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while I feel a bit bad about what it does to the first picture... someone *is* getting overwritten and destroyed in it after all is it love for who you are or for what you could be? when is the latter drawing out your potential, and when is it instilling something?

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· Mar 10, 2021

the ̷s̷e̷x̷u̷a̷l̷ ̷t̷e̷n̷s̷i̷o̷n̷ shockingly bitter rivalry, apparently, between "love [who/what] you are" and "love [who/what] you can be"

hmm it doesn’t feel like such a hard boundary to me. “transformation” for me shades naturally into “death and rebirth.” i think i’ve changed in big ways over time as a person and insofar as past selves of me have “died” i think they were happy to if it meant becoming me?

mostly true, but I kinda like myself this time and I'd like to keep some of it death implies complete cleansing and there are things (like a dead girl's memories) I'd rather not part with

"scrap it all and become what we like" doesn't leave a lot of room for personal preference, or more fundamental disagreements with "what we like" means

i don’t think death has to imply complete cleansing! i also think complete cleansing is in some sense impossible anyway 🙃 it’s transformation all the way down imo, or repression if done poorly

so like, I hear what you're saying and it sounds like a v healthy approach but there's nothing left of the first girl. she gets maybe a few seconds as an equal before dissolving along with her benefactor

oh *huh*. the last panel is them disappearing? that's not how i was reading it at all lol welp i don't think they actually disappear when you actually do this

I mean, it looks that way to me; maybe I'm misreading it

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8:25 AM · Mar 13, 2021Twitter Web App

i kinda thought it was a "happy ending" symbol but now that you've pointed it out i can totally see that reading and it does make it more sinister 😬

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Fwiw this read to me as two conflicting internal parts of the same person ceasing to be reified once they became aware of each other, which from my experience I wouldn't equate to a death (but I guess depends on how you look at it)

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