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1. The coach tells him, with more attempt at tact, that because of his sexuality, he was unable to play on the team anymore. Though this is early on in the book before it becomes even more clear , It catches me off guard to see such …well, for lack of a better word, blind bullshit spew from a man that’s known Thom for the better half of his preteen youth,   would act in such a way , especially knowing his potential. As for my own reaction, given his powers, I believe I would have acted the same ,  never give my enemy the benefit of seeing me hurt , is a personal policy that I have  adapted over the years and it has settled well in my life to not be used in this situation.  As for my parents, given my mother being quiet difficult to deal with when it comes to my own  emotional  silence, she would be quite comforting but still , would have a strange way about herself for a while, until eventually accepting it. As for my father? He would deal with it by firmly decking the coach and for years, joking about it , until he too accepts.

2. Ruth was telling Thom to start being himself , not to expect  the world to hand everything to him on a silver platter and to stop expecting some major event to come along and change his entire life, he‘s living the life of a meta human, not a comic book super hero. In short she is telling him to live for the now and be happy with the now and deal with the later as it comes To answer the second one would be quite awkward but I am , yes, waiting on something that will make me happy in life, and if anything, I have learned that this patience will reap the highest rewards and I am happy simply waiting for this event to happen . I am in control of this  in a way and in a stranger way not, but I am in control of my emotions in the meantime.

3, -“Everyone in the world should have at least one moment in their lifetime when an entire crowd of people cheers them on for something, one moment to feel exceptional, one moment that lets you know you really do mean something to the universe.”  I believe that , in a way, this happens to all, but in such ways that no one knows it. In my own opinion I feel that everyone should have a moment that time stops for a brief while as we feel awe inspired and feel like we have mastered the universe , that no wrong can happen. A perpetual perfect moment in our life. For me? I have no way to describe how it would happen, just one of those  moments where I feel like I’ve conquered the cosmos. I guess it would be when I am finally acknowledged by the cosplay community as a master craft cosplayer like my teacher , Knives . I know I am not as gifted as he is with the art but I feel with every commission I’m getting even closer
And for those of you who do not know what master craft level cosplay is ? (built by meister knives and yes that’s two people )
 

4. ..yeaaah , this question is….different…but , no, I believe it is impossible to achieve as , no matter how much of a “pro” you think you are, people are different, and of course their kiss style will be different, likes ,dislikes, tounge, no tounge, hand placement etc.  I can go on forever but the point is the list is infinite on how many possibilities to get it “just “ right . Outside of that, yes I have had a crush on several celebrities , but my current is Tomiko Van, lead singer of do as infinity . Why we do it? We idolize those we can never see (or assume so) in so many cases we build our love for what we see, but if we look  back upon ourselves and themselves, we see that they are forever like us. In my case, my crush on her is not like many who look at her for her figure , I  respect her heavily for her courage and the ability to sing  with a  soul, something a lot of Americans lack the ability to do these days, but to have the ability to move an entire audience to feel the way she feels about a song? Unparalleled by few artists of the day