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I need a sticker for surviving 2023 so I made one and thought I’d share it with you all too. Reblog to give everyone stickerssss

After this controversial photo shoot, Hawk Moth and Mayura were never seen again

Adrien, after THAT photoshoot:

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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And then I find out the fanfic hasn’t updated for over a year.

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All-New Marvel Now! Point One #1 - “Garden State of Mind” (2014)

written by G. Willow Wilson art by Adrian Alphona & Ian Herring

Racial minorities have always been a crucial part of the LGBTQ+ rights movement - this pride month, let's make sure we acknowledge and celebrate them!

"why are you so loud about aromanticism and asexuality?" idk, maybe because for a long time I thought I was weird and something was wrong with me just because I did not experience the same things and feelings my fellow classmates and friends did & I wasn't that interested in dating and everyone looked at me as if I was a different species. I'm loud about being aromantic and/or asexual so young kids can now that it is OKAY to not feel attraction the same way others do and it is also OKAY to not want romance or sex or want them however you feel most comfortable with... just the romance or just the sex or neither. Being aro and/or ace is beautiful and valid 💚💜