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I ❤️ queerplatonic ships. They’re not lovers. They’re something more ☝️

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Post a caldo in italiano di cui non fregherà nulla a nessuno, ma è proprio bello aver seguito e stimato per un periodo un uomo che è di una delle rare personalità pubbliche che parlano senza ipocrisie di uno dei casi di cronaca nera più complessi e intricati d'Italia, il delitto di Garlasco - evidenziando in modo egregio tutti i punti oscuri delle vecchie indagini e delle persone collegate al delitto - per poi scoprire che quella stessa persona è un complottista accanito - e odio usare questa parola, ma è così - il quale afferma che l'omicidio di Giulia Cecchettin sia tutta una montatura per inserire di prepotenza il "Gender" nelle scuole e la pericolossisima educazione affettiva (arrivando pure a insultare il padre, la sorella e la nonna di Giulia... Almeno non è uno di quelli che negano l'esistenza di Filippo Turetta, almeno quello.)

Poi ho scavato più a fondo e ho scoperto che nega pure l'esistenza in Italia del patriarcato e il fatto che esso sia collegato al gran numero di femminicidi (sminuendo il numero stesso dei femminicidi che ci sono ogni anno!), e non nomino nemmeno certe sue frasi sulle donne.

Poi ho scavato più a fondo e ho scoperto che durante il Covid era pure No Mask e No Vax perchè complotto.

Come se tutto ciò non fosse sufficiente a distruggermi del tutto, ho pure scoperto che è sostenitore di quel caso umano che negava la morte dell'italiana uccisa nell'attento del Bataclan, Valeria Solesin, ancora una volta, per un non meglio specificato complotto.

Evviva. Almeno su Garlasco alcune cose intelligenti riusciva a dirle, dai...

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Anime characters for whom I need more attention on their platonic relationships instead of shipping:

❥︎ Eren Jeager and Levi Ackermann from Attack on Titan: the way I struggled to find platonic fics about them back in 2017-2018, most of them were Ereri AAAAAA. I love them as mentor/father figure and adoptive son who deeply care for each other but don't know how to show their affection.

❥︎ Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugou from My Hero Academia: I kinda like the ship, but I've always been obsessed with the idea of a queerplatonic relationship for them.

❥︎ Edward Elric and Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist: same as Eren and Levi, I love them as father figure and son (I can't see them in any other way).

❥︎ Any Hetalia ships in general: especially Fruk, Usuk, RusAme, EngIta, Nichu and Amechu. I love their relationships as friendship or brotherly bonds, depending on the cases.

❥︎ Yuu Hyakuya and Shinoa Hiragi from Owari no Seraph: Mikayuu is my OTP in ONS, so I don't like Yuu and Shinoa as a romantic couple, but I love them dearly as friends (as a silly duo in normal life, for example in school, and as partners on the battlefield, always there to protect each other). Their friendship is so precious to me, and in general I'm very interested in m/f friendships.

❥︎ Takemichi Hanagaki and Kazutora Hanemiya from Tokyo Revengers: Idk, I just love the idea of them being friends, and I need more, especially considering that they seem to have a good friendship in the Bonten Timeline.

❥︎ Maomao and Loulan from The Apothecary Diaries: if you saw this anime you know what I mean, this doesn't need explanation :3 Actually, I like the ship but I prefer their love as platonic.

❥︎ Tanjiro Kamado and the Nine Hashira from Demon Slayer: especially, I love the friendship between Tanjiro and Muichiro, but also the relationship mentor/student with Tomioka, Mitsuri, Shinobu and Obanai.

