haven't thought about the darkest minds in forever but one thing i just realized that i appreciate is that there was no actual love triangle between ruby/liam/clancy. like you first meet him and you think clancy could easily FIT the archetype of "obligatory mysterious bad boy" that plagues all ya dystopia but it never turns into that; ruby DOES NOT LIKE HIM and does NOT want to be with him. ik it's basic and the absence of a poorly-executed love triangle shouldn't be a thing we should need to be so grateful for but nevertheless i am
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okay i think i’m alone in my shiv take LOL i’m going to hush up for a while and see what people are saying and think on the ending some but right now i just… do not understand the last 30 or so minutes from shiv’s perspective and the last 10 are downright baffling. trying very hard not to feel like succession just 180’d everything that’s been good about the shiv writing this season (and in general but esp this season) but every time i think ab the last tomshiv scene my stomach turns grotesquely
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the essay i got due tomorrow n barely done is like. its good i like it im excited to write it and im so upset that i have no time and am sick like.
its in my fairy tales n folklore class n im writing on the subject of taboo topics in perrault's 'donkeyskin' and specifically the symbolism/metaphors of the donkey hide she wears n how it symbolizes her trauma haunting her long after she escapes her fathers attempts to marry her n like. i like the story a lot n how its kinda fucked up but perrault really watered down the father-daughter incest topic n tried to make it more 'safe' and less taboo. but he fucking failed and i wanna argue bout it so bad. but my head hurt
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