chuckleska

Or is it just me?

with all the bs discourse we have to deal with that often demonizes, erases, and belittles us, my hope is that everyone who belongs to these groups has at least one good experience this June.

anyone can have empathy or compassion or respect without "love"

you can be social and have community and close relationships without having "love"

you can never experience "love" and still be kinder and treat people better than people who do experience it

and it doesn't make you evil

even if you don't experience empathy or any emotion like that it doesn't make you evil

not experiencing any emotions at all doesn't make you evil

and being empathetic and loving and compassionate doesn't make you immune to being evil or hurting people either

nothing is that black and white

love is in fact not what makes us human

it's literally just another emotion on the same level as all the others ... and not everyone experiences it, just like any other emotion

and while I'm at it there is nothing wrong with being anti social or having a hard time connecting with other people or having no desire for human connection

as long as you're not purposely hurting people, or unintentionally hurting people but never taking accountability or responsibility for it then you're doing okay

stay loveless stay heartless be social or anti social whatever it is you are

Getting bigger: living together isn’t inherently romantic

Even bigger: going on dates isn’t inherently romantic

Getting larger again: kissing isn’t inherently romantic

Can't stop thinking that if Jax transitioned inside the circus, she'd be Regina George 2.0 🩵🤍🩷