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For many girls and women, aromanticism is inherently a form of gender nonconformity, just as asexuality is for boys and men.

Romance novels are seen as being “feminine,” and romcoms are often derogatorily called “chick-flics,” for example. Women are expected to want flowers and chocolates and care about things like anniversaries and marriage to a greater extent than is expected of men. Even many of the things women are expected to do to conform to female gender roles are centered around looking attractive: having long well-styled hair, wearing makeup, shaving, wearing skirts and dresses, etc.

So shoutout to aro women and girls who want to be feminine but feel like their aromanticism makes them feel like an outsider to womanhood. Shout out to women and girls who feel left out of “girl talk” because they don’t have a crush or significant other to tell their friends about, or because they don’t think any of their classmates/coworkers/etc. are “cute.” Shout out to aro girls who are sick of being asked “who you’re dressing up for” any time they want to wear a bit of eyeliner and a pretty skirt. Your femininity is not made any less real or valid by your aromanticism.

And shoutout to gender nonconforming aro women and girls. Shoutout to aro women and girls whose aromanticism makes them feel disconnected from femininity. Shoutout to aro women and girls with short hair, and deep voices, and hair on their upper lips, chins, chests, stomachs, backs, armpits, arms, and legs that they choose not to shave off. Shoutout to aro women and girls who identify as both female and non-binary, who are both male and female, who use pronouns other than she/her. Shoutout to intersex aro girls and women. Y’all’re cool as hell and the aro community wouldn’t nearly as beautiful and vibrant without you.

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She-Ra LGBTQ+ Pride Sword from Nocturnadesigns

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The Asexual Struggle

Wanting a romantic relationship but everybody else wants a sexual relationship...

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“What makes the battle worth the fighting, What makes the mountain worth the climb? What makes the questions worth the asking, The reason worth the rhyme?”

— - ‘You Two’ from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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It had been a lovely family outing, and then the Doctor dropped in.

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PUT THE CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG MOVIE SOUNDTRACK ON SPOTIFY, YOU COWARDS

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins, and The Sound of Music

The holy trinity

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aesthetic: the look on caractacus' potts' face in the moment he realizes he just asked his dog to stop whistling

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Me: only deep and meaningful lyrics get to me

Sherman Brothers: Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Me:

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High key Arthur loves muggle movies.

Especially musicals. He liked Marry poppins and chitty chitty bang bang especially.

When Molly has the twins, his lullaby to them is ‘You two’

He’s caught Percy absentmindedly humming the bank song

Charlie and Bill used to skip around the house yelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious at the top of their lungs. Percy hates it now.

Molly would sing ‘stay awake’ and ‘feed the birds’ whenever arthur was away.

Arthur got the idea to enchant his car from Chitty Chitty. Molly was not amused but he calmed her down by singing ‘truly scrumptious’

Ron never got super into it but occasionally he’ll hum chim chim chery with Harry cause it was the only song he liked.

Ginny loves sister suffragete and plays it for Luna the first chance she gets.

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We all have that one character…

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang really makes a bold decision in having the entire second half of the movie be absolute nonsense. And not in the same way as, like, the Wizard of Oz where it happens right away so it’s like part of the movie throughout. No, it just decides a full hour in that it’s gonna start just doing literally whatEVER.

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THE WOMAN’S NAME IS “TRULY SCRUMPTIOUS.” THAT’S WHERE THE BAR IS SET IN THIS MOVIE.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang goes and takes 10 minutes showing car races while rolling the credits and it’s vaguely related to the plot because it’s the car, but also they summed up those 10 minutes in the one line “she won the Grand Prix, three years in a row!” so was it really necessary? no. But they got to play the overture and have the credits, so it’s happening. And then onto the kids and the car and then they meet Truly and then we meet the dad and grandpa and OK here are our main characters, awesome. And we have a conflict: how will they save the car? (Also the romantic subplot is introduced.) Truly’s dad is introduced as the villain, and will Catactacus’ inventions save the day? And then we spend some time on how they’ll save the car and then they’ve saved the car! And now it’s fixed! Yay! But what now? Picnic! Fun times on the beach! Oh and now the dad’s going to tell a story and now, more than an hour into the movie, the main plot is starting. So now they’ve got to save the car from the Vulgarians oh wait no that was done quickly OK now they’ve got to save Grandpa so they go and do that. And the real villains are now introduced and defeated and the kids are stolen and the car is too, very quickly into their arrival so now they have to save everyone and might as well save the country’s children too, and why not overthrow the monarchy while we’re at it? So that all happens, they go back to England, all is well, the plotlines from the original story (money, the sweet shop, and the romantic subplot) are resolved, and then they fly off into the sky. Which is a nice ending but also, logic? Anyway it’s a mess but I love it so much. Iconic.

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Grandpa Potts from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was a fan of Doctor Who, before it was cool. I mean seriously, he made his own Tardis.

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Love how chitty chitty bang bang straight up ends with a people’s revolution led by the children who have been banned from existing

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Varian and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Wanted to do another happy Varian picture!  Plus I really feel that Varian would be super at home in a steampunk world, and I was also taking a stroll down Nostalgia Lane today and remembered this gem of a movie.  So I decided to do a crossover sketch!

(I know Varian isn’t technically old enough to drive a car, but perhaps the laws in Corona would be different.  Or else there is a chance he turned 15 somewhere in season 01 of TTS, so perhaps he could get a learner’s permit.  ^^)

Fun fact! - For Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s license plate [Gen 11], if you make the “11″ into “ii”, spelling out “Genii”, it translates to “geniuses” in English from Bulgarian (according to Google translate)!  It can also mean “genie” or “magical being” (according to Oxford Dictionaries).

Inspirational picture under the cut:

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