#crushing. squishing.

[incorrect-league-of-villains]

Toga: We have a word for a romantic interest, “crush", and a word for platonic interest, “squish”.

Toga: But what about a word for mentor interest? Like, how do I tell someone I want them to teach me, make me a better person, and love me like the kid they never had???

Tomura: Just hack into his computer and put his digital signature on your adoption papers. Sako-san's been my legal guardian for three months and he doesn’t have a clue.

[the-siren-in-your-fridge]

Being aroace with a squish is really like. You look so nice and cute and pretty (not like that), I’d like to snuggle up in bed with you (not like that) and play with your hair (not like that) and lay there for a while (not like that) and hold your hand all the time (not like that) and hang out with you one-on-one (not like that) and get to you know you on a deep and personal level (not like that)

[austim]

Scrub Daddy vs. Liquid Nitrogen

(or a Scrub Daddy being hit with a mallet when it’s hot, cold, frozen from dry ice, and frozen from liquid nitrogen)

[midnight-soulless-system]

Just told my friend we had a squish on her, but it wasn't a crush because we're aroace and she was like. "Cool, and same on both fronts"

I'm so fucking happy y'all, is this what the allos feel when someone else reciprocates a crush? Cause this is fucking awesome.

[teacoff]

Day 7: shibari

Inspired by this glorious post X ✨

[sadisthetic]

melt

[tremendously-crazy]

Pov: You've never had a good, proper friendship before, so the moment you have one with a boy, you convince yourself that you like him, and then you do all the things people do when they like someone, (complimenting them, trying to spend time with them, talking to them, thinking about them 24/7), only for things to get stressful and anxiety enducing when you both confess to each other because you don't REALLY know what its like to love/like someone romantically and everything he does grosses you out and now you're just texting him for hours but he won't even look at you in real life and LOOK NEW HYPERFIXATION!! GOODBYE KID MY NEW LOVE IS SHERLOCK HOLMES

[see-arcane]

I have acquired a handy tool when it comes to dealing with Dracula-shaped goings on. Presenting...

Count Squishula. He is here to provide therapeutic assistance whenever I come across Dracula-based frustrations. For example:

Dracula is being mean to my little friends in the novel Dracula:

I am facing a creative block in my works based off the events of Dracula:

I have been made aware of fresh and maddening fuckery happening in the world of increasingly bastardized adaptations and spinoffs regarding Dracula, its story, and its characters:

Many thanks to this crushable Count for getting me through these trying times.

[gunsatthaphan]

🐶🥹🫳🏻

[doshegotabo0ty]

[macandcheese-inhaler]

You ever just get so happy b/c your friend(s) make you feel so secure you just simply just cannot contain yourself? Then you project all of that through gifts, trinkets, and acts of service? Sometimes even just demanding a hangout b/c you want to bask in their presence so badly?

Like, you bring me so much joy I have to pause everything I'm doing in life just to appreciate your existence. I have to drop my phone mid-text just to kick my feet and giggle 'cause talking to you makes my day. Thank you for that. You really don't know how much that means to me. Please, take this tiny purple dinosaur as a token of my appreciation for all that you've done.

You want help with homework? Done. You want to yap together about theories we have from a series? Absolutely. You want us to play a horror game together? Of course. You want some help with baking? We can figure it out together. You want me to help you film a youtube video? I'll be there without a second thought.

AAAAAAA FRIENDSHIPS ARE AMAZING.

[the-siren-in-your-fridge]

For anyone who’s aspec and doesn’t know what term to use for someone they like because “I don’t know if it’s a crush or a squish or something else” then worry not and use my chosen term: POI which stands for Person Of Interest. It’s literally just someone you’re interested in in some way and I generally don’t specify which way I find them interesting because eh sometimes I don’t know and it’s easier to say POI. It also makes them sound like a murder suspect or something if you’re into that lol

[chubunited]

Lena hun i dont think Morel is listening anymore…

Lena belongs to @feybeasts !

[wonder-and-wildflowers]

I think not realizing that I was aromantic until I was like 19 is kinda mental in retrospect.

Not just because of the way I used to 'assign' crushes to myself. Or would genuinely become heartbroken when very specific best friends (who I now realize were squishes) would date someone and that person would become a priority over me.

Or when I would start mourning when one of said very specific people (the squishes) would confess romantic feelings for me.

But, if for no other reason, because I have literally always treated friendship rings/ necklaces/ bracelets with a level of reverence mirrored primarily in allo's comitment to their weddings/ engagement rings.

I wear those things until they break and then become genuinely completely devastated when they do.

[evanpeterswifeyyy]

Evan Peters manspread and wearing glasses….plus suit. Suit. 🤤🫠

That’s all.

[bloggingboutburgers]

My take, from experience trying to convey it to others:

Crush = I want a romantic relationship with that

Squish = I want strong emotional connection with that

Basically, a crush is wanting romance with someone and a squish is wanting platonic closeness with someone (qpr, or “just” unlabelled super close friends)

...Honestly, yeah, you're right, that might be the best way of summing it up, thank you very much for that!