They ascend in urgency because her trauma increased in urgency up to the moment of her suicide (which is more dramatic than realistic)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
Maybe a rock & a hard place here too though: I took it as "this has to *damn* rape culture" that Clay and Porter bridge are placed so high.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @catvalente
I feel like the problem is this one story tries to do so much. It's about suicide and bullying and rape culture and feminism
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And bills itself as being literally about The Reasons Why suicide occurs even though there's no such thing really
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Bryce is part of the problem here -- he exists bc in a show about rape culture you don't want to let rapists off the hook
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There are straight up unrepentant rapists out there and to paint him in shades of gray would do the subject a disservice
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
Aye. Ultimately, it worked for me (bigtime) but I was also... acutely aware mine was a man's reaction to a man's storification of subject.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @catvalente
Ha, it occurs to me that Ryan is the closest character to a self-insert by the creators of the show
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
I haven't read the book. I'd be curious as to how that plays. I could see Clay as self-insert, Ryan & Tony as fear & wish of actuality.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @catvalente
The one thing I disliked a lot was pulling back from Clay really being one of the Reasons Why
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It's a straight up authorial wish fulfillment cheat - "This is a story to which only the guilty are privy", and then changing the rules
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