I wish straight people knew how heartbreaking queerbaiting actually is for us. Like, you’re not just teasing a relationship. You’re dangling equal representation in front of our faces, being treated like human beings in front of our faces, with amazing and varied characters whose storylines are more than how straight people kill us (bullying) disease kills us (hiv scare) or we kill ourselves due to the tragedy of our story.
You dangle it and go “am I gonna? Am I gonna? ….Lol no, a show with gay lead characters?! No one would *ever* watch that!” and don’t see why it hurts us.
Legit. The message it sends is “nobody wants to see people like you”, no matter how much anyone says otherwise.
I found most of these in a few quick searches on my other blog @amazingaro. I’m sure there’s more guides and masterposts out there; feel free to add on to this list if you know some!
It’s going to be okay. I know it seems like the end of the world. I know you’re scared you will be alone forever. I know you probably did everything you could to force yourself to love somebody like we’re told we should.
You’re not broken. And you’re not a monster.
It’s going to be okay and you’re going to get through this. You’re aromantic and you’re perfect that way.
Coming from your aro buddy here. It’s going to be okay if you discovered that you are aromantic. It will be okay. Even if you’re 100% sure that you are. I know that not all of you are feeling comforted by realizing you’re aro- and why wouldn’t some of us be unhappy? Society puts so much pressure on youth to seek out love and emphasizes so much that romantic love is what makes us human, that its easy to forget that its possible to be happy without it. Its easy to slip into the mindset that you are either never going to be happy, or that you are not human at all.
You can be happy without it. Its possible to live a meaningful life without a romantic partner. And you don’t need a romantic partner to know that you are not alone.
Lesbian/ace girl solidarity is when somebody’s like “how do you know he’s good-looking if you aren’t attracted to men???” And you look into the non-existent camera like you’re on the office
Lesbian/ace girl solidarity is also when your straight friend shows you an ugly rude piece of cheese boy, tells you ‘isnt he so hot??’, and you have three seconds to make your choice
I have to be honest here…you are 100% right, sorry straight girls
I am here to support people of all genders, presentations and orientations. You’re doing marvellously, and I am so incredibly proud of you.
If anyone doubts your truth or your wonder or your worth, know that they shall face the wrath of my cabbages aimed directly at their noses. I’ve no time for those people.
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