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oceanwithouthermoon · 2 months ago

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another thing i dont like about the belief that soulmates are a strictly romantic thing is like... people in this fandom will be like "aiura and saiki are only not dating because hes aroace" which does not make sense and is weird 😭 so like you think soulmates have to be romantic but it can cancel out if one of them is physically incapable of feeling romantic feelings... which, even though its STRICTLY romantic in your mind, is apparently totally possible and somehow more acceptable than just not dating your "soulmate" because you dont like them like that

"theyre not dating AND hes aroace" makes sense. "theyre not dating BECAUSE hes aroace" does not make sense.

#im definitely not properly phrasing this but i feel like other aroace people will get what i mean #it sets up this weird 'you WOULD like them like that if you werent aroace' thing which is... ough not a good thing to say imo #it makes it seem like them being soulmates means theyre SUPPOSED to be together #and him being aroace is like an anomaly that went wrong #does anyone get what i mean #can we all please just accept that soulmates doesnt automatically mean two people are romantically in love #it makes everything make sense and also not gross #idk maybe this is personal maybe im the only one bothered by this #but i dont think so #im not going to go into why i dont like when people use aroace as a term when they actually strictly mean 'romance averse aromantic'#or 'non-partnering aromantic'#but i digress #whole other conversation #meows post #also i feel like i should tack onto this that yes i was reminded of this because of a post on here but in no way am i targeting them #sometimes this is just a really simple phrasing issue and they probably dont mean it like this at all

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