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I have a three room flat and for the fall I'm gonna put some posts out about looking for flatmates. I'm trying to decide if I should put in the add that I'm aromantic. Pros: It would make other queer people know I'm also queer. Con: Most Swedes don't know what aromantic is. Also my romantic orientation doesn't really matter for a flat mate relationship. I'd rather write that I'm solo but I feel like that's even less known as a concept.

No more humans Nebula from guardians of the Galaxy Categories banned so far (copy this to your post and add your bans so we can keep track): No men No brunettes No humans

I bought it as an ebook from ebooks.com

This game is about trying to name new persons while restrictions are added. I'll show an example and then start the game in the second post. First post Ben Affleck Second post No more humans Thor Third post No more humans No more gods The iron gigant Ben Affleck

That story is really good @Whirl

I think it's a good idea to use aromantic as an umbrella term. Many people don't know about the term so by using it you're increasing visibility over all and also letting people know its full definition.

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Today Sweden celebrate midsummer by dancing around a giant phallus.

Have anyone else read this book? I'm reading it now and I find it very useful and inspiring. It's about different ways to create community. The author clearly knows a lot about queer culture and references aro concepts such as qpr.

Are you familiar with the concept of voidpunk? I feel like it's similar to what you're talking about. https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Voidpunk

Is there no hard copy?

I've never felt excluded but pride is a pretty wide event in Stockholm. A lot of people who walk in the parade are just allies of different kind. But I don't really relate that strongly to LGBT+ identity. I feel more closely related to relationship anarchists and solo polyamory people regardless of their romantic orientation.

If we think of hunting as a kind of foraging maybe we could have a Artemis vegan version who is only hunting for plants.

Mine is really short and not only aro songs, just no romance. But a few of the songs are aro themed. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2zralhbz1XHNweFPub9WOf?si=tnD0C7pMR3SSl2M8owEFZQ

This one is more solo themed than specifically aro but I like it.

I've had somewhat similar feeling. I'm very sex positive and I like masturbating. I've been feeling like I would like to have sex but in reality I don't have any person I would like to have sex with. Not even celebrities so that's different from you. I can feel arousal when I look at a beautiful person but it's not really connected to wanting to do anything sexual with them. Whenever I fantasize about sex with someone it's just nameless faceless person. When I masturbate I don't think about anyone, it's more like yoga for me, just focusing on the sensations and breathing. I asked about this on aven and got some helpful response there. The repliers said that libido and sexual attraction are different things. If I feel sexual arousal but don't experience the desire to have sex then asexual fits as a definition for that experience. So nowdays I identify as a sex favorable asexual. It would be nice if I someday meet someone I want to have sex with but it's not my priority so I don't take any steps currently to try to make it happen, like dating.

In Stockholm the best time of the year is June because it's the start of summer and everyone is at their highest energy enjoying the light and the warmth. We have really long evenings with beautiful soft twilight, tonight the sun sets at 22:03. It made me curious what do you think it's the best time of year where you live and why?

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Still it's useful to know what other people's understanding is of a word. One purpose of a label is to be a shortcut in communication. For example if OP were to post on a dating site that they want a qpr different people will make different assumptions. They might be better of posting the longer explanation to actually connect with someone who's looking for the same thing

I have two friends who I think are technically aro, although they don't identify as such because they are romance favorable so kinda allo passing. I met both of them without knowing they were aro.

I don't feel there's a general consensus on that. When I used qpr to describe a fictional relationship several people on this forum replied they were confused why I used that because the characters had sex. One of the first hits on Google for queer platonic relationship defines it as also non sexual. https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Queerplatonic_relationship I don't have any strong feeling about it myself because I don't find it a useful term for me personally, just noting that the definition seem to be a bit varied.

Aren't qpr generally non sexual though? It seems to me most people go by that definition. Because platonic relationship generally means non sexual and non romantic.

I want people to think I'm aesthetically attractive and enjoy my company. Often those things corelate to sexual or romantic attraction but that's just an unwanted byproduct for me.