Midnarina

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

Limerence is defined by Tennov to mean a state of obsessive infatuation with someone else (which Tennov dubs the "limerent object" or "LO"). This obession is akin to what alloromantics describe when they have a crush on someone else. Throughout Tennov's study, she found that limerence was an incredibly common phenomenon across a wide variety of people regardless of age or background. But, of more interest to me, there were also people who attested to have never experienced a state of limerence (including a close friend of Tennov) and rather were burdened by the expectation to behave as if they have/were in such a state when pursuing romantic relations.

To be clear, a lack of limerence (as Tennov repeatedly emphasizes) does not mean that a person doesn't have romantic feelings. It just means that these feelings have never become a whole-hearted obsession as is commonly portrayed in media. Yet, I do think that the distinction between limerence and romance could have been one way for aromantic people of the time to understand their lack of romantic feelings in a more socially acceptable way.

She looks so sad when handling the letter.

Before this, her sclera was a regular white, no red or signs of crying. The scene where she walks up to Verso is the clearest example of this.

My baby girl, had she been crying herself this whole time, after her father died and her mother was kicked out of the canvas...

I have not posted this one here? How have I not posted this one here, yet? I posted it during inktober last year on instagram but shamefully not here, it seems. Ah, well... it fits pride month. Hooray to all you bisexuals (and aces, because we know how Kal is...) out there! Sandra has something for you, too!

Young, handsome people on a daring mission. Will they find their way through a besieged city and a dark strange world (and into each other‘s heart)?

We lovingly refer to October 10th as „Shakadolin Day,“ as it’s the six-year anniversary of Brandon tweeting „I could see a world where Shallan and Adolin would go for it, but Kaladin is as prudish as I am, so I doubt you’d persuade him. 🙂 For now, we’ll have to leave that to the imaginations of the fanfic writers.“ 

Prompting many to ask „Wait, is this confirmation that Adolin is Bi?,“ „So Kaladin’s obstacle is his prudishness, not his orientation?,“ and „What do you mean ‚for now‘???“

And in Sandra’s series being prudish is just a challenge not an obstacle 😉

Cheers to all of you! And extra cheers as always to the amazing @priscellie who created the beautiful cover mock up with my illustration 🩷🩷🩷 ID by the wonderful @cosmereplay with additions by me

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> launches a software

expedition 33 sapphic vampire au where Clea is a powerful ancient vampire, Lune is Clea's 500-year-old trusty right-hand, and Sciel is a human bartender who got insane game 🤭💖🩸