*screams*

HAPPY FUCKING PRIDE

ASEXUAL AND AROMANTIC PEOPLE EXIST AND ARE PART OF THE COMMUNITY

NOW GO BE MENACES TO SOCIETY

y’all

aro and ace are trending?? on the eve of pride month?? this year is for the aspecs for real

yeah, love is love. Even platonic love and queer platonic partners. Even aesthetic love. Even love without sex. All love is love.

Yay Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 🧡💛🤍🩵💙

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!! YOU ARE VALID, STAY SAFE AND REMEMBER ITS YOUR BOX!!

It all makes sense now

A-romantic

A-sexual

A-nxiety

A-dhd

A-utism

AAAAAAAAA

Being aroace with a squish is really like. You look so nice and cute and pretty (not like that), I’d like to snuggle up in bed with you (not like that) and play with your hair (not like that) and lay there for a while (not like that) and hold your hand all the time (not like that) and hang out with you one-on-one (not like that) and get to you know you on a deep and personal level (not like that)

hello fellow aros, aces, and aroaces in my phone hows it going, i hope your thursday is going well

People are now calling aros homophobic for saying "love loses" and disliking the phrase "love is love"

I don't dislike the phrase "love is love" because I'm aro and I hate the concept of love and I want to trample on queer joy and I don't understand the meaning behind love is love.

I dislike the phrase "love is love" because I don't believe that minorities should have to say "we're just like you!" In order to be accepted. I dislike it because it doesn't apply to all queer people, (including bisexuals, gays, lesbians, etc) but people treat it like it does. I dislike it because it's a product of a sex-negative society that deems queer people to be disgusting sex pests and instead of going "that's fucked up because there's nothing wrong with sex" people go "that's fucked up because we're not like those dirty disgusting predators who want sex without romance (coughalloaroscough)". I dislike it because arophobia is rampant in the queer community and people will throw us under the bus for points and have. (Stonewall UK posted a tweet acknowledging aros during aro week and other queer people called us predators and implied we were cishet invaders) I dislike it because the word love is shoved onto aros and whenever we say "please don't" people just redefine it to force it on us. I dislike it because there are better alternatives. I dislike it because rainbow capitalism has taken it over. I dislike it because it just feels a bit overused and cliche at this point. I dislike it for plenty of reasons, from legitimate to petty. Because I'm a person, not an evil aro who wants to destroy the queer community.

Aros, for a very long time, have had the word love used against us as a tool for our oppression. (Yes, love can be used to oppress people) And a lot of aros are sick of not being represented in queer spaces. The community puts so much emphasis on romantic love in an effort to not be the stereotypical sex obsessed queer but that leaves out aros. And people will be like "it's to uplift gays, bis, and lesbians" but there are aromantic gays, bis, and lesbians! I'm an aromantic bisexual person! I am directly harmed by the whole "we're not dirty sex pests, we can love (romantically) just like you!"

I, and many other aros, dislike the phrase love is love because it leaves us behind in the dirt. We often feel like the dirty side of queerness that no one wants to acknowledge. Saying "queer love is real love" isn't a bad thing, but having that be the one and only thing queer people ever talk about leaves out a portion of the community and we're allowed to talk about it.

"Love is love" doesn't represent me as a bisexual aromantic person. Not everything has to represent or include me but it would be nice if just one thing did. My version of queer joy is not represented by love is love and I just want a fucking alternative that does include it!

[Don't tag as ace/aroace or derail]

oops i accidentally queerplatonicafied your ship and aspeced your character again

INTRODUCING THE NEW AROACE FOX !!! HAPPY PRIDE!!!!

they are based on a cross fox :)

I'M SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SHARE THIS LIL GOOFER, I am so happy that my aroace foxes from last year got so much attention and that everyone enjoyed them!! I will be uploading art of them or this new fox each day of june!! The first few days will probably be this one tho since I've got some stuff prepared ;)

Feel free to leave name suggestions btw!! The other two have flower based names so I would love to keep up that theme.

Happy pride month my aros

HAPPY PRIDE!!! ^_0

It's not pride month where I live yet, but I'm kicking off pride month in true aroace style.

This morning I got coffee with my platonic crush & we ended up walking around the park and talking for FOUR HOURS, it was fantastic. Honestly we probably could have kept talking but I had a meeting to go to.

And tonight I am having a platonic sleepover with my best (local) friends. They might count as QPPs, depending on your perspective. Tomorrow morning after the sleepover one of them & I are going to go around in pastel pink handing out water bottles at this goth festival thing in the park.

I love deep friendships. To me, this is as much pride as making out with a girl. (No shade to the girl-lovers, that's great too.)

guys i’m really happy rn

a close friend (also ace but they don’t know if their aro) that i was having complicated feelings for (typical platonic vs romantic confusion don’t worry i figured out it’s platonic) well we agreed to get married for tax benefits when we’re older and i was telling one of my other friends and they said “so you’re engaged?” and i was like “damn i guess i am” so talked to them about it and they were like “damn i guess we are” and pulled a handmade ring out of their pocket and got down on one knee

so uh

i’m platonically engaged and in a QPR now

also i had garlic bread for dinner

Oh my god does anyone else here feel disoriented or nauseated with the idea that... It's inevitable for us, even aroace people... To be perceived in a sexual or romantic manner? Like GOD

you’re definitely not the only one!