New Path

platonic third base: when you get to know someone well enough that they start making mortifyingly specific observations about you

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other

i know i should be crying over the nick and charlie scenes (and i did) but damn that scene of tori explaining her relationship with michael hit me like a truck. i think i like the book coming out scene more than the movie one, but her explaining what seems to be her QPR with michael was so beautiful and i have never seen anything like that in a tv show or a movie. i had to pause the movie cause i was just crying. i felt so seen. alice oseman, let's start working on that loveless script now yeah? pwetty please 👉👈

Any character can be aspec if you love them enough

As an aro who has been abused by those who loved me, I want to see more love as horror. Love as suffocation. Love as violence. I don’t want to hear “if they really loved you they wouldn’t have—” as if love is some pure force, some inherent good. Show me love that is evil. Love that is haunting. Love that is poison dressed up as a cure.

Guys, did you know you can criticize purity culture without being acephobic? You can also criticize puritanism without belittling or blaming people who simply don't like explicit erotic content. Not everyone who doesn't like porn has been brainwashed by purity culture.

The sentences "Asexuals can still have sex" and "Aromantics can still date" need to go up on the high shelf for everyone except aces and aros talking about their own experiences. From now on, everyone else has to use the revolutionary new phrase "Asexuals and aromantics can do whatever the fuck they want forever."

asexuals have been speaking and writing for years about the fact that many of us have sex -- that indeed, many of us are incredibly sexually active and that our asexuality comes from us having a non-normative experience of sexuality that makes us especially likely to be stigmatized and oppressed alongside our fellow kinky queer siblings -- but people just do not listen, or worse act like it's laughable and cringey for us to be sexual beings. then they go on acting permanently confused by the idea that asexuals can have sex. we already told you. many times. in fact for many of us the depraved, gay-ass ways that we have sex are very central to us being asexual.