when that menstrual depression hits you in the middle of your seasonal depression in the middle of your regular depression
megachurch pastors: i will see you all in heaven!
God:
Have you ever had a memory, but you aren’t sure whether you dreamed it or read it or saw it in a movie? Have you ever had a day that changed life as you knew it, but no one ever spoke about it again?
For me, that day started early on a Sunday morning in June 2005. I had just turned 12.
Half-asleep, I heard footsteps surround the corners of my bed.
My mother’s voice flooded in from the doorway. “Please,” she said. “Let me wake her.”
But it was a stranger’s hand that shook me awake. He had one hand on a gun strapped to his waist and the other wrapped tightly around my arm. He was dressed from head to toe in what looked like black SWAT gear. I don’t remember much about his face.
The Day That Never Happened
Video: Atieh Sohrabi for NPR
I love how BOLD Marisha is.
Coming from the first campaign (where every move she did as Kiki was bashed by a very loud part of the fandom), at the beginning of C2 i was sure she was going to make an easy character. Either a likelable idiot, or a super charismatic one. I mean, could you blame her? after all the shit she got?
BUT NO!, she decided to make Beau, a brash self-described uncharismatic a-hole. And make her a WoC, and make her explicitly gay since ep 1. No tiptoeing, no slow reveal. Gay af since the beginning. How f*cking BOLD is that?
And she kept truth to her character. I can’t imagine the shit she must’ve gotten at beginning of C2, peaking at the bowl stuff, after daring to scream at the golden boy of the fandom. And yet, she kept going. Those conflicts were central for her.
Events happen that shape her character, because no one is the same forever. So she shapes her perfectly. Growing and learning. Making her character complex and nuanced, even when she choose not to have an arc all for herself, or make her backstory “central to the plot/world”.
And relationships happen, she aces that too. Her self described a-hole is loved and appreciated by the other party members, their characters have been deeply shaped by her.
And ships happen. There are obvious ones, so she could have that one easily, and let the other ones happen as well. BUT NO! she decides to explore the concept falling for your best friend, the concept of gay yearning, and hidden crushes. She decided to make even MORE complex choices that are going to pay off big time. Because Marisha never plays safe…
She’s BOLD AF
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