❥︎ Shoyou Hinata and Hitoka Yachi from Haikyuu: they are just so cute together, I love their friendship! ^^

❥︎ Near and Mello from Death Note: unfortunately I struggled to find fics about their platonic relationship in the past. I love them as brothers (especially when also L and Matt make their appearence :D)

❥︎ Oz Vessalius and Gilbert Nightray from Pandora Hearts: even the anime itself ship them, *sigh*. But I like their relationship as a deep friendship, and I've always found so cute that in the past Oz was older than Gil, while after Oz comes back from the Abyss Gil becomes the older of the two, so they basically switch the older brother role ^^

❥︎ Eren Jeager and Mikasa Ackermann from Attack on Titan: I'll close the circle with AOT (again), in this case with platonic Eremika. You can shoot me if you want, but I've never seen them as a romantic couple (even if it's obvious that Mikasa has romantic feelings for Eren, unfortunately for me) and I've never liked this idea. Personally, I like to see them as adoptive siblings and I love so much to see their platonic relationship in fics <3

I hope someone else shares my vision :D

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I love that the animation team chose to give us this. It’s a slight change from the light novel and manga, but it does a far better job of showing us—visually showing us—the depth of Maomao's affection for Shisui.

The only difference between the anime and the light novel/manga is, simply, how much the two physically touch each other. How they cling so fiercely and desperately to reassure themselves that the other is safe and undamaged.

The light novel tells us, over and over, how much Maomao loves Shisui, how deeply she misses her after the events of this arc. But LN readers know that Maomao’s affections for others aren’t always clear to her. They often manifest in the way she thinks about them, and how often. Shisui is one of the people she treasures most, but she doesn’t come to terms with this until it’s too late.

And, in true Maomao fashion, in the LN/manga, she does not understand the true extent of her feelings for Shisui while she’s held captive at the stronghold. All of her thoughts and emotions are focused on survival, escape, mystery-solving—understandably so.

And physical affection is not something Maomao initiates often, if ever. She shies away from most forms of touch, and is, most certainly, not comfortable with expressing her feelings in any verbal or physical way.

Therefore, it was a conscious choice on the anime’s part to give us visual evidence of Maomao’s true feelings. Maomao doesn’t say much, but we can still see it: that relief in holding her, that reluctance to release her hand. They let us see it in the way she touches her freely, without hesitation. The viewer can see, can feel how difficult it is for Maomao to let her go, even when she, herself, hasn’t fully realized it yet.

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speaking of the cavalghieri falling out, and since I recently reorganized my library, I realize I still haven't made you all aware that someone already daydreamed about Fixing Them through this booklet

it's an imagined dialogue between them (I'm not sure if I'm supposed to imagine them in a ghostly form but that's what I do) in the form of prosastic poetry, and he makes them reconcile.

I'm not too fond of his writing actually, it feels too forced and aestheticizing, but the idea sounded deranged enough that I had to buy it and because I need everything that mentions Guido in my house. The result? I'm not too fond of that either, mostly because you can't Fix Them, you can't Fix Guido, but it's certainly Something to know it exists.

For reference, here's the beginning:

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a dante and guido bibliography

a list consisting of things i’ve personally read or i’ve been strongly recommended by fellow cavalghieri mutuals, constantly updating.

on dante...

biographies:

Dante. The poet, the political thinker, the man, Barbara Reynolds

Dante, Alessandro Barbero

Dante, Chiara Mercuri

on his works and language:

Dante Alighieri, Marco Berisso

La lingua di Dante, Paola Manni

...and guido

L'ombra di Cavalcanti e Dante, Noemi Ghetti (< especially recommended as it’s perfect for both newbies and experienced cavalghierinas)

Il senso di una amicizia: Dante e Guido (Inf. X), Raffaele Pinto

Guido contro Dante, Antonio Gagliardi

Strutture triangolari significanti nel canto X dell’Inferno, Carlos Lòpez Cortezo

The Philosophy of Love of Guido Cavalcanti, Jefferson B. Fletcher

Dante e Cino da Pistoia. Un dialogo interrotto?, Sebastiano Italia

Colui che vede amore. Per un prelievo di poetica da Guido Cavalcanti, Luigi Ballerini 

Guido Cavalcanti e Virgilio, Enzo Sardellaro

Unus philosophus alter poeta. Un’ipotesi per Cavalcanti e Dante, Roberto Rea

Sensi smarriti. La ermeneutica del disdegno in Cavalcanti e in Dante, Raffaele Pinto

Il fantasma di Guido Cavalcanti, Antonio Gagliardi

Guido Cavalcanti: The Other Middle Ages, Maria Luisa Ardizzone

fiction:

La moglie di Dante, Marina Marazza

Eternal War saga, Livio Gambarini

La prima sembianza. Un racconto su Guido Cavalcanti e Dante Alighieri, Edoardo Rialti

Joys of Earth’s Love, Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev

Le Puits de Sante Claire/Messer Guido Cavalcanti, Anatole France

Novella LXVIII, Trecentonovelle, Franco Sacchetti

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A cafe of moonstone and clouds

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Bank of Sapphire Cold?

