#down with romance

[stari-hun]

Ur so right op so let me hit you with a list of series that would be far better with aroace rep

Solo Leveling - the relationships were just comphet, that man’s never looked at anything with interest unless he’s fighting it

Untouchable Lady - they’re messing up the romance I think they should be a qpr and just vibe together

The Max Level Hero Has Returned - I lied he’s actually aroace I don’t care what anyone headcanons or ships for him

FFF Class Trash Hero - His sexuality at this point is rage. Aroace crash out

Omniscient Readers Viewpoint - Yoohankim qpr is superior

Boxed Garden - They’re nice and they meld well together but not in a romantic way. Functionally they’re pretty much alr a qpr so just go all the way

Trash of the Count’s Family - His sexuality is that grindset

The Holy Grail of Eris - Eris is aroace sorry I make the rules

A Mild Noble’s Vacation Suggestion - Both main characters are aroace

Though I am an Inept Villainess ~Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Swap in the Maiden Court~ - The two main characters are in a gut renchingly sweet qpr. Reirin is absolutely aroace beyond a shadow of a doubt, I hc Keigetsu on the aro spec but she’s def ace. If you like ORV for the bond between life and death companions and their author then you’d like them

The Eccentric Duchess - She really only shows aesthetic attraction towards others anyways so I’m gonna take it

The Gardener in a Hunter World - He’s aroace, my take is fully on vibes but I’m right

Even Though I Transmigrated as a Villainess, I’d Rather Raise a Cat - The series would be significantly better if she was aroace and they were in an established qpr

The Regressed Son of a Duke is an Assassin - Comphet while wanting to maintain a cool untouchable male MC vibe just turns out really weird. He’s already aroace and grindset sexual so the series would peak without ppl falling for him left and right

General mentions to literally any series that follows these formats:

- “I’m so glad I was able to save you! I’m gonna leave now to live my own life” “now that you saved me I’m madly in love with you and I’m gonna keep you captive”

- Any series where they both need to marry for convenience but don’t establish their boundaries

- Any series where they get married and DO establish expectations to not fall in love but then still do. Like can you not make a series that’s genuinely just a historical qpr? People excuse any weird stuff in a historical series as just accurate to history but QPRs were SO much more common than marrying a random person and falling in love within the season

You know what?

Fuck you.

*turns all of your canon relationships into qpr*

Since no one wants to do aroace rep I’ll just do it myself

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[engravedlives]

misc music stamps

[fawndollie]

HUGE music blinkie dump.. found some mayhem ones too which i was surprised about!!

[foundfamilywhump]

being aromantic and into whump is like. shoutout to whump for being a great opportunity to engage with stories about intimacy and vulnerability and powerful emotion and physical interactions with other people and intense relationships that are not presumptively based in romance. what would i do without you.

[eroshaven]

[vampiregerard]

the crowd singing disenchanted via talkingvegas

[druidgroves]

the baldur's gate 3 experience when you accidentally trigger an unintentional romance because you thought you were just being a really supportive friend

[hearmeoutworthypoll]

Wild, but also the books pictured:

A Soul to Touch by Opal Reyne

A Soul to Guide by Opal Reyne

A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne

A Soul to Revive by Opal Reyne

I’m Engaged to Mothman by Paige Lavoie

Titan: A Gargoyle Daddy Dom Romance (Romancing His Stone Book 1) by Jillian Graves

Enthralled (The Spider's Mate #2) by Tiffany Roberts

Bound: An Alien Romance Trilogy (The Spider's Mate Book 3) by Tiffany Roberts

Escaping Wonderland by Tiffany Roberts

Yearning for Her by Tiffany Roberts

Barbarian's Taming: A SciFi Alien Romance (Ice Planet Barbarians) by Ruby Dixon

The Dragon's Bride: A Deal with a Demon, Book 1 by Katee Robert

Her Soul to Take by Harley Laroux

Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux

[musubiki]

balor 🥰

[myrkulitescourge]

the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me

just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.

like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.

in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.

how am i supposed to act normal about this.

[penceykills]

Leathermøuth photoshoot by Jayme Thornton, sometime in 2008/2009

[mintyeggs]

Grandpeepaw's Hideous Introspection

also its pretty tough to see how old dragonborn are just by appearance so we don't blame you, astarion. next time dont flirt with someone whos 730 years old tho

[engravedlives]

misc band/music blinkies

[batman-gif]

Gerard way strong in a way I'll never be because if I showed up at 8 goddamn am on a crisp Monday morning to my music video shoot for a song about my deep and complicated grief for my grandma and I walked into that church and unplanned uncoordinated they had the same casket as my actual grandmothers funeral I'd leave that band and never come back

[guusagi]

Frank Iero from Projekt Revolution 2007 in West Palm Beach, FL

This video of Frank makes me go au au auuuu! Had to share it with the masses.

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