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guys iv have realized…im the gay cousin

hey guys do the allos know that they can have qprs too? like do they know that being alloromantic doesn't mean they can't choose to be in a qpr anyway? because qprs aren't "romance-lite" for aros, they're an entirely separate kind of relationship that anyone can have. you can do this with fictional characters too. you can put characters that aren't aroace or are even canonically dating in qprs with each other just because you think that would be a cool way to play with their dynamic. it's actually very cool and you totally should.

I really like this, I once explained QPRs as looking at the rules for established relationship types and saying "No, we don't like those," and then building your own relationship, taking pieces you like, leaving what you don't, and even adding your own stuff if you want, to make a new thing that works for you.

i keep seeing misinformation about this, so: queerplatonic relationships do not have a set definition. the name comes from the idea that it's "queering" the platonic relationship, tailoring it to the individual relationships' own desires. it isn't necessarily romance lite, but it also isn't necessarily whatever definition you want to impose on it. the point of queering the platonic relationship is to break away from strict allonormative views on friendship, romance, and sex, not to make a new categorical box to fit in.

the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.

I just realized that most of my favorite characters from when I was a kid are aromantic coded which is kinda funny to me as an aroace person.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!!!

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I made some pride pfps :)

love.

love feels like a dark rainy day in the forest.

love feels like hands doused in paint, desperate to create art, to create, to show how you feel.

love feels like trembling hands begging to touch, to be saved from the darkness.

love feels like a dark rainy day on a deserted beach.

love feels like treading water in an ocean while it rains.

love feels like sweet torment of a blade against your skin, drawing blood.

love feels like drowning in a dark abyss.

love feels like emptiness and wholeness at the same time.

love feels like jumping off a mountain.

love feels like an eclipse.

love feels like hands doused in blood.

love feels like death.

GUYS LOOK AT MY COOL MUTUAL!!!!!

I didn't really like the first bone spider design so I bring to you: The redesign!

(More art coming soon)