“I'm a thin girl do I fucking look like I play video games? I'd rather play dead at a necrophilia convention.“ meee anytime a man tries to talk to me about video games

the space that’s between insane (mall goth/scene girl) and insecure (tumblr grunge)

written like weird and cynical pomo books of the 90s, underneath that hate there’s a lot to be said about how sad and listless the experience of being a teenager in general is and esp when ur shaped at a rlly young age from traumatic events that had nothing to do w u. most of the characters r just rlly sad and depressing ppl but cover that up w irony, zillenial ass vn. think nicole is like so insanely well written esp w how she deals w her trauma.

one of the only pieces of media ive consumed where it rlly gets across how sociopathic and entitled being a teenage girl is. ik this was written by a man but more often than not I felt that this was fairly empathetic towards the women in the game. think “hell is a teenage girl” type media only works for me as parody or melodrama, when aiming for realism it kind of falls entirely flat for me bc being a teenage girl feels too big to be constrained as realistic fiction. it’s why margaret (2011) hits hard for me but lady bird (2017) doesn’t

lowk huge into every single ending just being on a sliding scale of bad, there’s no true or good ending, it just all sucks lol. much like how being a teenage girl in hs sucked and much like how there’s no true experience to that or to womanhood in general. rlly rlly cynical worldview so I do get if someone doesn’t fuck w it but for me it worked so wonderfully bc wasn’t scared to show realistic scenarios and conversations just done through a v heightened way