Loveless

Today I'd like to take a moment to plug Loveless by Alice Oseman. If you're not aro ace like me, you probably won't have as many feelings as I did, and maybe that means you won't enjoy it quite as much, but you will most definitely come out of it with a better understanding of the aro ace experience. (If you are aro ace like me, you'll repeatedly think "That part was kind of uncomfortably familiar," and also if you're like me right now you're thinking "I am literally incapable of choosing not to buy a book called Loveless.")

I kid you not, I've been vaguely working on a fanfic about asexuality based on my own life, and if I ever finish it then it'll be in many ways significantly less autobiographical than this book by a total stranger. It is uncanny how it hits not only every bit of common aro ace experience but also a lot of things I remember that can't possibly be at all universal.