#tori spring solitaire

[sproldenlover]

asexual flag color fireworks. the detail that goes into heartstopper is insane.

[vartoids]

it's loverboy and hatergirl!

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[feebea]

love this sm

[lexxiesthoughts8]

”Sometimes I hate people. This is probably very bad for my mental health.”

[tobbogan-13]

”I don't think my mum likes me very much. That doesn't matter, because I don't really like her either.”

-Tori Spring

Solitaire

[lilyevansirl]

tori spring mentioned

[dearreader-12]

I find the parallels between the two oldest Spring siblings to be absolutely fascinating and how Alice was able to show through the both of them how relationships can't "cure" mental illness.

In Solitaire Tori mentions that there are movies she watches in which the main characters problems are seemingly all solved once they get into a relationship. We see that as Tori gets closer to Michael throughout the story her depression doesn't get better (you could argue that it actually gets worse) up until the end of the story where she is on the roof of the school. Because in the end Michael's affections don't solve her problems, only she can do that by reaching out for help from other people such as Michael and Charlie. She doesn't suddenly find the will to keep living because of her love for Michael its only when she decides that she wants to keep going for herself that things change for her.

On the other hand we have Charlie who insists that he is fine and doesn't need anyone to worry about him. In the end, just like Tori, Charlie only begins to get better after he reaches out for help and confides in people how he truly feels. Like with Tori, his ED and OCD doesn't "go away" because he gets in a relationship (like Tori it only seems to get worse after he is in a relationship).

Both siblings needed to reach out for others for help, their partners don't suddenly arrive and all their issues go away. Their partners are there to help them in whatever way they can, but in the end its up to Charlie and Tori to take their own futures in their hands and ask others for help. Falling in love doesn't magically make your mental illness disappear, and I am glad that Alice addresses this in their books.

[s0lit4ir3]

[normalpeoplethiings]

school makes me want to pull a solitaire

[jimjamkagaricci]

people that have ever said solitaire is too edgy have clearly never experienced being a depressed teenage girl on the verge of a mental breakdown… like the school burning down at the end was just a bonus 💀

[optimisticc-heartss]

LOWKEY GIVING SPROLDEN?!?! (I couldn’t find the link for it that I saved earlier 😔)

[sproldenlover]

[vartoids]

i wanted to celebrate 500 followers by redrawing my first post here so here is tori spring (+new uniform!)

[feebea]

pride month is over and im pissed

[lexxiesthoughts8]

”I don’t feel similar to anyone at all.”

[moominkidd]

painted tori spring! not amazing but im happy with how it came out

still improving my art every day but this was just for the fun of painting tori!

so enjoy!

(Also, bc it's painted, idk how to take good photos of art yet, so it looks kinda odd, but shhh)