There was a tumblr post I saw that was talking about "I wish I could go on dates with people but without the romantic involvement" and people were like "That's just friendship" and other people were like "No it's this other really complicated thing with a new name" and, like, honestly?
Normalize the FUCK out of highly-emotional, loving friendships. We shouldn't need a new word for that. That's just being friends.
@witchfynder_finder where the heck is the harm in having a special word for queer platonic love as distinct from casual friendship tho
new words are free
. @pan @witchfynder_finder i'm super in favor of this - normalizing deep friendships is a great sentiment, but why is it *better* to use the same word for "we hang out sometimes" and "we love each other, platonically"?
Nobody's ever going to be able to tell what you mean, and the result is really awkward.
@pan @witchfynder_finder @leafnoodle a tbibg o like about
@leafnoodle @witchfynder_finder @pan I have no fucking clue what I was trying to write
@alice @leafnoodle @witchfynder_finder honestly it was a very valuable contribution i was smiling a lot
@leafnoodle @witchfynder_finder right like that's why 'platonic' is a word in the first place. i get that it's great to have deep friendships and lots of people live without labels at all but yk, nobody is forcing the label on anyone. and some of us have trust issues, some of us only let a few special people in