Apathetic Echidna

Banned for making an obviously stickist comment

I got 2 outfits for $6. Bargainsssssssss! 3 books by an author I like, also for $6. More Bargainsssssssssssssss! and I discovered some of the radishes I planted a couple of weeks ago are good to harvest now, and they haven't been attacked by snails!

it seems I was quite lucky in school that it didn't happen obviously. I think my eyes/brain airbrushes lots of things out of my notice though, or I am so indifferent that my brain dismisses it the instant I see it. That is all about seeing or not seeing though, I am quite sensitive to what I hear. Loud making out noises, baby talk, continuous use of sickening pet names, and "I love you. No, I love you more" conversations all go into the red zone for me. Actually I will add a black zone, for baby talk and feeding behaviour, they make me nauseous. That is just so wrong.

Banned for having The Omen's devil's number in your user name

I have never been in anything serious enough with the expectation of continuation to change my relationship status on Facebook. The closest thing I have had to a 'relationship' was more of a summer fling, we both knew it had a best before date when we went into it. I have accidentally been on dates, but when they get romantic I let them down quickly.

this is a perfectly legitimate pasttime! Pets need love and attention too Being alone and being lonely are different things, sadly the loneliness you describe is the one you can feel while surrounded by people which is harder to tackle. Seeing as the a-community is fairly small, if you want people to relate to specific things I guess you will have to use the internet to connect and stop expecting your real life friends to relate when all they can probably do is understand and accept. I know there is a triple A on Aven who wears 3 thin black rings to feel continued connection to their online community when they are out and about in real life activities.

I like this sooo much for some reason. it totally rolls of the tongue

Banned for not appreciating that my 101 (dalmatians!!! ) post was appreciation

Banned because this is my first post on this thread and you dared to be before me

Thanks!!!

for some reason I imagine this would be one long abuse-fest....and the ship I have been neck deep in was Credence/Mr. Graves! (woot to any other Gradence/Gravebone followers!) and yeah, there was some bluring, but at least I could generally keep the authors straight, I just blurred all the fics they wrote....unless they were particularly epic. One of my friends was into Naruto shipping and there are some pretty epic love triangles to octagons that were created in fanfic, but I find I can't add to ships. A triangle is about the limit. Even in canon, the more people in the love bubble the less interested I am, which has led to me dropping some book series permanently. Harry/Draco has so much stuff to read or see, that ship will never die out! some of the memes, and especially 'Harry Potter - Oh, you touch my tralala' will always be entombed in my mind with fondness. I remember a year in high school where that clip would be mentioned every 20 minutes. Yay! my 100th post!

@IceHurricane you have a crazy paralleled mind to be able to hold that many things straight. I think my limit is about 13 or so, but that was at school and counting text books and required readings along with my personal pleasure reading interests. Just for interest, what ships are you reading now -or maybe just tell me the fandoms. Are they similar or are they very different? I would think different would be easier to keep straight.... I have basically out-read my recent ship, so I may start seeking new work though I am basically in love with a couple of writers and will follow them to their new fandoms rather than part with their writing styles.

Franco Interlenghi

are they all of different ships? that is crazy! ......although at the height of my shipping fever a few months ago I was reading 21+ fanfics in a weekend, all the same ship though so my brain wasn't too taxed.

