ettadunham:

me: this whole concept of ~soulmates~ is so damaging, you can be happy with so many people throughout your life and sometimes the best you can do in a failed relationship is to let it go, that person isn’t THE ONE, no one is, everything in the media about romance is so fucked up on so many levels–

fic: *soulmate au*

me:

fishcustardandclintbarton:

magpiecake:

rafi-dangelo:

(Facebook: It’s Okay To Be Childfree)

“Congratulations – you just made a conversation about salad and hamburgers about the struggle of childbirth.”

TBH Parentfriends, I’m probably tired of looking at pictures of your kid every other day, so I just hid you from my Newsfeed, because what’s important to you isn’t all that important to me. Sorry, not sorry, no one’s feelings got hurt.

But if you start mommyjacking my posts, I will 100% make you cry into your keyboard.

#how unsatisfied are these people with parenthood that they have to validate themselves like this

If i was friends with the ‘keep facebool clean for my 3 year old everyone! LOL!“ i would literally just post dick pics and sex jokes until FB put me in time out.

theasexualityblog:

Being aroace but wanting a significant other in theory is so frustrating.

I want THAT kind of relationship in my head, but I’m not mentally/emotionally/physically equipped to be in such a dynamic.

Do I want to kiss a partner? Yes, in theory. Yes, in fantasy. In reality….no not so much.

Do I want to cuddle a partner? Yes, in theory. Yes, in fantasy. In reality….no not so much.

Do I want to live together/share a bed/build a life? Yes, in theory. Yes, in fantasy. In reality….no not so much.

FML.

boyonetta:

like i honestly really miss the early days of internet fandom when discourse over shipping wasn’t a fucking thing. i grew up in that time period, i was raised on the mantra “don’t like, don’t read,” and so were millions of other people.

guess what, we turned out fine, reading/writing/being exposed to problematic ships didn’t turn us into rapists and murderers, that’s not how it works. we were (and still are) perfectly capable of distinguishing between actual abusers/criminals and regular people who had a firm grasp on fiction vs. reality.

y’all have just kind of. made up. this idea that consuming/creating odd or problematic content makes someone a bad person and will slowly rot their mind over time. that’s 100% made up. like. it’s not a real thing, guys. it wasn’t even a fake thing when i was growing up (although people did make the same argument against violent media around that time), it wasn’t any kind of thing. no one gave a fuck what you shipped unless it was their notp, then maybe they might start a shipping war over which ship was superior (or just send you a nasty message).

shipping wasn’t some weird battle of moral superiority, it was just fiction. it’s still just fiction, only now y’all are dead set on ruining it for everyone.

bonus round: we grew up on sites that didn’t offer nearly as many ways to protect oneself from triggering content or content one deemed unsavory. we had tags/content warnings on fanfic sites and that’s about it.