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"If you don't learn to see what's inside of you... You'll be just like the rest of them..."
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"Creating Something Beautiful"
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"You love humans, huh? That's pretty ironic, considering you're barely human yourself. Honestly, it looks to me like you feel rather restricted. It's like you're surviving by imitating humans. When you say that you love humans, when you say you were born to help people... It almost sounds like you're pleading with humans not to shun you. You're not a saint. You're a lonely soul with too much power."
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Chapter 245 vs Chapter 618.
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Members of the 104th Trainees Squad
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"No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite." Okabe Rintarou
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Takashi Natsume & Nyanko-sensei Madara ✿
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Haruka Nanase | Inspired by ♥
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"Failing doesn't give you a reason to give up..." It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't give up You could even become a HERO
Happy birthday Naruto! (10/10) Thanks for always being there, thank you for growing up with me.
Thank you
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You know maybe amatonormativity exists but it's hard to say that when I'm 90% sure gay people were not being encouraged to seek out relationships by the wider culture until maybe 2005-ish
what's amatonormativity?
A Tumblr-based sociological theory that boils down to "compulsory alloromanticism" but I've also seen it defined to include monogamy as another expectation under the header of amatonormativity
Amatonormativity is not tumblr based- it was not created on tumblr nor was it popularised on tumblr. Amatonormativity was not even coined by asexual people or with asexual people in mind exclusively.
Amantonormativity was coined by feminist academic Elizabeth Brake in her book “Minimising Marriage” to refer to:
the assumptions that a central, exclusive, amorous relationship is normal for humans, in that it is a universally shared goal, and that such a relationship is normative, in that it should be aimed at in preference to other relationship types. (Source)
Amatornormativity doesn’t just affect asexual and aromantic people. Whilst it’s often asexual and aromantic people you see talking about amatonormativity (because we become hyper aware of it due to how it affects us), it actually impacts the lives of people of all orientations, including LGBT+ people.
Amatonormativity in practice is…
- The assumption that all single people are unhappy with their status and looking not to be single.
- “Coming of age” milestones often revolving around romantic accomplishments (first kiss, first crush, first love, marriage, etc).
- Non romantic partnerships (sexual or platonic) being looked down upon.
- A sort of relationship hierarchy where marriage is at the top and everything else falls somewhere below it.
- The expectation for romantic partners to be more important than jobs, hobbies or other commitments in a person’s life. And the belief that people who choose to pursue the former are selfish.
- People who are not seeking exclusive romantic relationships being seen as less mature, stable, trustworthy or settled.
- The structuring of laws and society on the basis that eventually everyone will be in a committed romantic partnership (marriage).
- The toxic idea of a “friendzone” (which of course, overlaps with misogyny), where friendship with a woman is seen as “second prize” to a relationship with her.
- People settling for someone they’re not really happy with or compatible with just to fulfil the desire or expectation to have a partner.
- Non-aromantic asexual people trying to normalise their orientation by saying they can still “fall in love” or “have relationships” “just like anyone else”.
- Asexual people or people who don’t feel attraction to anyone feeling pressured to seek out and enter into relationships.
And much more…
Violations of amatonormativity would include dining alone by choice, putting friendship above romance, bringing a friend to a formal event or attending alone, cohabiting with friends, or not searching for romance. (Source)
Also the way turning down a request for a date, while single, is often viewed as some sort of terrible insult instead of an analysis of poor compatibility.
Also the idea that it’s wrong to break up with someone unless they’ve done something objectively terrible enough to “deserve it” rather than because the relationship isn’t doing anything for you.
It also encourages people to stay in abusive relationships because it pushes being in a relationship is the highest priority/being alone is terrible.
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A veterinary hospital in Mexico used Pokemon Go’s snapshot feature to turn their office into a Pokemon Center
Source: facebook.com
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compilation of the most powerful images
baby time
For the people worried in the notes: no, these fish are fine. They can breathe, they aren’t stuck. They’d spit the pacifiers out if they were problems. They’re doing that because koi often take gravel and other inedible substances into their mouths to ‘chew’ and look for food, and as such are very driven to investigate things with an interesting smell or taste. Like a pacifier. They might be interested in the texture as well. When they’ve decided it’s not food, they’ll spit it out and go investigate something else.
In the meantime, it makes for some very cute pictures.