In manga form I also liked Ouran High School Host Club, same with Skip Beat and Perfect Girl Evolution (The Wallflower), they start well then get tangled in their own little ridiculous mini-events (which with Skip Beat seem to get more and more romantic) Kyoko Mogami and Sunako Nakahara are both so anti-romance at the beginning of both stories. Oresama Teacher might end up dodgy too, but I like the first few volumes.I have read Death Note a few times, but I refuse to end the series. Same with Vampire Knight. I only really liked the beginning of Vampire Knight because I wanted to go to a boarding school with vampires, but the plot in that gets weirdly incestuous, at least the art was good. I like Fruits Basket, but I think that is because it was a massive thing at my High School and I have nostalgia for it being a good thing back then. I haven't read it in 10 years, but all the books are still on my shelf. The Friendly Winter is a cute manhwa that made me really think. I actually have a list of all the mangas I have read/have copies of electronically or otherwise and it takes 9 pages, though most of them are oneshots. .....uh, apparently I also have all 23 volumes of Hana Kimi? when did that happen? Wolf Guy has good art but a seriously horrific storyline. My list only gets worse from there so I am going to stop now...... For anime, The Twelve Kingdoms is based on a novel series and the anime goes up to the 4th book so storylines are left unfinished, but it by far my favourite! Cowboy Bebop is also up there in the favourites. Both of those barely have any romance or sexual content, yet still have intriguing plots and great world building (see Western media it is possible!!). Excel Saga is divine madness, and the romantic plot continually gets stalled. I will say the English dub is better for Excel Saga because the American voice actress for Excel Excel can speak like a machine gun. Most things Studio Ghibli of course. Wolf's Rain is beautifully sad, and Yoko Kanno does a beautiful job with the music but the Steve Conte songs are grating. Gankutsuou, The Count of Monte Cristo is pretty but the music is again a let down sometimes. Like seriously Jean-Jacques Burnel's songs sound out of key half the time. At least the plot is closer to the book than the other movie adaptions I have seen. Then of course there are things like Otogi Zoshi, Erased, Orphen, Petshop of Horrors, Patema Inverted where I don't really know why I like them....I should watch them again to see.

I just mentioned this in some other topic, but I am all about posting everywhere so...... In real live I never ship anyone, if anything I anti-ship (is that even a thing?) In fiction it generally has to be at least hinted at in canon, otherwise I think the characters are better off without romance. Generally I like angst ridden fix-its that don't get fluffy, generally because I like one character and I want them to be happy in any way possible. I don't seem to ship QPRs unless they are another form that the fix-it story takes.

YMBAI you feel a deep sense of loss and disappointment when you find out one of your favourite songs is about love

I watched a movie and when one character started questioning the point of the romantic plot I may have yelled 'Exactly!" at the television. I sort of startled myself.....then continued doing sudoku until the action scenes.

@Blue Phoenix Ace on AVEN I found this one better than their wiki page http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/119238-a-list-of-romantic-orientations/ and that is all I was really thinking of for here, a pinned topic which is a list, rather than a wiki page with info like in the FAQ

There should be a topic pinned in either the welcome forum or the aromantic discussion forum listing all the known romantic orientations, maybe created by one of the mods or @Arocalypse ? Having an on-site list that new labels can be suggested to and edited in as they appear would be a good thing. It might help new members find terms for themselves if they want to, and also be eye opening to all members about the variation that is out there! I don't think I researched very hard, yet I have found many labels. When I mention some of them on other sites some people are surprised and say things like 'goodness, that is me! I'd never heard that term before'. So I think it would be nice if there was a comprehensive list here I could point unsure people to. It would also expand the exposure this site gets.

ha ha, yeah! go speed dating and the first question you ask is what size clothing the other person wears so you have a better chance of stealing clothes that fit!

Explain aromantic to your friend then prep them for rejection, because the way I see it the aro object of affection is quite likely to flat out reject or be repulsed by romantic advances. If the aro also decided to get into the relationship I would then drill my friend on consent. Just because you are in a relationship doesn't mean you can hold hands, hug, kiss or snuggle freely, and one time consent does not make it a free for all. So yes, I guess I would be grudgingly supportive, but vocally pessimistic.

I used to want to date lots of boys from the surrounding private schools so I could have a collection of school blazers in my wardrobe......but I don't think that is the same thing....maybe I got caught up in the trope fandom in my own aro way....

This. So much this. And knowing how messed up romantic relationships can get they might not even like you as a person without those involuntary romantic urges.

Penelope Cruz