this will always be you.

noncon romance. is this anything.

Confessions on the brink of death a character accepts out of kindness because it won’t matter soon anyway, but then the other person doesn’t die, the other person expects them to carry through on their promise to love them and gets angry when they try to back out. Blackmail held over someone’s head just to force them to flirt and make romantic advances on another person, so it looks like they wanted this relationship. Talks about marriage and happily ever afters together as a threat. “I love you, I love you, I love you” as a violation that you’re expected to smile at and be grateful for, because you’re supposed to want to be loved. noncon romance.

adding to this: feeling love against your will. love forced on you by some power beyond you. love that you know you wouldn’t feel if you weren’t blessed (cursed) by it. love that you don’t want and is ruining you and that everyone keeps praising you for feeling. love that everyone around you gets mad at you for rejecting anyway. love that’s made so overpowering that it wipes out any semblance of “you” that there is to make way for a thing that will love someone back.

funniest part of this post is how many people reblog it tagged something like “this sounds aromantic” or “op not to derail but aromanticism” and like well guys you’re never going to believe why i find forced romance such a horrifying concept-

official aromantic post

hey. dont cry. 566 california condors, okay? 369 free flying.[1] it's gonna be okay.

for the record, in 1987 there were 27. [2] things can get better.

HEY. DONT CRY. 607 CALIFORNIA CONDORS, OKAY? 392 FREE FLYING. [3]

If anyone wants to learn about this from a tribal perspective, please read up about it on the Yurok Tribe page!

people aren't even exaggerating indeed is literally like that. walmart attendant $13 an hour, target attendant $13 an hour, AI dick sucker $40 an hour, home depot attendant $13 an hour, guy who designs bullets that can only kill children $160k a year plus benefits, gas station manager $18 an hour

ive been reading somewhat trashy romance webnovels the past few days because i find them fascinating and one thing ive noticed is all of these stories have these people going in and out of the hospital every other day. i have to assume this is part of the american authors flaunting the wealth of their characters.

update my other favourite thing about reading these is that since the authors are more concerned with getting to the next dramatic plot point as soon as possible, they dont really worry about how characters find out anything. several side characters exist solely for the main characters to call them and demand they investigate x thing and then a paragraph later they call back to deliver the plot relevant information.

"but I didnt learn about the usa's wrongs in school 😢 we don't know anything cause they didn't teach us anything 😢" well no one in my school in india told me that our country is a regionally hegemonic war criminal you're just entitled and insultingly uncurious

in fact they told us completely propagandised nonsense about how pre colonial hindu kingdoms were extremely peaceful but were forced to defend themselves against regular invasions solely by muslims. this is something v easily contradicted by the foundational story of ashoka's turn to buddhist dhamma being the brutality of the kalinga war.

the point being made is school, everywhere in the world is a deeply political project and is marshalled for the purpose of nation building. you're not going to hear about the sins of your nation in any serious way at school most anywhere in the world, and expecting that it should have betrays a certain lack of uhh, street smarts. its for children and run by the govt.

anyone who says toddlers are incapable of emotional regulation/introspection are full of shit because i just watched this kid go from full-blown tantrum to verbal expression of frustration ("i don't want to play with her!") to analysis of root cause of frustration ("i really enjoy playing with her, i'm just so sad the playdate is ending soon") in like 3 minutes flat. with zero adult intervention beyond active listening. where is my mother i need her to take notes

i wish people would stop romanticizing not eating breakfast and not getting enough sleep and being dependent on coffee to function and always being in a bad mood and treating yourself poorly because that behavior is very unhealthy for you

[ID: manga panel of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi yelling “We’ve been eating three square meals a day and getting plenty of sleep…” “And that makes us more serious about this than you are!!” /End ID]

Why do so many women infantilize themselves as soon as they get with a man like that mess is none of my business but it’s horrifying to watch he’s just some guy and you’re here like that’s my dada with his big boy uwu credit card what the hell are you even doing like actually

shut up whore get back to your vanilla shit or whatever

Bro gonna call dada on me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