Aro Pride - Blog Posts

The duality of "If you even imply that being aro or ace condemns someone to a sad and lonely life I will fucking fight you"

and

"being aro and ace is the most isolating thing I will ever experience"

LET ARO PEOPLE HAVE SEX

LET ARO PEOPLE BE VIRGINS

LET ACE PEOPLE DATE

LET ACE PEOPLE BE SINGLE

LET ARO PEOPLE DATE

LET ARO PEOPLE BE SINGLE

LET ACE PEOPLE HAVE SEX

LET ACE PEOPLE BE VIRGINS

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, y'all!!!!

Be yourself, embrace your aromanticism, and don't let anyone tell you who you are or who you should be!!

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Am I the only one who has a few specific friends who I'm really close with and love to be around, and, if they wanted to, I'd be completely down for making our relationship into something different (romantic, queerplatonic, etc.), but at the same time, I don't activity have a crush on them or want to push for a different relationship bc what if they don't feel the same way or don't know what queerplatonic relationships are.

I want a relationship that is completely undefinable by any existing labels or words. Like, we're so close and we hug and kiss each other's foreheads and cuddle and travel and explore together, and we get along so well and have so much in common. But at the same time, our relationship isn't fully romantic or fully platonic; it's a completely separate, open-to-interpretation thing that we tweaked as needed, and we have our own boundaries and things we are and aren't comfortable with, and we respect each other in every way, shape, and form.

Am I the only aro-spec person who switches between wanting a committed partnership, be it romantic, platonic, queerplatonic, etc, and wanting to be as far away from relationships as possible?

Was I the only aro-spec person who had the experience of thinking that I had crushes growing up, but looking back, they might not have been crushes because 1. I could never or only rarely name any traits that I liked about them (and those rare times that I could were traits that I simply admired), 2. I felt immense relief when they rejected me, or 3. I just wanted to have a crush, so I chose a person and consciously decided to develop feelings for them, not knowing that it doesn't work like that?

Something I recently realized that helped me understand my aro-spec identity is that my "crushes" that I can remember weren't actually fueled by romantic attraction for the person. They were actually fueled by attraction towards the idea of dating/liking them, but not actually them as a person. I wanted to find my soulmate and as soon as I found someone that I thought fit that ideal, I would start daydreaming about being with them, but I wasn't really attracted to them as a person, just my idealized version of them and the relationship. As a result, I couldn't really name any traits about those people that I liked, aside from surface level ones like, "funny," "nice," and "hardworking." And while I was aesthetically attracted to them, I never really fantasized about kissing them or being super romantic with them (aside from maybe hand-holding or hugging), and if I ever tried, it made me uncomfortable and felt like I was violating them. Did anyone else have a similar experience or is it just me?

They call me a triple A battery

Because I’m asexual, aromantic, and annoying as shit

Happy pride month folks

can somebody tell me some more info about queerplatonic relationships as me and my friend are considering entering one and neither of us know much about it?????

isaac is so real tao and elle were really leaving him out on movie night

the struggle of seeing people being happy couples knowing you won’t ever be like that is so real i actually love isaac (as much as i miss aled)

i dont know if i’ve made a post about this yet but i wanted to go over my views on relationships and sex as i was rambling about it to my brother the other day

personally, i view sex as just another part of your relationship with somebody. like i will casually sleep with friends, but not all of them. some of them i will casually cuddle and stuff, but again, not all of them. it just depends on the relationship you have with them.

and when it comes to dating, again, i just view that as your unique relationship with somebody. i understand that not everybody views dating this way, and it’s a conversation to have with any future partners, but i personally would want to still sleep with and date other people while in a relationship, and would be fine with my partner doing that too. i don’t like the idea of devoting my entire body to one singular person.

I'm currently reading loveless By Alice Osman and I personally think it's a good representation of convincing yourself and others that you have a crush (Or crushes) When you're ace/aro

The Seattle Aces & Aros marching up 4th Ave. in the 2024 Seattle Pride Parade

JaidenAnimations just made a video on being aroace, and good for her, you know? I’m happy for her.

but I’M SORRY

who gave the you the RIGHT to be inside my head???? the AUDACITY to feel to feel my feelings and think my thoughts, and be able to articulate it for others in a way I never could. EXCUSE ME, you mean to tell me I’m not the only one who feels this and that it’s valid???

is this the representation people keep asking for??? like, this derailed my entire day, how could it feel so good?????

I both love and hate when people don’t know about/don’t understand aromantism because if they’re super nice about it then I get to explain it to them! But if they say things like ‘oh, so you don’t love people?’ Or ‘so you’re gonna be alone/lonely forever?’ It’s infuriating because that’s not true!! Aromantic people do love! They just don’t feel romantic love like most people!

OMG THIS LOOKS SO CUTE I LOVED IT

Ah, hey, first post here. My english is not soo good and I'm brazilian btw, but, i have something to share with you 🫵

This is a version of the aromantic flag made by me, honestly i don't like so much the green, gray and black one, so i made this, i tried to post on reddit but I think it don't worked out as well as I expected. Well, here we go

The isolated flag if you want it

Serious question and just to know :

Is there a country where arocace people can feel safe, are not discriminated against and are protected ?? Especially a law that protects us or etc ?

I know that anglophone aroace people talk about Denmark because there are apparently a lot of people on the aro and ace spectrums.

