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I FINALLY REALIZED THE BEST ANALOGY FOR BEING AROMANTIC

People really have a hard time with trying to understand the ARO thing. I’m asked ALL THE TIME how could I tell the difference between platonic and romantic love.

And I’m always like, I DUNNO, WHY DONT U FECKING TELL ME?

Needless to say, I have been very frustrated by that question waaaaay too much. But - I think got it now.

It’s like being colorblind.

So, general Love and Affection is the monochrome spectrum.

Meanwhile, Romantic Love is the fuller color spectrum. You have all the same shading and depth, but there’s more range for beauty - and discord - layered with it.

So, asking me to explain the difference between romantic and platonic love is like asking a colorblind person to describe the difference between red and green.

I don’t know, but I know there is one because of the way *all you other fuckers go on about it*.

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20th Century Marriage Discussion…

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Me to Frank Herbert: respectfully, Mr. Herbert, what the fuck

Frank Herbert: shhhh, this is my comfort action hero

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Source | Day 116

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STAR WARS RANT INCOMING!

If I could change two things about the entire Star Wars canon, I would firstly make Anakin Skywalker 14 years old in The Phantom Menace.

It fixes so much that doesn’t work about the prequels.

The Jedi Council evaluation: He’s too angry? A kind, empathetic boy who had been raised a slave on a hard world run by the biggest criminal empire in the galaxy - of course. Of course he would be. That kind of injustice would burn so deeply - at 14, he would not just be a witness to the wrongs, he would understand them, and that’s why he would be “too old”. The Jedi Council would clock immediately that this boy had learned how to hate, in a way so deeply entrenched that no amount of training and meditation would wash that away.

Make him 14, and the Jedi Council goes from a bunch of dicks to instead a bunch of misguided dicks in a way that makes mores sense with the Clone Wars portrayals.

At 14, Anakin would be YOUNG but believable as a genius pilot. Qui Gon gambling on the pod race, him defeating the Trade Federation control ship? An incredible feat! But not ridiculous, as it kinda is in the movie. Also, 13-14 is older enough that I believe he could convince his mother to let him compete at all. If my 8-9 year old was flying in homicidal death races, I would lose my shit. No. Just no.

It’s also more believable (and significantly less creepy) that a 14 year old Anakin could meet Padme, 17-18yo herself, bond innocently in the circumstances and have that develop into a deep love and admiration when they meet again older. So much less cringe!!!

That’s #1 what I would change.

#2 is that I would rewrite Anakin and Padme’s entire doomed narrative.

Padme and Anakin needed parallel character arcs over the course of the wars up until RotS, as the war pushed them father and farther from each other ideologically until finally ending with him tearing down the Republic as she raised the Rebellion to fight the Empire put in its place (which is canon and got cut).

Lucas wrote the tragedy that Anakin killed her because he thought she had betrayed him when she hadn’t - the tragedy should have been because she HAD.

Also, stfu with whole “she has lost the will to live”, I defy you to say Padme would not cling screaming to life every second she could to leave her children a safer galaxy.

Anyway, these aren’t the only things one could change to improve the Star Wars canon, but I think they would have the biggest overall positive impact. We get left with an older Anakin, heroic, full of the desire to do good, and only too aware of the injustices and hypocrisy that surround him in the Order, already walking the knife edge of love and bitterness.

What dya think? I would love to hear other opinions!

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Okay, trying to figure out the actual general opinion on this:

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It’s always funny to talk to people who think all of California is like SoCal. Like, oh no, while I, too, do not know what actual weather is, going to the beach often involves fleece layers, windbreakers, sturdy shoes, and a Heathy Fear and Respect for the fact that the Pacific can and will actively try to kill you.

Our tide pools are incredible tho.

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The hills outside LA are on fire, resulting in a very “Low-budget, high-effort dystopian Sci-fi film from the 80s nightmare” vibe.

Photo credit unknown

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'Caravans coming' redux.

Republicans have the lamest nativist bullshit. Eating your pet animals is straight out of Nazi playbook.

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The debate was last night, Trump got served and Kamala Harris ate just like—

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you're not an horrible person you are 15 years old

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I love that the two genres of 'miku from my culture' posts are 'beautiful intricate traditional clothing' and 'what if miku was a regular at the gas station by my house'

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Peanuts sketches!

In my Charlie Brown era I guess lol

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I feel like this manages to be in the same category and yet on a polar opposite end of the spectrum of the “Women Want Me Fish Fear Me” fashion hat.

That being said, I strongly suggest this should only be worn as a clip on so you can quickly remove it to slap people who displease you in conversation.