AroOsprey

I consider myself sex indifferent asexual. I experience arousal, but not attraction. (That’s just me personally, of course not every ace is going to have the same experience.)

Arousal is different from attraction in that arousal is just a biological urge (I think) but it isn’t aimed at anyone in particular. Meanwhile attraction is the desire to engage in intercourse in real life, with a real person.

It's like a flavor I can't taste, it will never exist on my tongue, my taste buds will never perceive it, you can describe attributes that flavor has, and I can make up something based on flavors I have tasted that have similar attributes, but what I imagine will never be that flavor. I know it exists, but it doesn't exist to me at all.

I would be really interested in hearing other peoples experiences though, this is an interesting question.

My thoughts on it with my current knowledge would be:

Romance and sex are just different things entirely and you can't really translate between romanticism and sexuality, sex is a specific action, but there's no specific action for romance, an action can only be romantic if it's meant to be a romantic action by the person acting, and that can be literally anything.

some animated arospec banners. slap em on your pinned post to assert aromance

hahaaa here we go again

(i did two for akoiromantic and lithromantic, and grayromantic and greyromantic because somehow both terms are accepted soo uhhhhh)

I got more for aro week!

I thought Trans Day of Visibility a good time to mention that I have a post collecting my stories with trans aro protagonists. I often feel disconnected from the aro community in that the (albeit very limited!) representation we celebrate and bond over largely depicts cis aros. Characters who seldom encompass, because they are cis, much of how I experience being aromantic.

In order to be seen as aro, I must push my transness into the shadows. The reverse is true in trans-centred fiction, where acceptance--by ourselves and/or others--is often demonstrated via a character's experiences of romantic relationships and love. Time and time again, I must choose which part of me to celebrate and which part to ignore: I can only be transgender or aromantic in the stories about which my communities express delight.

Also the reason I made Pikachu so fluffy is because of that one thing where its like "pokemon tend to take after their trainer" or something like that so he has spiky fur like Ash's hair.