Just asking cause I'm fck tired of allo society every day since many years now and also tired of all arophobia et acephobia on social media in the first place. 💀

And in my sh*tty country it's always "lgbT", hOMo, bI and transgender. WHAT ABOUT THE D*MN + ??????? ALWAYS ABOUT ALLOS PP FCK DAMMIT. 💀

(Of course : generality =/= globality !!!! Cause I don't hate all allos pp obviously. Some are decents, respectfull , share same values as mine and infinity open mind.)

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My mood :

Second gif is for allos bigots, allo society and all their fck pathetic and disgusting sh*ts.

I hate you infinitely.

I had the reflection not long ago of why I was uncomfortable at school (regardless of grade level) apart from stress because of the oral to pass and being an introverted person :

Being aroace and have to stay stuck a whole damn day surrounded by allos pp horny asf and who will not understand me, who tell me about their s€x life (at what point do you think it’s fckin normal to talk about it as if it was a banal and interesting subject ?? Wtf ???💀) without taking into account whether it made me uncomfortable or not (I think they didn’t give a shit because it didn’t come to their mind, those dumbass...).

Being surrounded by queer pp but none of them had defended me when I had received acephobia from a straight guy one day and only watched the scene without saying anything. The fact that most of them with whom I hung out invisibilized or even forgot my aromantism by remembering only my asexuality (bitches I'm aroace dammit. I’m both. Not one or the other !) and couldn't remember or didn't know the definition of being aro or ace.

But the worst I would say is that by dint of receiving arophobia and acephobia in about twenty years in the face, as an angry person by nature and who doesn't appreciate disrespectful pp etc, I became allophobe...

But let’s be clear : I don’t hate all allos pp ! Even if I speak in general, be aware that : generality =/= globality !

I know that some of them are decent, respectful and open-minded and these are the pp I appreciate ! Unfortunately, I have never met someone like that before. Maybe one day...

So to return to the subject :

Am I the only aroace person to be uncomfortable at school ??

It's a bit rough sorry and sorty again if my english is bad, it's not my native language but I hope you will understand the essential !

Once I saw a comment on a instagram post about the ace, aro spectrums that said approximately :

"For me, all characters in any fictional universe are aroace until they show romantic and/or sexual attraction and I headcanon them as aroace/are part of both spectrums."

AND I AGREE WITH THIS PERSON IT'S SO OBVIOUS !

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Happy pride month yall!

Tis officially June, the month of pride, glass animals, and mangos.

happy pride to all my aspecs and arospecs out there

happy pride to asexuals

happy pride to aromantics

happy pride to aplatonics

happy pride to aroaces

happy pride to alloaces

happy pride to alloaros

happy pride to het aces/aros

happy pride to demi romantics/sexuals

happy pride to grey romantics/sexuals

happy pride to ace/arospecs in platonic, romantic, and/or sexual relationships, or relationships that dont fit into any of those categories

happy pride to ace/arospecs who aren't in relationships and never want to be

happy pride to people who use microlables to describe their ace/arospec identity

we are all valid and we belong in this community no matter what anyone says. we deserve pride too.

I just remembered last week was aro week

Happy belated aro week!

Sorry i missed it :(

when you get a platonic gf❤️❤️❤️ (qpr)

i need an aromantic character in media who loves romance for everyone EXCEPT themselves and confuses everyone with their logic

like this-

aro: awww those two are so cute together! seriously their relationship is just UGH. the CUTEST EVER. they are just MEANT for each other. i just love their relationship and chemistry and everything!

allo: so, you want a partner?

aro: OH MY GOD NO WTF. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT? look, romance is just completely illogical and toxic. i could get everything in a relationship with a friend. i WANT to be alone. no romance. its weird and gross and stu- OH MY GOD CAN YOU TWO JUST KISS ALREADY. seriously those two are so obvious, and they would be so cute together, right?!

allo: w h a t

Me looking into the Hazbin Hotel fandom is like the "Why do I hear boss music?" Meme. Like I like Hazbin Hotel, but some of the people here seem obsessed with saying it has no flaws.

I like the show, it IS flawed and that's fine. I don't care if it's well written or not, I just wanna watch silly cartoon demons man. I have a stupid sense of humor and the constant swearing is really entertaining for me, but I can see how not many people actually talk like that

But damn looking into the fandom was kinda ehhhhhh. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good people in the fandom. This post is just talking about the stuff that kinda concerned me.

Like I've seen people get harassed for redesigning the characters and uhhh....there's nothing wrong with that? Let them live???

Also please stop shipping Alastor with everyone, he is canonically aroace, it's been mentioned by the creator's multiple times

and you know it's ok to not like a show, just please guys. Don't flood someone's inbox if they don't like the show, it's their opinion. It is ok to have a different opinion.

My rant is over, shoutout to the fans who don't do any of the stuff I just rambled about

shoutout to my aro followers, you all cool as fuck.

reblog/like if you love aromantic people

The way that exclusionists treat ace and aro people often reminds me of how the average person would treat me when I started being open as non-binary. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a thousand times, we are not enemies. Our experiences do not oppose each other, they are intertwined. If you’re ace, if you’re aromantic, if you’re any variation thereupon; your home is here. You belong here, too. You are beautiful, and powerful; and you don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. You are a valued part of this community.

QPRs are basically homebrewing your relationship. I know what I want but it's far from all guidelines and prerequisites that society has given us. I could email you a PDF though.