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Italians subjected to The Odyssey and The Iliad from elementary school to the cross-analysis of Odysseus in The Divine Comedy and Odyssey in high school: Ulysses.

Americans who discovered The Odyssey with Epic the Musical: YOU! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SOURCE MATERIAL BECAUSE YOU READ THE ROMAN INTERPRETATION !!!

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"The Hunger Games are a reminder of what monsters we are and how we need the Capitol to keep us from chaos." TBOSAS Chapter 22: Coriolanus Snow

Katniss and Peetas act of rebellion with the night lock berries wasn’t just rejecting the game. It was rejecting the philosophy it created. Snow believed that humans are inherently selfish and driven by greed. The games showed the worst. Betrayal. Cruelty. Cowardice. However, instead of choosing survival at the cost of the other, they chose solidarity. Katniss and Peeta were proof of a humanity that Snow never believed in. Their actions reminded the people of Panem that the districts are human and that humans are good.

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a dance with you lasting for all eternity 🐇🖤🤍 inprnt

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Jeff singing Why Don't You Stay with the KinnPorsche cast 🥹

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Ancient Rome through the art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

"Alma-Tadema's highly detailed depictions of Roman life and architecture, based on meticulous archaeological research, led Hollywood directors to his paintings as models for their cinematic ancient world, in films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), Ben Hur (1926), and Cleopatra (1934). The design of the Oscar-winning Roman epic Gladiator (2000) took its main inspiration from his paintings, as well as that of the interior of Cair Paravel castle in The Chronicles of Narnia (2005)" Wikipedia (User:JMF)

Tibullus at Delia's (1866) The Roman poet Tibullus is shown reciting to a group of friends in the house of his mistress, Delia.

The Tepidarium (1881) Lounging next to the tepidarium (warm room of the baths) a curvaceous beauty takes her rest. She holds a strigil in her right hand. Oil on panel. included in the 2006 book 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die."

Amo te, ama me (1881). Oil on panel

A Roman Emperor AD 41 (1881) Oil on canvas

Spring (1894) Oil on canvas

Caracalla and Geta (1907)

A Favourite Custom (1909) Oil on panel

The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra (1883) Oil on canvas

An Audience at Agrippa's (1876) Oil on canvas

Caracalla (1902) Oil on panel

The Triumph of Titus: The Flavians (1885) Oil on canvas

Entrance of the theatre (1866) Oil on canvas

The Oleander (1882)

The flower market (1868)

An Eloquent Silence (1890) Oil on panel

The Frigidarium (1890) -Cold water room of the baths- Oil on canvas

Watching and waiting (1897)

The poet Gallus dreaming (1892) Oil on panel

The roses of Heliogabalus (1888) Oil on canvas

A balneatrix (1876) Watercolour painting

A Roman Art Lover (1868) Oil on panel

The Cymbal Player (1872) A Garden Altar (1879

The mirror (1868) Oil on canvas

A Collection of Pictures at the Time of Augustus (1867) Oil

A Sculpture Gallery in Rome at the Time of Agrippa (1867)

Hadrian Visiting a Romano-British Pottery (1884) Oil on canvas

The Baths at Caracalla (1899)

Unconscious Rivals (1893) Oil on panel

Silver Favourites (1903) Oil on wood

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Severus Snape from the perspective of someone who experienced bullying both from her classmates and her teachers

Well, as the title of this post says, I've experienced bullying both by my classemates and by my teachers. In elementary and middle school.

And I think this is one of the reasons that led me to defend Severus Snape's motivations and feel a great empathy toward him, as a teenager but also as an adult.

