anagnori:

How about instead of writing yet another angsty unrequited love story, we try writing stories with happy lithromantic characters?

Love triangles being resolved when one of the people turns out to be lithromantic.

A lithromantic who hates receiving romantic attraction and an aromantic who’s afraid of being alone and unloved, discovering they’re perfect for each other.

A lithromantic person and a monogamous couple neatly forming a polyamorous family.

A lithromantic person and their crush scoping out attractive people together.

Lithromantic people who are happy to love from a distance and who share their lives with their awesome friends instead.

Lithromantic people who are naturally solitary but still care deeply for others.

Asymmetrical romantic/platonic relationships that work because the partners communicate and respect each other’s feelings and needs.

A lithromantic person and their romantic partner talking about boundaries so that the romantic person knows how to express affection and intimacy without making the lithromantic person uncomfortable.

A romantic comedy in which a lithromantic person does sweet and thoughtful gestures for their crush but tries to keep it a secret or do it in such a way that their crush doesn’t notice them.

There are so many neat things you could do with lithromanticism and I wish that once, just once, I could read/watch a good story about it. But really I’d just be happy to see lithromantic characters at all.