going a bit insane i think

April 6th is my dad's birthday so I tend to forget that it's also International Asexuality Day. But not today! Here are some new pics of an old project. Colors of the aroace sunset flag, because I'm not into the black/white/grey and purple.

Some ace people may actually give a fuck, but I don't.

@arospec-dragon and @disgruntled-lifeform

Shoutout to all the pimos scrolling through the exmormon tag while stuck at church stay strong out there o7

And enjoy these pictures of my cats

Im curious

(Thats supposed to say exmormons plural why god won’t tumblr let us edit polls)

Mormons will talk about unconditional love while being part of a cult that teaches that you will go to hell (separation from your family for eternity) and can refuse to give you a temple recommend (necessary for doing the eternal sealing to your family) if you drink coffee. 

And they have a whole list of other culty conditions. Their cult has never been about unconditional love. It has always been a controlling cult. 

exmormon here, mentally preparing for the next two days as im subjected to over 10 hours in a living room being uncomfortable as hell and eating skittles :/

i swear i feel like i have a spidey sense for mormon activities,,, i was like “hm why have i been having Church related thoughts the past few days?” and then?

General Conference

Why isn't the house md fandom on tumblr more obsessed with thirteen. She's slowly dying of a fatal genetic disease. She did body shots off a stripper in front of her boyfriend. She took her boss to a lesbian bar because his best friend said he was sad. She went to jail for euthanizing her own brother. She's one of the only people who genuinely enjoys being around house. She's even bisexual!

“we need more platonic relationships in media” your inability to turn off your shipping brain is a You problem

“oh but we never get to SEE them be friends” you people can squeeze romance out of a rock, but you can’t extrapolate the platonic devotion and motivation behind an action or character arc? okay.

I have no shipping brain, and I think this is missing the point slightly. Yes, I do want more platonic relationships in media. I want platonic relationships to be given the emotional weight, the focus, and the centering in the plot that romance arcs get. I want to see characters in queer-platonic partnerships. I don’t want to be scrabbling for scraps and piecing together relationships based on little fragments of information. I want to see it made canon.

exactly that.

reading through the responses and seeing people talk about how there are endless platonic relationships in media has me scratching my head. when i say “i want more platonic relationships in media” or “i want more platonic relationships that are treated with the same importance as romance” i’m not arguing friendship is not something commonly depicted in media or that there aren’t scenes in nearly every piece of media where characters “hang out as friends,” as someone mentioned in the notes.

i’m saying i want a piece of media where the platonic relationship is the driving force, like a romance would be; where the platonic relationship is big and important and life altering, like a romance would be; where the platonic relationship is committed and intimate and the most important in those characters’ lives, like a romance would be. when i talk about platonic relationships, i’m not talking about run of the mill friendships that ultimately take the backseat to romance.

i’m also very much not talking about my or other people’s ability or willingness to interpret a relationship as platonic. there’s a huge difference between what is actually being canonically written and what i can turn that into in my head or what others in fandom spaces turn that into--when i say i want platonic relationships in media, i want them written and portrayed in the way i’ve described above.

telling people to just turn their shipping brain off when they say they want important, meaningful platonic relationships in media that are treated with the same importance and focus narratively as romance is the same as telling people who say they want more queer representation to just headcanon characters as queer. it’s condescending and dismissive and entirely misses the point.

two last things: people who are desperately seeking platonic relationships in media probably aren’t the same ones romantically shipping every set of characters who so much as look at one another or think every close relationship must secretly be romantic deep down. and if one needs to look outside of young adult novels (or any genre or age range or form of media, for that matter) for important platonic relationships, then there is in fact not enough platonic relationships in media.

some books for your reading pleasure:

also: the tv show dead to me follows the platonic relationship between the two leads, and while they both have romances, their friendship remains the focal point of the show. will & grace is actually a really good depiction of two people who prioritize their friendship over romance and struggle with the judgement and pressure from friends and boyfriends to not do that (including the revival, which in my opinion, corrects the original show’s biggest mistake regarding this)

[I.D. an image of gregory house with text over top reading "slur? i think you'll find i pronounced it very clearly". end I.D.]

@arospec-dragon

David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much ado about nothing (2011)

Look at the love 💕

I have been brainrotting over them for the past two weeks non-stop I think my remaining braincells are starting to die

“U think House is a bottom bc u r ableist and don’t think disabled people can top blah blah blah” no I think he’s a bottom bc of that one scene where him and Wilson r talking abt blood types and Wilson says his blood type is the universal receiver so House responds that Wilson’s blood type is the universal donor which is why he has 3 alimonies

OH HOW I LOVE YOU GEORGIA TENNANT

BROADCHURCH MUG IN 2025!!

rare vent art from a few months ago

I feel this!!! Also love how you muted the color along the way, I think it makes it that much more impactful!

This is the thing!

when they give their full attention to each other:

the feeling is mutual