The specific fictional character Rory sucks sure but that's bc this slow-motion flameout is pretty realistic for Chosen Special Children
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yes, but also: it's amazing how boring Rory has become as she's gotten older. She seems to have no interests outside herself.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect
I mean, she's a freelance journalist in 2016 who can only think to write her mother's story. How is that possible?
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail
when you stop trying things you yourself become boring
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
her mother has a story bc of the shit she went through, Rory has spent ten years avoiding going thru shit/having a story
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Replying to @arthur_affect
But why does she need to write her own story? I don't have much of a story, but I know how to write about other stuff.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail
ha ha yes I feel like the part where Rory is trying to pretend to care abt thinkpiece fodder was a telling touch
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
she started out telling a really Big Awesome story that was gonna be the story of a generation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail
when Obama hope/change didn't turn out to be that kind of story it seems like she burned out
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That bit feels particularly telling, bcs there's a whole generation of writers about Rory's age who emerged from that scene.
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People like Sady Doyle or Laurie Penny. That's the trajectory she should have had, but it requires caring about stuff.
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