Sunflower Avenue💚 💜 @sunflower_avenue@sunbeam.city

"I am tired of fighting my friends. I am tired of trying to convince them that I matter as much as their romantic interests and partners. In many ways who we choose to love is also a decision of who we invest in, and who we distribute the resources necessary to keep one another alive—including care.
We can stop politicizing desire when we stop distributing our love and care based on it"

Romantic Love is Killing Us: Who Takes Care of Us When We Are Single? by Caleb Luna
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/romantic-love-is-killing-us/

Shout out to my aro and otherwise platonically-aligned friends this valentine's!

Celebrating with some bees and homemade (no-sugar) strawberry shortcake. Hot diggity damn.

Shout out to my other friends, too! I love y'all. You make the world a special place.

Also my cat. You're special too.

Don't forget, if you're on a Mastodon instance and there's something going on that you don't like, you can add a filter

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Okay I’m actually really mad at Tootdon for not supporting image captioning and it is insulting and ableist as fuck that only some apps have image captioning on iPhone. It’s destructive to the culture of this website, and rude as fuck to your friends, who aren’t going to get as easily noticed for their disability as you think.

i think some of yall need to see this right now

GRANOLA

Start to finish: 30 minutes
Servings: 12

Ingredients:
4 cups rolled oats or other rolled grains
½ teaspoon cinnamon or other spices (optional)
pinch salt
½ cup oil or melted butter
½ cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla or other flavor extract
1 cup nuts
1 cup dried fruit

Method:
🌾 Preheat oven to 325°. In a large bowl, combine rolled oats and nuts and sprinkle with salt and optional cinnamon. In a separate measuring cup or small bowl, mix oil, honey and vanilla extract. Pour honey mixture over oats and toss to coat.
🌾 Line a roasting pan with parchment paper to prevent sticking, and spread oat mixture over bottom in a thin, even layer. Bake for 20-30 minutes, stirring every 5-10 minutes, until oats look golden. Add dried fruit after mixture is cool. Store granola in an airtight container.

🌾 Suggested Flavor Combos: Cranberry-Walnut, Coconut-Pecan

So we all know what a crush is...
but there's also:

Swish: aesthetic crush

Lush: sensual crush

Smush: sexual crush

Plush: want to be in a queer platonic relationship with someone

Squish: In the asexual community, the equivalent of a "crush", but explicitly lacking an interest in forming a romantic couple or having a sexual relationship with the person in question. I'm guessing its feeling platonic or alterous attraction towards someone

#asexual #ace #aromantic #aro #lgbt #gray-a #acespec #arospec

This reporter blocked each of the five "tech giants" for a week—

- Amazon https://gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-block-amazon-from-my-life-it-was-impossible-1830565336

- Facebook https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-facebook-out-of-my-life-surprisingly-i-missed-i-1830565456

- Google https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500

- Microsoft https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-microsoft-out-of-my-life-or-so-i-thought-1830863898

- Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-apple-out-of-my-life-it-was-devastating-1831063868

Then, for the 6th week, she blocked all five for a whole week! https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

Here's how to try it yourself: https://gizmodo.com/want-to-really-block-the-tech-giants-heres-how-1832261612

A life of leisure where the only struggles we face are the ones we choose to take on, and our time is spent making art, love, philosophy and science, unburdened by judgement or lack

(made by shencomix on tumblr) this moved me a lot? (1/3)

Gentle reminder that being "self-sufficient" and a "self-starter," and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, and even just living on your own and expected to be able to do everything for yourself, is actually a highly unnatural state of affairs for human beings which only became the norm in a small number of countries less than a century ago.

We finished our #AceJam2019 game! "Ace Systems Go!" is a short (and free $) visual novel exploring themes and experiences of #asexuality and #relationshipanarchy. Downloadable for Win/Mac/Linux. 💃

https://futureproofgames.itch.io/ace-systems-go

@cocoron @socalledunitedstates This illustration style is up there right next to this stuff from the ~20's

@socalledunitedstates It's from the tarot series for Tactics Ogre. The artist is Akihito Yoshida.