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you want to be romantically attracted to someone? the thing that killed romeo and juliet?

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Can we stop acting like two people deeply loving each other has to mean they have something romantic or sexual going on? Can we stop talking as if platonic love just can't be that deep? Because that's not true. Platonic love can be just as deep, and sometimes even deeper, than romantic love. What I'm saying is, we need to stop putting romance on this pedestal and act like every other form of love is less important.

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Sure sure romantic pairings are fine and all. But more people should perhaps consider two characters loving each other to the point of incomprehensibility. To the point that there is no simpler way in english to define or describe it than just to say those characters’ names together, joined eternally by the vague conjunction ‘and’. There’s so many types of love and dependencies and emotions in general thrown in there that you can’t tell what colors they are anymore, they’ve just joined into a giant blobby mess that’s almost black, but when you look closer glistens with more colors than there are names for. Just a thought

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People will go "Being aromantic and or asexual is a spectrum so it's okay that I ship them with someone!" But if I said I headcanon a character that's already in a canon relationship as aroace suddenly I'm just mischaracterizing and trying to make every character queer

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Can we find a sun god or diety from every timezone and make a map of them all?

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I’m making this post on the behalf of Sami and his family. Fundraiser here.

Sami says:

"A simple picture, yet it holds a powerful meaning. Tell me what did you understand, and what will you do? 'I understood that these children are in urgent need of donations, and I will donate. I will also share this post—it might help in some way. This image is full of sorrowful meaning, and I will do everything I can for these innocent children. I will donate so that they can go to school, eat clean food, and sleep in peace.' This is exactly what is happening right now with me and my family in the heart of Gaza. Please, donate—share—speak up. Don’t stop. We are between life and death. Don’t leave us behind."

Please do anything you can to help, any engagement is appreciated even if you cannot directly give to the campaign. Thank you so much <3.

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joints will see you taking a step & be like "i bet i could improve on this with my Cool New Trick." & theyre wrong

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Sam Nordquist

say his name

EDIT: Hey y'all, I know we all grieve differently, and some of that is through humor/sarcasm. If you wanna be snarky and sarcastic, please use tone indicators in the comments. I've already had one blow-up with someone who meant for a comment to be sarcastic, and I don't want that to happen to another person.

EDIT 2: I'm turning off notes/comments for the forseeable future. Y'all mfs need to take a chill pill. I know we've been going through a lot as a community, but taking your grief out as lateral aggression is not productive, supportive, or kind. I've addressed The Commenter Who Shall Not Be Named multiple times. I've apologized to them, and I've repeatedly told people to stop harassing them as they meant it as sarcasm. I'm so fucking sick and tired of seeing this happening. This is a microcosm of what's constantly going on in both the online left and queer communities. In times where we should be standing in solidarity, we instead point fingers at our own, and its why we can never get shit done. If you're pissed off, make your own post. If you're pissed off at someone, go write it down in a journal. Direct your anger at Sam's killers, patriarchy, white supremacy, but not your own folks. Use that anger to push for change and reform. Do not drive wedges between yourself and other queer folks. We are the only ones who have our backs, please don't fuck that up.

EDIT 3: I just found out that turning off reblogs does not turn off the comment section. As such, I have turned reblogs on so that way this can be spread. Just for the love of god, be nice to each other.

EDIT 4: Hey radfem blogs, get the fuck outta here. this post is not meant for you. This is not a TERF friendly blog. Do not interact! Block and report any reblogs where you see intentional misgendering of Sam please!

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as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where people are fucking normal about aromanticism

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gotta be honest, i hate the whole oppression contest between romance-favorable and romance-averse aromantics that’s going on right now. both of those groups are pressured to act like the other. you know why? because people just don’t like us being aromantic. that’s it. nobody’s more privileged than the other, at least not in this context.

if you’re alright with being in relationships, then you’re told you’re not really aromantic. the goal is to make you doubt you’re aromantic.

if you don’t want to be in relationships, then you’re told that aromantics can date, so you should! the goal is to make you more palatable, to make you romance-favorable so then, they can gaslight you into thinking you’re not actually aromantic. or they just straight up call you heartless (shoutout heartless aros, love you guys <2) and/or inhuman, but thats just their true colors showing. they think that of all aros.

and the aromantic people who says shit like that? they’re trying to throw the group they’re not part of under the bus to make themselves either more palatable or less ‘confusing’. they’re scared.

nobody’s winning here. let’s all just shut the fuck up for a second and recognize that these people just don’t want us to be aromantic. that’s it. doesn’t matter if you’re romance-averse, romance-favorable or anything else. they just want us to conform. and if you’re accusing the other side of being responsible for your oppression, you’re playing right into their game.

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Having some thoughts about compulsory sexuality, especially how posts about sex positivity vs censorship have an unfortunate tendency to cast people who are less willing to engage with sex as the cause and the symptom of puritanism when puritanical people are usually pretty pro-sex (within very narrow parameters that they weaponize against everyone else).

Tl;dr: Ending stigma around sex = Good. Implying less sexual people are losers / bad queers / oppressors = No thanks.

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For my ace buddies and fellow demis.

(I'm gonna add alt text in a few hours - I'm currently on mobile with a shitty Internet signal)

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It’s nearly pride month, you know what that means it’s time for y’all yearly reminder;

THIS IS NOT A SAFE PLACE FOR TRANSPHOBES,

ASEXUAL/AROMANTIC EXCLUSIONISTS,

AROMANTIC/ASEXUAL PHOBES,

HOMOPHOBES, BIPHOBES, PANPHOBES AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO SAY “invalid label” TO ANYONE IN THE QUEER COMMUNITY

(apart from those who use the “it’s a label” to push sick ideas like being attracted to children)

And finally anyone who supports, voted for, or likes trump and the surrounding policies.

Go fuck yourselves ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙🖤🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤍

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Please reblog

Australian KOSA is occurring right now

They are banning anyone under the age of sixteen from almost all media sites, including YouTube now.

They are including sites they promised they wouldn’t include

They are using inaccurate face scanning tech that does not accurately know your age

The other option is using government IDs

Neither is wanted.

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS RIGHT NOW. PLEASE JUST FOR A MOMENT

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Hello, wonderful souls! 🤍🌍

I hope you're doing well. 🌿

Could you help me amplify my family's story and bring awareness to our struggle? 🙏🏻

💬 Please reblog my pinned post or consider donating just $5—your support could truly make a difference in saving lives amidst war and hardship.

Your kindness and voice matter more than you know. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! 🤍🌿

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Ta da, Cerulean King! (Aka Space!Au Cruel King)

In the Space Au of Blocktales I’m tweaking on, Blackrock will be located on a somewhat similar, icy cold planet, Uranus

The player’s job is to retrieve the Ice Dagger obvi by Shedletsky

The planet is very close to freezing up with all the people there, but Cerulean King just can’t help but want to shelter his people from the supposed dangerous debris that the voices keep telling him would hit his kingdom, so he uses the Ice Dagger in hopes that it can maybe, somehow protect his people

Ehhh, that’s all I’ve thought of, I’m thinking that the Player should wear the classic astronaut suit in Blackrock, but the outfit and colour scheme changes within each region of the 7 swords

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I felt like drawing this thing