“It was something adults said all the time. “You'll change your mind when you're older. You never know what might happen. You'll feel differently one day.” As if we teenagers knew so little about ourselves that we could wake up one day a completely different person. As if the person we are right now doesn't matter at all.”

- Loveless, Alice Oseman (2020)

nothing is stronger than the bond between an aroace and their favorite fictional character

Aromantic and/or asexual characters

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New addition!

listening to universe city in the library while ur besties have their enemies to lovers arc... it's all a part of the georgia warr aroace experience ✨️

happy arospec awareness week! 💚🤍🩶🖤

Georgia is so underrated. Aromanticism and asexuality are covered so well. She's literally the group's therapist friend and she cares about her friends so much. I love her🫶🏻

I’ve just finished re-reading Loveless. This book is so important to me and genuinely makes me feel more like myself than anything (who knew that representation matters) and I just love it so much. So I thought I’d make a note of all the reasons I relate to Georgia:

Thinking uni would be the perfect opportunity to find a partner

Picking a guy to fake having a crush

Feeling left out in a room of people kissing

Looking around a club and not seeing anyone I was attracted to

Thinking I just have high standards

Not knowing what my ‘type’ is

Not being keen on the idea of dating apps

Briefly considering being bi or pan because gender doesn’t seem to matter

Finding out someone likes me and immediately assuming I must like them back

Taking the Kinsey Scale test and getting an X

Hearing the word asexual and feeling like your brain was working overtime trying to connect the dots

Being confused when you find out that people think of having sex with someone just from looking at them

Fearing that everybody is going to leave me

Just wanting to live in a big house with all my friends

amen to that

I BITE THR HAND THAT FEEDS ME 🗣️🗣️

the beauty of aroaces characters that have SO MUCH love, that irradiates care on they own spacial way, that love the people around them SO SO SO MUCH that they can't barely say a word about it-

an avatar i made for the osemanverse discord server i’m in! thank you for asking me, it was really fun to do <3

It's crazy how Alice creates the most diverse but also relatable characters. There are characters of different sexual orientations, different races, genders, mental illnesses, family life and eating disorders. They're all so different??? but there's something that binds them all together. For example, I relate to Tao but I also relate to Georgia and I relate to Tori but I relate to Frances but I relate to Lister but I... They're all different, but there's something so familiar about them and you can see similar traits in each of them in yourself. I feel like a collage or mosaic of my favourite characters. Not just the four of them, but all the characters, like Aled Last, Micheal Holden and Elle Argent. Alice Oseman's characters radiate comfort and warmth.

Her books give the same vibes as curling up in you're cozy messy bed after an exhausting day at school or work, buried under a mountain of blankets when it rains or snows outside. The months between September and February when the sun sets early and you get to wear extra layers of clothes or that oversized black hoodie. Returning to your room filled with artifacts from your childhood, old books you haven't touched in like four years, book reports and DIY science projects from 3rd grade and movie poster filled haven where you could leave the stresses of the real world behind.

All the lights are off, except for those fairy string lights above your bed. You're sipping a hot cup of tea or hot chocolate, rereading your old favourite books you loved as a teen and watching that old favourite film that you've seen so many times that you can remember the plot and all the dialogue to, but you watch it anyway. Listening to that carefilly curated 90s indie rock playlist from 2019 to drown out and forget the world outside. Staying up late, the only light being the screen of your laptop or phone, reading fan fiction on AO3 while you're whole family's asleep. That warmth and authenticity that you don't find much in modern media. The nostalgia. How she accurately portrays what actual teenagers are like, both the pros and cons. Even if you're reading it for the first time, @chronicintrovert books have the feeling of returning home.

“If I could spend every night of my life eating snacks and watching something silly in a giant bed with one of my best friends, I'd be happy.”

- Loveless, Alice Oseman (2020)

“you know why people pair up into couples? because being a human is fucking terrifying. but it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself”

loveless by alice oseman

Georgia Warr

💚🤍🩶🖤

“I've always hated being asked if I'm OK. The available answers are either to lie and say I'm fine, or to massively and embarrassingly overshare.” ― Georgia Warr, Loveless