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pissing off all shippers by interpreting canon romances as platonic friends who like to kiss and fuck. happy pride month
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can we all just sit and think about aromanticism together for a second. okay. okay awesome thank you i feel better :)
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valentine // april 4 2022
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Oh boy a genuinely good take on how aro/ace identities are a spectrum and we're not a monolith so this is a very nuanced topic that should be viewed from more than one angle, I sure hope it doesn't- oh no it did. It went into shipping discourse. Of course
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People need to start headcanoning characters as aromantic more often I'm so serious
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Sex is optional. This is true for everyone, not just asexual people.
Romance is optional. This is true for everyone, not just aromantic people.
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just thinking rn. just thinking
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People act like there's an explicit line between friendship and romance like This is how Platonic Friends act and if two people act like That they are a Romantic Couple. Buddy I have crossed the line so far that it's actually surprising to me and it's still friendship
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What is the difference between romantic and platonic feelings? Well I don't really care because I've come to the conclusion that I don't experience the former whatsoever so I wouldn't understand even the most thorough and comprehensive explanation so don't try to explain it to me and do not ask me what the difference is because I literally do not know it's like asking a colorblind person what red is
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thinkin bout how when i came out to one of my friends as ace, one of her first responses was "yeah but you'd have sex for your partner, right?"
which at the time filled me with dread. because i dont want to. but i agreed because i didn't want to seem like, selfish? i guess?
and i just think its really fuckin weird to say that to an ace person. i hate the idea that sex is an assumed part of every relationship, and to not have sex is like, witholding something important from your partner.
for me, if a partner cannot handle a relationship without sex, we are fundamentally incompatible. and i dont think thats selfish of me.
#god that's so fucked up. like sickening. awful thing to imagine someone saying to you right out the gate#thisssss is what we talk about when we talk about the 'but ace people can still have sex!' convo#like. DEMONSTRABLY.#there are so many allo people using it to reestablish a status quo of sex as a societal obligation#not only is it weird to say that to an ace person it should be weird to say that period.#i think we need to um. start killing
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an aspec just minding their business: I sure do wish fandom explored more things that aren’t romantic or sexual-
approximately every allo under the sun about to explain how someone not making something about romance or sex for 0.3 seconds is puritan and personally oppressing them:
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you know when you're just really horny (remembers what website i'm on) you know when you just really want to watch doctor who
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"Friends with benefits" and the benefit is being my friend :)
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friendly neighborhood reminder that not all aspec/aroace people are interested in queer platonic relationships, and that QPRs are not simply the aspec version of a romantic/sexual relationship. do not suggest a QPR to an aspec person as a replacement for a traditional relationship; a replacement is not necessary. while many aspec people are able to feel a strong platonic bond, not every aspec person is comfortable with labeling that bond as a QPR and one should not assume that they are. signed an aroace whose romance repulsion extends to the QPR label used towards himself due to the amount of times it is boiled down to Romance Lite
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"aros can still date" well i don't want to. "aros can be in qprs" well i don't want to. "aros can still get married" i cannot stress enough how much i don't want to do that. "it can be completely platonic" i don't care i still don't want to. "aros can still go on dates and kiss people and act indistinguishably from an alloromantic person" why are you so hell bent on us fitting into amatonormative society as much as possible. "aros can still love" is this just to make you feel better? it feels like it's just to make you feel better
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