I Had To Report Five In The Course Of Probably Fifteen Minutes, Please.

I had to report five in the course of probably fifteen minutes, please.

hey @staff? i know you’re busy banning innocent transfems, but maybe do your job and deal with the bots on the asexual tag?

I hope all my fellow aces, aros and assorted aspecs survived July the 4th, the time of “so do you have a gf/bf yet???” And “Now when are you gonna get married?” Shall soon be over.

Rest easy my friends, one day they’ll understand.

i always thought romantic love was the plague and i was a plague doctor.

so here's an aro-colored plague doctor

me oversharing beneath the cut about how amatonormativity has screwed me up in ways I have never been screwed up before.

(rant beneath the cut is full of negativity, triggering, but perhaps relatable. idk. read at your own risk)

okay so let's have a mini story telling time about how romance plagued every aspect of my life until now.

My bestfriend in high school treated me of less value after she gets her boyfriend. This experience was what drove me into drawing plague doctors during valentines. These doodles were captioned with "Plague is in the air", because my friends in my circle told me to not hang out with her on that day because it's valentines day. So cool, I thought I should avoid them like they were the plague.

For the first half of college, I've been a wingman for way too many of my friends for my only female and best friend.

It has gotten to a point where the meaning of my companionship with my male friends had become solely for providing a connection to a girl they want to date.

In the long run, my bestfriend, who my 'friends' were pining for, actually has been pining for me. She asked if we could be a thing, I said yes because I thought that, romance isn't probably as disgusting as I think of it.

To protect tradition and to protect the feelings of the men she rejected (who I also wingmanned), we kept it hidden.

For the entire time, she emphasized how I was dense and oblivious about romance. For the entire time I was confused, disoriented, and even repulsed. I didn't know how to reciprocate and I certainly did not have THOSE feelings either at all.

Of course it didn't end well.

After that failed attempt at romance, I have been involved in three more encounters after that. Men suddenly started talking to me out of nowhere. Initially, I thought that they were just trying to make new friends. I didn't realize they were hitting on me but when I did, I cold-shouldered them out of my life.

The last one was the most traumatic. I have explicitly stated that he shouldn't attempt to romance me because I've admitted that I'm way too tired of dealing with it, but he was stubborn. He has also gone as far as sexualizing me against my will.

So yeah.

Amatonormativity made me lose faith in the meaning of my friendships.

It made me realize how friendship is easily overshadowed by romantic relationships.

It made me worry that my kindness is misread as a romantic gesture.

It made me constantly hate how friendship is only seen as a stepping stone for a romantic relationship.

And because amatonormativity has rendered all my significant connections meaningless, I'll spend every second of my life hating amatonormativity. I will always be repulsed at the concept that destroyed every goddamned friendship that I had. Nothing has ever made me feel THS sick. I will always think of it as the plague.

The bots are kinda really stupid, huh? The FedEx ads I kinda get, but they’re really sending the sex bots on the frickin Asexual tags? Guess they’re just bots they can’t think about how ironic that actually is.

At fourth of July a while ago, I mentioned off hand to one of my cousins that I don’t plan on having children. I was just making a joke, but I realized they were completely shocked by this, and I was both surprised and angry that they hadn’t been told people like me could exist. They had assumed that all people got old and got married and had children, especially with a partner of the opposite sex.

But not everyone wants that! Aspec people, yeah, but also allos. Some allo people prefer to stay single. A lot choose not to have kids or not to have sex. This isn’t new, and even if it was new, it’s important.

(A few allo examples are: people with trauma, people with health issues, people happier single, people with vows of chastity, people who can’t afford children, people who don’t want children, the list goes on)

Please, everyone, educate your children by letting them know not just that people can fall in love with the same gender, but also that they can never fall in love at all. That some want kids and some don’t and that that’s perfectly normal and good. Not everyone needs love, sex or children to be happy.

All it takes is adding the words ‘some’ and ‘might’ in conversations about love, marriage, children and sexuality.

Book of Bill translated code pieces. One type of code translated in every part of the book I could find. With what we know of the cipher drawn out (badly).

Spoilers for the Book of Bill below:

This is everything I could gather of the new symbol code, except of course the RECENT INPATIENTS TO WARD 333 page.

Inside cover reads: Even his lies are lies

What is a Human? page reads: My optometrist never saw it coming

The Shaman page reads: Which henchmaniac ratted me out

My Muse & Me page reads: If lost return to Bill

STAAANLLLEEEEYYYY page 3 (bottom text) reads: axolotllotaxolotllotlaxlotlaxloTLaxolotlloylaxlotlaxloTLaxolotllotlaxlotlaxl

Incomplete Cipher for the new code: