that feel when no words
that feel when you finally have a use for relationship terminology, but none of it makes sense to you because all of it is predicated on the assumption that you subscribe to the dichotomy of “romantic” vs “[queer]platonic”– not to even mention the equally taxing concept that is “alterous”.
which leaves me in the the very same position regarding relationship terminology that i’m in regarding ace identity terminology; rejecting such a binary system of terminology and categorization / conceptualization of relationships and identity all together, while still having it forced onto me by society as well as by a community that ought to know better.
but hey! every single one of us has been programmed from birth by society to adhere to amatonormativity, even when supposedly condemning it, and prescriptivism– amiright?