it's been said before but damn. gotta hand it to tlt for not just the queer rep, but having the sort of hyperspecific meaningful queer rep that means we can see, reflected in the page, the sheer deranged manner of not readily being able to distinguish platonic and romantic attraction, pining unsuccessfully over the same person for like a frankly embarrassing number of successive years, craving attention even more than admiration, possessing negative rizz, etc