#2020s

[dailyflicks]

Sophie Thatcher as Iris in Companion (2025) dir. Drew Hancock

[teasetsotw]

--- Designer/Manufacturer: CeciliaCoppolaShop [X] Region: Italy Time period: 2020s

Porcelain teapot inspired by the Hydrangea flower by CeciliaCoppolaShop

[simbistardis]

As someone who is aromantic, I don’t experience romantic attraction. I don’t ‘fall in love’ in a romantic sense. I don’t have romantic relationships. I don’t date anyone. I don’t have boyfriends or girlfriends, or any kind of romantic partner.  My emotional connections with other people do not manifest in a romantic way and I have no desire for that to happen – I’m just not that way inclined. It isn’t a lifestyle choice, I didn’t decide to avoid the world of dating because of a bad experience. It’s just the way I’ve always been. I first realised I was aromantic when my peers seemed to realise they weren’t. From a young age, girls are taught to value romantic love. The message was a fixture in almost everything marketed to us.  ... For years of my life, it was very rare for me to actually describe myself as ‘aromantic’. I avoided the subject of dating and romantic relationships. But when I did begin embracing the true nature of my orientation, I was met with a surprisingly disturbing backlash. The assumption is that if you don’t or can’t experience romantic love, then you must be cold-hearted. There’s something supposedly ‘evil’ about it, something that has led to strangers online dubbing me a ‘sociopath’ more times than I can count. I’ve been told I must not value human relationships at all, that there must be something wrong with my brain, that I must have no emotions. ... We are taught that you can have everything – great friends, a loving home, a beautiful family, a successful career, comfort within yourself – but if you’re single, you’re incomplete. You haven’t succeeded in life unless someone romantically loves you and you romantically love someone else. Some assume being aromantic must be a terrible thing – like you’re missing something essential. But romantic relationships aren’t the ultimate relationship, and I appreciate all of the others. While I might not experience the highs of romantic love, I also don’t experience the lows. Instead, I use that same energy to experience the other pleasures life has to offer. Being aromantic encourages me to appreciate these things more deeply, not as something inferior. I find love in so many things, including friendships, helping others, my hobbies and having my own adventures. My confidence is found in having a positive impact in the world, not in my relationship status. Which, by the way, isn’t single. It’s infinite. 

"I'll never fall in love and that's OK" what it means to be aromantic by Yasmin Benoit for Stylist (2022)

[garadinervi]

Yoko Ono, b. February 18, 1933 / 2025

(image: Clay Perry (photograph), Yoko Ono with Glass Hammer (1967) from HALF-A-WIND SHOW, Lisson Gallery, London, 1967. artnet. © Clay Perry. Art: © Yoko Ono)

[womantoday]

Geffri Maya (Simone Hicks), Kelly Jenrette (Amara Patterson): All American - Homecoming {2021}

[killyridols]

october 14th, 2023 by preetika rajgariah, 2024, yoga mat, vintage saris, water based paint 22 × 24 x 1.5 inches

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played VISIGOTHS VS MALL GOTHS ?

By Lucian Kahn

Visigoths vs. Mall Goths is a tabletop roleplaying game and dating sim about the conflicts and romances among the warriors who sacked ancient Rome and 20th century spooky teens, set in a suburban Los Angeles shopping mall during 1996. There are a lot of bisexuals.

Imagine a surreal combo of The Craft, Empire Records, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and Clueless.

[creepingirrelevance]

Fuck Putin!

Fuck Trump!

Ukraine will not surrender! Слава Україні!

[lowpolypeople]

Michelle from Sorry, We're Closed

[dailyflicks]

COMPANION (2025) — dir. Drew Hancock

[indiegamesource]

Keep Driving by YCJY Games (Feb 6, 2025)

[simbistardis]

It is incredibly frustrating to be aromantic and for people to treat you like you’re heartless, or could never care about anyone at all. We are also put in the unfair and uncomfortable position of justifying our lack of romantic love and explaining the “validity” of other relationship types. It can feel like you’re still stuck within the system, because either way society is telling you that you yourself are not enough, and that you need to be partnered in some way. some people never want a partner, and that’s incredibly fucking valid and should be respected. In trying to navigate aromantic identity in relationships, I also have to deal with the frustration of being a gender nonconforming Black woman as well. I am hypersexualized, told i’m ugly, expected to perform emotional labor for free, subject to hella micro- and macroagressions, told that i’m scary, and always trying to make myself palatable for someone else. this is exhausting. and so it is fun to dream and think about love and relationships, and i have some very important and meaningful relationships with folx, but because of my undesirability, because of my Blackness and Black womanhood, and because of my aromantic identity, I feel very much cut off from having the types of relationships that I would like to have. It can be difficult and frustrating and isolating to see friends, family, strangers, move in and out of casual, serious, or no labels types of relationships knowing that if they one day decide to have a romantic partner, they will be supported in that choice. Perhaps not by all of society, perhaps not everywhere, but there are models for what their relationship could look like. Society has given them options on how to find partners–as a Black Aromantic, I have been given nothing.

Being Black, Aro, and Imagining Relationships, hello! from a Black Aromantic by Mazarae, idkjustwordsyameen.wordpress (2021)

[agelessphotography]

Palestinians fleeing Rafah arrive in the city, Khan Younis, Gaza, Bashar Taleb, 2024

[garadinervi]

Dan Halter, Machiavellian DNA, (hand-woven archival ink-jet prints, fishing hook), 2024 [Osart Gallery, Milano. © Dan Halter]