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CLADISTICS ruined my life

Open letter to aromantic and aro-spec allies: On overuse of the word “valid”, and why it needs to stop

Aka look at me so bitter I’m actually engaging in community discussion and tagging things instead of just venting on my blog because I’m shy

Whenever I see aromantic or arospec positivity- which, frankly, is not very often- it almost always seems to come in one specific form: Telling us that we’re “valid”. That it’s ok that we don’t (or rarely, in the case of some arospec identities) experience romantic attraction, because we’re still Valid™.

I hate it. And many other aros do, too.

I’m sure most of you mean well, and simply don’t know any better, which is why I’m going to try to explain this as politely and clearly as possible. Please take a moment and listen, because god knows aro voices are so rarely listened to.

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I have eczema, specifically the type called Atopic Dermatitis. If you don't know what those words mean, let me break it down for you: atopic means "denoting a form of allergy in which a hypersensitivity reaction such as dermatitis or asthma may occur in a part of the body not in contact with the allergen" dermatitis means " a condition of the skin in which it becomes red, swollen, and sore, sometimes with small blisters, resulting from direct irritation of the skin by an external agent or an allergic reaction to it"

TL;DR means my skin hyper reacts to something wherever it feels like it

OR put even simpler, my skin gets MAD because of REASONS and then it yells "FUCK YOU" to me

IT IS NOT SELFISH TO FEEL LONELY

“Falling in love” feels like that movie/series that everyone is flipping out about, but you haven’t seen. Then you see memes and fanart all over the internet or all these references you just learn is associated with it. Then people flip out once you say you haven’t seen this movie/series and everyone goes “How can you not have seen it?”, “Is that even physically possible?” And “You gotta see it at least once in your life”

But you don’t see it. It’s either not available or you don’t have time or money or they don’t sell it where you are, etc…and for the rest of your life, people just keep talking about it and you just. Never. Get. The. Chance. And you feel like you’re missing out, but at the same time, you got better things to do or other movies to watch, that many missed out on. So, then, of course, you just get so happy every time you see someone referencing or selling figures and cups of these not at all famous characters that you know and love.

Do you feel me?

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Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

you’ve been here before, haven’t you?

I misread a post observing that a tyrannosaurus is chronologically closer to an iPhone than it is to a stegosaurus as claiming that a tyrannosaurus is taxonomically closer to an iPhone than it is to a stegosaurus, and I swear my first thought was “okay, what have those cladistics weirdos done this time“.

A CROW TRIED TO GO IN OUR CLASSROOM AND HE HAD A PEN