When I move out from my parents house I am going to hang up both of these paintings I made in the living room.

but let’s talk about Issac. Issac spends most of the season confused about his sexuality and feeling that something is wrong with him.

When he discovers asexuality at the art school, he gets the leaf animation we’re used to seeing for the couples. When the art about crush culture is being explained to him, Issac can see that the artist is proud of being asexual; eager to explain his identity to a stranger viewing his piece. He is overwhelmed with the fact that he not only isn’t broken, but that his sexuality is something someone could be so proud of having.

I’m aroace, and one of my best friends is bi. We’re both in the same year of high school, and she was the first one of our friend group to get a boyfriend. When she did, I was really scared she’d abandon us, but she didn’t! She didn’t make him her main priority, and she stuck with us.

We have this inside joke thingy for some reason that we’re platonically married and we adopted one of our other friends as our child, and she has never. Stopped. Saying that. Even when she had a boyfriend! She told me today that no matter what, even when/if she gets a romantic partner, I’ll always be her platonic spouse, and I am SO HAPPY! It’s kinda stupid, but I’m so happy that our weird half-joking found family matters to her! She’s not gonna put romance over friendship! Our friendship matters! I won’t be alone, people won’t leave me for romantic love, MY AROACE SELF REALLY MATTERS!

I'm officially the only single person in my friend group and I've got mixed feelings about it.

A good part of me (like 99.99%) is okay with it, really. My friends know me and respect me (and by that I mean me being aroace) and their partners are all cool and nice so really we can all hang out just fine. But turns out sometimes I get really self conscious of the fact that they're all with their s/o and I'm not. I'm alone. And I don't have a problem being alone, I've been alone my whole life and I like it! But being in a group where everyone else is part of a set feels kinda weird. Makes me wonder, why am I not part of a set? Is there anything wrong with me? I don't think so. But, do other people think there's something wrong with me? I'm not sure, sadly.

And the funny thing is that I don't want a partner. It might be cool, I guess, but I'm okay without one, I'm comfortable. I feel like I just want to have someone who would look for me in a crowd of people, someone who would miss me when I'm not there, someone who would want to spend time with me and enjoy doing so. Someone who won't leave me alone when everyone else is walking home with their partner.

I've never told this to anyone out of fear they will want to lecture me about opening up to relationships, or think that I'm whining, or feel sorry for me and think that I feel lonely. I don't feel lonely. I'm happy being as I am, and I'm terribly happy for my friends and their respective relationships. I'll keep hanging out with them enjoying as much as I can. It's just that I have this thoughts sometimes, and they're less than pleasant. I don't know.

I hope that if anyone out there is also feeling this way, please know you're not alone. I get you and we'll figure it out. I feel you and we'll be okay. Thank you for reading 🖤🖤🖤

I love my friends and they mean a lot to me, and even though I always said “I want to marry my best friend” I don’t think that’s true. Just a way to justify me not wanting a romantic relationship. I think I would be content living my own life and having good friends. I don’t need to solidify that by being basically married platonically. I think I just treated a qpr as a replacement for the societal expectation that you need marriage to be happy.

Of course qprs and aros who actually want them are valid af. But I’m starting to realize that life might not be for me.