‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

i am going to get a bad grade in sleeping, something which is normal not to want but terribly easy to achieve.

Im not the uncle you want. I'm not the uncle you deserve. I'm not the uncle you need. Im not your uncle

An oriented aro ace person might also be in a relationship despite lacking attraction such as if they are cupioromantic ( see my other post)

There is also a term called Angled Aro Ace - This is for people who feel a tertiary attraction but aren't strictly Aro Ace (elsewhere on the Aro Ace spectrum such as grey or demi). However, most people seem to accept aro ace spec people as oriented too, so use the label that makes you most comfortable. Don't let anybody gate keep you.

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Did you know Aro Aces can have an orientation?

Ace people (Asexual) don't feel sexual attraction

Aro people (Aromantic) don't feel romantic attraction

That doesn't stop them from experiencing OTHER forms of attraction!

Some kinds of tertiary attraction:

aesthetic- the ability to admire beauty

sensual - appeals to senses such as touch in a non-sexual way

alterous - a deep emotional connection

queerplatonic - relationships that aren't romantic but are more than friends.

An aro ace person who experiences these kinds of attractions might feel that it's significant enough to take on another label to describe it

"I only feel queer platonic attraction towards other women! I'm an aro ace lesbian!"

"I feel enough aesthetic and sensual attraction to men that I call myself a gay aro ace.

I like being touched but not in a sexual or romantic way, such as holding hands and cuddling!"

Remember - Engaging in what is perceived to be romantic behaviors doesn't necessarily indicate romantic or sexual attraction

It doesn't mean they are faking, It doesn't mean they are less aro ace, It means they are describing a tertiary attraction that affects their life.

"Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion" story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they've been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because "they were probably just a late bloomer" or "no, you just finally found the right person!" and it's just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn't right and they can't stand it.

Hey, @anarcho-commeownism OP here. Fun fact! While the two experiences are not the same, I AM both, so this is a personal thought that happened to blow up. And on the front of “it has nothing to do with asexuality,” the phrases “late bloomer” and “you’ll find the right person” were actually thrown around me when I was just asexual and wasn’t aromantic yet! So while one doesn’t want to conflate being asexual/aromantic with each other, it’s also not great to ignore the fact that the types of hate and dismissal we receive are often very similar.

I was very specific not to mention how the love potion makes you feel. The person in question could be an alloace who suddenly feels sexual attraction/love and their friends are like “haha yeaaah get it!” instead of acknowledging the horror. They could be an alloaro person suddenly experiencing romantic attraction with similar results. Or they could be aroace suddenly experiencing romantic and sexual attraction. Post non-specific for a reason.

Finally: I think it is important to stop to consider that the 1-paragraph writing prompt was never going to address the full breadth of the human experience lol, and you either needed to find a less-confrontational way to phrase your point (as did the many demis who went “lmao my daily life tbh”), or to simply make your own post. My main desire was a subversion of the idea/trope that a love potion would have no/different effect on aspec people, instead exploring the ramifications of how terrible it might be. It sounds like you want a subversion of the idea that aspecs (and in particular aromantics) are all on the “0 attraction” end of the spectrum. That’s a great idea! I love the concept behind it and the more varied representation it would give. It’s still a subversion of the idea that we’d be unaffected by love potions. Which is awesome

Profanity filters on single-player games are just so... incredibly performative. They don't 'protect' the player from seeing the word (you have to type it in order to activate the filter), the only thing they do is scold the player.

My favorite solution to people who get offended at the things they themselves typed is a disclaimer on a puzzle page that said "If you type profanity you will see it."

Out: Can you pet the dog?

In: Can you name yourself Fuckface McShitass?

It's really funny and jarring when you encounter a profanity filter in a single-player m-rated grown-up game for adults, but I don't think they even make sense in kid's games. If anything I think "If you tell the computer to call you FuckNugget it will do that" is exactly the sort of obvious, low-stakes 'actions have consequences' lesson that's perfect for kids.

"This impacts nobody but yourself, and even then it does not alter gameplay or the intended experience, however we cannot allow it and you need to know we disapprove of offensive language. Anyway have fun in Gorequest 4: The Tittening."

Intricate rituals

the only option, obviously

This is a haterism post and truly you can do what you want forever but some of these fictional character ships are not having children. Bio or adopted. Some of them aren't even getting married

I am begging for the heteronormative nuclear family type dynamic that gets forced on every fictional relationship ever to die

Posting on 1/13/2026

who else has fantasized about the Nutrient Brick

You will never guess who tried to make a Nutrient Block in the late 90s

It really did have everything and some of the varieties even managed to have a Flavor, but the downside was that packing that much nutrition into a single log made your digestive system work REALLY hard and well it turned out to not be an appropriate thing to eat in an office environment. Look up the reviews if you want to hear some fascinating colorful descriptions of waves of loud farts

Annoying that dairy products are demonized as Unnatural and Disgusting when it's actually kinda neat that humans figured out a way to fulfill omnivorous nutritional requirements without killing any animals (and populations historically dependent on dairy even evolved lactase persistence!). This is biopunk to me

I've seen weird memes and stuff like "Milk is BODILY FLUID that came from a COW" and the fact that people exist that would find this distressing concerns me.

Y'all are not going to like learning what fruits are...

A fruit is an OVARY that because SWOLLEN AND ENLARGED after PLANT GENITALS were rubbed in PLANT SPERM by a BUG

we have got to stop acting like we’re better than nature. we drink animal fluids and eat flesh and it’s gross because being alive is gross work and that’s so fine. we’re part of the ecosystem, and this “humans are a disease on earth we shouldn’t be interfering with animals at all” mindset that some people have is so oppositional to all the people who don’t live a first-world type life.

You ask me the time and I reach into my shirt pocket for what you think is a pocket watch on a chain but instead it's this

#mycrab

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