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If someone writes out all the zeroes in million or billion, it's basically guaranteed to be propaganda

Yes, you can do this.

The morph (or megamorph) ability of the card allows you to cast it face down as a colorless card and Mystic Forge allows you to cast colorless cards from the top of your library, so the two abilities in tandem allow you to cast that morph card face down from the top of your library, no matter what its printed colors might be! Cool!

“I think a huge part of the ignorance about aromanticism is that people...”

This description of a QPR 100% applies to romantic relationships though. In what way is it different?

I’m assuming that you’re asking in good faith, so I’ll give as thorough answer as I can.

The term ‘QPR’ was coined to describe a relationship that isn’t romantic in nature, but exists beyond the boundaries of what most people would define as typical friendships. They’re different to romantic relationships, because the people in them don’t have romantic feelings for each other, or a desire for romance. The term was coined because describing somebody as a ‘friend’ just because you’re not romantically involved with one another, doesn’t really accurately portray the kind of relationships some ace and aro people have.

And also because many behaviours that would be considered perfectly normal if you define you’re in love with each other, but be considered bizarre, even unhealthy, if you’re not. For example, friends are expected to have independent lives, while it’s considered normal for romantic partners to share almost every aspect of their lives - their living space, their bank account, their bed, their bodies, their time etc. Similarly, if I said my wife has just got a job in Europe, so we’re selling the house and moving in a few months, nobody would see it as strange. But if I told people that my friend has just got a job in Europe, so naturally I’m selling my house and giving up my whole life here and moving country just so that I can continue our friendship without being long-distance, people would consider it strange, probably even toxic to be so dependent on another person and our relationship. “You can’t have sex with someone else or another romantic partner while we’re together” is a pretty normal statement, agreed upon by pretty much every monogamous individual. But “you can’t have other friends who you’re as close to as you are with me” is considered unhealthy, manipulative, even abusive.

By and large, romantic relationships differ from friendships not just in the feelings that people have for one another, but also in the intimacy, the priority, and the exclusivity they have. Here’s a list of typical traits commonly found in romantic relationships (though by no means does every romantic relationships have to fulfil all of these, nor does the presence of any of these things mean a friendships automatically becomes romantic, these are just typical traits):

Exclusivity

Priority

A level of physical intimacy that isn’t often found in typical friendships (like sharing a bed regularly, sitting on one another’s lap, lack of personal space etc.)

A sexual element to the relationship

Sharing on a level that isn’t often found in typical friendships (such as sharing finances, property etc.)

Having and raising children together

Co-dependence

Usually, especially when a relationship is serious, romantic partners’ lives become so intertwined they might almost seem inseparable. I mean that’s one of the main points in marriage vows - ‘what’s mine is yours’.

But it’s possible to want some or even all of those traits in your relationship with another person, without having any romantic feelings for the other person. You can want to share your life with somebody else (in a way that isn’t typical of friendships) without being in love with them.

There is an intimacy, a trust, a kind of partnership and reliability that we expect from romantic relationships - desires or needs which aren’t fulfilled by friendships. And aromantic and asexual people can desire some of those traits, can desire the things that you get out of those relationships, without having any desire for a romance or sex.

You can have somebody in your life that you want to put first above all others, you want that relationship to take priority, you want to live with them and you like being physically intimate with them like sharing a bed. You can want all that without being in love with them, and without necessarily wanting all of the other traits commonly found in romantic relationships. Closeness doesn’t necessarily equal romantic inclinations.

I’m very aware of accessibility issues with audio posts. I’d want to find a transcription program - I remember running across one a few years ago but have lost it now (gah) that would attempt to auto-transcribe, and then I could add sentence breaks & other punctuation as needed.

I’d love to find auto-transcription software for other reasons; recently, all I find when I go looking is “how to set captions on Youtube” (I don’t want to upload to Youtube) and “transcription programs with start/stop features” so you can type out the text. Very little that will take sounds and convert to text and then let you edit.

Aside from “being accessible to a wide audience,” I rarely listen to audio online and would drop anything I was subscribed to that switched to sound only, so I’m not likely to do that.