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18 minutes ago, Storm_leopardcat said:

Oh, and there isn't a separate page for aromanticism on Wikipedia

It depends on which Wikipedia. There's a separate page on the Portuguese one, for example.

I've finished Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc for the first time. The soundtrack, plot and mini-games are awesome. Before I play it again (mainly because I missed some things), I want to finish the bonus mode that was unlocked after the final chapter.

"But you love your family and friends", bruh, I don't. And it's nothing wrong with me, wrong is using this sentence like it was applying to each queer person's experience while it's not. I'm sure they would exclude loveless aros and other queer people who don't experience love at all. I even saw some people who are excluding trans and intersex people from the community because of this stupid slogan.

No, I don't. I even don't know if I experience any kind of love – and if I'm not, it's still nothing wrong. Amatonormativity is the thing that is making us thinking like there's anything bad in being aro.

1 hour ago, Holmbo said:

I personally never see this. But maybe it's because most Swedes kinda ignore each other so don't really care who loves who.

In Poland on the pride parades they almost always yell "love is love". It's so… eh. I'm tired of it and of trying to inform people about being aro.

Being aro is generally treated this way because of the whole amatonormativity thing. There's also another problem: lack of visibility in the LGBTQ+ community. Just, look. The most visible and loudest part of the LGBTQ+ community keeps yelling about "love is love", not even noticing us. And if they already notice us, they see only aroaces, while aroallos are still being demonized.
I'd say, there are some non villainous characters in the media that could be interpreted as aromantic, but the group is very small (not saying about the actual representation) and possibly rather they're side than main. However, there's one interesting example – Kawaki (Boruto). Kawaki is one of the main characters, he isn't a villain and seems to at least be repulsed by romance (and it's not only my observation). I'd totally "buy" him as aro (but maybe just because of him being one of my faves).

On 8/2/2020 at 4:24 AM, Violet Stars said:

How would you describe your sexual feelings, if you absolutely had to?

 

Confused.

On 8/2/2020 at 4:24 AM, Violet Stars said:

Why do you choose not to follow the split-attraction model?

 

Because I don't feel like describing other types of attraction would change something in the way I'm seeing various things, while being aromantic does.

I know well how do you feel. In "Boruto" they're randomly additioning anime canons with lot of unnecessary romantic plots. There are a lot of things to serve instead of it. So many things that weren't explained or just to animate what they dropped in manga. But no, they're doing the cheapest and worst possible thing.

Currently, I'm playing Doki Doki Literature Club the most.

3 hours ago, whatistheromance said:

People often think that sex w/o romance is just "using someone"

It's "using someone" as much as going to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread.

大筒木

It's name of the character from "Danganronpa" I kin with.

3 hours ago, Neon said:

And that's not even to mention the complete erasure of aroallos

And aros who just don't feel the need of labeling their sexual orientation.

because

5 minutes ago, whatistheromance said:

Yeah they always associate us with aces thats the part that infuriates me the most.

Same. I'm not sure about being allosexual, but… ugh. It's still annoying.

Why they never think about us. Or if they include aro, they put us together with aces.

The worst: "you'll find someone"

Tell them that you aren't a fictional character and "shipping" you is invading your personal space.

16 minutes ago, nonmerci said:

they will never create a character that will resonate with everyone in the community.

This, because there are other kinds of attraction, too. There will be difference between alloaro and aroace. Aplaro and allopl aro, etc, etc. There are many things that are making it impossible to create an aro representation that could make everyone feel "oh, that's about me". Not saying about the fact that we're talking about fiction and fiction doesn't need to follow reality.

3 hours ago, Collie said:

I think even if an aro person wrote an aromantic character, someone somewhere would consider it a bad rep

Yea, I decided that three characters in my fanfic are alloaro. I can see people trying to complain about how I wrote them.

Kawaki from "Boruto" seems to be romance repulsed aromantic. When Shikamaru confirmed he has to play nice to the girl which fell in love with him, he said: "I'd much rather throw myself at Code". Code and Kawaki hate each other since they were kids.

19 minutes ago, Storm_leopardcat said:

If so, where is this year's census?

I remember they were looking for volunteers and I don't have more informations.

On 11/27/2022 at 12:20 PM, Storm_leopardcat said:

Hmm, no 2021 survey? Or 2022 survey? 

If I remember it well, the surveys take place once each two years.

55 minutes ago, Storm_leopardcat said:

How would aroallos be depicted, especially in movies/series which aren’t for adults, maybe teen or children novels/movies/series?

It can be simply mentioned that a character is alloaro. It's not needed for them to have sex on screen. I'll give you a different example. It was revealed that Orochimaru is nonbinary, we didn't see them having struggles about trying to get who are they. It was just a random situation when their son asked: "where should I write your name? As a mother or a father?"

I was obviously born aromantic, just I didn't have possibility to discover my orientation earlier. When I was 13, nobody was talking even about it, it was unknown. Or you were hetero, or bi, or homo. There weren't other options considered.