like, i'm taking your advice because we're incredibly close. if i push even slightly too hard it could break something and that'd be on my hands. i feel like i'm taking your word on this in order to be gentle with you, which i don't like. the fact that you're actually right is incidental to that.
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
like, i'm taking your advice because we're incredibly close. if i push even slightly too hard it could break something and that'd be on my hands. i feel like i'm taking your word on this in order to be gentle with you, which i don't like. the fact that you're actually right is incidental to that.
it pains me still, but less so than it would to know that what i am witnessing is a death and not a rebirth. but if anything, rebirth is more confusing than death. it is just as generative of questions, questions which are perhaps less cutting, but in exchange are infinitely more aporic:
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
it pains me still, but less so than it would to know that what i am witnessing is a death and not a rebirth. but if anything, rebirth is more confusing than death. it is just as generative of questions, questions which are perhaps less cutting, but in exchange are infinitely more aporic:
and thus, if it is the latter, then i must ask: what is my future substrate? what is the new medium through which i will now navigate? is it actually new, or have i mutated in some way such that i see it differently? is that distinction even worth anything at all?:
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
and thus, if it is the latter, then i must ask: what is my future substrate? what is the new medium through which i will now navigate? is it actually new, or have i mutated in some way such that i see it differently? is that distinction even worth anything at all?:
how cruel would that be to my aromantic siblings (ex-siblings?)? to think myself "one of them" purely because i thought i was "beneath" romance, and by implication, saying that they are "lesser" in some way by this toxic heuristic?
i love them as my peers. i don't yet wish to let this go:
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
how cruel would that be to my aromantic siblings (ex-siblings?)? to think myself "one of them" purely because i thought i was "beneath" romance, and by implication, saying that they are "lesser" in some way by this toxic heuristic?
i love them as my peers. i don't yet wish to let this go:
if it is the former, i feel shame. did i self-identify with aromanticism for all this time simply out of the belief that i would never attain emotional intimacy? that no one would ever *truly* love or want me anyway, and that it'd simply be better to convince myself that i didn't want it either?:
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
if it is the former, i feel shame. did i self-identify with aromanticism for all this time simply out of the belief that i would never attain emotional intimacy? that no one would ever *truly* love or want me anyway, and that it'd simply be better to convince myself that i didn't want it either?:
whether it is my aromanticism as such, and i must bid goodbye to a label which has duly guided me for the better part of 5 1/2 years: or whether it is my aromanticism as it once was, and i must invite it into myself in a new, metamorphosed state. welcoming the butterfly and grieving the caterpillar:
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
whether it is my aromanticism as such, and i must bid goodbye to a label which has duly guided me for the better part of 5 1/2 years: or whether it is my aromanticism as it once was, and i must invite it into myself in a new, metamorphosed state. welcoming the butterfly and grieving the caterpillar: