Caitlyn And Vi - Arcane Headers

I love you also in the most mundane ways

I love the dirty dishes in your kitchen and love the fresh sheets that you put on your bed for me

I love the mess in your apartment, love sitting next to you in silence as you do work and I just write

I love the hearts you form on public transport, first with two fingers then with both your hands as our eyes meet

and here we lie in dusky grey as outside fog devours the city whole

and I sink back to dreams of lavender and forests green

here in your bed there is no wider world that we’d be weary of or wary of

No, all there is is you and me

and when I wake again I catalogue

the 5 years worth of letters that I sent you

that you kept stored below your desk

and it’s been years since I held the lot of them

they feel like eldest documents of times long past

and at the same time I feel no less fond of you

I think the words have changed yet never did the meaning

and silent lies outside your window

a city of two million souls and more

and in here sit we silently as well

as there’s no words we’d have to speak right now

I love you also in the most mundane ways

I love the way you’ve kept the tea I gave you

and how it collects dust

you’d drink it when you miss me most

it seems that day is yet to come

You’ve never been a mind of many spoken words, and maybe you merely forgot the tea

but quietly I think: is this your way to say „each coming day I’ll love you more“?

Arcane - Episode 8

Bonus:

hey quick question for alloromantic people. how the fuck do you guys not just die when you feel this way about someone

(signed, an extremely demiromantic person who has a crush for the first time in like three years)

Anyone else with this aroace experience?

I know the aroace community is not a monolith. I know we all have very diverse experiences. But I was thinking about how so many aroace folks had the "I think I'm bi or pan" moment because they felt the same/nothing for all genders.

I had the "I think I'm bi" moment too. But for me it was because I DID feel something for different genders. I felt incredibly strong tertiary attraction to boys and girls (this was 10 years ago and I was queer-sheltered so I had yet to meet an out nonbinary person), and bi felt like the right descriptor. I didn't have to "fake" crushes like so many aroaces. I just confused my squishes for crushes and blended in.

Even after I realized I'm aromantic asexual, bi still feels part of my identity. I relate to a lot of the bi experience. I feel strongly for several different genders, but I'm attracted to them differently. The way I'm attracted to guys is totally different than how I'm attracted to girls and nonbinary folks.

This is why the term "bi-oriented aroace" means so much to me. It describes my experiences with tertiary attraction perfectly.

Jason Todd has a soft spot for stray animals. We all know Damian is the one running around and adopting every animal he can get his hands on and donating to all the animal shelters until they can go no-kill, but every stray animal Jason sees, he either feeds or brings to the shelter. Like he’s such a softie that way.

He doesn’t bring any of them home, worried about never being home and how to take care of such an innocent creature. That is, until one day a kitten screams at him while he’s in a stalemate with guns pointed at him. The kitten is not to be bothered. It starts crawling up his legs and chest, screaming to be pet. Eventually Nightwing shows up and helps him out the stalemate, but this kitten only stops screaming when Jason holds it and it’s so sweet and precious and innocent and, yes, Dick is laughing at him, but the kitten is all black except for a little white spot on his forehead. And the kitten is a little roughed up, but Jason is almost in tears, cradling it to his chest.

Anyway, he shows up back at y’all’s apartment in genuine tears, asking “can we keep it? please?”

The answer is obviously yes. He names it fucknut after it bites him when it’s hungry. You come up with the nickname “Fin” and that’s what y’all call the kitten in public.

... ♥

been thinking about them a lot lately

hey

(insp)

Do you ever forget that people actually feel the way books describe romantic love? Like those aren't made up feelings? Because me too

[ID: At the top, text reads “Book character: when I saw her, I instantly fell in love with her”, and on the next line, “Me, an aroace:”. Below is an image of a person saying “That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about attraction to dispute it.” End ID]