of what amatonormativity is, resents the holiday for making them confront their perceived lack of worth, spends the day miserable) and the enlightened valentine’s day hater (probably arospec, knows what amatonormativity is, sees the holiday as an opportunity to raise awareness and community, spends the day in joyous defiance)

morally-earl-gray:

part of being aroace is going “we’re too young to date, we’re just kids” for most of your life because it was true. and then you’re in high school and suddenly everyone is dating, and you’re still going “we’re too young to date, we’re just kids”. and then your classmates are fucking in the school bathrooms and your friends are coming to school covered in hickeys and your best friend has a boyfriend that she plans to marry, and you’re still going “we’re too young for this, we’re just kids.” And then you realize that you’re not a kid anymore, you’re not too young for this, and that you’re just… different