“Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”
Turtles All the Way Down
I’ve talked about my sexual/romantic orientation on here before, but I want to continue that conversation. I have this weird ideation of romance that I do not think I am capable of achieving. This post might seem a little more scrambled than others by the way.
It goes in line with a few John Green characters: Davis Pickett, Aza Holmes, Will Greyson, and Pudge. I feel as if these characters view love to be an abstraction and doesn’t have a clear definition. Each of these characters do not care about physical attraction but rather intellectual attraction.
I feel intellectual attraction a lot more than any other type. I like to pick people’s brains and have a conversation with them about everything and anything. This is the weird part. I think that these types of conversations can only really happen at night.
People open up at night because in prehistoric times we had to stick together and connect with each other at night or we risked death. This could also be my fascination with the night sky.
I started this Tumblr with Davis Pickett in mind because he talks so much about Aza through the use of metaphors with the night sky. I think that’s the easiest way to describe my ideation of romance. It’s not cuddling, kissing, or anything physical; it’s connecting with each other through talking and opening up.
One of my first and biggest crushes was on somebody who I would stay up until 3:00 in the morning with asking each other different questions about our lives. It was never a physical crush but an intellectual crush.
I want to add that I am specifically avoiding saying emotional attraction because I don’t feel that. I don’t feel the desire to be emotionally open with somebody. I say intellectual attraction because I want to know how they view the world rather than how they feel. I want to know if they view the world the same as me or if they view it differently and why they view that way.
-Jaruto (Nov. 1)
