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slow-reader-reads-books · 15 days ago

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Just finished Love for Sale by Dal Hyeonji... Choe Si-eon they could never make me hate you. Your autistic/alexithymic/bisexual aro-spec swag makes you too nuanced and complex for your average reader wanting a love-at-first-sight feet-sweeping prince charming type, don't worry I love you and so does your tall piece of ass Lee Namwoo!!!

#love for sale #choe si-eon #lee namwoo #my text #im sure theres other ways to romanize their names but ima go with the versions i read #but for real i really dug how mature the story felt #and how interestingly arospec the ml felt despite being the one instigating the getting together #it felt like a true exploration of a romance favorable arospec person that didnt make it feel like a wallowing in the idea of #“woe is me i cant reciprocate! we shant be together!” or “i never actually wanted it in the first place!”#bc si-eon did want to enter romantic relationships! he enjoyed the framework of it!#its just that he never had any romantic frenzy internally and approached it more as a method of caring for another person and being content #but his journey to a demiromantic awakening after learning how to prioritize his own selfish desires (/pos) felt very good imo #i did kinda figure it would have a demi conclusion and reciprocation would happen #but im glad that it wasnt like a “oh ive always been capable of this” but moreso a “i can only experience this bc of this specific person-#-and circumstance“ which is indeed an aro spec experience for some #its not like the story ended in a way that made it feel like just bc si-eon is more healed now that he'll suddenly get consistent-#-and normative allo crushes on random people. it really feels conditional to his experience with the mc lee namwoo #also lee namwoo hot and cute and the art was fire 9/10 wish it was even longer #also whenever their chibi selves were onscreen i imagine they spunded like high pitched mosquitoes talking to each other

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