and there’s a lot of monogcycle accidents

The “sweater curse” or “curse of the love sweater” is a term used by knitters and crocheters to describe the belief that if a knitter or crocheter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, it will lead to the recipient breaking up with the knitter.

An investigation

Great video on amatonormativity and the loneliness of masculinity.

Mikaze Takamiya is a proud high school girl who wants to be cool and perfect. However, her childhood friend, Naoko Wato, constantly throws her off balance. One afternoon after school, Mikaze is forcibly dragged to Naoko’s house and ends up playing a retro game. At first, they play cooperatively, but…!?A high school girls × retro games comedy packed with classic retro game tropes!

Would love to read this one day.

By peddling the illusion that romance can be made queer, heteronormative capitalism forces queer people to try solve their problems of undesirability and unhappiness privately by finding the “right” partner, rather than directing their anger towards public action.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zomXm7O3Os

what universal human experiences are you missing?

[…] people’s [dating] advice and complaints primarily reflect, not great truths about love and dating and gender relations, but their own idiosyncratic way of moving through the world. So even in the best cases, where no one is making up emotionally satisfying daydreams, dating discourse winds up consisting of people lobbing anecdotes back and forth at each other, each person accurately representing their own lives.

Very straightforward post. I think everything here is reflective of all “chosen” human relationships, especially friendships.