i think i'll try defying gravity

Now, I’m not saying romantic relationships are inferior, or that they’re useless, or that you being in one or that you shipping some characters romantically is Bad or something off the walls like that. What I’m saying is that two people (or characters, since we’re talking shipping here) can be just as devoted to each other, love each other just as deeply, mean just as much to each other while being in a platonic relationship. The end point of caring about someone doesn’t have to be romance.

That last addition is such a mood. Making or keeping a relationship platonic isn’t making it “less” so much as giving it a different “flavor” altogether. A story about sacrificing oneself to save one’s friend is just as powerful as doing so to save a lover, but the two situations aren’t interchangeable; the implications would be very different and would pretty much tell a different story. While labels can be useful sometimes, they can also be restrictive if we rely on them too much. Reducing relationships, fictional or otherwise, to one of a few boxes that follows well-defined formulas (mostly US or euro-centric, at that) is bland/uncreative at best and gross/reductive at worst, and portrayals of relationships would be so much richer if the nature and characteristics of each relationship was defined by and unique to the people in the relationship itself.

coming of age stories that feature characters who are primarily 15-19 really fucked with my perception of adulthood and growing up. Yea there’s a lot of stuff that happens in that phase of your life that shape you as a person but rarely does an event change you to the point where you come out of it all Mature and Grown Up. Feeling like I need to be ready to face the world by the time I’m 20 has given me too much anxiety than it’s worth.

I love posts shared from AITA because the whatever impression I get reading the title alone is almost always the exact opposite of the impression I get after reading the story.

It’s also important to note that often (though not always!) physique is associated with one’s strength. Bodybuilders have defined muscles. Weightlifters and wrestlers have bulk. Gymnasts and boxers are small but muscular. Volleyball and basketball players are tall and lean. Runners and bikers are skinny with muscular legs. Hockey players and skiiers have powerful core muscles and thighs. Those who do field sports (discus, shot-putting, etc) have powerful chests and arms. 

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