#soft romo

[thevoidlord]

As an aroace, I love being in relationships with fellow aros/aces. QPRs? Gimme dat. Chef's kiss. Literal perfection. A gift from God and the heavens themselves. Soft romo? That's my limit; however, it's very pleasant, and bfyuowhbdjacbhdbchiud. Gimme.

I need to thank whoever invented these terms, because I love my queerplatonic partner and my soft romo partner sm, and I absolutely can't handle default society romance and relationships. Gimme dat aro-friendly one-on-one lifelong partnership, please. I've always wanted partnership growing up, but I never liked the idea of spicy things or romance (for the most part), since that's just the kind of aroace that I am and always have been. Makes me happy non-normative relationship types are a thing hehehehbheafheoabfvd Anyways Fictional romance is hot (because it ain't real)

[demiro-allosexual-culture-is]

Demiro allosexual culture is being in a soft romo rlshp w ur aroace partner and having the best most positive rlshp defined on ur own terms

Also not being able to decide btwn aro grayro and demiro lol (but 100% bisexual 😎)

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[heartless-aro]

I used to not really understand concepts like QPRs and soft romo relationships, but now I think I get it: QPRs/soft romo are whatever the fuck Twilight/Loid and Yor Forger have going on.

No, seriously. Think about it:

Even if it started out as a marriage of convenience, Yor and Twilight are happily married and coparenting.

Over the course of the series, it becomes clear that although they started their relationship for the sake of maintaining their covers, they have both become genuinely invested in their relationship. They consider each other family and show genuine affection and devotion towards one another.

Many traditionally romantic acts are “off-limits” in their relationship. There are many scenes where it’s shown that they don’t kiss each other, and they sleep in separate beds, for example.

They seemingly don’t think of their relationship as a true romantic relationship. Although there is evidence that the two experience romantic feelings towards one another, it is implied that they don’t currently define their relationship as a “real” marriage. For example Twilight at one point asks Yor to be his “real wife,” which can be interpreted as him “asking her out,” i.e., asking to redefine their relationship into something that more closely resembles a romantic relationship rather than a marriage of convenience*.

* Note: One could also argue that asking to be in a “real” marriage could be read as asking to shift an existing romantic relationship into a more serious long term commitment as is traditionally the case in a proposal, but in my opinion, that doesn’t make much sense when you consider that being legally married and coparenting means that they are already in a serious and somewhat long term relationship.

I would like to reiterate that this isn’t to say that they don’t have romantic feelings for one another. I think there’s a lot of evidence that they do experience some level of romantic attraction towards each other. But the fact of the matter is that — regardless of the nature of their feelings — the nature of their relationship is not quite romantic in the traditional sense, despite being notably different from what one would typically label as platonic. Thus, their relationship status at this point in the story could be labeled as a QPR or a soft romo relationship.

[catharsis-scrawled]

Grayromantic fic reader problems.

Ship: *confesses feelings to each other*

Me: Yay!

Ship: *gets Too Romo*

Me: Wait no not like that!

[askanaroace]

hi, so, basically, figuring out labels rn, I'm sure I'm on the aro spectrum just not sure where, I do develop crushes a lot but they're all dim, weak, not quite there, and I am never a romantic person, but i still feel the need for a relationship, just one where I'm not pressured to act lovely dovey 24/7, one where we can just hang and that be enough, do you have a clue of what label approximates this?

Aromantic

Aro spectrum

Gray-aromantic

Cupioromantic

Cupioroflux

You may also be interested in the term "soft romo".

Remember, the best label for you is the label you like the best. It doesn't have to perfectly, 100% accurately describe your feelings. No label is going to encapsulate the entirety of your feelings. You're always going to have to expand further to the people it matters to you to know more. =)

[fairyfleshprison]

i feel this way pretty regularly, like almost exactly this.

i got really attached the the label of

~Soft Romo~ in terms of the type of partnership that id probably be into. just cause yea i would say im kind of a partnering aro in the sense that i dont mind the idea of having some sortve companion. but even if there is a person i could think of that i might wanna do that with i usually just end up feeling like id rather not. but if i did ~ a nice just sortve partnering, soft romo relationship would be chill i think

There's gotta be some sort of in-between when it comes to being partnering or nonpartnering as an aromantic cause like I personally don't really feel the need to have any sort of partner or go out of my way to find one but at the same time I don't mind it and actually like being in some kind of non-romantic partnership

So like... Semi-partnering??? That has a nice ring to it. There's always overlap between the two ends so this makes sense at least it makes sense to me. There's no way I'm the only one who feels like this

[citnamora]

Happy Arospec Awareness Week! 🔆

[torse]

the man in the original picture was so gorgeous, I feel like I've done the world a disservice by shittily drawing Artemy over him

[floretspell]

fictional soft romo relationship - a flag for soft romo relationships with fictional characters.

symbol from photopea.

made by us. suggested by @yureipunk. tagging @radiomogai & @daybreakflags.

