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my glasses are turning as thick as my fingers, this is fine, its fine

u will look super cute tho

#everpast #answered

The character thing for white haired kaneki and black haired kaneki

kurokaneki

shirokaneki

#send me a character #everpast

1: What would you name your future daughter? 24: Are you good at hiding your feelings? 30: How is your heart lately? 14: Is there one person in your life that can always make you smile?

1) sara and/or christine

24) lol no

30) a little broken but it'll be okay

14) yes :)

#everpast #knock knock who's there it's gilly

90. Have you ever liked someone who your friends hated?

yea i used to like someone w/ a terrible personality and kinda low key social skills and my friends hated them but tough shit. i liked the guy

#everpast

I was rereading aristotle and dante and why do you think aristotle was so mad about everyone thanking him for saving dante? Was he ashamed? Was he trying to deny the fact that he loved him (did he realize it then?)?

really sorry i didn’t answer this till just now!

i’ve gotta say upfront that i don’t have a copy of a&d with me at uni, so i’m relying on memory only. i might be wrong on some points, so i welcome anyone else who has thoughts about this question to share them too!

personally, i interpreted that defensiveness ari has when people are thanking him as at least partly based on his internalized and repressed fear of accepting his sexuality. ari’s loyal and devoted already, he’d do pretty much anything for dante. but it also puts him in danger in more ways than one - he’s dancing kind of close to the edges of admitting who he really is, by showing who he really cares about and prioritizes (ie. dante above all else)

so yeah, i think at least part of it is that he’s confused - he couldn’t do anything BUT save dante, and yet he’s ashamed. and now everyone knows that he’d do anything for dante, which makes him vulnerable to their shifting perception of him.

i think there’s also a big element of it just being part of his personality? he’s pretty modest and unassuming, outwardly - sure, he has his moments where he brags or acts a bit more assured, but it’s usually in a joking context. here, it’s deadly serious, and he’s probably upset at all the attention being fixed solely on him, because that’s not really him.

i honestly don’t believe ari had much awareness of the nature of his love for dante until quite a bit later on. i mean, he probably realized subconsciously, and repressed the idea, but for a pretty open and honest first person narrative, ari articulates VERY little of his desire to be with dante romantically until very late on in the book.

most of what clues us in as readers is his subconscious behaviour, the way he skirts and flirts around the idea of dante in his head, the way he talks about him, rather than by any open confirmation. i think if ari had genuinely, actually, totally realized that he was in love with dante, he’d not have been able to keep it from the reader.

he’s desperately confused and unwilling to examine his own feelings for so much of the book, so that definitely has an impact on how he reacts to people thanking and congratulating him for saving dante, but i don’t think he’d fully realized the real nature of his feelings for dante at that point.

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Hi, am I asexual if I don't get any attraction? Like I never found anyone attractive and I have never liked anyone? Is there some other category for me or am I just making things up in my mind? I really feel abnormal because my friends always say he's so attractive and I just get so confused because I never felt anything, I'm not lesbian either because it was the same with females. Is there something wrong with me?

There's nothing wrong with you! You are lovely and wonderful just the way you are!! <3 Feeling attraction isn't the end all be all to the human experience. Neither is romantic love or sex. Being happy and having an awesome life is defined by doing what you love and what makes you happy!

There's no such thing as normal. Promise. What's normal for you is normal for you. What's normal for another person is normal for them.

The only thing that determines asexuality is not feeling sexual attraction and identifying as asexual. You never have to identify with any label if you don't want to. You can just be you and that's awesome :)

-Kieren

#am i asexual?#queued #everpast