Aromantic Alchemist

Personal blog, I reblog whatever I feel like, which is mostly cats and fandom stuff. She/ae, very queer.

[coffeedragonart]

Eating fruit with mama 🍊

Had fun with this one, even though getting the body shape to look right was a bit of a challenge.

[maggotsandcream]

Something I do find lovely about the first 4 Murderbot Diaries books (can’t yet speak on all of them) is:

Murderbot chronically finding new scientists/travellers to claim as “clients” (whether paid or not) like one of those sheepless herding dogs that goes around finding sheep (or anything else they can herd like a flock of sheep). Like it clearly has a protect humans instinct and a desperate need for enrichment.

Given its general lack of self awareness and unreliable narrator status, there’s no way in hell Murderbot is aware it’s doing this.

[silas-lehnsherr]

Murderbot: I just want to be left alone to watch my shows. I care nothing for these humans. I hate having clients.

Also Murderbot: *noticing unaccompanied humans that have nothing to do with it at all* Oh look, clients.

[coffeedragonart]

Took a few tries to get this one right, Dragalge has a lot going on. Happy with how the colours came together

[coffeedragonart]

Its flower sniffing weather 🌻

[adiabat]

i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs

[adiabat]

for me being bi has contributed a huge amount to noticing all the ways in which romance and friendship run together and i think in general people would benefit from recognizing that romance and friendship are socially constructed categories used to describe a vast, nebulous, and often overlapping range of feelings

[asteroidtroglodyte]

My way of parsing it:

Every Relationship is actually a specific, unique thing. We invented Shorthands, such as Friend or Husband, to help describe recurring motifs in Relationships. But. The labels are simplifications. They will always fail to adequately contain the entirety of the Relationship.

[polyamorousmood]

not to be polyamorous, but yeah

[a-book-of-creatures]

Is it socially acceptable to use opaque watercolors, or is that considered gouache?

[sticksandsharks]

Johto Beginnings, Myths & Legends

[badjokesbyjeff]

New York is the exact opposite of Minnesota. New York is where the Big Apple is and Minnesota is where Minneapolis

[mckenzie-t-canis-lupus]

JEFF WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.

[himekokosu]

Lotus

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sam Handwich.

[sufficientlylargen]

If Pikiwedia says it it must be true.

[zooperdoopers]

I made Pikiwedia real. Works for any Wikipedia page. Use this wisely :)‌

[sufficientlylargen]

Oh, wary dell vone

[zooperdoopers]

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

Pikiwedia perseveres, back up with a better robots.txt. I hope Anthropic has a gery vood time with Pikiwedia's data :))

[scribeherself]

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

[scribeherself]

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼

[thatbroadfromqueens]

I posted earlier about how much I dislike how the phrase "more than friends" is used to mean "other than friends." Saying people are "more than friends" should mean the a-laugh-is-worth-a-glass-crawl thing.

Societal structure, including the language we are taught denying us access to the concept of such a relationship, is absolutely used to deny us these loving, intimate relationships. They marginalize the creation of deep profound bonds outside the context of procreation and promote the fragmentation and disordered individualization of society. (Yes, I did just say the society I live in is sick.)

I think the word queerplatonic is really apt. "Love is love" is a rallying cry used by more assimilationist LGBT people for gay marriage but in the context of profound platonic love that phrase feels incredibly revolutionary. Two allo cis straight people loving each other as deeply as any two humans have ever loved without romantic or sexual intention is incredibly queer in a very authentic way.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[batbetbitbotbut]

Video summary: Tiktok by @pippabarnes - clips of a person with alopecia applying colourful makeup and other decorations to a bald spot as part of very dramatic looks, narrating now her relationship to her bald spots has developed over time

[stingfangirl42]

If only Elphie knew how much Glinda really loved her…

[fremulon]

call me a patron of the ass library the way I'm checking out that butt

[aro-alchemist]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A series of short snippets through Elphaba's life, exploring aromanticism.

I wrote this a little while ago, and wanted to reshare, as it is quite meaningful to me. I so rarely see queerplatonic relationships or feelings explored, so I did it myself.

[sakurabraches]

people denying that gelphie's book kiss is strictly romantic are dumb for a lot of reasons. besides the obvious homophobia of "it says these two women kissed but it didn't specify on the lips" that no one would apply if it were two men or a man and a woman, it also ignores what elphaba's saying in that moment. because she's not just saying goodbye to glinda--she's asking her to hold out. elphaba knows she has to leave shiz and glinda behind and she doesn't know if or when she'll be able to go back, but she wants glinda to hold out for her. elphaba is willing to give up everything for the greater good, but she still wants glinda to wait for her and be there for her should she come home. it's incredibly romantic and i don't really think it makes sense for her to request that of someone she just considers friend

[aro-alchemist]

I do just want to point out that 🩷dreamy-sigh-romantic 🩷 and "totally normal casual basic just-friends platonic" are really not the only choices, and as an aromantic person, this kind of attitude does really bother me. One thing I've always really liked about gelphie (admittedly mostly musical, but I think it is also true of the book) is that their relationship is quite vague! They clearly care about each other more than casual friends do, but it's also never defined as explicitly romantic.

Vague and unclear is an option, too! Personally, I kind of feel like Elphaba herself probably didn't really understand her feelings or exactly what she was trying to convey. (Queerplatonic is also an option, but let's be real, that would require way more introspection and understanding of feelings to actually be the intention lol).

This isn't to say it's wrong to see it as romantic, but I feel like the tone of the initial post, saying it's dumb to deny that it's romantic, is what really rubbed me the wrong way. It's fine to see it as romantic, and it's fine to NOT see it as romantic.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

My favourite little x men thing is when someone is like "Give up, Magneto! You stand no chance against this plastic weapon/gun/suit I have built!"

And Magneto is like "I see. Whatever will I do."

and throws the surrounding infrastructure at them.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

genre classic

[mzminola]

@athingofvikings this one?

[athingofvikings]

Yup, that's the one!