[fangpunk]

so many types of relationships not enough time to experience them smh /silly /nm

[righteousruin]

❛ an eternity with you would never satisfy me. ❜

He hums in agreement, lying with her head on his chest, fingers in her hair, staring at the open sky above them. He’d been nervous about her coming to Santa Prisca, but the government and the people were fond of him now — no longer a renegade, but a prodigal son, thanks to his newfound sports career. And so he brought her, under the agreement that they were not to be apart so long as they were on the island. Luckily, with all the time they’d had to spend apart, being glued to one another hadn’t been a problem.

And so, she was here, with him, on the same beach he’d combed as a child under the same moon, commanding the same tide that had once brought him food for himself and his mother, while she lived. He never thought about eternity. He never thought about any of this. He thought he would be dead— long dead — by now. Bane never once considered one day he might feel this sand on his back without his blood beneath it. He never considered he might one day have another heartbeat to feel, and a happy one at that.

Eternity. With the ocean beside them and the sky above, he wondered if they were not there already. Maybe they’d died together and this was the reward for their patience. Maybe dawn would not come, and they could stay like this. That would be alright. Ideal, even.

“If we have eternity, perhaps I should introduce myself.” He says, finally. They’ve known each other for years now, under the legal name his father gave him. One he’d rejected and replaced with the nickname he’d earned. But she’s met his mother now; He’d taken her to the gravesite in the quiet hours of the morning. It was the second most trusting thing he’d ever offered. To allow someone to call by the name she gave him would be the first. “My name is Bembé. She called me Bembé.”

[esperhuntress]

Ozpin's hands trace patterns over his wife's back, following faded scars periodically. Finally though he leans down and kisses her shoulder, contently sighing against her skin. "Love you."

Glynda sighed, the tension diffusing from her shoulders almost immediately. Her eyes fluttered shut as she leaned into his touch, head turning to softly nip the corner of his jaw.

"I love you too." She whispered instead of questioning him. They rarely spoke the words allowed.

[jeejyboard]

i'm sorry i just can't picture gideon being some suave womanizing casanova, even when she isn't raised in a hole in a ground with .5 women in it, even with opportunity, access to and experience with interested potential partners. i think beneath a lot of glib dryness and horndog enthusiasm she is too inherently 1) shy 2) invested in concealing the fact that she is shy 3) too soft-hearted and romo to not get attached in a casual situation/be able to move on quickly a la pyrrha dve. crass humor is a defense mechanism she uses it to unsettle or put others off or break tension but that does nottttt translate to game

[tricobicofriend]

why am i, an aromantic, listening to lovecore playlists/rhetorical

[baron-fromthebaronies]

Baron looks up at Riz.

I adore...you. Very much. :)

They look over to Sprak.

I...love you but...small. :)

-Baron

Riz is just staring at the mirror while eating some small little cracker sandwiches very slowly.

-Riz

Baron appears in the mirror in the same position Riz is in. They don't have any food but they are mimicking his movements.

They tilt their head.

-Baron

[heartless-aro]

Happy lesbian visibility week to aromantic lesbians! Y’all are cool as fuck.

Shoutout to allosexual aromantic lesbians! Your sexual attraction to women is beautiful and normal, and you aren’t bad or predatory for feeling that attraction, regardless of whether it’s accompanied by romantic attraction. Shoutout to aro lesbians who feel some romantic attraction! Your romantic attraction is just as lovely and as real as anyone else’s, even if you may experience yours differently or less often than an alloromantic person would. Shoutout to aroace lesbians. Whether your attraction to women is romantic, sexual, or something else that doesn’t fit neatly into either category, you are no less aroace for being a lesbian, and you are no less of a lesbian for being aroace.

Shoutout to aromantic lesbians who are relationship anarchists, aromantic lesbians who are nonpartnering or polyamorous, aromantic lesbians who are married, aromantic lesbians who have a zucchini/QPP or a foveo/FWB, and aromantic lesbians in soft romo relationships or waverships.

Y’all’re so wonderful, and I hope you have a splendid week!