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Saw a reddit post today about a girl who was upset that her childhood best friend replaced a photo of the two of them in his wallet with one of him and his girlfriend. And while yeah, she was being unreasonable with a lot of what she was saying, I totally understand the sadness of a friend "replacing" you with someone they have romantic feelings for. Makes it worse when the top comment is this
Every single comment on this post is about how family and romantic relationships always take precedence over friendships. I don't have anything more to say to this aside from the fact that... this is why it's hard for aroaces to imagine futures for themselves. Society drills it into your head that you're going to live in a world where you are no one's priority if you don't have romantic relationships and it fucking sucks
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Thomas Hobbes: I resorted to hiding my heresy in translations of Homer Dr Ada Palmer: bet. :crams all of human history and a philosophy treatise into her four-brick anime-plot translation of Homer:
Big fan of characters realizing they don't get to die. They have to live. And grow. And be a person. And deal with shit they thought they'd never have to. And be fucked up about it. I would like more of this. Enough dying for honor or as redemption. It ain't. You're just a corpse. There is no moral value in dirt time.
I'll never understand the "curtains are just blue sometimes" people. I was soooo fucking excited learning about symbolism. You have a story and what the story tells you. Then you have the fact that it was written at all by someone and that's another story. And then there's also hidden extra story info?
Not to mention all those parents who want to be trendy like “Ooh I’m going to give my kid one of those unique old fashioned names so it won’t be a whole classroom of Aidens or something” and then the next decade every class’s first day is like: “Tigris, Olivier, Mycroft, Xiao Fu, Carlye, Mycroft, Genoa, Carlye, Yuri, Mycroft, Mississippi…”
cis ppl are like "ugh how am i supposed to remember which name to call you its too complicated" and then name their kids jehovah epicurus donatien d'arouet J.E.D.D. jed tai-kun xiao hei wang jagmohan t.m. micromegas mike ἄναξ porphyrogene mason MASON