#not asexual tho

[c0stass]

Being aromantic is a trip bc you're almost 30 and everyone ur age around you is falling in love and getting married and having kids and ur just over here like, imagining what your life could be like by reading fanfic and talking to Chai bots.

#my life be like #not asexual tho

[nebuleeart]

HAPPY PRIDE!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#my art #pride #pride month #lesbian #aromantic #asexual #aroace #nonbinary #pansexual #transgender #trans #bisexual #bada bing bada boom we got em tagged #seriously tho happy pride everyone

[theaceofarrows]

Reminder that it's international asexuality day eve, so don't forget to leave milk and cake slices out tonight for all your local aces

#asexual #asexuality #ace #aroace #aspec #international asexuality day #international asexuality day 2024 #srsly tho tomorrow is important

[almostshamelesspenguin]

Character: I think boys are pretty

Fandom: oh! They're gay! That's canon!

Different character: I have no interest in romance or sex. I don't understand it. Relationships confuse me. They seem pointless to me. I have no desire to be in a romantic or sexual relationship. I am an aromantic asexual.

Fandom: well, I guess you can interpret them as aroace...I don't see it though.

#has. has anyone else seen this or am i complaining about a virtually nonexistent issue #this is about a particular fandom that im not going to mention tho #not saying theres anything wrong with the first one either #but. cmon #bitches will give any excuse before having a character they can romantically ship #not every character needs shipping. not every character needs a realtionship #shut up for the love of god #aroace #aromantic #asexual #aroace erasure #aromantic erasure #asexual erasure #aroace rant

[waokevale]

Context: Lucifer is lonely after the (supposed) divorce and unconsciously ends up pinning for his nemesis/frenemy.

After past experience with Vox, Alastor can almost immediately tell when someone is crushing on him, so he did the only reasonable thing for an Aroace person to do in that situation. 👍

#hazbin hotel #hazbin lucifer #hazbin alastor #radioapple #kinda??? #mostly onesided tho #aroace #aromantic #asexual #hazbin #hazbin fanart

[ozballz]

aroace people are so cool because if they live without a spouse and it’s just them theres so much more room for pokemon plushies and other trinkets

#might live alone with may b a cat for this reason #not aroace tho i just enjoy my own company #aroace #asexual #aromantic

[strawberrycowtime]

being aroace must be so nice cuz like you don’t have to deal with romance. you must have so much more free time to dedicate to like. fostering healthy friendships and stuff. idk it seems like it would be easier to live like that

edit: im muting notifs on this sorry i justdidnmt expect it to blow up to much so. yeah

#i don’t think im aroace #bcuz i want a partner and stuff #but if any of my followers fall somewhere on that spectrum #is it like this? #like you just don’t think about wanting a relationship? #lmk if i’m being stupid/rude tho #asexual #aromantic #aroace

[redysetdare]

I'll never understand why people assume that something being a phase is a bad thing, especially when it comes to identity. because the thing is that our lives are made up of phases - they always have and always will. nothing, and i mean nothing, stay's completely the same forever. it's always changing ever so slightly - we are always changing ever so slightly.

We grew up in phases. We would grow up and maybe we liked robots as a kid but then as we grew up we instead decided dinosaurs were cooler - you didn't see people getting up in arms about how a kid liking something was just a phase and why that made their experience with that interest invalid.

We grow up choosing random jobs that we think would be cool as a kid but then as we get older we tend to choose something completely different - no one ever shut down those dream jobs for kids because it's understood that changing your mind isn't a bad thing. It's not bad to say "i want to be an astronaut" and then change that later. No one makes a big deal about "how do you know you actually want to be an astronaut, though?" because that's seen as a silly question to be asking.

it shouldn't be any different for identity. "How do you know you're aromantic?" how do you know you're straight? how do you know you won't change your mind later and realize something about yourself as you grow as a person?

sure, i'm aroace now. That may stay the same it may not. I'm a human being who grows and changes just like you are. Just like we all are. that's the whole point, isn't it? to grow and change?

So what if being aro or ace is a phase. The experience isn't any less valid. it still helped build me as a person. my life was richer because of it, even if it was temporary. I'd rather grow as a person and be happy than feel miserable because I forced myself into stagnation.

#text #marriage can also be a phase. attraction is a phase #you have probably had multiple partners in your life time. they all count as phases in your life too #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #aroace #only tagging these becuz its what i mostly see with this argument #anyone can reblog tho if this fits u

[fawndlyvenus]

You know what’s funny? How I can say that I headcanon a character as somewhere on the ace spectrum and/or aro spectrum, and within minutes I am being treated as if I am somehow very unintelligent and know nothing of the world.

