Isha Khanzode is a student and an aspiring artist. She loves strawberries and summer showers, and plans on adopting a dog (maybe two).
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this is an incredibly simple illustration collection, but it sort of hit home for me. i’ve been incredibly dazed and conflicted by the ~ways of love~ and deep infatuations recently. i’ve found it hard to discern the differences between mental/emotional attraction and physical attraction, and i often gravitate towards the latter. i’ve found myself to be the type of person to gravitate towards the ”idea” of a person rather than the reality of them, and ultimately i believe that this tendency caused me to breakup with my first boyfriend (i was once so dazed by the idea of us being together that i found that there was no magic or excitement in the relationship when it began to unfold and become a real thing). thank you for making this, and thank you for reassuring that my weird habits and positions on love and attraction are widely shared.
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This speaks incredibly strongly to my current “love” life
Oh my god. I feel this so much. This thought process is entirely too frustrating and aggressively honest to want to spend too much time on, but of course that means that it’ll be the only thing taking up your mind. That, and the person in question, which means that it’s even more confusing because you’re constantly thinking about the *idea* of liking this person, rather than just surrounding yourself with the good thoughts and feelings of *actually* liking them…so does that mean that you *don’t* actually like them?? But why otherwise would you be thinking about it at all?? Ugh. What a whirlwind of confusion.
Thank you guys for the supportive comments! <3 <3 <3
I love this, specially because I can identify so much. That was exactly my situation a few months ago. I didn’t know if I really liked this person, or if I wanted a friend, or if I just liked how he made me laugh and smile even when I was having really bad days.
This is a simple yet beautiful one-shot comic. Keep up the good work!
This is lovely :)
This really resonates with me at this point of my life, you have no idea! Really pulled at a heartstring with this <3
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This is like a direct quotation from many of my diary entries. So how do you tell?? Is there really no way of knowing? At what point do you say “fuck it” and go with your gut? How do you know he’s not just another jerk feeding off of your loneliness? How much of this is just self-doubt?
this is me always–the attention is attractive to me, barely ever the person
This literally defines my love life right now
WOw this is so real