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Cure-alls for Curses and other Magical Misfortune

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Need a potion of Truluv's Kiss? How about a Scroll of Perpetual 11:59? Whatever your needs, the Aromancer is here to provide magical workarounds for curses that can otherwise be cured only by that most elusive of reagents: true love! Formerly Psychoboy777. Terfs will be subject to public humiliation.
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elodieunderglass

Hey, today I learned that my catalogued lack of dating experience is cited in an academic paper

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elodieunderglass

Jokes aside, this quote is how the researchers kick off an exploration of the under-researched concept of “friends to partners” with a call to social researchers to reframe their (apparently exclusive) focus on “dating” as the sole initiating event of romantic relationships. It’s actually a very interesting paper; apparently social scientists and pop culture focus their attention on the process of “dating”, a frankly heteronormative lens that insists on very specific behaviours and scenarios, in which single people market themselves to each other at bars. Meanwhile, in the actual people surveyed in the study, it appears far more common for people to prefer “friends to lovers” as a relationship pathway.

“Our research reveals that relationship initiation studies published in popular journals (Study 1) and cited in popular textbooks (Study 2) overwhelmingly focus on romance that sparks between strangers and largely overlook romance that develops between friends. This limited focus might be justified if friends-first initiation was rare or undesirable, but our research reveals the opposite. In a meta-analysis of seven samples of university students and crowdsourced adults (Study 3; N = 1,897), two thirds reported friends-first initiation, and friends-first initiation was the preferred method of initiation among university students (Study 4). These studies affirm that friends-first initiation is a prevalent and preferred method of romantic relationship initiation that has been overlooked by relationship science. We discuss possible reasons for this oversight and consider the implications for dominant theories of relationship initiation.”

Like holy cow did you guys KNOW that relationship science was dominated by studies on dating? A thing that in which good grades are not possible to achieve?

And it’s kind of good for ME to hear as well! As a (weird queer) person, dating always seemed so artificial and undesirable to me, but so important to everyone else, that it was clearly just One Of Those Things that is programmed into the Normal Hetero Brain that folks like me simply miss out on, forever. But possibly not! Possibly “dating” is one of those heavily marketed products that nobody particularly wants. Like the Metaverse. And nobody, until these plucky social scientists, has been brave enough to call it out!!

But yes. At the expense of elodie glass’s dating history being notably sparse (Stinson, 2021).

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emlos
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videogamepolls

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aromancy

For the record (for the 62.3% of you who said you'd never heard of it), it's a very good game. Not perfect, but if you like Marvel, it's one of the best video games released in recent years that you can get.

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tomthefanboy

Citation needed, of course. I've only seen his "anti-crime" stuff in the 90s.

I do however believe in the capacity for people to change, I would not want to be judged today by the man I was at 25, so I won't judge Biden that way.

I'm sure if you want to hate on him you'll be able to find some sins of his actual presidential term to hold against him.

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pitbolshevik