any other aros hate how like 80% of pop music is about love? like, i vibe with the music but i want lyrics i can relate to at least sometimes. i get that people want to make music about love but i feel like this is a bit much yk?

what if the bi to aroace pipeline is real and it gets me

Fuck shipping. I'm canoeing everyone now.

These two characters are in a relationship? Nah, they're friends. These two characters hate each other? What if they hung out and comforted each other instead? No romance. No sex. Just friendship.

Canoed.

I always forget about the term rose (as in, the shortening of romantic-sexual) and it's such a good term. Allorose is such a good term to make it clear that you're talking about only people who are both alloromantic and allosexual, and not talking about other tertiary ways of being allo, and all the rose labels, like grayrose and demirose, are so cool and convenient too. And their flags are so good! I love the blue-green. Anyway. Just a reminder that rose exists and it's a cool word and we should use it even more.

Wanting a romantic relationship as a (most likely) aroace not in a "If you want a girlfriend you can't be aroace, it doesn't work like that" kind of way but in a "I want someone to choose me. I want someone to choose me, day after day, for the rest of our lives, because they want to. I want to be someone's partner, I want to be someone's first pick, I want to be their favorite one. I don't want to be shunted aside in favor of husbands, wives, and kids, because our schedule changed, because we've moved on to different things. I want to be a priority. I want them to fight to keep me, I want to fight to keep them. I want to hold someone, I want to be held. I want to exist in their space, I want them in mine. I don't want to find out they mattered so much more to me than I did to them. I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb." kind of way

It's easier to accept that you're aromantic once you understand that what you want isn't romance per se and it's really the companionship that appeals to you. I never actually liked the thought of being in a relationship but I liked the thought of being important to someone