aros are splendorous

shipping characters who are just friends in canon is more than okay but what’s annoying is when people take screenshots of them touching and say “friends don’t do that!”. i hate to break it to you but friends do hug and hold hands and cuddle. saying ‘friends don’t do that’ is reenforcing the idea that physical touch is reserved for lovers

Oh, this red string you see wrapped around my finger? You're asking if it connects me to my one true love? An understandable mistake, but I'm aromantic. This is for my conspiracy board.

Sorry, excuse me, one more question. Why are you on your own conspiracy board?

OCD symptom

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

some of you need to get new aspecs

You don't have to make up for romantic attraction by having more/stronger platonic relationships. You deserve to navigate your relationships and your relationship to love on your own terms and not out of any kind of obligation.

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

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

official aromantic post

official aromatic post

Haven't found the apl post in my drafts yet but I just want to let people know that you can be outgoing and a people person while still being apl. Not wanting friendships or not feeling platonic attraction doesn't mean you can't enjoy other people's company. I like talking about my system and hearing from others about their own; I like being in fandoms where we build off each other's ideas and additions; I like doing things for others and seeing them happy because of something I did. None of this requires friendship. None of this requires me to feel platonic attraction. I don't have to make friends with everyone I interact with – I don't even have to make friends with those I interact with on the regular. Even when your interactions with others look like platonic relationships to someone else, they doesn't have to be if you don't want them to be. You have a say in the relationships you enter. Just because you're chatty, or extroverted, or outgoing, or any other variation of "social", doesn't mean you can't be non-friending or aplatonic. You are apl enough, just as you are.

Hi aplatonic people, thank you for existing

hi reminder that aromantic people don’t have to compensate for their lack of romantic attraction with familial or platonic attraction. “aros still love their friends!!” sometimes they do. other times they don’t, and that’s okay! using non-rose attraction as a stand-in for romance invalidates loveless, afamilial, and apl folks. we don’t have to make up for our existence :3