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ur friendly neighborhood aro otome fan ♡

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Hey hey, everyone! My name is Wren!

I'm 23, use any pronouns, and I like to talk about otoges & other games (among other various topics) so feel free to reach out via my askbox or dms if you'd like to chat!* <3

((mutuals are welcome to ask for my discord, steam, and switch friendcode at any time, and please do bc I'd love to talk to y'all! <3))

Currently Playing: Fire Emblem: Three Houses Click here to view my Game Collection on Backloggd <3 and for Otome games specifically, I also have Koilog (I am still working on gradually updating both of these with reviews and logs of games I've played in the past)

I'm also a grad student working on my Master's in Library and Information Science, so it sometimes takes me a while to finish games due to schoolwork keeping me busy lol

*(if you do reach out to chat, please say something other than just "Hi" in your first message -- otherwise I'll instinctively assume you're a bot 💀)

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My Gaming Bingo Card Challenge for 2026

(made custom for me by my bff @hoetome ♡)
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campal from Pyrrha's perspective is so fucking funny. she survived only because G1deon's lyctoral process failed and then ended up living with a pair of crazy 20 year olds who coincidentally were in the middle of DIYing their own version of lyctorhood. she watched them do fucked up soul things, got flashbacks of her friends who suffered horrible consequences of doing those exact things, tried to warn them, was like "what if we just🥺lived on a farm🥺or something🥺", they were like "sureeee grandma let's get you to bed we'll think about it" but then she comes back from work and they're conducting their 10th unethical experiment of the week. and it's only wednesday.

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k1nky-r0b0t-g1rl

How to vent about the same problem multiple times without people wanting to beat you to death with hammers

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this is about chronic pain and how people rapidly lose empathy the longer you deal with it btw

sometimes finding aromanticism in media isn’t literally about aromanticism… sometimes it’s about the deconstruction of love as a concept and the subversion of its perception as inherently humanising. it’s about the decentering of romance as a driving force in the narrative. and also sometimes it’s about love being central to the narrative but in a way that defies all traditional categorisations of romantic / platonic / anything else. it is the secret third thing yet so much more and less at once. the point is aromanticism is everywhere for those with eyes to see

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I'll be an avid shipper of something until someone walks in and says "there is NO platonic explanation for this" and suddenly I've never shipped it before in my life and they're just friends and I can't lie i can't really see them being in a romantic relationship with each other yeah sorry I just don't see it

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gonna be really honest i do think that if you’re not aromantic you’re missing out 🖤

this post obviously touches on the fact that the human experience is infinitely variable and there are fantastic aspects of every way of life that are often unique to that experience. and also i think aromanticism is cool as fuck and everyone Should have fomo about it 🙂‍↕️

I mean yeah I’m definitely missing out an aspects unique to that experience, but I have no feelings of fomo about it. I don’t think, at the end of the day, I want to have lived a life without some kind of romance. It’s something I’ll never really understand, but I guess that comes with the territory of being an allosexual. Like a cis person can never really understand what it’s like to be trans

alloro people will see someone post about a positive experience being aro and immediately go “i would Never want to live like you” as if that’s a normal fucking thing to say to somebody. anyway i love living a life without any kind of romance. and for the record i think cis people are missing out incredibly on being trans as well

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in hindsight, growing up as an aromantic person who didn't know aromanticism was a thing...it woulda been really easy for me to assume that something was wrong with me, that I was "broken" or "missing" some piece of humanity.

luckily I was autistic, oblivious, and had a huge ego. it literally never occurred to me to frame it as a "me" problem. i just thought every single person i knew was a dumbass

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.

this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.