at least he knows it was bad

oh ew is that really what i sowed? eww omigod i am NOT reaping that

ask meme based on my new favorite post — send me a headcanon and i'll say where i think it falls on this chart

Carrie (1976)

yellowjackets should have been a riverdale subplot

i'm more sympathetic than most to the gay women who are like "i can't get into f/f romance because it feels too personal" because for awhile that was me. and this was mostly because yknow i was a teenager still developing my own feelings on being gay. but also it's not like pathologically avoiding something because its proximity to your own sexuality is alienating and uncomfortable will make you More comfortable with your own feelings on romance and sex. the truth is that i think women kind of Are conditioned to/expected to relate to fictional narratives with a level of personal projection and emotional intimacy that men aren't expected to need.

i don't remember who said this so i'm having a hard time finding the source and am about to butcher this anecdote but it's like. some musician woman talking about how all of her songs are assumed to be autobiographical and intimately personally revealing, and her thought on that is something along the lines of "why can't anyone ever say I'm a good storyteller." To me that's part of the same line of misogyny that makes people relate to f/f works this way.

In general there's a pretense that women's fiction skews towards the autobiographical in a way men's doesn't. like phoebe waller bridge accidentally making shit really hard for her family after releasing fleabag because of how large a portion of the audience thought it was an attempt to depict her own family's real life dynamics [x]. Like it couldn't have been Fiction, it had to be a Fictionalization in these peoples' eyes.

Basically like either as creators or as the audience women aren't afforded the capacity to engage with fiction as intellectually interested third parties. you have to be either reproducing your own immediate emotional landscape, or you have to be projecting that immediate emotional landscape onto one of the characters.

and like i dunno man i think once i accepted "i don't need to emotionally connect to every or even any depictions of lesbian romance i see in fiction" it became much easier to get into f/f. like ohhh none of this has to be about me even a little bittttttttt... i'm literally not involved here at all. abandon the pursuit of "representation" as an endgoal of fictional experiences.

imagine being the first cooper bitch in riverdale to powerwalk to thunder by imagine dragons like serpent necklace titties done and like a gold belt cinching the bodysuit… and then you walked into like the SoDale Gala Opening or whatever riverdalians have and everyone dropped their jingle jangle was shookedt? like everyone wooing potential investors was just in shock and you walked across the artisanal wood floors in your glamazon.com wraparound stiletto heeled sandals like your life depended on it… yes god

my mans FP looks away in humility but you KNOW hes breaking out of prison that night...shedding a different skin...

why y'all doing this when you know the coopers are not here to defend themselves

the coopers can definitely defend themselves they got the serial killer gene

#new pope reveal

before the joining some girl on tumblr was definitely like you know, raban from wycaro is actually sooo woman-coded and then another girl on tumblr who was probably me was like you people are fucking idiots shut uppppp