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HEY, HI, "FEMINIST" DUDES, WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE EVER INITIATING STI STATUS CONVERSATIONS #DO YOUR FUCKING WORK #TakeResponsibility

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THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO ME: "all of the men in your life seem to be having a tough time"

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THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO ME: "Oh, we know about you now, all we have to do is LOOK at you and you're crying."

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THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO ME: "You love awkwardness!! HAVING STUPID DEPRESSED PUNK BOYS LIKE PUPPIES AT YOUR FEET"

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Deceased Parents Are The Best

Parents are only there to cause angst for the hero. If they're loving and supportive they must die. If they're not then they're mean and abusive so the hero must run away bemoaning his fate.

— From this Eragon Sporkings article.

Parents Are Useless. They leave you and abuse you. Good Parents are hard to come by. It appears that the only decent parents are the dead ones. These are the parents that leave the characters behind, not by choice, early on in the story, sometimes even before the story begins. The characters are now all alone with no family. They may find a Parental Substitute, but they may not always be the best guardians. These often heroic characters will always have fond memories of their parents. That's because these parents did everything right while they were alive. They spent time with their children and taught them invaluable life lessons that they continue to keep even to this day. Even though the parents are gone now, the actions of the parents still affect the character and keep him going. An essay on dead parents as a literary device can be found here. This is especially commonplace for Superheroes, whose parents or parental figures frequently suffer Death by Origin Story. If it turns out that they weren't quite such amazing parents as believed by the characters, but still treated as such, then it's Never Speak Ill of the Dead. See Good Parents for examples of these who manage to stay alive.

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