Bug with a cig whats he gonna do

Any pronouns are fine, choose based on my vibes ig. Aroace and gender apathetic

[hypothermicfaggot]

Everyone makes jokes about being aromantic but no one talks about the quiet grief that is wanting the closeness and intimacy everyone else has but you just can't feel

[77pink-prin-cess77]

Please don't forget about loveless people this pride month. Love doesn't make us human. People don't need to love in "other" ways to be valid. Some people are aplatonic, some afamilial, some asensual, some are heartless. They still belong. Abolish conformity and the idea that someone needs to be something specific to belong at pride.

[vicholas]

Why are people now saying "LARP" when they mean "poser". It's confusing.

[vicholas]

Everyone is always parroting The Buzzword Of The Month without actually knowing what it means or where it comes from, make it stop

[neverquiteeden]

Waking up every day looking in the mirror and repeating "my friends will not abandon me for romantic relationships, my friends value me in their lives, I do not need to go through anticipatory grief like this, shutting myself out before they abandon me is not a valid strategy, it is better to have lived and loved and lost than to isolate myself out of this expectation".

[neverquiteeden]

GO PUT IN THE EFFORT TO LIVE AND LOVE

[platoniromantic-feelings]

I'd love to hold your hand. I'd love to be casually physically intimate with you. But I can't, because we're just friends.

I'd love to build a future with you. I'd love to adopt you, and perhaps your family, as my family. But I can't, because we're just friends.

I can see it so clearly. I can see the future we could have. But I can't build it with you, because we're just friends.

And friendship is transient, isn't it? We insist on treating romance and marriage like they are permanent, despite the divorce rates, and everyone knows that "friends forever" is just a nice sentiment, while "I do" is permanent. Right?

My friendship cannot be forever, because I can't offer you a ring. I genuinely could, though. If you wanted one. But of course I dare not ask you to wear a ring for me, because we're just friends.

My friendship cannot be forever, because I can't marry you. Can't have children with you. Can't plan a household with you. Can't stake my future on our feelings for each other. Can't, can't, can't ...

It's just friendship. It doesn't matter what I would do for you; all the things I can't do weigh more, don't they.

It doesn't matter how much I love you platonically; the missing element of romance is the only part that really matters, isn't it.

So you'll go and build a future with someone who can give you all the things I cannot, and I suppose we all just agree to ignore all the things that she might not be able to give you that I could.

It's just friendship. You can have it with anybody. Common as muck; deep, intimate, meaningful friendships are just lying around like litter, aren't they? Like dead leaves; lightweight, worthless, easily tossed. Not like romance. Romance with someone you barely know is priceless, right? Every date a gold brick.

No matter how much effort I put into our friendship, and no matter how rare and special I think you are, in the end you'll choose someone else to create your life with, and I'll ...

I can't have romance; do you know that? Do you understand that the thing you have planned your life around is something I can never have nor even comprehend?

Do you realise that this means that friendships are the closest relationship available to me?

Who knows? Who cares? It's just friendship!

[kibumkim]

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

We stan Marsha in this house

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[donuts-multifandom-hellhole]

Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

[sleepymccoy]

@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally

Source (non Aboriginal)

And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history

Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)

[chaotic-archaeologist]

This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.

[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[sycamorality]

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again

[hollenix]

for the good of all mankind

[clownjuicebox]

"I asked chatgpt" okay well I asked Tumblr and- wait, one second- there's some new yaoi lore in the space fandom or something- oh my god is that Markiplier?

[girlwhoisgoingtobeokay]

[pardalote]

Finished stitching my Oversight series.

12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.