silly billy town

sorry for spamming your inbox, this is the last one for now i promise. responding to this anon's ask!! https://www.tumblr.com/aromanticofficial/807908358195757056/i-dont-know-where-else-to-ask-for-advice-but

my friend likes to yumeship/selfship with fictional characters for fun and i love supporting him. i don't get it though because i just don't get romantic attraction full-stop, but then he told me that yumeships aren't inherently aromantic.

romance-positive(?) aro culture is having a lot of fun participating in shipping in fandom even though you don't understand how romance feels

ok it's time to get controversial and brave again. i genuinely believe that tropes like characters getting set up on dates by their friends without their knowledge, fake dating where one party is hesitant or outright opposed but eventually catches feelings, the same except it's "friends with benefits to lovers" etc. should be considered (and labelled as) a form of dubious consent. completely okay to explore in fiction, HIGHLY questionable and often morally fucked to try and do in real life. "character a thinks they don't like character b but after being forced to spend time with them they catch feelings" should be considered on the same level of dubious consent as "character a thinks they don't want to have sex with character b but after getting coerced into it, they end up enjoying it". something that should ONLY happen in the realm of fiction, and when possible, should be EXPLICITLY LABELLED AS DUBIOUS CONSENT.

hey i fucking love the doodle u sent JF of You're On Fire can i use it for my tumblr banner. i'll credit you