HIJK is not my personal favorite part of the alphabet song but i appreciate the artistry. it is the sort of labored uphill climb that lends itself to the free downhill spillage of LMNOP. each letter is like an effortful punctuation of an iron pick into the mountain side as you hoist your way up. you can almost hear the shrill of each strike chafing
Let's say you could still engage in this function if you wanted to, but you have no need to anymore, and you would not do it automatically or reflexively.
Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.
There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.
having friends notably older than you is fantastic actually, cause you can drop in a little mention of how old you would have been at the time of a story they tell and watch the existential crisis set in
We should 100% normalize saying "I love you" to friends in a platonic, non romantic way. Yes, I love my bestie with all my heart. Does that mean I want to do stuff that you'd normally find in a ao3 stuff with the tag "AJAOFHEIS SMUT" in it? NO!
I WANNA CUDDLE IN A BLANKET FORT WHILE BINGE WATCHING THE OWL HOUSE, NOT MAKE OUT!
Just cuz someone loves someone who isn't related by blood, doesn't mean that it's romantic
Aromantic adults who are infantilized due to their disabilities deserve the world btw. Aromantic AAC users, and intellectually and developmentally disabled aromantics, and aromantics with incontinence, and aromantics who have caretakers are all so fucking amazing. You aren’t “too immature” to know your identity just because neurotypical people insist on treating you like a child. You’re not “too childlike” to be alloaro and/or to want sex while being aromantic. Your aromanticism is real and wonderful, no matter what form it takes.