okay but the idea of romance/amatonormativity as horror from an aro perspective could work so terrifyingly well
like, you wake up one day, and suddenly, there's someone else in your house. they call you honey and say they're your spouse
you don't know them. you don't remember them. but you are now legally and socially bound to them and their identity
you cannot find solitude - they are where you are, in your bed from the moment you wake up
you cannot find peace - they are bound to you in a million little ways, from photos you cannot delete from your phone to a name you can't remove from your accounts
you try to look to the other people in your life for help, for clarity, but they all accept this relationship as fact
and what's worse, all the people you had truly given your heart to - your friends, your family, your partners - have inexplicably distanced themselves from you, out of some misplaced reverence for your romantic relationship
they tell you to talk to your spouse. they tell you it's not their place to get in the middle of this. they tell they've never seen a love like yours - and it'll all work out in the end
you look in the face of this stranger in your house and know in your heart you've never seen a love like this either