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Do you have a "friend" you can point to as your source of information? A website that has lots of LGBTQIA+ traffic in addition to other stuff your parents wouldn't consider odd? (Take Pinterest as an example. It has everything in the most random grab-bag. You can be looking at kitten pictures and get queer posts.) Can you say you heard something at work or at school? If you have these excuses for being aware of these issues, then you can open with "I heard from..." and then fill in the appropriate information to combat the stereotypes they believe, without actually saying this information comes from your own perspective. That can give you an opportunity to test the waters and see how they react. If they reflect honestly on the things you tell them and take the time to consider how the stereotypes they believe might be wrong, then they may just be incorrect rather than unsupportive. The thing to watch out for is if they become argumentive or dismissive whenever you tell them something new or different from what they believe.

I see someone is trying to garner information on the secret dances. Very sneaky. Revealing the secret dances gets you automatically kicked out of the Aromantics clubs, so I can't help you. Sorry. (The rule still holds even if you are already kicked out. They can kick you out more than once, you know.) What I will say is that certain conspiracy theories are based on truth. Is this one of them? Is this the reason why people confuse aromanticism and asexuality? I've said too much already.

We'll form an evil team and get everyone kicked out. We'll make up new gold-star rules and change them all the time so that everyone is scrambling to figure out if they fit into the club or not. We'll turn everyone against each other in a competition over rank. New rules, subject to change: Must love frogs. Must not love love frogs. No looking for your enchanted prince in the frog pond. Must wear green every day. Must do the secret aromantic dance for each day you wear the wrong shade of green. (Only true aromantics know the secret aromantic dance. If you don't know the dance, you aren't aromantic.) Must not mistakenly do the secret asexual dance, even if you are also asexual. (Disclaimer: If you are asexual or aroace, and fail to do the secret asexual dance for every day you forget to wear purple, you are no longer asexual.)

I'm looking forward to reading it even more, then. I'll get to it soon, hopefully.

Has anyone read A Guide to the Dragon World? I haven't read it yet, but I will. I've flipped through it, and it has a great many nice pictures. It also has a song praising sky wings, complete with sheet music. I guess that's great if sky wings are your favourite.

Welp, I've been kicked out. I have never had and have never wanted a qpr. I will get my revenge. I will start interpreting the most random nonsense as romantic in other people, and get you all kicked out.

Yay! Thank you for my silver star. I will wear it with pride. I'm loving the ranking system.

Dammit, I almost won that gold star. I'm aplatonic. Can I get me a slightly tarnished gold star sticker? A sticker with a couple of the points a little bit crumpled?

It sounds cool. It's easy to say. I like how it defines ones own experiences without implying that we have to measure against each other.

1. Excuse me, I hit skip twice. It's not my fault you didn't give the right options. I did it again, and didn't choose so much skip. Aromantic coded villain: Queer-coded villain pride is about reclaiming the idea that queer people are inherently evil and bad people by embracing the idea of being a villain. Aromantic villains are amazing, I love you guys! I do like the idea of pushing back against the attitudes that being queer is a bad thing. 2. Aromantic Villain </3 Wow we've got to show that THIS GUY is EVIL AS HECK, and we can do it by showing that they don't feel love! Good thing that there aren't any people in the audience who might hate that! everybody wants lovvvveeeeeee (no they don't) I've got to say, I love this summary. Screw you, 'phobes, take that kind of loving. 3. Swords Keywords : intelligence, logic, ambition, conflict, communication, balance. You are really involved in the fight for your rights. You probably have an aro activism account on social media because you have a strong sense of justice and want to be heard. You hate amatonormativity and want it to stop hurting you and your community. I don't feel like a aromantic-rights warrior. I haven't even written an aro story, even though I've been meaning too. 4. Arospec You may be a bit on the darker side, maybe into dark academia, cryptids, or mossy forests. Maybe you prefer to have your nose in a book or doing your own crafts (Your "correct" answer from the song question: https://open.spotify.com/track/1yYnsciETqJyZit30x7agr?si=c38c6751a89245cc) Sure. I like trees and books and crafts. (I don't know any of the songs from the list, and I wasn't going to bother looking them up. I made my selection by shutting my eyes and poking my mousepad at random. I didn't bother checking out what the "correct" song was supposed to be.) 5. Noon Aromantic How, how, how, did I get noon? Bright? Energetic? Lively? Glass half full? Outspoken? Extroverted? Vibrant? Loyal? Friends? I am none of those things. This quiz is backwards, I specifically clicked on the options pessimistic and introverted and quiet. The world needs to shut up.

If you're making fanart, please do as much non-ship fanart as you wish. It's impossible to find that kind of content. For the main of it, I'm sorry you're experiencing shame about being aro. It's hard to function in times and places that put so much emphasis on romance and relationships, and the assumption that everyone wants those things. I hope it gets better for you.

You can tell them you don't like it. You can tell them it's violating your boundaries. You can tell them you aren't willing to stick around for that kind of thing. If all else fails, you can punch them in the face.

Name them something that symbolizes their primary emotions or thoughts. Concepts are fun because they can be genderless, or can have gender connotations. Giving someone who has a masc appearance a feminine name can create a mixed sense of gender, and a name with no gender connotations can defy the sense of gender-binary.

The revulsion I feel toward any form of romance makes it hard to me to not notice that I'm aromantic.

Moon! She is definitely my favourite, and Blue is probably my second favourite. There really isn't anyone I dislike. Probably my favourite small sub-plot was Winter trying to keep a pet human.