Allo Aro Worlds

*remembers Toph Beifong from Avatar the last airbender exists*

Now hold on a fucking second.

She wears green, she has two daughters in legend of korra with no known fathers (she canonically fucks), she isn't really seen that much with a potential romantic love interest (at least to my memory). Yes she did seem to have a crush on Sokka at one point but that might've also just been a demiro situation or confusing other attraction types and feelings for romantic ones (+ they travelled together for months to save the world and fought a lot of battles together, it would be weirder if they didn't form a bond of any kind already by that time)...

And she invented metalbending!

That last one doesn't have shit to do with being aromantic, but it is still an awesome bonus to have.

+ If she had the words I totally could imagine her just going "yeah, I'm aroallo, idc, just deal with it."

Maroallards!!

and then dealing with the fact that i do experience sexual attraction intensely and not wanting to be the deviant queer that i was told i was and wishing i wanted a "normal" relationship. god. it's hard! i wanna affirm to all of us aroallos that it's fucking hard and i'm proud of you no matter where u are in your self-acceptance journey and i hope one day you can fully be at peace with your orientation if you arent currently.

but even with all that, there's also something awesome about accepting myself. idk man i'm glad i know who i am and i'm glad i no longer put myself in situations that make me uncomfortable. i have people in my life i care about and aren't planning on going anywhere, i have a friend i have sex with who knows i'm aro and it's chill. there is permanence and beauty and joy and connection in my life. still unlearning the idea (very stupid idea tbh) that romance is the ultimate permanence or that it means something unbreakable. in my rational mind, i know that my relationships are more unbreakable than almost all romance i see lol.

these are not impossible things even though i used to feel like they were. and whatever you yearn for, no matter how different from my ideal, is likely also not impossible. we can have the lives we want, i promise :)))

Mindy St. Claire - The Good Place

Rosa Diaz - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Rebecca Bunch - Crazy Ex Girlfriend

Mike Wheeler - Stranger Things

Brad Bakshi - Mythic Quest

Maurice Moss - The IT Crowd

Huntress Wizard - Adventure Time

where on the aromantic spectrum these characters lie is up for debate, but nonetheless i'm so glad to finally have my aroallo mindy st. claire agenda out in the world

Me: "My best friend I haven't seen in forever is in town."

Alloromantic coworker: "Cool. What are you two gonna do?" Me: *Overpowering 'Bow-Chika-Wow-Wow' music plays in my head at full volume.*

Me: "Oh you know...just chill.

My fellow contestants may hate me, but the producers would invite me back as a special guest a few seasons later when ratings fall.