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Lmao apperently Tiktok's gone so I'm back guys 😭

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hey. do you feel that? the sun on your face? the wind in your hair? the love in your heart? that's what this is all about, baby.

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Sometimes, you just miss them but don't want them back because you know they won't make an effort to keep you.

Sarthak

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“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

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That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.

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“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

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Oh my god

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but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

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I think people who consider aromanticism as "basically straight" underestimate how noticeable absence can be to those around you.

Whether you're a kid in school with classmates who won't take "no one" as an answer to who you have a crush on or an adult whose coworkers have picked up on the fact that you've never mentioned a romantic partner; after enough time, a lack or insufficient amount of romantic interest will raise the antennae of friends, family, coworkers, etc... They will notice and they will speculate and they will ask.

It is impossible to meet the societal bar for straightness through inaction.

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“Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted?”

— Unknown

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“We hope this email finds you well” babe, the only emails I hope find me well are the ones from Archive of Our Own

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— Lana Del Rey; Cinnamon Girl

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“Of this be sure: You do not find the happy life… you make it.”

— Thomas S. Monson

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Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.