u/Sad-Leadership-2110

This isn't much, but I just wanna say something.

I love this game, I love the people behind it, I love the original creator, I love this community, and I love you guys. This is the most safest and kindest community I've ever been part of and I'm so glad to be in it. I love seeing the stories, the art, the memes, everything that people can make from this game. I love how we can all openly share our lovely kitties and ask for help when we need it. I love how we can include others in our games and how we can watch the lives of other people's clans go by through documentation. I love how much passion we and the creators of the game feel about it and the fandom, it's beautiful. I've only been on reddit for 1-2 years maybe and this was the first community I joined, and I'm sure not disappointed. I've never once been discouraged or ashamed to be here, I've never been upset with anyone, I've rarely/never had to be part of or see another petty internet fight. I genuinely feel so secure here and I never want to leave.

I don't know if anyone wants to see this, but I love you all so much. Every single person in this community, I love you and I hope for the best for you and your kitties <3

First time posting here so hii! :3

How does everyone expierience thier Aegoromantic orientation and how does it affect your other orientations/individuality/life?

I'm aegoromantic, quoiromantic, and apothiromantic, and it's very conflicting. I don't understand romance and the concept is incredibly frustrating to understand due to how much everyone glazes it, and that plus my trauma with the idea of romance makes the idea incredibly disturbing and uncomfortable to think about, especially with myself in a relationship. Yet I am absolutely OBSESSED with fictional romance, specifically the love stories. I love seeing how fake people meet and fall in love and almost any situation will do. I have hundreds of ships on my belt varying in my passion for them and anytime I see them or fancontent of them I get all giddy. Yet 98% of the time once the characters finally get together I'm immediately turned off from the ship and any content with them past the start of thier relationship becomes incredibly boring and the novelty of the ship dies, and I'm always sad when that happens. There has only been two of my ships that have survived this massacre, with one of them being implied as canon but not official and the other being incredibly one-sided (at least at the start). Also I have no idea what I like in my ships because I like most ships (including the toxic ones sadly) but if it's too gooey or the characters' personality is only the other character than I absolutely despise it, but when I think about my favorite ships I like to think diffrent scenerios based on the personalities and relationships of the characters, but it's confusing to think about. I'm proud to be aromantic and I'm glad I feel no attraction to people but I'm always disapointed when the aegoromantic part of my identity doesn't get the satisfaction of enjoying a romance past the love story.

(I also love shipping my OCs but I haven't actually written anything down yet, though sadly I imagine it would end up the same as my shipping expieriences 😔)

But ye, I don't know if this is the right place to ask but I'm really curious how others feel about being aegoromantic. So if there's anyone who wants to share please do! I love learning about individual expieriences with anything :3