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trickstersaint · 2 months ago
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i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism
(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)
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dragonsorphan · 1 year ago
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Moon and Ennui
Sometime After midnight And before  The death march of traffic Two bodies Strewn under the warm blue glow Of a muted rerun Sunk deep under A warm blanket Of boredom
-Let’s watch the next one.
-Not interested.
-Then what?
-Hey…what does your hip bone taste like?
The rerun bled into the next And midnight Crawled toward  Daylight
-The moon and ennui
-Those aren't flavors
-Tell that to your hip bone
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abcwordsurge · 4 months ago
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book about poetry brings up queer relationships and I'm like cool. brings up aspec people and I'm like OH MY CHEKXNSKSMLEMSKSKSK
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nondelphic · 3 months ago
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romance writers: “okay but how do i make this kiss emotionally devastating... like, they kiss, but somehow both of them are crying about it??”
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souroboruos · 9 months ago
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Aroace Explosion pixel art, Me, February 25, 2024
(this one took me so long to finish, i'm very proud of it)
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the-ellia-west · 3 months ago
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hey i’m aro/ace and saw your post on writing romance and it was really helpful,,, but do you have any tips for writing enemies to lovers? mostly enemies-allies-lovers pipeline
Oh Absolutely! Thank you so much for the ask, love!
How to Write Enemies to Lovers for Dummies
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Alrighty! So, the key to Enemies to Lovers is Banter. They need to be the type of Enemies to trash talk each other
Before we begin here's some fun psychology facts that make Enemies to Lovers even more fun!
1. If you think someone is hot, you can't/don't actually hate them
2. The opposite of love is indifference not hate (use these as you will)
Anywayssss
Step one!
Writing Enemies to Lovers is the same as normal except that you add on the extra step of them being enemies first, adding more drama and banter throughout
So, you have to make them enemies, naturally. Figure out why they're enemies, why they would specifically hate each other instead of someone else.
Step two
Preferably, make it personal.
Make their arguments and fights feel more like they're fighting each other, and not the actual battle if they're in opposing organizations or something
Step three
Close proximity
Now that you've established how they usually act around each other and their usual banter, find some way to force them into close proximity.
Like one switches sides and the other is now their boss, they're kidnapped together, their bosses go missing, ect.
In close proximity, you want to jeep their former dynamic, but it slowly turns at the least, a bit more polite because they have to work together
(Think about how they'll try to undermine and push each other away according to their personality and morals - but of course make sure it doesn't work and they're still stuck together)
Step four
Give them a 'maybe we could have been friends' moment
Like have them look at each other after a while and go: 'maybe you're not so bad.'
Any of these variations
Step five
Make them talk
Eventually, your characters will be alone together, and they have to talk.
(It's best if one or both of them are in an emotionally vulnerable state)
One of them can ask the other a strangely nice or vulnerable question, they can tell them something, anything really
Examples: 'Have you ever thought about dying?', 'do you ever miss home?', 'you know... I always thought you were better than me.'
Step six
Have them be slightly more compatable by having them voluntarily work together, like coworkers or comrades rather than friends
Step seven
The friends stage
Have them be more friendly and trusting, partners in crime, good friends, and have that slowly develop (make sure to keep their trademark banter throughout)
Whatever level of friends, whether it be aforementioned partners in crime, kinda friends, normal friends, best friends, ect.
Step Seven
The falling for them
Then we develop the crush and eventually fall in love, *refer back to my other post*
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thatqueerbat · 1 year ago
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how do you decipher
the differences and nuances
between friendship and love
platonic attraction or affection
how do you ask
someone to explain
their feelings for you
in a comprehensible way
without making things awkward
is it just too hard to say
'hey this is how i like you'
how do you want to engage?
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logicaldelta · 3 months ago
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"You wouldn't understand because
You've never been in love,"
Not in a traditional sense, no,
But is it not love that flows through me?
The way I'd once viewed you as my sun,
The others being my stars
Is that love not enough for you?
"Of course it's not"
I speak to myself
As I hold her in my trembling arms
The dark room empty
Yet suffocating
Is it not love,
how I nursed you back to health?
When you couldn't move or stand?
"Not enough for them,"
I speak once more,
To the child in my grasp
"Why can't they see that I do know love?"
