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[klavierpanda]

As valentine's is two weeks away, are we all in agreement that we'll make aromantic trending for a 3rd year in a row?

#aro #aromantic #arospec #safeforaro #panda's post

[eropandasennin]

You know, I kinda miss the times when a (kids) anime got adapted into english and we got an original opening for it.

I know, most of us weebs love the original jp openings and it is a good thing that dubbing companies now just stick to them but there is something about the time period from the late 90's and early to mid 2000's when it comes to dub openings. Probably just nostalgia but most of these were legit a bang to listen to (if corny as hell).

#digimon #naruto #beyblade #pokemon #medabots #kirby right back at ya #dragon ball z #yu gi oh #sailor moon #teknoman #panda's post #long post #Youtube

[klavierpanda]

You say you love weird queer people but you aren't even normal about aros

#vent #aro #aromantic #arospec #queer #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

Don't forget to leave a plate of garlic bread out for the asexuals tonight. Also remember to put out an alternative snack for the ace vampires

#asexual #ace #international asexuality day #acespec #queer #unreality #(just in case) #panda's post #(I've turned reblogs back on because people really seem to like this)

[klavierpanda]

Queerplatonic does not mean and has never meant "more than friends". Reducing qprs to "non-romantic and non-sexual relation that is more than friends" is not accurate at all of the wide variety of relationships that might be qprs. For one, qprs can contain elements of romance and/or sex as much as the people in a give qpr are comfortable with. For another, "more than friends" just shows that you haven't done any work to deconstruct amatonormativity. Weaving a relationship hierarchy into the general definition of any type of relationship is amatonormative. This doesn't mean you can't value your own personal relationship as "more than friends", it is general statements about the inherent values of different relationships that is the issue.

#undescribed #queerplatonic #qpr #queerplatonic relationship #aro #aromantic #arospec #actually aro #aspec #queer #relationships #amatonormativity #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

Aroace people are aromantic too, please remember that

#I'm tired of aroaces having their aroness erased by everyone just saying they're asexual #of course there are aroaces who feel their asexuality is more important but that's not the general rule #honestly the constant erasure of my aroness is one of the reasons I dropped asexual as a label #aroace #aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #arospec #acespec #aromantic asexual #aspec #queer #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

Not aro as in "I'm still normal because I love my friends" but aro as in "I'm going to burn down the relationship hierarchy and the idea that 'love' or experiening any form of attraction is what makes us human". Aro as in "fuck you, I'm queer"

#aro #aromantic #loveless aro #arospec #safeforaro #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

I wish you could go into academia with any topic. I mean this both in a "autistic people should get paid to research their special interests way" and a "humanity should be able to fuck around and persue whatever knowledge they want without the horrors (capitalism) getting in the way"

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[klavierpanda]

Please remember aroace and aroallo do not form a binary. There are people in between and people outside of it

#aro #aromantic #arospec #aspec #queer #aroace #aroallo #non-sam aro #aromid #neu aro #safeforaro #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

"The average Tumblr user has polls" is not true, polls Georg actually has 10,000 polls and is a statistical outlier so shouldn't be counted

#polls #<- kinda? #spiders georg #shitposts #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

Hot take but I think relationship anarchy should be more widely know in the aro community (and everywhere but baby steps) and should be at the forefront of our discussions surrounding relationships

#aro #aromantic #arospec #actually aro #relationship anarchy #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

Fuck you aphobes, aro is trending! 🖕

#aro #aromantic #arospec #queer #gif #undescribed #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

"QPRs and other non-romantic committed relationships are not inherently amatonormative because there existence challenges amatonormativity" and "the way that some people frame QPRs as inherently more than friends is recycling amatonormative rhetoric like 'they must be in a romantic relationship or at least a QPR because friends don't do that' and is no more helpful" are statements that can co-exist.

There are phrases like "romantic relationships for aros" that completely miss the point of QPRs and frames it like aros need to make up for not experiencing romantic attraction (at the same level as allos). Ignoring the way that some people treat QPRs and other non-romantic committed relationships as a stand in or a substitute for romantic relationships is ignoring the hurt this causes non-partnering people.

Notice the nuance in what I'm saying. I'm not saying that QPRs are amatonormative. I am saying that the way some people talk about them is. Also notice I'm not talking on an individual level, this isn't about people who feels their qpps are more important than their friends. I firmly believe everyone has the right to choose what relationships are important to them and how important they are. I am talking about people who make generalising statements that do a disservice to the point of QPRs and other non-romantic committed relationships and harms non-partnering people

#I saw an iffy post that just didn't sit right #not least because of it's lack of nuance #but what can I expect from the allergic to nuance website :/ #aro #aromantic #arospec #aspec #relationships #relationship anarchy #qprs #queerplatonic #alterous #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

You cannot and never will be an ally to aros if you don't put in some work to begin deconstructing amatonormativity. That doesn't mean you have to rediscover it all because plenty of people have written about amatonormativity. What you do have to do is listen and internalise

#to be honest this goes for literally everything #aro #aromantic #arospec #queer #lgbtq+ #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

Love when people misinterpret what relationships anarchy means. It's not "freedom from labelling your relationships", it's "freedom to choose how you label your relationships and freedom to choose what sorts of relationships are important to you". Yes, for some people that does mean freedom from labels but they're not equivalent statements

#this really is the allergic to nuance website #aro #aromantic #relationship anarchy #panda's post

[klavierpanda]

You've heard of "raging homosexual" well get ready for raging aromantic, I'm gonna start breaking shit

#aro #aromantic #shitposts #but also like semi-serious #panda's post