roboticanary

In my case before i knew being aro was a thing i was pretty comfortable living single and that is still my preferred option now. But i did notice i had a whole world of options of how to live open up to me which i didn't really see as a real option before discovering aromanticism. So i was wondering if that changed how people want to live, like maybe you were set on a fairly traditional romantic partnership as what you thought you would have but changed course when you found out about more variety in non romantic relationships, e.g. QPR's. Or maybe you thought you would live alone but were lead to the idea that some form of polyamory might fit you better which didn't seem on the cards before.

Inspired by @AroAcedragon13's status update, is eating gummy frogs an aro ritual, where we absorb the power of the frogge, or is it an aro sin to be confessed

You want to be close to this person and now someone else is involved, getting large amounts of attention and love from them. Its fair to be worried about losing someone you are clearly so close to. Its fair to be unhappy if you feel you are not getting the relationship you once had. I have no useful advice but i think time might be a good healer here. this is recent, once a few more months go by and you havent lost her then you may find you are more able to relax again, are feeling less jealous.

Closing the poll, the ayes have it we have a new forum! https://www.arocalypse.com/forum/23-aromantic-adults/

Its here! https://www.arocalypse.com/forum/23-aromantic-adults/

Welcome At the moment yeah, there has been interesting discussion on aromantic sex, i would really recomend the thread under intersectionality devoted to aro sexual orientations as a starting point. We're also holding a poll at the moment to make an aro adults category, which might be useful in that regard. anyway, hope you like it here, there is plenty to discuss and i certainly think that sort of thing should be discussed more.

I'm hesitant to give advice on this, i dont know the specifics of your schools lgbt club of course, but i think a bit of advice i can give is make sure you wont get anyone in trouble for talking frankly about sex. I've talked to a friend of mine a few times who went to a school which allowed an LGBT group in principle. He ran it when he was in the schools 6th form years (uk, ~17 turning 18 years at the time) and wanted to have the group discuss, well, gay sex, talk through the sex ed he never got in a safe environment. the school got very unhappy with this idea very quickly. he very nearly ended up with the group shut down and a rather large argument between the school, him, his parents, all of that. I think the school wanted the club to say they had the club, rather than to actually allow LGBT people to have a useful club. As i say, i dont know if this applies to you, school clubs like that are fairly rare where i am and probably operate in a very different way but i think its worth a check. I disagree with that schools stance, i think its bloody stupid to have an lgbt group which cannot discuss that, but my opinions dont matter. The fact is schools have the power to remove clubs they dont like. Make sure you are safe talking about this and that you are not going to bring the wrath of khan down on the club. sorry to be a downer here, i hope it goes great and you have interesting conversations but thinking about it i dont think i should avoid mentioning that. If things are ok for discussion I think at least making the point that there is a huge variety of sexual relations outside of romance. I think the tendancy is to think, oh, one night stand. because that is the most obvious example if you think of all intimate connecction in terms of romance. Mention that you could, for example have sex with a close friend you have known for ages without anything romantic between you. It might be worth at least a mention that ideas about modern society being ok or accepting of casual sex can be quite simplistic. For example that ignores age, old man looking for nsa sex gets a very different reaction to, say, an early 20s student. It also ignores other aspects of people's life such as class or race or sexuality and how that impacts whether people really accept the idea of sex outside of romance. There are some narrow groups of people we are ok with shagging around, if they agree to 'grow up' at some point but that ignores the enormous number of people who would face serious repurcussions if they wish to have a more open sex life.

OK, we had good teacher stories, we had bad teacher stories. has anyone got any weird or strange stories about teachers (or school for that matter). I do recall a chemistry teacher who was very keen to let us all know that he could in principle create explosives with the chemicals we had in the school storage. One that i remember, we had a biology teacher who was a student at the school years back and had came back as a teacher. one thing he was very proud of was that during his time in school him and his mates had found a sparrow on the school field. they took it to the then biology teacher and asked to have it kept like the specimins they had seen in the lab in lessons. The teacher did and decades later he was very happy to show us kids the sparrow he had found.

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wrong, the frogs keep me here. they have me trapped

one wants to break free we are the champions (but its the royal we) cant think of anything else at the moment but the idea of the queen singing queen songs has me amused

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like

thats not olden, thats golden

i keep forgetting about my own existence

A guy is moving to australia he gets to immigration control and his details are checked. An immigration officer takes him into a room and begins to ask a series of questions about his move. The officer asks him if he has a criminal record 'oh' he replies, 'I didn't know you still needed one'

horn

wow, that looks fantastic!

physicist actual winner of second prize in a beauty contest (sadly no-one gave me a tenner) i suppose forum admin counts, thats unusual.

Welcome! ribbit

oohhh no you are not getting to 100 that easily, go back!

if you could do that that would be wonderful, also invision seems to like images ending up as png, so for something that will only be used as one tiny size i dont think it will need to be vectorised.

ey up! hope you like it here

you post short answer, one content item = 1 point (eg. topic, status update) and one comment = 1 point I could change that to award extra points for, say, posts that get a certain number of likes, for example, but for the moment i think sticking with this simple system is best. I may in the near future make either a pinned post or a page which explains this sort of thing in a place easier for people to find. oh that is interesting. im not going to rush to do anything about this as digital art is really not my thing but if you or anyone else offers pictures i will absolutely take the time to put them into the site. I really like the idea of mods being frog warriors, that seems amazing.