She whispers into the dark
"It's not your fault,"
I reply simply, as tears run down her cheeks
"Love is complex, they don't know themselves,"
The words fall on deaf ears
A shattered soul
Lost in the dark
I hope someday she'll see,
And I know that she is me
Love isn't that one thing,
A wedding with a ring
It's all around us,
Flourishing, blooming
In the winds that spread pollen,
The stars that shine at night
In the arms that hold us closely,
When nothing seems quite right
I know there's love within me,
Though maybe not your kind
And I hope one day you'll see me
When you stop being so blind
Love is the laughter shared,
The tears we shed together
It's the moments that we think of
When we can't stand the weather
I love all and none,
And sometimes too much
Never nothing
And it helps me see
Though you'd never agree
That I am love,
And love is me
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laurabstar · 7 months ago
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when you're a writer but then you find out you're aroace so now you get why you were so bad at writing romantic/seggsy scenes (+ now you can't read your own stories wo wanting to die)
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The bolter but it’s aromantic regulus
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strangevamp · 8 months ago
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as both aroace and hopelessly romantic 'the prophecy' really fucks me up
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trickstersaint · 8 months ago
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an aromantic person is someone who (fill in the blank here) // april 10 2024
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ak-harper-loves-fiction · 28 days ago
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As an aroace writer, I don't typically write romance. My preferred and more familiar genre is psychological thriller, but today, I'm trying romance out. Idk how exactly to execute this as I usually use projection, but now I have nothing to project. I mean I know what people SAY about it, but I don't necessarily know how to connect it to internal thoughts and sensations. Please send help. I'm so confused LMFAO. (Give me advice I beg of you)
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shire-ivy · 8 months ago
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The Prophecy by Taylor Swift but it's about being Aromantic in a society where all your friend leave you for their romantic partners and you beg for someone to choose you.
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green-enby · 5 months ago
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Happy International Friendship Day! I wrote a "poem" a while back about a long-distance friendship and falling in love platonically as an aroace; this feels like a good time to share it.
Here I sit on the swings in this garden
Thinking of you, our week spent together
Some flowers falls violently, one hits my back
I think to myself 'What season is this?
Perhaps it is autumn', but we're in full summer.
It must be because I associate you
With the fond memory of when it hit me
Again with such violence, that one realization
One I'd never tell you, lest it hurts you, too
Let's just see each other in a year or two.
Then I'll let you know, if you're close enough
That I'll be there for you, no matter how far
But really I don't need you to feel the same
It's more than enough that you told me you'll stay
I do not need you to change yourself
Because I love you as you are, my friend
So I did not dare ask to hold your hand
Didn't demand a longer embrace
Didn't feel hurt when we parted ways
'Cause now I am sure that I'll meet you again.
Platonic love, what a funny thing it is
The saying "just friends", they've got no idea!
They think we've it easy, no chances of heartbreak
Cold-hearted as robots, unmovable as mountains
I too was floored when instead I experienced
The highs and the lows of this love rollercoaster
The worries, the tears, that feeling of dread
'I'd rather be a robot or mountain', I'd said.
But then I saw you once more
In our scorching summer heat
Your eyes always closed
The illusion of distance
We sat and talked easy,
That dread all but gone
And now that you are, too
I feel no remorse:
It really was worth
All the beats it cost
My green and purple heart.
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anonamelie · 3 months ago
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Yes, I write romance here and there, it’s not impossible for me to write.
I spent countless years pretending to have crushes, and watching tv shows with romance in them. I believed there was something wrong with me when everyone else around me seemed “boy crazy”. It’s not that difficult to write romance when you’ve been pretending that you’ve been in love before in front of your relatives when they ask, “do you have a boyfriend?”
Even if I don’t feel romantically attracted to someone, it doesn’t mean I don’t know what romantic love looks like. I’ve seen it all my life. I was surrounded by it. It’s not that hard to put on that mask again. To be in love with someone and know they love me. I feel love. Familial love, platonic love, and romantic love. But I’m not romantically attracted to anyone. Maybe this paragraph is stupid, but it’s the truth. It’s how I feel.
A spectrum is vast. It’s not a straight line. There’s no, “You’re either this or that”. It’s a color wheel. It’s, “You can be this person and still feel this or that, or both. You can feel none of it at all, or only sometimes. You’re still valid. You’re still a part of this community.”
I think I needed to hear that as a teenager. That it was okay to like the idea of romance, to like watching other people fall in love, to even feel romantic love, but not be attracted to anybody romantically. That I didn’t have to be angry with myself about how my brain is programmed or about the expectations that I was going to date eventually. Maybe I will. Maybe I won’t. It shouldn’t matter. It does to some people, but it shouldn’t.
These paragraphs, these words that you’ve read, is where I pour my heart and soul into because I know someone will read them. Someone will read them and maybe they’ll feel a connection to the words they’re reading. I hope that’s what happens anyway. I hope these words make sense to someone.
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