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Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

we used to get christmas episodes of television. halloween episodes. valentines. we used to get television that felt like part of your life. like it was happening alongside your life. now we mostly get 8 episodes dropping all at once every two years and they don't have time for any of that. i miss characters living alongside us

I hate when people say shit like "I was obviously in love with you, don't you see when I did z, y and z for you" when the other person thinks they were just friends. As if to say they wouldn't put the same effort into their platonic relationships. Cause this couldn't be me. I take my friendships very seriously. You have the flu? I'll be over in an hour with herbal tea. You just broke up with you partner? No need to sulk, let's go on a adventure day or a spa. You have very little free time to hang out? I'll purposefully keep my schedule free on the days when we can go out so we can see each other. I don't understand people who treat others well just because they like them romantically, because for me being a good friend is one of the most important things I can be

I know I talk about this a lot and it doesn't change anything, but people really have stopped reblogging art, commenting on fics, and really spend any time at all on anything that isn't yet another pointless discourse. and no, "I'm too tired" or "I don't know what to say" isn't a good explanation, because you guys seem to have enough energy for polls, shitposts and various internet arguments. can't you see that you're turning into mindless consumers. am I crazy

"No one wants to work anymore." Damn right brother. If I could sit in a beautiful field for 40 hours every week of my singular precious life I would

are people under the impression that aromantic people never want to have close personal relationships with the people in their lives. "oh i wish i was aro it would save me all this drama!" actually human relationships are always deep and complicated and messy and have the potential to hurt and help and change your life and being romantic is just one possible aspect of that. aromantic people want to be close to the people around them just like anyone else. and i know the real issue is that people think romantic relationships are the only way to be truly close to someone else but it's weird and off-putting to constantly hear the implication that aros are somehow fundamentally incapable of forming relationships that would impact their lives negatively cause they don't wanna go on dates with people. not even mentioning the aros who do