yeah, i am not that active anymore.

they/them

[syzygy-yzygy]

So sick of dog motif what about cat motif.

I love you but we don't love the same. I can't be near you when you want me to be. Your love is smothering and your need to keep me safe is trapping me. I'm my own person but I don't know how to show you that. I lash out and hurt you even though I don't mean to. I need you to move slowly around me or I'll bolt. I love you, even though I don't say it. If you stay still I'll sit next to you, and even though we don't understand each other we can be together like that.

[syzygy-yzygy]

@aspengrown this is the rawest possible addition to this post thank you

[mylordshesacactus]

and also:

cat love as in I am small and scared and all of my instincts and my experience and your vast power say you're a threat but I am choosing to trust in your kindness despite my fear. you could kill me with one hand but I know you won't.

cat love as in I can tell you are upset and I don't understand why so I will sit stiffly beside you and awkwardly provide the only reassurance I know how to give. I am uncomfortable with every single moment of this but it is what you would do for me.

cat love as in I am small and powerless but I will curl up back to back with you and stand guard while you sleep and I will mean it with every fiber of my being.

my cat Nepenthe was a former stray behavior case at risk of euthanasia because she kept mauling potential adopters. on her second week in my apartment--having already attacked me multiple times without provocation, I will add, I wasn't special, she needed genuine help--she slinked out of the bedroom yowling at me. when I went to check on her she kept walking back and forth until I followed her, where she insistently paced between my feet and her hidey-hole in the back of my dresser, increasingly distressed. about three seconds after she gave up and hid, an absolutely torrential rain front hit. she didn't understand yet that we couldn't get wet inside. she'd been trying to warn me.

she didn't know me yet, but she knew I hadn't yelled at her when she hurt me. she knew I hadn't tried to hurt her back. she didn't understand why she was attacking me; those episodes probably scared her more than me. she knew I "shared" food with her, and that I asked before touching her. and she went out of her way to bring me into her safe space, to protect her friend.

cat love as stiff hesitant uncertain acts of service that are devastating in their sincerity, as well.

[naamahdarling]

I'm sorry, I had a response to add on, but now I'm crying over your cat. Oh my god.

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

cat love as stiff hesitant uncertain acts of service that are devastating in their sincerity, as well.

He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise.

Isabel Allende, from The House of The Spirits

[detectivehole]

hate can be romantic. if you don't understand this you will never comprehend my warriors bond

[houseofmcallister]

This is how enemies to lovers works I think.

[detectivehole]

you misunderstand me. there is no reconciliation of enemies into lovers here. the states exist simultaneously. romantic hate. you do not understand my warriors bond

[detectivehole]

i understand i seem to have dug my own grave here.

[flareonfloof]

dug with, perhaps

a spade?

[mtndewpitchblack]

i feel like we should stop making jokes about sex. not because im a prude- i DO fuck, frequently- but because at this point there's only so many times you can say penis before it just goes in one ear and out the other

[mtndewpitchblack]

haha lol

[hotvampireadjacent]

[pileofknives]

[kazs-inej]

STRANGER THINGS + text dynamics

[fuckblast]

The really weird autistic sweet spot where you just say things you think and people find you super funny

[stirfrygg]

PLEASE MY FRIEND MADE THIS AFTER WE WATCHED THE SEASON FINALE IM BEGGING YOU TO WATCH IT

[skittyminecraft]

x

[image description: various tiktok comments.

.tatecakes: customer asked for brown bread and i didn't hear them so i said 'you're having sourdough' but forgot to ask it like a question and she just said 'ok.'

brooklynbradshaw21: one time i answered the phone by saying "january, february, march... i'm so sorry, i don't know why i did that, how can i help you" and they hung up.

cailynvol6: one time the phone was ringing but for some reason i hit the intercom button and said "hello?" across the entire store.

eatasslol0: one time i greeted a customer by saying "hello google." it was a bad day.

shaynahicks21: one time a lady told me her last name was "romaine" like the lettuce, so i typed in "lettuce" as her last name... she came back in and laughed at me.

icewater_stan: it's ok i charged someone $100 for a scoop of ice cream once and all he said was "that's a bit expensive."

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[littoldumbace]

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[tortol]

HER HAIR IS CURL Y

[h4lcyonism]

lumity shippers vs raeda shippers after the newest episode

[alyona11]

Tour Hades/Persephone because they are cute!!!

[loosescrewslefty]

Can I just say that I'm not only grateful for the fact that Lilith IS Aspec, but for how the crew and Cissy Jones handled that revelation in Lilith's letter?

While we know that the Boiling Isles are free of sexual and gender-identity related discrimination, there is still a unique problem of asexuality in an allo world where you feel like you just don't fit in. Gwendolyn and Lilith's friends and coworkers are all super invested in her supposed romance, and don't understand why she wouldn't take interest in something like that. Them pushing her to put herself out there or accept romantic advances made at her comes from a place of love- they want her to be happy and feel loved and cherished- but it also makes Lilith uncomfortable because the relationships that they're encouraging her to partake in are not what SHE wants for herself, or something she's ever taken an interest in. She knows that they don't mean anything malicious on their actions, but it still puts Lilith in a position where she's confused and upset and feels like she's different than those around her, and that is so relatable to the experience of being asexual. Constantly having to defend yourself and try to convinced worried loved ones that you are happy and fulfilled with your family/friends/career and don't want or need a romantic relationship, and them not understanding of just thinking that you haven't met the right person yet and one day a magical someone will come and light a fire in your soul.

I also really appreciate that Lilith is an ADULT going through this. I remember I started questioning my sexuality when I was in my early twenties, because that was about the time it finally sank in that even though other men and women expressed interest in me romantically or sexually, I just wasn't comfortable with that and didn't want that sort of relationship from anybody. It was pure happenstance that I stumbled upon an art meme talking about asexuality- a term I hadn't heard of before that point- and googled it out of both idle curiosity and a desire to further educate myself. And I nearly cried as I fell down the rabbit hole of that reading because finally, FINALLY I understood why I was different from everyone around me. I had a word for what made me the way I was, and there were others that were like me as well, so I wasn't alone anymore.

For Lilith, I'm willing to bet that her fixation on Eda's curse and fixing her mistake and responsibilities as the head of the Emperor's Coven kept her from thinking too long or too hard about her own sexuality. But now that both issues are off the table and she's more focused on herself and her issues, it's finally at the forefront of her mind and it's bothering her. And I appreciate that. I appreciate that Lilith is a grown woman going through this, who know how the world works and sees how other people's relationships blossom and realizes that that's not something she wants or needs in her life. I appreciate that Lilith is never portrayed as emotionless or less human. She's clearly a loving and affectionate witch, but romantic love just isn't something she has any sort of interest in. For her, familial bonds and platonic relationships are the relationships that matter, and she just isn't interested in becoming romantically entangled with anyone.

As an adult asexual, this is the sort of representation I desperately wish I had gotten when I was younger. It could have helped me figure myself out sooner, and saved me from years of feeling like I was broken and wondering what was wrong with me because I was different from everyone else. But I am so grateful to the Owl House crew for giving this to the children growing up with this show, and potentially saving them from that pain and self-loathing.

I am so, SO grateful for Lilith Clawthorne being a canonical Aspec character in a children's show.

[smokestarrules]

EVERYONE LOOK AT HER IMMEDIATELY.

[a-nightshiftemployee]

Lilith's Letter to Hooty