What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

serjames asked: The friend zone is an interesting concept - I've been attracted to various girls who haven't returned the same level of affection oft times before, and vica versa as well. But it's nowhere near the idealised unrequited love which a lot of people (generally younger) seem to think it is - love for me has always been a reciprocal venture, I don't think I could truly madly deeply love someone who wasn't in love with me as well.

In matters of unrequited love, I always defer to the wisdom of e. e. cummings:

‘and being here imprisoned,tortured here 

love everywhere exploding maims and blinds 

(but surely does not forget,perish, sleep 

cannot be photographed,measured;disdains 

the trivial labelling of punctual brains… ’

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