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faggotryandtransjesterism · 11 months ago

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being in fandom and aro is like i enjoy these characters' dynamic 'right? they're the perfect couple!' hmm well they're not together in canon, so that's not really the dynamic i'm talking about 'oh, so you don't ship them? i guess it's because you're aro, but that's okay! they can still be platonic!' free your mind.. please. do you understand that these categories of attachment are made up? are you capable of enjoying a relationship dynamic without first defining it?

#pls don't take this as 'i dislike shipping and think it's useless'#i ship a lot of characters that's not the point #my point is why do you have to bring the terms romantic and platonic into every discussion of character dynamics #my point is do you think maybe this says something about how you view systems of attachment #like maybe you haven't actually unlearned amatonormativity yet you just added more categories #very much the same feeling as the third gender and or amab/afab ification of nonbinary identities #shipping #fandom #aro #aromantic #amatonormativity

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