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モクモクれん/Mokumokuren @ mokmok-len.bsky.social Anyway, what I want to say is please stop denying the aroace element in order to protect the homosexual element. Both elements are equally important. January 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM Everybody can reply

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モクモクれん/Mokumokuren @ mokmok-len.bsky.social I'm not angry about anything! Manga is fun because many people can interpret it in their own way. However, I want to say that the elements of AROACE are not queer baiting, and that a romantic interpretation is not the only correct interpretation. January 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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“Home-o-sex-you-all?” “I dunno…” Yoshiki felt half annoyed and half relieved by the carefree and clueless way Hikaru spoke. He didn’t want to discuss it with Hikaru anymore. “This village is too small and cramped,” Yoshiki grumbled. “I can barely breathe with how cramped it is here.” He was sure that Yasaburo’s son, Yuusuke, felt the same.

“Even if the country sucks, you always have fun at my place. Whenever ya feel like you wanna go to the city, you should come to my place!” It wasn’t that simple. Yoshiki’s resentment wasn’t something that could be treated so lightly. But the way that Hikaru seemed to punctuate his sentences with a cheery exclamation mark always managed to momentarily clear away the fog that swirled about in Yoshiki’s heart. No matter how crappy the countryside was for him, he could breathe easily as long as Hikaru was there. It felt like there was more air around him—more oxygen to breathe. He vaguely knew that would no longer be the case one day, and perhaps that was why he wanted to leave the countryside.

Instead of trying to force Hikaru to be human, if there were a place where he could live in his own way—if there really is such a convenient solution out there… For that, I’d give up everything. As he listened to the buzzing of cicadas echo all around him, Yoshiki made that wish, unsure of what may come of it.

when it's framed as a "so just get married for legality reasons" and im like. you mean like how gay people married/marry people of the opposite gender for legality reasons? and that's considered to be a symptom of a problem, not the solution? you want people to "just" get married against their will because it's the only solution this system has available?

if people cannot or will not get married for whatever reason -- not just for being aromantic, but, say, due to inefficient disability support measures within marriage, because of having had bad experiences with marriage in the past, because of being polyamorous, because some element of marriage is ineffective, unwanted, limited, discriminatory, or hell, because you can't find somebody to marry or nobody wants to marry you, or maybe because you just plain don't want to without there being a distinct Reason -- then it's a problem that this is the only framework in place for people to be afforded certain legal and social protections.

i am glad for others that more people can get married, but it's a flawed institution with gaping holes that isn't for everyone and builds social structures that leave so many people behind and unsupported. this is abundantly obvious in the way that we saw why people pushed for the need for equal marriage in the first place.

that's what's said when making a point that it's a social construct. and also what's meant (partially) when pushing against the idea that "love" as concept isn't at the core of queer (amongst others hinted at in this post) activism, because it's about building better structures. if the only people we care about are those we "love" within a family unit, or those who successfully manage to pretend that unit without actually really wanting it, and if not being in that unit for whatever reason means that care isn't going to be/is no longer afforded, then are we really doing any better than heteronormativity?

so uh guess what i watched