let's hear it for 100% platonic love. friends, both in-person and online, who remind you how fucking fun and exciting and beautiful the world can be. siblings and cousins and sometimes parents or grandparents or aunts or uncles who stick by you and support you when you're feeling low. strangers who show you unexpected kindness, or to whom you have showed the same. artists you'll never meet whose work helped you better meet yourself.
all too often, pop culture tells us that the only satisfying ending is one neatly tied up with a romantic bow, but there are a million ways to love out there, and a lot of them are really fucking great!