I know this is just my opinion, but it is an opinion that has been forged by my personal experience, so I would like that people will listen to it.

I'll start with the bullying of my classmates, because it's easier to talk about.

I've never suffered bullying that someone would call "severe": I was never beaten, I was never threatened; I was also quite integrated into the classes I was in, actually. I was excluded only a few times because I was considered too introvert and not "cool" enough.

And yet the bullying I suffered left several scars on me. These scars are a deep insecurity in my abilities and physical appearance, social anxiety and an even more introverted personality than in the past, which unfortunately still limits me a lot today.

It was a bullying made of normal teasing, but which was repeated often. Too often, so much so that it became exhausting.

For the stupidest reasons anyone could think of: I was shy, I spoke on rare occasions and the few times I did, the words struggled to come out of my mouth.

I was too kind, and many of them took advantage from it. Because they knew they could do everything to me, I would never said anything.

I wasn't good at gym. Other kids rolled their eyes when teacher put me on their team, they yelled at me every time I made a mistake (magically, if someone else made the same mistake this didn't happen, but with me it was mandatory to get angry).

On two occasions they aimed the ball at me on purpose, hitting me right in the face. The teacher didn't say anything: she just smiled and calmly told me to go to the bathroom and rinse my face (as it was useful, but... ok); she did it because the two children who hit me, laughing with satisfaction, were her nephews.

I was ugly, they said, but I just think they were right, because I've never seen myself as beautiful, not everyone is lucky.

I often vomited. In class, in front of everyone. Yeah, it's kinda disgusting, but it's an important part of my story, sorry.

Like many other children in my school, I had health problems related to anxiety from having to put up for five years with that same teacher who didn't say a word to her nephews when they hit me in the face with a ball twice on purpose.

She was (is) a bad teacher: not because she wasn't good at teaching, but because she was one of those who hate her job and take out their frustration on poor, defenseless children, and I was a very sensitive child. I vomited out of the anxiety of having to stay stuck in a classroom for six hours every day with her. For a long period, it usually happened once a week. When my mother, desperate, came to pick me up from school, even if every time was a nightmare for me, I was pretty happy, actually.

"Today I spared myself the viper", I thought. But in the meantime, the vomiting thing had become another reason for my classmates to ridicule me.

"Aren't you going to vomit today, Sofia?", they said laughing and making disgusted faces, and I felt like crying. Because obviosuly I hated when it happened, even though it saved me one day a week.

What I said is about elementary school.

In middle school I changed most of my classmates, but we all knew each other anyway. Our town is very small.

And so things didn't change (with the only difference that I didn't vomit anymore, since I had gotten rid of that teacher).

However, something much more disturbing happened in middle school, which went beyond simple teasing and irritating jokes. It was always just a hypothesis, to be fair, but... I still have a strong suspicion that some of my classmates had violated my privacy.

There has been a strange period, in the third year of middle school.

My male classmates had always been terribly childish, with their stupid jokes and... inappropriate behavior towards girls (including me), who should have been taken more seriously in my opinion (between the ages of 11 and 13 you have to be aware of certain gestures that you make.)

But at a certain point they seemed to have targeted me and they did it with jokes in which they showed they knew things about me that they couldn't have known. Things that were too specific.

And they weren't just talking to me, they were making those jokes out loud, in front of everyone. My classmates and teachers looked at them and at me confused. I just pretended to be equally confused, but inside I was trembling and asking myself: "How do they know?"

How do they know about my dog's death? How do they know what I read and watch? How do they know about the people I text who are strangers to them? How do they know about some of the messages I write? And then a strange theory formed in my head: somehow I don't know, on some occasion I don't know, they must have stolen my phone and spied on it. It was the only explanation that seemed sensible to me.

But I had no proof, and I felt crazy thinking that, just like now. So I kept the theory for myself, today is the first time I speak about it to anyone.

And yet, after all these years, a part of my head tells me that I've always been right.

There was no way they knew certain things, I assure you.

