Thank You @mdoodlerfandomart For The Ink Art. I Had Fun Coloring My Favorite HTTYD Ship.

Thank you @mdoodlerfandomart for the ink art. I had fun coloring my favorite HTTYD ship.

The original

Mermay 2023 - #09 Modern - HTTYD Hiccup and Astrid

@comfortable-dragon

Hiccup never would have thought Gobber's stories about mermaids were true, yet here he is staring one in the face.

Some thoughts I wrote for Valentine's days about relationship anarchy and how no one really knows what romantic love means (alt text below)

As an asexual person who doesn't really understand the concept of romantic love I have discovered that aloalo people have no idea of what having romantic feelings is o feels like. I have learnt a lot more about what love means in the aro community and the polyam and relationship anarchy community.

And I thought it would be cool to show some of that stuff I have learnt that should be obvious but people usually forget, (which I understand, life doesn't come with a rules book).

1. Love isn't a limited resource. You can have romantic feelings for more than one people and it's okay and normal! The same way you can have more than one best friend and love them all as much. Romantic love doesn't have to be restricted.

2. Your love for your partner is not better or superior than the love you have for other people. Amatonormativity makes us all think than we all desire a relationship on top of everything else. Which is stupid. All kinds of relationships can be as much fulfilling and everyone is different. Your love for a partner, a qpr, a friend, your family, your community, all are equally important in their own ways.

3. Some people don't want or need to have a romantic relationship, or a sexual relationship, or any kind of couple-like relationship to feel happy with their lifes and that's great! Aromantic people are amazing and it's hard to navigate a world so much focused on romance.

4. The attraction split model was created by the asexual community as a way to help define their orientation more specifically. And though it may not be useful to everyone I personally think it's very useful to learn and do some introspection about how many types of attraction we can feel. Humans are not machines and not everything can or needs to be defined, but giving words to our emotions is fundamental to understand how we work.

5. Despite what I said in the last slide, it's imposible to reduce everything to closed boxes, and that's a good thing too, you don't need to restrict your feelings to fit into normative standards. Don't let anyone tell you how you should or shouldn't love.

To conclude: Just love your friends. Take care of everyone you care about, built a community, don't let anyone tell who you should and shouldn't love and how to do so and be nice to others.

Tell your friends how much you appreciate them, buy them chocolates, give your mother flowers, kiss your partners goodnight, fight against amatonormativity, listen to our aromantic siblings.

And enjoy this day, thank you if you have read all this bible until this end <3

Thank you for sharing your artwork so I can have fun coloring it in.

Thank you @mdoodlerfandomart for the ink art. I had fun coloring my favorite HTTYD ship.

The original

Clipped Wings - Prologue

The attack on the palace of Feycrest was under way. A small group of men had infiltrated the palace while another group distracted the guards at the gates.