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Rather be Reading

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  1. While discovering the aro community has generally improved my life, it has rendered me unable to watch How I Met Your Mother without thinking "dang, I disagree with all the words you just said" every minute or so. 

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      Rather be Reading

      Yes, unfortunately, it is indeed very accurate to society :[ 

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  2. While discovering the aro community has generally improved my life, it has rendered me unable to watch How I Met Your Mother without thinking "dang, I disagree with all the words you just said" every minute or so. 

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      Rather be Reading

      Very. 

      The whole show rotates around Mr. Ted Mosby, who is looking for his true love, "THE ONE". Beyond Ted, the other main characters are as followed:

      Marshall and Lily, the husband-wife duo. They are the perfect couple. Lily specifically has a tendency to judge other people's relationships when they're not as "perfect". 

      Robin, who struggles to connect deeply with romantic partners. (gives very aro-spec vibes). Whenever she ends up in a committed relationship, it's sort viewed as her being "fixed".

      Barney, who is constantly hooking up with random women, usually through some form of trickery. He's very much portrayed as the "bad alloaro" type character. 

      Beyond that, there's just a bunch of other stuff that comes up a lot. For instance, Ted and Barney at one point consider adopting a kid together, in an almost QPR type situation, but it's played off as a joke and Ted decides he has to "Wait for the real thing". Marshall and another single guy, after both being dumped, decide to do all the things they would have done with their girlfriends together, and are mocked brutally, and the episode ends with both guys getting back together with their girlfriends. 

      There's a lot of problematic stuff (slut shaming, fat shaming, a dash of occasional transphobia...). On the other hand, there's also some funny stuff, which is how I sometimes end up watching it, even if it does make me mad almost every episode. 

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  3. one of my friends is breaking up with another one of my friends to get with a third friend and I'm mapping out my game plan for avoiding the impending drama :[ 

  4. Does anyone else pretend to "date" or "love" the most random objects for fun? I told my friends I had a "crush" (Jokingly) on a tree...

  5. Does anyone else pretend to "date" or "love" the most random objects for fun? I told my friends I had a "crush" (Jokingly) on a tree...

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      Rather be Reading

      We did get divorced :( I never tried dating another instrument after that. It just never occurred to me, I guess the spark just wasn't there. I don't play the violin any more, and the piano's too old for me, so I think my love life is officially over :[ 

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  6. Does anyone else pretend to "date" or "love" the most random objects for fun? I told my friends I had a "crush" (Jokingly) on a tree...

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      Rather be Reading

      nothing recent, but in 4th grade I "married" my violin, who I named Vincent. The marriage lasted 3 years. Sadly, my tiny arms finally outgrew it in 7th grade, and the violin went back to the rental company </3

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  7. looking up switzerland for aa civics project AND THERE WAS AN ANTI POWERPOINT PARTY I AM CRYING

    The “Anti PowerPoint Party”, for example, was a political party in Switzerland that worked to decrease the use of PowerPoint in professional presentations. They claimed that PowerPoint software was economically harmful.

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/switzerland-direct-democracy-explained/

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      Rather be Reading

      is life in Switzerland so wonderful that this is all they have to argue about?

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