Im just a silly guy :DD!!

I have said this so many times but I think I need to say it again FRIENDSHIP IS NOT LESSER THAN ROMANCE

I'm very glad that a story like "the summer hikaru died" is getting the justice it deserves through it's anime adaptation. Aro/ace queer relationships are really underrepresented in media. I'm happy that mokumokuren hasn't ever sacrificed their vision for the story just to appease fans that wanted a more conventional romantic relationship. There is purposefully no label for their relationship, they just care deeply for each other and I think that's beautiful honestly. I'm excited to see how it paves the way for future horror, and queer stories.

“Reminder that aspecs can still date and love their friends and family” and themselves. And their hobbies, and their passion in life, and the media they consume and their pets and places they like to go and food and drinks they like and in fact they don’t have to subscribe to the idea of “love” at all. You don’t have to date or have friends or family to be a person. You don’t have to fit into what society wants your life to be like to not be a robot. When I complain about aphobes implying that people who don’t date are machines, I’m not just complaining that they devalue platonic or familial love. They’re devaluing the idea of being your own person and thats a type of aphobia people don’t talk about enough. Aspecs can do whatever they want forever and that includes everything.

I don't know if I will ever feel comfortable coming out as aroace, despite being comfortably aroace. The other day someone asked me if I was queer and I felt so uncomfortable saying yes, because even if it is true, I knew it was still painting the wrong picture in this persons mind. And throughout the rest of the evening it was obvious they thought I was bi but I couldn't correct them because it's not an easy "oh I'm not X I'm Y", it's a whole new conversation: opening yourself up to uncomfortable and invasive questions, opening yourself up to the other persons astonishment and bafflement which just makes you feel more othered, opening yourself up to being hurt by casual assumptions and dismissive comments or just plain awkward silence. and usually it ends with the feeling that you didn't do enough to paint the right picture, to explain everything in a way that leaves no false impressions, that you didn't find the right words to make them truly understand you. despite such understanding taking years and years of work. It's so frustrating!

“Please consider how amatonormativity/compulsory sexuality/allonormativity might be impacting your perspective on this” is not at all the same thing as insulting someone, attacking them, or calling them a bigot, FYI.

What yoshiki and hikaru did sounds WAY better than sex to me like it seems way more meaningful to me if yall get what i mean

tshd started out as a seemingly sad manga about a gay teen who lost his best friend and now has to experience the Horrors then BOOM! you were wrong. it's a hopeful story that tells you that there's always a way for you to be happy AND queer. you have a way out even in the worst scenarios. you deserve hope and happiness and to be with who you love. you deserve to exist without hiding. happy pride to yoshikaru

"why can't they just be friends?" not in the homophobic sense, but in the "in your need to center romance in everything you are missing the whole point of the media in question" sense