#aro poet

[trickstersaint]

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!)

[dragonsorphan]

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

[abcwordsurge]

book about poetry brings up queer relationships and I'm like cool. brings up aspec people and I'm like OH MY CHEKXNSKSMLEMSKSKSK

[nondelphic]

romance writers: “okay but how do i make this kiss emotionally devastating... like, they kiss, but somehow both of them are crying about it??”

[souroboruos]

Aroace Explosion pixel art, Me, February 25, 2024

(this one took me so long to finish, i'm very proud of it)

[the-ellia-west]

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

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*

[logicaldelta]

"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

[voidpunkpal]

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?

[peachesatthegraveyard]

It still rains under the umbrella

I wish I could believe in love Like everyone else does I wish I could feel it The way they do

There weren't any butterflies in my stomach just dread

I kept pushing on Hoping eventually some kind of spark would appear

It didn’t work And I left someone caught in my crossfire

I wish I could just be normal I don’t know why I had to be so different

And the worst part Is that I like being this way It enhances my love for everything else in this beautiful world But I know in my heart That no one will ever get it And that’s the thing that actually makes me lonely

Not the absence of romance, The absence of understanding

[very-gay-poet]

I think a downside of being an aromatic author is that I have no idea the difference (or how to portray) between platonic/romantic so everyone's going to be a little in love with each other

[laurabstar]

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)

[trickstersaint]

an aromantic person is someone who (fill in the blank here) // april 10 2024

[love-ardour-anarchism]

maybe today is not a day for any elaborate poetry in any case but I want you to know that in the thick of darkest days you make me glad to be alive

.SCRR

[theres-an-endless-starry-sky]

The bolter but it’s aromantic regulus

[strangevamp]

as both aroace and hopelessly romantic 'the prophecy' really fucks me up

[ak-harper-loves-fiction]

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)