Eliot Durant (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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genessia2018-09-12 12:04 pm
anamnestik) wrote in genessia2018-09-12 12:04 pm
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Pardon my strange question... When do feelings of friendship become something... else? And what is the best remedy for stopping such feelings? Not to imply it is unpleasant, or I've no desire to love the person in question. Merely that this is going to be an inconvenience for them.
And are those with budding romantic feelings for another still permitted to invite the person of their affection on dates? Is that taboo? It feels so very wrong.
... Maybe I'll use the pocketwatch and forget all of this. This is criminal of me.
[action : various cities]
[Eliot has gone off on a self-help love quest, because all of this really bugs him. He's not sure how valid his emotions are, given that his personality is a temporary front for his "library self." He's been stopping in book stores and convenience stores, even stopping in grocery stores, to pick up those trashy teenage gossip magazines. Particularly anything that promises to explain the social etiquette of modern romance.
He's also been picking up trashy magazines of a less appropriate variety. You'll know he picked up and flipped to a scandalous article when you hear him scream in public and hastily close the magazine, glowing red from embarrassment.]
o-oh... oh my goodness...! Modern publishing is shameless...!
Pardon my strange question... When do feelings of friendship become something... else? And what is the best remedy for stopping such feelings? Not to imply it is unpleasant, or I've no desire to love the person in question. Merely that this is going to be an inconvenience for them.
And are those with budding romantic feelings for another still permitted to invite the person of their affection on dates? Is that taboo? It feels so very wrong.
... Maybe I'll use the pocketwatch and forget all of this. This is criminal of me.
[action : various cities]
[Eliot has gone off on a self-help love quest, because all of this really bugs him. He's not sure how valid his emotions are, given that his personality is a temporary front for his "library self." He's been stopping in book stores and convenience stores, even stopping in grocery stores, to pick up those trashy teenage gossip magazines. Particularly anything that promises to explain the social etiquette of modern romance.
He's also been picking up trashy magazines of a less appropriate variety. You'll know he picked up and flipped to a scandalous article when you hear him scream in public and hastily close the magazine, glowing red from embarrassment.]
o-oh... oh my goodness...! Modern publishing is shameless...!
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Ah, well... I'm only useful because I have those memories. Why would anyone want to keep an idiot like this me around? I'm certain the other me is a more useful person, even if he's miserable and hates everything...? I'm very unhelpful as I am now.
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Because you're their friend and they care about you? Good friends don't stay your friend just because of what you can do for them, after all.
I mean hell, I can be downright dense sometimes. There are days when I barely feel like I qualify as being a responsible adult. And I'm not even gonna get into all the times I've screwed up.
But my friends are still my friends, and we stick by each other. Especially when it's inconvenient.
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But if you're not sure, you can ask your friends. Sit down, talk with them, see if they know anything you don't on the subject. That way you can work things out in a way that everybody can agree on, and figure out what you want to do and not do.