#anyways denial is a river in egypt

[feelkindadizzy]

We are afrodescendants and from western France. Most of our family is white. We are also plural, and while many of us are individually alloromantic, we use "aromantic" for ourselves as a whole, to describe the fact that none of us are interested in anyone romantically outside of ourselves.

We grew up in a very white area (western France is deeply racist because of its history), meaning we are now surrounded by WHITE queer people (some of them are arospec). Much like all of our identities, white people tend to think of us as being arospec with some kind of afrodescendant flavor which is very weird. Sometimes they will acknowledge that we have it worse than them, but that's about it. Because of that we have a hard time determining how being afrodescendant and aro are deeply connected. We never thought about it before reading this post, actually.

So we'll have to think about it. But in the meantime I can say that being non-white and living in a very, very white and racist area, means we feel alienated no matter what because even the people who technically use the same labels as us are so far from us... Sometimes it feels weird to use the same words as white people, you know.

Sometimes we wonder... If this feeling of alienation isn't some kind of root cause for our aromanticism. Because we've been told again and again from a young age that we were fundamentally different from our white peers. When talking about this alienation here, I'm not referring to our madness / craziness (folie), or to our queerness and transness, but specifically to our race and how dehumanizing racism is. We think about that sometimes, because the idea of being in a romantic or queerplatonic relationship with another person of color almost feels possible at times, while being with a white person feels completely undesirable.

Thanks a lot for this post ! 💚 We are so wrapped up in white circles that we forget that we are so very different from them and that we have very different lives. We really enjoyed reading everyone's addition to this post too.

i’d like to read about non-white aro experiences (as well as experiences of aro people from outside the US and UK). i don’t think there are enough explicitly non-white conversations about aromanticism. i remember seeing a demographic poll a long time ago, with a majority of aromantic tumblr identifying as white, but non-white aros exist!

i want to hear from people who can’t/won’t come out because of cultural expectations or language barriers. people who use different words to describe their aromanticism. people who experience isolation from the aro community because they aren’t white (enough). i want to hear about aromanticism from new angles!

of course, no one is ever obligated to reveal their ethnicity or race online. but if anyone has seen writing on diverse aro experiences or if they want to share their own experiences, i’d like to read about other perspectives! (pls send stuff my way)

[egginfroggin]

Well, they're in my brain now

Transcriptions:

Mabel: "40-year-old trauma, PSSH, what trauma? No trauma here, puh-lease. (trauma should fear me, if anything)"

Ford: "???" Arrow: "baffled child" Arrow: "flyaway of wi-fi, very important" (that last one is a joke, it has no signal receiving properties) (that we know of) Book cover: How to comprehend the Power of Mabel (you don't)

family fun activity: crossbow shooting (with live bolts, even!)

Please ignore the roughness of. basically all this. and especially the third sketch. People are hard, and the less said about inanimate objects, the better

Don't mind Mabel, she drowned her trauma in glitter and garrotted it with yarn, really, she's totally fine, she's okay, no trauma here, really

I feel like sci-fi blasters would be horrible for stealth, so that's probably part of why Mabel managed to acquire a crossbow for Ford -- keep that beanpole hidden, my stars, he's so small

In other news, regular ol' hands are hard, and I'm convinced that this small child (or tall adult, but I haven't tackled him yet) is the final boss of hands because. fingers. Help.

Anyway, have a good day! ^^

(Program: Krita; time taken: about 2 hours)

[c00l3stb0y3v3r]

I really wanna ask what do you y'all think what is happening in Kusuos mind and/or even what Kusuo does when hes falling in love.

Cause I know for a fact he's in denial for the longest time.

[achtm1zuta]

You're still in love with her aren't you

"H-huh? No, no, I... I don't know who you're talking about."

[fandomfairyuniverse]

Jihyun’s fine. You know how I know he’s fine? Because I said so. He’s fine because I said so

[novacaneeeeee]

“I don’t know why people see them together in that way ?? They’re like school friends.” ~Robin Hobb

DENIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT YOUR CHARACTER IS GAY!

😭.. I’m crying y did she write them so gay bro

[ronnyraygun]

Some of Tim’s most underrated and disrespected looks, tbh.

[hollow-keys]

I don't really have developed thoughts on this but it kinda annoys me when people act like it's especially bad if a man cheats on a woman with another man. Like there's something uniquely worse about that than if it was a woman. "Oh it means he never loved me" firstly, he could be bi, secondly, plenty of straight bfs who cheat on their girlfriends didn't love them either.

[momentomori24]

Drew this during break time! Finished the game and you will not be able to able to rip these two from my cold dead hands. New ship-- Unlocked.

[dailybakudekusong]

Today's Daily BakuDeku Song Is: Voodoo Doll - 5 Seconds of Summer

I don't even like you Why'd you want to go and make me feel this way? I don't understand what's happened I keep saying things I never say

I can feel you watching Even when you're nowhere to be seen I can feel you touching Even when you're far away from me

[chaseyesterdays]

Happy birthday tomorrow :) 🎊🎁🎉🎂🎈 sure hope you’re not hitting any special milestone lest you have a midlife crisis :) 🎈🎂🎉🎁❤️🎊

Aww, thank you!! 🥹 Alas I am hitting a special milestone and since I don’t know what point of my life is the middle I’ve decided to have an ongoing crisis, but hopefully the fact that I’m still an idiot 19 year old mentally will take some of the sting out of…no longer being in my 20s 😬

[cvldbones]

also i’m rewatching s5 to make myself feel better about the utter garbage that is the jackie x hyde breakup and pls.

5x02 where hyde looks so pissed at kelso trying to even BREATHE in jackie’s direction and then punching him when he joked around with her and -

[localdiscountgoth]

“when marnie was there” is beautiful love story between two young girls and that is it. there is nothing else. nope not a thing.

[sora227]

do not accept the rui kamishiro propaganda do not accept the rui kamishiro propaganda do not accept the rui kamishiro propaganda do not accept the rui kamishitro propaganda do not accept the rui kamishiro propaganda do not accept the rui kamishiro propaganda do not accept the rui kamishiro propaganda do not

[megane-sama]

The reason i really hate Rien is because there was no justifiable reason, good or otherwise for what they did. I didn't feel bad for her when Shugen destroyed her husband's sarcophagus because frankly, to me, she didn't deserve sympathy and I'm surprised Gabi could milk some out for her.

Her husband wasn't taken away from her early, he wasn't murdered and he didn't succumb to illness, he grew old and died like a normal human being, they had spent years together and yet because she had tapped into a form of permanent youth, she couldn't let him go and it made her ruin lives.

She could've had a family in Mei and the Lord Tensen, a family that would've supported and loved her properly through her grief but no she exiles Mei cause she doesnt agree with her and uses the Lord Tensen as tools to achieve her own ends.

I remember reading the final chapters and thinking "so you did all this for what? You created monsters for what?" Because the why? didn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

Now im not blaming her for feeling grief, its natural and its a very strong, powerful emotion but how she dealt with it is something i can never forgive her for.

[lichenrally]

i actually cant bring myself to like caitvi at all and not for any sane reason, its just that caitlyn reminds me too much of this girl who tried to steal my boyfriend, but also before i was together with him, i had a toxic yuri situationship with her, except she pretends she's straight and her comments about my boobs and her not wanting to be with men were totally a straight thing to say, so i didn't even get any pussy out of the whole situation, just the emotional baggage