#aromantic besties

[themarvelmarauder]

James: hey, be safe

Regulus: we will

Peter, mocking them: be safe

Lily: I'll be so safe

James: can you guys stop

Lily: I'll be safe for you!

James: stop! I'm gonna kill you

Lily: but how would that keep us safe?

#marauders #marauders era #james potter #regulus black #lily evans #peter pettigrew #lily and peter are besties #i dont make the rules #aromantic besties #starchaser #sunseeker #jegulus

[doomingthenarrative]

happy aromantic visibility day!

#aromantic #shoutout to my BESTIE SPECIFICALLY but all aromantics yes #we see you!!!!! #saiph speaks

[bananadramaaa]

Something silly & quick for Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week :D

#cannibal besties for the win #aromantic alastor #rosie needs to teach him some basics #alastor #hazbin hotel #rosie #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel rosie #aroace alastor #alastor & rosie #not a ship #myart #aromantic awareness week

[oceanamethyst]

You know, here’s my problem with shipping Alastor.

Yes, I know aromantic people can date.

Yes, I know asexuals can have sex.

But you don’t have to be a detective to know that he’s not the type for either.

#ocean speaks #alastor #aroace alastor #aromantic alastor #asexual alastor #apothisexual #apothiromantic #aroace #asexual #aromantic #yeah besties sorry for the discourse #i'm just fed up

[applebees4prez]

everyone in barbieland is asexual and aromantic btw. they’re all the bestest friends and in love with each other but never romantically. just so you know.

#they don’t have genitals !! #barbies and kens are all besties !! #okay yes i think margot robbie barbie is a lesbian but she’s not even a barbie anymore so she doesn’t count #and if you do think she’s aroace as well it’s so so slay!! #all headcanons are so awesome and valid!! #barbie #barbie movies #aroace #aromantic #asexual

[lyynpop]

once again here to appreciate the a-spec/polyamorous solidarity. absolutely adore our collective middle finger to amanormativity and toxic monogamy it's so sexy and cool of us

#me and my bestie living proof of this bond #aromantic #aro #asexual #aroace #ace #polyamory #polyamourous #aspec #a spec #relationship anarchy #nonmonogamy #non monogomous

[infiniteorangethethird]

being loveless does suck sometimes but less bc of some "ohnooo I'll never be able to loooove what will I ever doooo" bs but because how the hell do you tell the ppl around you that you view all relationships as business transactions where the currency is care and support and the reward is trust? How do you tell someone "hey so I could not care less about you as a person but also I enjoy every second we spend together and I'd fight the universe for you if you asked and if you ever disappeared I probably wouldn't miss you but I'd still cry for all the things we never got to experience together" without being the asshole?

#loveless #loveless apl #loveless aplatonic #aplatonic #aplspec #loveless aro #loveless aromantic #so many times i find myself believing im a shitty person #for not being emotionally invested in others #i find it genuinely hard to truly care for other ppl #but it's like i do wanna help and support you!! i do wanna be there for you #and do stupid shit with you!! #id do anything a good friendship requires from me!! #and yet it never feels enough bc the needed emotions aren't behind the acts #not enough that i do it bc i wanna. not enough if it's not out of love #and like how could i blame them for it? how else would they react to #'hey i literally don't care about you. let's hang out anyway'? #(bestie if ur reading this. im sorry...?) #queer stuff

[bunnieswithknives]

These bitches r in the worlds most toxic codependent QPR and my aromantic heart cannot be convinced otherwise 💚

#He is platonically kissing the besties goodnight #yhs #yhs reboot #yandere high school #samgladiator #coolment #owlphases #art #digital art #fanart #aromantic #qpr

[straightasaaro]

posh besties and their inside jokes

They’re so great I love them asdfghjklzxcbnm

#nevermore #anabel lee #anabel lee whitlock #prospero #prospero nevermore #posh besties #angry lesbian #lesbian #aromantic #webtoon

[peevesiehasasideblog]

Aromantics on 5th June:

#aro visibility day #aromantic visibility day #aromantic #aro memes #aromantic memes #aro positivity #shitpost #meme #peevesie speaks #i've barely been active and this blog runs almost entirely on queue BUT I HAD TO POST SOMETHING TODAY #happy first ever visibility day besties #aspec

[greenteaandtattoos]

being romance repulsed but wanting a partner like i just want a bestie to live with in a little cottage on the outskirts of a little town and we have a garden that we grow herbs to do spells with and fruits and veggies to sell at the farmer's market. is that too much to ask?