#venus speaks #ace #acespec #asexuality #aro #arospec #aromantic #asexuel #Seriously tho let me live in peace #and bonus points for people trying to tell me – someone on the ace spectrum – that I don’t know what those really are #I’m just so damn tired of not being allowed to talk about and/or bring my own headcanons to the table anymore #And it’s also not just me. I see it everywhere and it’s honestly making me upset and uncomfortable as hell

[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]

#zine #personal zine #art #aromantic #aromantic spectrum #my art #id in alt text #that was very... interesting to write and draw about #dont ask me how i feel about romantic love its too tiring to explain #(<- thats a lie- do ask me about it as much as you want i have so many thoughts on it. probs more questions than answers tbf tho) #also yeah the black ring on my middle finger and right hand is bcs im asexual too #but ive known im ace since i was 13 so i dont have nothing poetic to say about it cuz its been just a normal thing for me for so long lol #aight its getting late and i need to go sleep byeeee

[subparcarrion]

the aroace rage is real. I can feel it in my fucking bones.

I dont even know what to say,, I wanna punt all those weird love songs to the moon and then down so much iced tea I implode on the spot.

#aroace #aromantic #silly goofy mood #idk what im doing lmao #asexual #acespec #arospec #silly #rage #idk man #no shade to people who like that kinda stuff tho #also not all aroaces have the same experience so this wont apply to all of us

[jaxypaxyhaxy]

My brother just told me that my father told him “Aro-ace people don’t have feelings”

THATS HOW HE TOLD MY BROTHER WHAT BEING ASEXUAL AND/OR AROMANTIC IS?!?!!!? JUST OHH YEAH THEY DONT HAVE FEELINGS AT ALL. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

When I tell you the unfathomable rage that stirred up in my stomach. I was absolutely speechless. Like that slapped me across the face I legitimately couldn’t.

#I got so angry I was about to fucking cry #I didn’t tho #like when I tell you I was absolutely SPEACHLESS! like I couldn’t think of something to say for a good 5 mins #I asked my brother to confirm for me and he was like dad said being asexual aromantic means you don’t have feelings #DIRECT FUCKING QUOTE FROM MY BROTHER #fuck my fuck ass father 😝🖕 #demiromantic #asexual #aromantic #misrepresentation #aroace

[canonically47]

i hate amatonormativity.

i hate how being single is considered bad. i hate how the older you get, the worse society treats you if you lack a partner, especially as a woman. i hate how i am not believed when i say i don’t have a crush. i hate how a romantic relationship is seen as the best relationship there is. i hate the relationship hierarchy. i hate how sexualized everything is. i hate how people would just never get it if they knew the true reason i rejected them. i hate being aromantic in a hetero- and amatonormative society, not because i hate my identity, but because i hate the way it is treated. i hate how i am not taken seriously. i hate how i am told i can, or will, be fixed. i hate how i am treated as a broken half rather than a content whole. and i hate romance, by god, how i hate it. i hate seeing a couple on the street knowing i will never have what they do. i hate unnecessarry romance in media. i hate that romance in itself is a plotline. i hate kissing. i hate hand-holding. i hate dates. i hate that i can’t do any of those without it being considered romantic. i hate that romance and sex seem to go hand in hand. i hate the insistence that i will have that one day. i hate that i am ‘too young to know’ and i hate soulmates and i hate those stupid fucking tropes.

i hate amatonormativity.

#aro #aromanticism #aromance #aromantic #aromantism #aromanitc #arospec #aro pride #don’t tag as asexual #even tho there’s some hints here and there this post is not about that #aromantic pride #actually aromantic #actually arospec #actually aro

[my-lonely-thoughts]

Aroace culture is finding out as an adult that sex and romance is not just an over exaggerated concept but a very real thing people like/do 😵‍💫

#no hate to allos! #but im ngl i always thought you just talked and sang about it #not actually DO it lol #love ya'll tho 🫶🏻 #aroace #aromantic #aromantic culture #asexual #asexuality #asexual culture #lgbtq #lgtbqia+ #lgbtqia #queer #my lonely thoughts

[hannaxjo]

friendly reminder it is not like this

it is like this

thank you<3

#aromantic #asexual #aroace #aroallo #alloace #they're not the same thing #all valid tho #lgbtqiia+ #pride 2022 #pride #aromantism #asexuality #you can be both #or neither #or only the other

[thepartyishere]

aro in a "cant feel a difference between friendships and romance" way

ace in a "too trans and dysphoric to even think about sex with another human person" way

#fr tho i was dating my ex bf for four years and it felt like a friendship with extra actions unlocked the whole time #aro #ace #aroace #slippery slimey #asexual #aromantic #thats why im queer aroacespec #back to the bf he was also ace so sex was always off the table but we barely even kissed #not that i minded i dont like kissing #i need a new tag for personal talk #lore lore lore #there we go #i wont remember it tho