A Racoon Boy

No, actually, I'm taking it out of the tags: can we talk about Rocky trying to send Grace back to Earth after Grace says that taking Rocky to Erid means that he's going to starve to death? Can we talk about "Then you go home. Go home now. I wait here. Erid maybe send another ship someday."? Can we talk about this alien who is a part of a very social species, who is scared to sleep alone, who has spent 46 years alone stranded in space already, who has a mate maybe possibly he's not sure waiting him home, who is tasked with a mission to save his people, who is currently the only one able to save his people — and who is ready to risk it all so that his leaky space blob friend can go home safe? Can we talk about that? Because I'm losing my mind every time I think about that.

Avery spitting facts

This pride month I need every aromantic to get more annoying about being aromantic

the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time

another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you're wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world

Also you are bound to lose at least one friend along the way or completely split the group once

Hell yeah i do

Also can we talk about the lack of platonic/familia fanfics

I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills