Thinking About Sharing My Experience Replaying Asra's Route But In The Form Of Out-of-context Livetweets

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Just a pretty dhampir :>

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Inspiration for his outfit:

Driving myself crazy over this interview with Imai Hisashi.

The question is quite ambiguous, "Have you ever liked someone of the same sex" - I've seen three translations of the word used for "like" here: a) be in love with b) liking (as in friendship) c) liking (as in fancying)

Atsushi's answer is absolutely unambiguous; he starts gushing about how much he loves Issay and how cool he thinks Issay is

Hide, Yuta and Toll's answers are equally unambiguous. All of them specify, "romantic love?" and answer "No!"

Imai, in very neurodivergent fashion, responds to an ambiguous question with an equally ambiguous answer. "I have! As a human being."

And I don't know how to translate that.

Because in English, "I like you... as a person" has strong connotations of "...but I'm not physically attracted to you and don't want to date / have sex with you."

But "I like you... as a human being" has strong connotations of "I am so strongly attracted to your whole personality that the details of your physical sex are simply irrelevant."

And in Japanese, I don't know if either of those connotations exist.

However, the latter interpretation is so common among neurodivergent folks that there's a whole term for it: Neuroqueer (in a nutshell, the idea that the whole concepts of binary gender and fixed orientation are so heavily dependent on the exact types of social conventions that ND folks struggle with, as to render them meaningless to us.)

I love that Imai leaves it so ambiguous. There's one interpretation that leaves this at "I love men, but only platonically" and there's another that is "I love... humans!" And given my headcanon of Imai as Neurodivergent, I know which interpretation I'm going with.

Did a lil study with alucard <333

Some of my favorite Alucard paintings in honor of The Symphony of the Night's 28th anniversary

DUGEUNDUGEUN GONGNYAKGI (2020-2023) by pyuki

This performance was the first time ever that I've seen Atsushi express so much hype and affection for someone 😃

I guess Kiyoharu is like the popular dude of the vkei industry that everyone is hyped about :D