BRUH a dude I know from work came in for the first time in months and I thought he looked different but couldn't figure out why?? So I asked if he'd changed his hair and he was like "BITCH I GOT TOP SURGERY"
GOT DAMN HOW DIDNT YOU NOTICE
Mia and I are both in our missing shoni era 😭😭😭😭
how have I never seen this.
edit: okay so apparently it's edited but idgaf it's iconic
"Self insert characters are cringe"
Bro I'm trying to survive capitalism with maladaptive daydreaming. Leave me alone.
Writing a self insert helped me unpack more trauma than twenty years of therapy. Do it.
DO EET.
Segnbora is a self-insert. (And so obvious. Is there anyone west of the Prime Meridian who read the book who didn't pick up on it? Surely not.)
(Checklist: dark twisted backstory: check. Magical powers (seriously broken): check. "Pet falcon or something"? Well, is "gigantic alien silicon-based dragonlike fuckbuddy-cum-spouse" okay? Check.)
My most interesting moment after finishing the book that helped me for the first time deal anything like successfully with my own sexual assault (in my own house, in my own bedroom, while grieving my mother's death, by a "friend" of the family) at the age of 16:
Being accused by a critic of "sexually fridging" my working-it-through character "for cheap drama." (We'd say "clickbait" now.)
And you know what?
The issue was still dealt with. After the fact, the reviewer was still nothing but a poorly-clued-in person. (Projection of putative motivation can be so revealing.) And I was still free.
So, advice: (Self-)Insert where and when and how you please. Break down your prison walls in whatever way works for you. Get out of jail, (mostly) free. And before, or after, invite the would-be jailers to go fuck themselves... while, in the light, you continue going forward.
Also - the article won't link directly, so click here - this:
Robert Holden, 𝑺𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆
gabbi after drea told her how eleanor played her 5d interdimensional chess style and got carissa arrested and drugged the entire senior student body and leaked max’s texts and hit drea w her car on purpose
this exchange alone did so so much for the let lesbians talk about women in the most insane unhinged horny way possible movement
the whole plot of do revenge can basically be narrowed down to "i support women's rights but more importantly, i support women's wrongs"
My absolute favorite thing is when actresses play a lesbian/bi character and end up realizing they are not as straight as they thought they were
Actresses on their way to play some gay lady be like:
i make no apologies for the person i’m about to become
