aromantic-diaries:

What I really despise about the “are cishet aromantic men queer?” discourse that went around is that it’s completely transparent that that’s not what it’s actually about. They only think of this cishet aromantic man as a hypothetical person. What this really reveals is that the queer community as a whole still does not see aromanticism as an actual queer identity and thus when pairing it with the pinnacle of straight, the cishet man, the kneejerk reaction is that of course they’re not queer. They don’t think aromanticism is actually something that has a profound effect on someone’s identity because they don’t see it as anything beyond someone who chooses to stay single.

I saw this poll that was prefaced with a description of a hypothetical cishet arospec man who’s the most stereotypical suburban white dad, everything in the text suggesting that he is the straightest man you can imagine and his arospec identity doesn’t really affect him in any way and he’s pretty much living like any typical straight cis man, and the question was whether or not he was queer. Like clearly what this reveals is that aromanticism isn’t seen as that big of a deal. If you wrote a detailed description of me, an aromantic asexual trans man in a queerplatonic relationship with another asexual transmasc person, the answer would probably be “yeah he’s queer” but would that really be because I’m aromantic? If all I say is I’m aromantic and not mention anything else I’ll get the “you’re basically straight” treatment.

Anyways. Yes, aromantic cishet men are queer because aromanticism has way more impact on your identity than just staying single

andmaybegayer:

beifongkendo:

“Glimpsing at the seabed through the water and the complexity of the light within, at a soothing southern sea.” By Shigeko Inoue (2002).

Born in 1945, Inoue studied traditional Japanese and Italian woodblock printing. Her work focuses on nature, transparency and the movement of water.

ostentenacity:

gingerhastoomanyobsessions:

(wakes up in a cold sweat) ga, ga, goncharov, member of the russian mob

there was a man who did so much crime

ga ga goncharov, italy’s most famous slav

he really thought he had enough time

notahorseindisguise:

notahorseindisguise:

pisses me off that gender is just pattern recognition thats been drilled into us since birth. why didnt they teach us something important instead like which snakes are venomous

the fact that im supposedly wble to tell if someones a girl or boy by one glance but i have to google is a spider can kill me is so incredibly shortsighted

ullathynell:

Sinikettu / Blue Fox (2025)