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obligatory mourning of the dream of finding true love after society tells you true love will solve all your problems and the crushing reality of realizing you will never really find someone who completes you

ratsoupee

I think I gotta clarify the term Ive used, which is asexual because its been pointed out that what Im describing is very close to aromantic, which can be true! I just use the broad term of 'asexuel' or 'ace' because I've yet to fully and truly understand the spectrum of my asexuality.

I still yearn for a relationship, but I know I don't experience that attraction like everyone else. And a part of me is still confused if its just latching onto an idea or just something I will forever experience. So I'm currently using the broad term of asexuality to describe myself, but it could be aromantic!

Labels are quite tricky. It's a very neat way of understanding what you are or what you feel and having very nice descriptors to aid you in your quest of identity. At the same time, sexuality and attraction are such a complicated muddle of unique quirks that do not truly fit one label. I think I personally don't mind a label, but I like it in broad terms, and not specificities, mostly because I'm trying to figure myself out.

If you do enjoy labels, congrats! I'm so proud of your journey into identity! And if you dont got labels, I'm so proud of you for trying to navigate the complicated systems of life, and making it this far! All you just need to be is the best version of you you can be right here and now.

Of course, I still identify with whatever makes the bit funny 🫡

#I. uh. did not know I needed to hear this #thank you for writing/drawing this #like seriously thank you #I think I fall somewhere on the aroace spectrum but I really don’t know for sure #and it’s so hard to tell when you don’t even really know what sexual or romantic attraction feels like #have I experienced it before? I don’t know!!! (and that’s ok)#and I’m also very much in the boat of liking some of the idea of a romantic relationship but I’m not sure if it’s really that #or do I just want a really good friend who I can hug and cuddle when I need it and hang around with and everything?#anyways relationships are weird #and so are brains.#asexuality #aroace

mattpresents

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

hxneyfarm

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

banchie

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

weekly-eons

Ace Umbreon, please? I'm ace!

A fancy lil fella

gemapples

magolor nendoroid this time for sure guys

gemapples

NEVER BACK DOWN NEVER WHATTTT!!!!!!!

pronouncingitwang

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

yokowan

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

le-jardin-inculte

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

shithowdy

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

whitachi

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

araceil

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

thevulturesquadron

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

rudjedet

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.