I Know That Everyone Who Listens To Only The Brave By Louis Tomlinson Thinks It's About Larry. But To

I know that everyone who listens to Only The Brave by Louis Tomlinson thinks it's about Larry. But to me it's always had a different meaning. Music is obviously for our own interpretation, and that's what I love about it. But if you just look at the lyrics, its clearly about a person who sees romance all around them and realizes that they're different. "Its a solo song and it's only for the brave" I think that he's talking about how romance and sex is such a priority to people, and to us, not doing it, is brave. It's brave that we seek out different relationships and that being in this world alone is difficult and scary. That's what is so difficult and different about being asexual. And constantly asking the question How the hell am I going to live by myself for the rest of my life?

The lyric "I've been close enough to touch, but never cared for love" is quite like how we dont understand that kind of love. How could you fall in love? What was that fine line between platonic vs romantic love?

Lastly, the line "And they'll say 'I told you so' come on when you know you know" is how when you come out most people are going to be like 'Oh, you just haven't found the right person' or 'You must be a late bloomer' or some shit like that. But being asexual is really tough. To me it was that when I was 8 I always wondered why everyone around me had a crush on guys, and when we were 14 why everyone wanted or had a boyfriend. I just simply never understood it, weren't we too young for this? And then suddenly I'm 16 and hooking up and dating is the norm and then you realize maybe it's you. Maybe I'm the imposter, maybe I'm the one who's different. It's weird. I think Sex Education described it well. It's like there's a wide variety of really good food, but you're just not hungry.

At least that's my interpretation. Feel free to let me know what you think. And I'm just going to put some pictures of the lyrics here

We still have a long way to go tho

Hopefully the next generation has it better

Just thinking about how like, when I was a teenager, the gayest show we had was Merlin, which was somehow super gay and also incredibly homophobic.

But now y’all teens have your pick of queer characters. Soft gay teenagers? Check. Gay royalty? Check. Gay pirates? Check. Gay vampires? Check. Gay angels and demons? Check.

It’s a damn LGBT smorgasbord out there.

Blaming myself for the mess I'd made

Complete.

Asexuality isn’t the absence of something. Asexuals—particularly aromantic asexuals—have a completeness that many others can’t feel except when they’re paired with someone.

It takes a while to discover and accept that completeness. I was taught that everyone was emotionally incomplete, and like everyone, I’d need a counterpart in life—my “mortal other half”—so I spent years failing to fill a space that wasn’t even there—pressured to pour water into a full glass, and blaming myself for the mess I’d made.

Fandom life has ruined me, but also I think I've found myself at the same time

If that makes sense?

How you people watch a show but are not in the fandom is wild to me, like wdym you can consume a piece of media without it consuming yourself? You guys don’t obsess to the point of madness over those fictional people? Just me?

Omg you work at a bookstore? That's so cool

Honestly that's the dream job

Weird story from the bookshop. So before closing I had to get the congratulations cards back inside and while moving them there was a person in one of those inflatable t rex costumes waking down the street. I cracked up so much that the people from the ice café next door gave me funny looks instead of the dinosaur.

ok not to be adhd on main but if you even JOKINGLY make fun of me for my interests thats it. i wont ever be able to trust you again because im positive youre constantly judging me and making fun of me behind my back. thats just the way it is!!