“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” – Mary Elizabeth Frye
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@aro-antics
“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” – Mary Elizabeth Frye
Happy Pride 2019!

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A big ace mood is looking at a video online then going “hmm... oh! Oh this is a thirst trap...... yeah no, this does nothing to me”
I think it’s incredible how seals experience the world.
Many of the deep-diving seals can go blind during their lifetime and live just fine.
Round whiskers flap around in the water and create their own turbulence, but the specific whisker shape they have cancels turbulence, so they can pinpoint trails of turbulence from prey. Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER
This is the most coherent explanation of tralfamadorians I’ve ever seen, and the prettiest description of what it means to perceive time as a dimension.
all my friends are upset because they're going to be single on valentine's day? like i know i'm aro but like i seriously don't get it? being single is not a bad thing (and sometimes it's a very good thing). normalize being single !
Hey OP I think you’re right, but if you don’t mind me adding on to this I think I can explain why your friends may feel this way. Whatever Else valentines day may be (and as an aro I know that for most of us it carries A Lot of baggage), for most alloromantic people it’s still a day to celebrate a particular kind of interpersonal intimacy that they really can’t get outside of a romantic relationship. Even for alloros who have taken the time to deconstruct a lot of internalized amatonormativity, alternative sources of interpersonal intimacy are just as scarce and/or unavailable to them as they are to those of us aros who seek out nonromantic partnering relationships. And on a day when everyone else seems to be celebrating, many of them loudly and publicly, it’s natural to feel a twinge of sadness for something you can’t share in. That can be true even when you’re quite happily single, whether you ultimately want a romantic relationship or not.
I do agree that probably a lot of people would be less devastated about being single on Valentines Day if being single was more normalized in general, but I do understand where your friends may be coming from, and I hope my thoughts have been useful to you.
we clown on alloromantics who ship aro characters a lot, and we should, but i feel like a lot of our anger should actually be directed at the creators who are universally too cowardly to actually depict an aro character and instead restrict all conversations of their identity to Hints or out of media confirmation

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Aro culture is learning that your alloro friend's views on romance have changed just by being friends with you and going ---🥺
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It's always okay to change the labels you use to describe yourself! It's okay to experiment with new ones to see if they fit you, and there's no limit to how many you can try. It's okay to make them as specific or as vague as you want, or to go without labels at all.
Here's a list of all the labels I've used in the past in vaguely chronological order:
Pansexual
Lithsexual
Demisexual
Asexual
Panromantic
Demiromantic
Aromantic
Grayromantic
Quoi/WTFromatic
Biromantic
Demigender
Nonbinary
Right now I use nonbinary, bi, aro & ace. I don't know if that will change, but it'll be okay if it does, and the same goes for you too. 💚
aro culture is giving all your allo friends the same relationship advice: “break up”
* or communicate
aro culture is feeling like i should have an honorary sociology degree from all the "trying to figure out what romance is"
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Attraction can be confusing...
It's so easy to confuse attraction types, especially when you don't know that there even ARE different attraction types. I had so many supposed 'crushes' before I realised platonic and aesthetic attraction existed. I definitely still get confused, but there are a few occasions that stand out to me in particular:
When I was 11, I had a 'crush' on a boy in my class. On the last day of term (before moving on to secondary school), I asked my best friend to tell him I liked him, but specifically NOT ask him out on my behalf. She was confused, and inevitably went and asked him out for me. I was more embarrassed that he thought I wanted to date him than upset that he said no.
In year 9 or 10, I told my best friend I had a 'crush' on a boy in our year, and when they offered to help set me up with him, I said "no, I don't actually want to date him, I just like him." Understandably, they were also incredibly confused. It took a lot of explaining to establish that I had no interest in actually dating him, I just thought he was cute and wanted to be friends.
Again, in sixth form, I had 'crushes' on several girls who I desperately wanted to be friends with and who I thought were really cute. The thought of dating them didn't even really occur to me until other people brought it up, and I felt very odd about the idea. I couldn't really think of any reason why not, but I didn't really feel like it was something I wanted either.
With hindsight, I know it was aesthetic and platonic attraction. Please note, this is just my experience, and it could be different for everyone! Have you had any similar experiences?

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The single/taken binary is just so limited, I wish there were a term that conveyed "not in a relationship" as easily as single does and "not available for a relationship" as easily as taken does.
"unavailable"?
I mean yeah, that could work, and there are many other terms that could fit in theory. But in my experience any answer that doesn't fit the single/taken binary is immediately questioned, challenged, or dismissed.
oh okay. in that case it might be helpful to refuse to explain or be defensive and just say "no" (i love saying yes or no to or questions. because it can be correct (mathematically) but not socially expected)
"are you single or taken?" "no <3"
Oh you're right, no is a good answer when given both options. I'll try that next time ^^
Actually wait hang on
So we've currently got:
And as a polyam aro I feel like we definitely need words for the other two boxes 😭
Maybe this though
I was wondering how polyam people feel about the single/taken binary, I'm sensing some more aro polyam solidarity here!
What if
What if :
A big ace mood is looking at a video online then going “hmm... oh! Oh this is a thirst trap...... yeah no, this does nothing to me”
me when someone is being nice: oh god they have a crush on me don’t they. oh god not this shit again
me when someone actually has a crush on me: them? a crush?? on me!?!? nah they’re just being nice they don’t wanna kiss me!
cries in Wants a Romantic Partner to Love but also cries in If Anyone So Much as Looks at Me With the Idea of Potential Romance, I’ll Slit Their Throats
the most ace lesbian thing I've ever done is trying to explain to my straight friend how girls' bodies are just more aesthetically pleasing 😅

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Ace Realisations #1
When I was about 16, a classmate of mine was talking about the rugby on TV the previous night, and she mentioned that she got into it because she got to watch a load of Hot Guys running around for 80 minutes.
My ace ass had never been so shocked.
It had never occurred to me that people can find athletes attractive and don't necessarily watch purely because they like the sport.
Unfathomable.
Thinking about how the first person Thirteen sees and speaks to after regenerating is Grace and how the Doctor has the tendency to be closer with or latch onto the first person they see/meet after regenerating and how she was more open about regeneration and talking about herself but then Grace died and she became more closed off,,, like the first person the Doctor meets and opens up to after regenerating dies the same day she meets her and I feel like that must have had an impact on Thirteen and how she just closes herself off from other people