This weird but at the same time so sensible idea made me feel violated. Much more than when one of my classmate touched me in places he shouldn't have (several times) and the others laughed like idiots. Because the very idea that someone had crossed the line that much seemed so disturbing to me and gave me the shivers.

As I said, it wasn't bullying that we would call "severe", but all these experiences left me with a sense of deep bitterness, of contempt for those people who only a few months later simply started ignoring me, pretending not to know me. Or worse, who were friendly with me. Or who simply forgot about everything. All people who never apologized and who probably never even repented.

Why can they live their lives peacefully and serenely, smiling and boldly like in the past?

Why do I, instead, after all these years have to struggle with these damned scars?

It's so unjust.

And I can say the same for many people around me who suffered bullying as well: my sister, some of my friends. I have seen them suffer and this makes me so angry: they didn't deserve it, no one deserve it.

After all this, it seems obvious that I feel sorry for Severus Snape.

For the bullying he suffered, the humiliation, the jokes about his physical appearence, the stalking (do you know how terrifying it is to think that your bullies have a map through which they can know where you are at every hour? What could he have thought when he found out about the Marauders Map?), the SA (yes, it was SA), the lack of support from his friends and his teacher (Lily was a bad friend to him, I'm sorry to say it, but it's true. And his Slytherin classmates didn't seem to be there for him when he needed them, just like his teachers), and the fact that none of his bullies apologized (James died too early but if he didn't I don't feel like he changed that much, Sirius still called him Snivellus, Peter... Ugh, Remus is the only one who show regret, but he didn't apologize to him for what we know and he can't help but justify himself and his friends. The other people who laughed at Marauders' "pranks"? Where are they? Do they even remember him? Who knows).

It's so obvious to me that Severus is angry, furious. Full of hatred, contempt, frustration, bitterness. I can perfectly understand him.

And yet in all this negativity, the feeling that predominates in him is love.

After all what he has suffered, it is love that pushes him to redeem himself, to act. Unconditional love.

And shouldn't I respect and defend this character who should inspire many people? Who inspires me?

Someone who has suffered so much worse things than me, and yet manages to be better than me.

But I've also mentioned the bullying I suffered from teachers. So what do I think of Severus Snape as an adult?

Let's go back for a moment to my personal experiences.

I've already talked about the teacher who made me feel so anxious and who played favorites with her nephews. She was the worst, but she wasn't the only one who treated me badly.

I suffered public humiliation in class, several times. They incited the other kids to laugh. The reason was, once again, my shyness. I've never done anything to get noticed, I've never disrespected anyone, I wasn't arrogant, I've always obeyed, I got excellent grades, I've always paid attention in class. Simply... They found my shyness funny, or ridiculous. Something to make fun of, to "crush" to make me become "stronger" (yeah, many people in my town think like this...)

I'll be honest: I never wanted to have Snape as a teacher, because for how I am, he would have made me anxious.

He is a strict, demanding teacher, his only presence is intimidating. I wouldn't have liked to have a class with him or be evaluated by him.

And I have no problem admitting that he had unprofessional behaviors that I will not try to justify, because I can't and I don't want to (I give these examples: when he read Skeeter's article in front of the whole class to make fun of Harry, the "I see no difference" line, the thing about Neville's toad).

However. Personally, reading the books, I didn't see in him even a shred of the malice that some of my teachers had. He does things that a good teacher shouldn't do, that's true, but again, I say this as someone who knows what it's like to be humiliated by a teacher: there are worse out there, guys, and given Snape's mental state (all the trauma he's suffered and the fact that he doesn't even want to be there, in the place that caused him most of that trauma, these are important things to consider!), honestly he could have been a lot meaner.

Besides the fact that I see his very harsh teaching methods as a sort of "defense mechanism": he was only 21 when he started teaching, only three years older than his older students (I have his same age, I wouldn't be able to handle an entire class, at all).

A teacher that young has to be respected, especially a teacher who everyone remembers as a "pathetic" bullied kid.

Moreover, I think we don't talk enough about the fact that SWM happened only a few years earlier: some of the older students might have remembered it. Maybe they personally witnessed it.