#lgbtqia #aromantic #aro #witchcraft #witch #kitchen witch #i just want to live out my fantasy cottagecore dreams with my bestie

[popcorn-plots]

*act like a married couple*

*constantly flirting*

*argue like an old married couple*

*cuddle on the couch, hold hands, can and will communicate like a married couple*

*can and will say 'i love you' whenever around the other*

*one of them is aro/ace and it is the absolute best platonic friendship a human being could ask for*

#aroace #aromantic #asexual #you know who you are #I love youuu #platonic #platonic relationships #old married couple #i'm also just tired and emotional and I missed my bestie today ToT

[necrophiliak]

#pasqal haneumann #rogue trader #skitarii #i like himmmmmmmmmmmmmm i like him i like him #aro to aro communication #every day i wish crpgs also had a besties option. does he know hesmy best friend #being in close proximity to unit pasqal is beneficial to this units cognitive functions #ill stop while im ahead. i havent been normal since i met him. #addendum: what part of him being canonically aromantic is hard for people to understand #adeptus mechanicus #40k

[ineffable-doll]

Shipping is so much more FUN when you're aspec.

I'm not super fandom savvy, having only ever been active in one of them in any meaningful way, but I am familiar with the online culture surrounding shipping fictional characters together. Something I've personally witnessed is that the thinking around platonic v.s. romantic is extremely binary; a relationship can be one or the other, and a platonic relationship is the failing outcome if you, as an audience member, preferred the latter. This reflects much broader societal thinking, so it makes sense that most people approach shipping this way.

However, when you're aspec (anywhere on the aromantic and/or asexual spectrums), this idea doesn't necessarily apply. Suddenly, platonic and romantic are not opposing ideas, they're just two potential options on a very, very wide sliding scale / multi-dimensional graph wherein the significance of a relationship is completely disconnected from its label.

A huge part of shipping culture (again, just from what I've witnessed) is that Explicit Confessions and/or an onscreen mouth kiss are necessary to make a ship canon, and that not happening means Your Ship Isn't Canon And Therefore Isn't Important or Valuable (and gets used as a way of invalidating other people's ships). However, for a lot of aspec folks (and others, of course), romance is not automatically more valuable than friendship, and an end goal for a particular character dynamic becomes a lot less about fulfilling A, B, and C to verify the couple as "real" in the eyes of the mainstream or even the fandom as a whole, and instead is more about wanting to see characters happily in one another's presence. Specifics vary wildly case to case, so I'm gonna leave that fairly broad.

Ultimately, I have found myself shipping characters in the usual way less and less as I've learned more about my own aspec identity and experience. I care less if characters kiss; I care less if characters declare three little words...though I also am very familiar with the history of queer erasure and definitely root for explicitly romantic queer rep. And all this doesn't mean I don't have couples I support - I very much do. But whether their relationship is specifically romantic matters very little to me, with rare exceptions. (In fact, I often find myself "shipping" characters platonically - seeing a couple that would make great best friends being forced along standard, heterosexual romantic beats.) Mostly, I want the characters I ship to be around each other, to support each other, and to love each other in whatever capacity is fulfilling to their arcs and to the narrative.

Or, to put this all in a more digestible meme format:

Allos: If the couple doesn't kiss then the ship isn't canon

Me: but have you considered that the real kiss was the friends we made along the way?

#aspec thoughts #asexual #aromantic #aroace #aromantism #asexuality #aspec #writing #shipping #fandom #just something I've been thinking about lately and wanted to share #this isn't just about Good Omens but definitely applies #are they besties? married? dating? don't care #they just should be around each other and be happy that's it #personal

[theforgottencrow]

This was meant to be posted on Valentine’s Day but I didn’t have time to finish it that day :”)

Ink sans belongs to Comyet

Error sans belongs to Loverofpiggies

#my art #ink sans #error sans #aro #ace #aroace #acesexual #aromantic #Platonic ErrorInk #I refuse to draw Error’s glitches /silly #utmv #Error AND ink #They are besties #<— Love is for stinky ppl /j

[taags-old-account]

The defining traits of humanity are NOT sex, romance, and empathy.

The defining traits of humanity are our creativity, adaptability, and our boundless amounts of hubris.

As well as arson.

#arson is literally in my username what did you people expect #the arson human talks shit #aromantic #asexual #aroace #bestie my empathy score is 12/80 try me