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Been thinking about this since forever!!
things i do not understand about fics involving or by allosexual/alloromantic people (an incomplete list by an aroace looking for validation):
sexual attraction, obviously. like I know logically that it's a thing but I'm still half-convinced it's made up. I get aesthetic attraction, I can think of people as beautiful, but the urge to have sex is — obviously — not there.
specifically, attraction to sweat? like characters in fics will get sweaty and then people find that attractive? how??? I can logic out wanting to have sex in most cases, but this one makes no sense to me
hating someone & being attracted to them at the same time. It's why I don't like a lot of enemies-to-lovers — if you hate each other, what is the appeal of sex???
reader x character fics. I'm fine reading about romance happening to other people, but why would you want to read about romance happening to YOURSELF? isn't it weird? or is that just the aromanticism in me—
in some contexts I can conceptually understand wanting to have sex, in other ones I can't. Like... sometimes it just seems more realistic to cuddle?
finding anger attractive... ig this is related to the enemies-to-lovers stuff, but even in fics that AREN'T enemies to lovers, arguments turn into sex. why? what is appealing about being angry?
possibly tbc if I encouter anything more, feel free to add on
kathony + tags part 10
Aesthetic attack✨️
Verbena Lune Apothecary.
Angsty Romantic Cliches I’m a Slut For
Holding their partner’s unconscious/dead body
Sobbing into their partner’s shoulder/chest
One of them is hurt and the other falls asleep in their hospital room
The other losing their mind when their partner is hurt/killed and charging into battle recklessly
“I thought I lost you” hugs
“Don’t go where I can’t follow!”
One is mind controlled and forced to fight the other
The other refusing to harm them and getting seriously injured as consequence
The person coming to and seeing what they’ve done
I could go on about this trope alone for 5 hours
A last desperate “I love you!”
A tearful, hard kiss before battle, bonus points if its a confessional kiss
“Please, I don’t know what I’d do without you.”
Bandaging each other’s wounds
Both of them injured, and waking up beside each other
faceless embraces
1. alex & lutz back, 1992, ph. wolfgang tillmans 2. ph. nan goldin 3. love-In, los angeles, 1967 ph. jerry de wilde 4. joseph lorusso, “cafe lovers 4” (detail) 5. el lenguaje del limbo II by mariana restrepo 6. photographer unknown 7. lovers in a field, 2019 ph. clifford prince king 8. isle of wight festival, 1969 ph. david hurn 9. joseph lorusso, “lovers in the garden” 10. the big gamble (1961), dir. elmo williams & richard fleischer
Enchanted Creations By Angel.
Jessica Chastain in CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro