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person: oh you write? are you any good?

me: yeah I guess

also me: he furrowed his brow, his brow furrowed, brow furrowing, his brow knit together, a wrinkle creased his brow, his brow browed browingly, brow—

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[ID: The business handshake meme. A person on the left, labelled “aces”, shakes hands with a person on the right, labelled “aros”. Their hands are labelled “being left out of conversations about orientation”. End ID]

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Aro culture is being jealous of languages with distinctions between types of love

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Aro culture is talking about how you interpret a popular gay ship as platonic and getting called homophobic or straight.

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Aro culture is wondering why no one takes platonic breakups as seriously as romantic breakups

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Aroace culture is experiencing strong aesthetic attraction and thinking that your friends are absolutely beautiful, but the idea of actually dating them just makes you tired.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this today but your identity isn’t discourse.

If you’re trans, even without dysphoria, you’re trans. You don’t have to justify it to people.

If you’re aromantic or asexual, you don’t have to explain your relationships (or lack thereof) to anyone.

If you’re demisexual or demiromantic, your experiences are your own any nobody but you gets to decide whether you’re right or wrong about them.

If you prefer to use microlabels, you don’t need to use broader umbrella terms to make other people more comfortable.

Your identity is your own. You are not a debate subject.

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aro culture is being annoyed by the fact that romance genre has its own category even though it's already literally everywhere while there is nothing of such for non-romance genre.

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[id= an edited version of the "No take only throw" meme based on comic by cupcakelogic about a dog. The dog says "please queer intimacy??" with a pleading expression and a ball in its mouth. A hand reaches for the ball, and the dog, looking angry, says "no date/romance!!" and insists "only queer intimacy". The ace and aro pride flags have been drawn on the dog in each panel. /end id]

Here's to the queer, oriented, angled, electio, alterous, queerplatonic, grey, etc etc aroaces who aren't into dating but still yearn for intimacy and affection and companionship. I feel ya.

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[ID: The Bart chair meme. Bart Simpson, labelled “me”, prepares to hit Homer, labelled “my favorite characters”, with a chair, labelled “chair that makes them aro”. End ID]

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aro culture is feeling overwhelmed by your love for your friends and your heart feeling full cuz' you're just so in love with all these wonderful people.

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aro culture is being really confused by the fact that in truth or dare, the only truth questions people can come up are about crushes.

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aro culture is being terrified to label yourself aromatic because “what if i fall in love in the future? what about that one person three years ago, was that a crush? but what if—”

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hey!! big shoutout to nonbinary aros and arospecs, you're doing very well

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Being ace doesn't mean you don't wanna have sex with someone.

You just don't feel sexual attraction (or you feel little sexual attraction).

Being aro doesn't mean you don't wanna have relationship with someone.

You just don't feel romantic feelings (or you feel little romantic feelings).

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yeah, i'm aroace. oh no. i will be happy alone. how sad. i can exist without romance and sex. how horrible.