platonic-roses:

Time for another aro positivity post because we all need and deserve it!

• Shoutout to aros who experience some level of romantic attraction, shoutout to aros who feel zero romantic attraction
• Shoutout to aros who feel deep love for their friends, shoutout to aros who don’t put emphasis on platonic relationships
• Shoutout to aros who partner up, shoutout to aros who don’t partner up
• Shoutout to aros who want to reclaim the word “love”, shoutout to aros who want to reject the word “love”
• Shoutout to aros who are also ace, shoutout to aros who aren’t ace
• Shoutout to aros who are out, shoutout to aros who are closeted
• Shoutout to aros who are accepted for their identity, shoutout to aros who receive hate for their identity
• Shoutout to aros who feel like they belong in queer spaces, shoutout to aros who feel rejected in queer spaces
• Shoutout to aros who feel included in aspec spaces, shoutout to aros who feel disconnected to the aspec community
• Shoutout to aros love being aro, shoutout to aros who hate being aro
• Shoutout to aros who love romantic content, shoutout to aros who hate romantic content
• Shoutout to aros who use microlabels to define their orientation, shoutout to aros who just use the word aro
• Shoutout to aros who have known they’re aro all their life, shoutout to aros who found out later on in life

Shoutout to aros

From now on, only aromantic people are allowed to write romance

My hopeless romantic aromantic butt looking for some fluffy fanfiction to indulge in:

“This is best friends to lovers”

Cool I love that trope!

“But will they stay just friends? Or will they become more than that???”

Uhm, yeah okay, honest mistake, it’s a phrasing that’s used a lot, I can put myself past this :>

*cue dramatic music* “I’vE bEeN iN lOvE wItH yOu SiNcE dAy OnE-”

How well would this burn?

[don’t tag as ace.]

I think the biggest disadvantage of aro spaces online (and queer spaces in general) is how American(/English) everything is. I know a lot of aros, me included, can’t fully talk about what love is to them, because the word “love” means something different in their native language. Some of us have different sets of words to express different kinds of affection. I know a lot of aros would want to identify as “loveless”, but find it hard to integrate it in their own language. I know some aros can’t relate to a lot of the experiences people have with amatonormativity and arophobia, because romance and relationships are handled differently where they live.

Your struggles don’t go unseen, you’re not alone <3

Okay I had a weird realisation when I was writing for one of my arospec characters. They have a best friends to undefined relationship going on, but it leans towards romantic? And I noticed while writing:

Making them call each other “love”, “sweetheart” etc. Yeah sure, why not

Making them call each other “my friend”, “buddy” etc? Wow that gets me so bad lol