And again, he is a teacher I would define very strict, sometimes unfair, but certainly not a child abuser as some people have called him. Don't use random words, please.

As for the definition of bully, I've thought about it a lot: in an old post about the Slytherin issue I said that I thought what he did was bullying, but today I wouldn't even call it that. I just can't call him like that.

But this is about my personal perception and it's a complex issue, other people can have different vision.

Because, you know, maybe you had kind and caring teachers, and if this is the case, good for you. Maybe that's why Snape seems like a monster of a teacher to you, but I assure you he isn't. It's true that I said I wouldn't have wanted him as a teacher, but if I had to choose between him and some of the teachers that I had? Him, surely, a thousand times better.

I left the issue of favoritism for last. Because yes, Severus favors the Slytherins.

Is it wrong? Yes, of course.

But do we really want to pretend that he is the only one who does it? Also the other teachers (some of them are very loved by the fandom) do it. With the Gryffindors.

Snape is the only one in the entire school who favors the Slytherins.

Everyone is on Gryffindors' side, everyone supports them.

The headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. The head of House, Minerva McGonagall. Rubeus Hagrid.

God, even the other Houses, the Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuffs, are often on Gryffindors' side in order to go against the Slytherins!

So I've always found really annoying (and a bit ridiculous and hypocritical) when the Gryffindors wanted to play the victim of the situation, given that they have the favor of the entire school, except for Snape...

Oh, and Snape may show favoritism to his House, but it is not true at all that he bullies all the students of other houses.

I've read people saying that Snape bullied 3/4 of the school, but where's the evidence of this? He just doesn't like the students in general, but this doesn't mean that he bullies everyone who is not a Slytherin. They are two different things.

The only students that were "bullied" by him, for what I can remember, are three:

Harry, Hermione and Neville.

One who is a miniature copy of the man who tormented him for years (Harry is innocent, yes, but this trigger shouldn't be underestimated), who often behaves arrogantly with him (and often doesn't respect the rules that are supposed to protect him! Like in 3rd book. Harry is reckless most of the time and if Snape points it out to him, Harry paints him as a monster who wants to take away all his freedom, or something like that.)

One who is a brilliant student, but will make lose patience even to the most kind teacher of the world and often speaks out of turn.

One who constantly causes trouble in a dangerous class like Potions literally from lesson n.1 (Snape was right to punish him so often, sorry).

Hey, I love these three kids, you know? But gosh, they would have pissed me off too if I were their teacher!

Oh and correct me if I'm wrong (for real, I don't remember every single detail), but I think Slytherins only act mean when he's not around or behind his back, and generally if there's trouble between students he intervenes immediately.

I'd rather know if the other Hogwarts teachers knew what the Marauders did to Snape, since they seemed to love them so much <3 (But no, they don't play favourites, right? They are all pure and innocent cinnamonrolls).

So yes, I'm a Snape fan. I feel empathy for him as teenager because I know what bullying is, how it makes you feel, I know the way it makes you face life with anger and bitterness (so no, you can't "get the fuck over it" so easily, as someone said).

I defend him even as adult because, despite everything, I consider him better than some teachers I've had (and other teachers at Hogwarts btw) and a capable and responsible professor, even though he lacks on human level.

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Why am I thirsting over ancient roman statues.

I hate my degree.

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Ho iniziato a leggere più in inglese che in italiano, da un paio di anni, per una combo tra la ricerca di aroace rep e la lettura di fumetti marvel (e ora dc) che preferisco leggere in originale. [Senza neanche menzionare le fanfiction.]

Ora sto cercando di invertire la tendenza e riprendere a leggere in italiano, almeno un po’.

Se siete italianə e cercate libri con personaggi aroace, vi lascio quelli che ho trovato finora in italiano (e se voi ne conoscete altri ovviamente vi invito ad aggiungere!!):

La locanda dei cuori solitari (Serena Stagi)

Mal di tempo (Valeria Urbani)

Hollow (Elisa Raga)

+ Loveless (Alice Oseman), unico libro con protagonista aroace di cui abbiamo la traduzione afaik

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