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I had to do the same thing for English class, excepted everyone else thought the movie was terrible as well and my two friends who know how aro I am were probably enjoying watching me lose it in my chair.

an appropriate face to make when romantic drama is introduced

Yay, aros who are INTJs! I want more!

Why do you headcanon Luna as aromantic? Didn't Katniss experience romantic attraction towards Peeta and Gale? There isn't a part of the story that would directly clash with Cinderella being frayromantic.

Romance is weird.

Oh, do you want to post the fic?

Wow, it's very weird that she did that. I'm sorry.

Because apparently, aromanticism doesn't exist, just like vampirism!

One time this douchebag I know asked me for my number, and I felt uncomfortable but he wasn't doing anything sexual or romantic, and I thought I should give him a chance because we were both "working" (unpaid) at a summer camp as leaders-in-training, and I had been pretty harsh on him earlier. Later that day, he asked me out via text. It was very uncomfortable for me.

I always felt that Mabel's crushes were genuine. She obsesses over them and performs ridiculous feats to try to win them over, beyond what is needed to convince people that she is straight. In her fantasy land, her dream-boys are there. I think if Mabel is non-binary, she doesn't mind going by feminine pronouns and showing feminine gender expression, because I think if she felt unhappy about it we would have seen that unhappiness somewhere. I understand where your headcanon for Dipper being a trans-boy comes from; he is very sensitive about his masculinity and goes to great lengths to prove that he is masculine. In that one episode where Mabel and Dipper swap bodies, I was wondering why they didn't immediately realize they were in bodies of the opposite sex...if they are both of the same sex then that is squared away. Wendy has had lots of male romantic partners in the past, but we never hear her mention any non-masculine names when it comes to romantic partners. I can see her being grayromantic; she doesn't seem to care deeply about her past romantic relationships and she forgot to break up with one of her romantic partners for weeks. I always thought Wendy was cis-gender but didn't care about showing feminine gender expression. I respect your headcanons though!

Yes, thank you.

Oh my gosh, this is pretty much my experience!

This is a page to discuss whether we ship people in real life and/or fiction, how often, why, etc. and how our (a)romantic orientations affect that.

I'm a Slytherin, and I would choose Erudite if I were thrown into the society of "Divergent."

I forgot Meredith from "Brave" in my first post. She could easily be headcanoned aro because she has no interest in getting married, but I prefer to think that she is straight and doesn't want to lose her independence to marriage, given her sex and the time period.

I headcanon Nicky from "Avenue Q" as on the aro-spec. We never see him or hear of him being in a romantic relationship, having previously been in a romantic relationship, or wanting a romantic relationship. He seems very happy living with Rod, a person for whom he has platonic, not romantic feelings. When thinking of something to make Rod extremely happy, he thinks of getting Rod a boyfriend within seconds, so that kind of indicates gray-aro to me, or maybe he is totally aro but realizes how important romance is to most alloromantics. He also mentions picking up on someone "coming on" to him, but maybe he meant that in a sexual way, not a romantic way. Perhaps he's lith? He picked up on it; he just wasn't interested in reciprocating. I think he is ace as well; just as he appears to have no involvement in romance, he has no involvement with sex. I suppose there is a good chance he is heterosexual, because he slips up and makes the implied generalization that all men who are sexually attracted to men are gay. He feels comfortable using the term "queer," and many non-queer people aren't comfortable using it because it is a reclaimed slur. I head-canon Princess Bubblegum and Marceline from "Adventure Time" as gray-aromantics. Princess Bubblegum is only seen in one romantic relationship, and literal centuries have passed between that relationship and the "present" in the show. She shows no interest in finding a romantic partner and she is irritated with having suitors, some of whom have waited literal centuries and/or generations. She doesn't seem to understand romantic attraction very well. In one episode, Finn, a straight teenage male who used to have a crush, accidentally turned her body and clothes to look very young tomboyish when he had magic eyes that made people turn into whatever he "saw" them as in his head, she thought she was turned into "a teen boy heartthrob," even though most people agree that wasn't it. Marceline has only been cannonly seen in one romantic relationship in the course of her roughly thousand year life. When Simon asked her if she had a boyfriend yet, she looked uncomfortable and replied, no, but there was this one guy, presumably referring to Ash, the aforementioned romantic partner. Sheldon from "The Big Bang Theory" is definitely on the aromantic spectrum. He only went on one date year before he met Amy, and that was because his mom forced him to go on these annual dates. His relationship with Amy does not seem to match most people's romantic relationships in regards to its nature. Sheldon is even more definitely ace than he is on the aro-spec. He experiences no sexual attraction and he thinks it is odd that other people do, and he even thinks sex is icky. His friends tease him for his lack of sexual attraction sometimes.