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  1. techno

    hey can i get a uhh....... respect for my orientation

    1. Jot-Aro Kujo

      Jot-Aro Kujo

      Big mood

  2. techno

    aro culture is being blatantly aro in front of everyone you know but having people not catch on because of invisibility

  3. techno
    I suddenly got a bunch of really kind messages sent to my aro blog one after the other! Made my day.
  4. techno

    why are allos always out here acting like we're just secretly gay or Repressing Our True Feelings as if we don't hyper-analyze every interaction we have with/emotion we feel towards another person worrying that we're faking and actually are experiencing attraction

    1. Zema

      Zema

      This also perfectly describes the trans experience.

  5. techno

    i feel like the forums were more active a long time ago. when is the arocalypse renaissance?

    1. techno

      techno

      hey guys. i'm a prophet

  6. techno

    me: self promo is tacky

    also me: https://aro-soulmate-project.tumblr.com/post/171056954866/cyborgs-manifesto

  7. techno

    HAPPY ARO WEEK EVERYBODY! :aropride::arocapapo:

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  9. techno

    2 weeks until the worst holiday of the year BUT that also means only a few weeks until the BEST WEEK OF THE YEAR so take your pick of whether to be full of dread or excitement

    1. Ace of Amethysts

      Ace of Amethysts

      Both, but more dread than excitement.

    2. Rune_3435

      Rune_3435

      I'm just going to laugh at those idiot couples and give chocolates to my teachers

  10. techno
    ...I've made a mistake and forgotten two very obvious and crucial examples of aro songs. this song and Moses Sumney's album CALLED AROMANTICISM idk how i forgot either of those. shame on me really
  11. techno

    ready to skip to the part of my life where i'm financially stable, actually have a plan for the future, and am not being haunted by existential angst 24/7

    1. Ace of Amethysts

      Ace of Amethysts

      Same.

  12. techno
    NoTP?
  13. techno
    As a bitter aro and a complete music nerd, I have a running list... "Love Love Love" by Of Monsters and Men (the title would lead you to believe this is not an aro jam but if you look at the lyrics, you'll think otherwise) "Alone and Sublime" by Mother Mother (mainly about wondering whether it's somehow wrong to be alone) "No One to Nothing" by Mother Mother (idk this one just gives me an aro vibe) "Heart Heavy" by Mother Mother (i think it's safe to say Mother Mother has a decent amount of aro songs) "Another Night on Mars" by The Maine (a song about friends, really) "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem (another song about friends. also an existential crisis jam, tbh) "Something In Me Was Dying" by Keane (about meeting someone who sticks with you. i always thought of it as a song about friendship although it was probably meant to be romantic) "Are You Satisfied?" by Marina and the Diamonds (about making your life what you want it to be even if other people say it's wrong, at least how i interpret it) "I Am Not a Robot" by Marina and the Diamonds (a classic aro anthem) "Oh No!" by Marina and the Diamonds (another aro anthem tbh. also how i react when someone flirts with me) "You're My Best Friend" by Queen (an obvious choice) I'm sure there's more I'm not thinking of, but here's a bunch I dug through my archives to find took me a surprisingly long time.
  14. techno

    eager to finally go home for winter break but also dreading the inevitable conversations with my nosy, aphobic relatives who only try to support me when it's convenient

  15. techno
    Same! Haruhi has been one of the very few characters in any media that I have related to so strongly, up until the point where they threw all that potential away. Maybe that's why I always kinda felt empty at the end of the show?
  16. techno
    Reading people's annotations of Sumney's lyrics on Genius is so frustrating... So many allos missing the point. Oh well, at least we'll always know the truth.
  17. techno
    YES. Everything about this. Haruhi could have been such good aro or aro-ace rep if they'd just ran with that instead of screwing it up at the end! Ugh! I'd never thought about Kyoya before though! Oh boy... Don't even get me started on the disgrace that is Shitterdale. Anyone who's been around in the Discord chat for a while can probably tell you I have a lot of opinions about what the CW has done to aro-ace rep...
  18. techno

    the three pillars of aro culture are puns, memes, and salt

    1. Apathetic Echidna

      Apathetic Echidna

      pillar of salt......you be getting quite biblical

    2. Rune_3435

      Rune_3435

      I'm probably like 15% of the salt

  19. techno
    @Apathetic Echidna I LOVED Erased! It had its flaws for sure, but something about the aesthetic of it and just the concept was really engaging to me. I just finished Wandering Son, which is basically about trans kids dealing with middle school and puberty and it is so good and wholesome. I highly recommend it.
  20. techno
    Oh my gosh, same! I first watched the show maybe a year before realizing I was aroace and I just remember being really... disappointed? Like the ending bothered me and I couldn't put a finger on why for the longest time but my friends who watched it with me could not understand why I wasn't thrilled by the ending. It just felt like it came out of nowhere. I related to Haruhi so much and that was one of the reasons I loved the show, and suddenly I couldn't relate to her anymore.
  21. techno

    When I was younger I was never very good at recognizing my own feelings, but the one thing I was always certain of was that I didn't get crushes. It was only when I learned that was apparently wrong that I put a label to my orientation. I think for me the label "aromantic" is my way of taking the power back from the people who made me think who I am, who I've always known I am, is wrong.

     

    Just some thoughts.

  22. techno
    That show is a BLESSING. I agree with you 100%.
  23. techno

    Honestly the only content for aro consumption is the same old "your identity is valid" regurgitated in a thousand different wordings, and validation is important and all but having been part of the aro community for a little over three years now i've found that not much has really changed; we have a bunch more haters and people trying to police our existence but we're not even on the mainstream's radar. Even our own awareness week saw a marked lack of content which is honestly depressing

     

    Some genuine representation and some people fighting for us when it really counts instead of just pretending to care about aros only when we're around would be nice, while the same old dusty positivity just leaves me empty

     

    Lmao this is what pride month has done to me

    1. Momo

      Momo

      To be honest, this is why I ended up leaving the community for a while. It just didn't seem to matter to anyone. And then I started having issues so here I am again, reaching out. But what can one person do? 

  24. techno
    Every time I see one of those "letter to my younger self" things it's always the same cliche "don't worry about that relationship, you'll find the one some day, you have time, you can get over having your heart broken, blah blah blah." Insert allo nonsense here. So now I'm wondering: what would you say to your younger self?
  25. techno
    I was 14/15 when I realized I was aroace, but looking back the signs were there before then. It's been a few years and nothing has changed. I would say if you feel like you're aro, then you are. It's kind of like a hunch. There's a good chance it won't change, and if it does, then so what? If you feel the label aro fits you now, then you're aro. If you're old enough to recognize that you might be aro, you're old enough to be aro.
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