a-spectrum love

Hello my fellow aromantic and arospec Natives, I love you (platonically) 💚💚💚

You are a not a shame to your culture or your tribe if you don't want to get married or have children. You are not betraying or disappointing your ancestors by not passing on your culture to your own children. You don't have to force yourself into a relationship out of duty, you can have a meaningful and important connection to your culture and even share and pass it on in other ways (like as a teacher) without sacrificing your own happiness and well-being.

“there are always more fish in the sea!” babe no offense but i just really sincerely do not want to go fishing

from some of the comments i am seeing about having a hard time with fishing or wanting to fish in a specific way or looking for a white whale or wanting to skip the fishing and go straight to having a fish i feel i need to clarify the metaphor. this is not about the fishing itself to me as much as the fish. there’s this whole societal thing that pushes people to feel like they should be eating fish all the time and while fish are awesome for some people!! and while some people Want fish but don’t like the pressure about it!! i do not like fish i do not want fish and in fact i often feel as if i may exhibit an allergic reaction to seafood

the first thing you have to remember is that being aromantic is fucking awesome and opens your world to so many new experiences without the fear of romance the second thing you have to remember is that alloro society will do everything in its power not to let you enjoy it

"can i identify as aro even if-" you can do whatever you want forever👍

sometimes finding aromanticism in media isn’t literally about aromanticism… sometimes it’s about the deconstruction of love as a concept and the subversion of its perception as inherently humanising. it’s about the decentering of romance as a driving force in the narrative. and also sometimes it’s about love being central to the narrative but in a way that defies all traditional categorisations of romantic / platonic / anything else. it is the secret third thing yet so much more and less at once. the point is aromanticism is everywhere for those with eyes to see

im just not attracted to anyone or anything ever. until i am.

I love you gay Jews. I love you sapphic Jews. I love you lesbian Jews. I love you mspec Jews. I love you trans Jews. I love you multigender Jews. I love you agender Jews. I love you nonbinary Jews. I love you ace Jews. I love you aro Jews. I love you polyam Jews. I love you Jews with contradictory labels. I love you queer Jews.

the white-green gradient of a freshly chopped spring onion…. c'est magnifique

[ID: a digital painting of two bird busts, holding a small aro flag in their grey beaks between them. The bird on the left’s head is facing to the side and is mostly black with a white cheek and yellow neck. The right bird is facing more to the front, with black streaks around the eyes and framing the head, blue on the top and back, and face mostly white. Both look soft and feathery and the flag has a silky texture. End ID.]

[ID: A pen-lined drawing in a notebook, colored in with marker. The drawing depicts a pale figure standing in the road and looking up with their hands down by their sides, looking surprised. Their clothes are the colors of the asexual flag, and the background and road beneath them are the colors of the aromantic flag. End ID]

as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where people are fucking normal about aromanticism

At first I read “as an optometrist” and was just ready to accept the statement as is like oh yeah maybe some kind of pun about if people’s views weren’t clouded by hatred and biases they could be normal about aro and aspec in general but then I reread it was like “sigh, time for my nearsighted ass to go back to the optometrist.”

misread aromanticism as astigmatism