#explain im ace

[bee-fries]

"I love you."

Maybe it's just because I'm aroace or maybe I'm just weird, but I can tell my friends that I love them. Like without a thought. And they're usually really startled when I do it. Is this normal??? Do people just go around making awkward smiles and avoiding three little words at all costs??? Like bro. Love your homies, their friendship is eternal.

[stiffyck]

Good luck during pride month to all the aroaces who are gonna be blasted with "love is love" everywhere

Edit:

This post includes aplatonic people, loveless aros and any other people who fall anywhere on the aro and ace spectrum.

Stop saying "but theres platonic love and familial love-"

[vanyafresita]

after seeing this post by the artist afkeii on instagram, i got inspired to write a poem... and then i drew something to make it into a zine...

the way i feel about romantic love is... complicated... but i've known i'm on the aromantic spectrum for over a year now ! yippiee !

if you'd like to have a physical copy, feel free to [download the print version here] , and check [how to put it together / make a 8-page zine here]

[beaulesbian]

im just noticing some similarities

[novaiisk]

"When you think about me, why do you always bring up The Ball?"

- Mazey after attempting to kiss Fabian who immediately called Riz to explain

BRENNAN STOP IT HE'S NEVER BEATING THE REPRESSED PLATONIC SOULMATES ALLEGATIONS NOW !!!!!!!!!

[coolaidstain]

TIL that theres aphobes on Tumblr trying to claim that Jughead Jones has actually been gay coded the whole time and that saying he's ace is homophobic I fucking hate it here

[saeiken]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[puppyeared]

whenever someone asks me for help or advice i want to beam all my lived experience and advice that helped me through it directly into their mind to try and spare them as much pain and stress as possible, but because i cant actually do that what ends up happening is i dump everything i know related to that topic hoping something helps them like

[forbiddentaako]

fuck it radioapple week day 1:late night/early morning

[synthshenanigans]

Remember that one THDPH Chonny I drew? Finally redrew it :}

hes very pink lol [maybe too pink]

[Outfit & some mini lore below ↓]

[mio-nika]

Disgusting Part 3: Reminiscence and fish

[ghost--trick]

tldr; i don't like how even within the aspec community we still associate validity/humanity with ability to feel love

i love being part of the aspec community for the most part . but one thing that always frustrates me is how we tend to throw each other under the bus when trying to claim that our lack of attraction is valid,,

like. a common sentiments i see are "aces are valid cause we still feel romantic love :D we aren't heartless!!" or "aros are valid cause we still feel platonic love :D we aren't heartless !!" and i understand where they come from but it frustrates the hell out of me! for 2 reasons:

1) why do we have to defend our humanity!! what the hell!! terfs aren't gonna see this and be like "oh yeah that makes sense i respect aspec people now !" they're gonna scroll past!! or worse, argue it!! who are you trying to convince!!!

2) why. do we tie our humanity to love..?? like. yayy positivity but why are we excluding ppl from our own damn community???? ive seen SO many posts that wholly exclude me & many others bc apparently love makes people human. like even if it's temporary & even if it's not, loveless / aplatonic people are valid!!

sorry for the rant & i understand that ppl just want to spread positivity but i don't think we should do it by excluding others ^_^

[semipoet]

I just. Don't really know. And I haven't known for awhile.

[maxispaxis]

COGITO, ERGO SUM. I THINK, THEREFORE I AM!

Stylistic experiment that i dont feel the best about but i like how i colored and did the effects and id rather post my finished art work then let it rot yeah?

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

oh yeah i hate this btw. lmao:

[iamunabletothinkofablogname]

*gives you my liver as sacrifice in order to make this ask*

Hey >:3 I'm just wondering what ace and aro and aroace is? :> I don't really know tbh and I thought someone who is it (you are one of those, at least. I just wanna know the difference ;-;) could explain it better than Google lol.

I hope you have a nice day! ^^

THANKS FOR THE LIVER >:] So theres many different types of aros/aces but bassically ace is short for asexual which means someone who doesn't experience (or experiences low) sexual attraction to others, and aro is short for aromantic which means someone who doesn't experience (or experiences low) romantic attraction. AroAce is bassically someone who is both aromantic *and* asexual, so they experience low/no romantic and sexual attraction :D