Rambles and Preambles

James Maxwell

James Maxwell is a side character from We Happy Few! He is canonically MLM and heavily implied to be gay, and has a boyfriend named Roger Bacon.

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☆ "I'm not angry. I'm just done explaining myself to people who already decided."

☆ "You don't scare me. You used to, but not anymore."

☆ "I kept every promise I made to you. You kept none of mine."

☆ "Don't touch me like you still have the right to."

☆ "I watched you choose everyone else and called it love. Never again."

☆ "You're the reason I check my exits before I walk into a room."

☆ "I'm not hard to love. You were just too lazy to try."

☆ "Say that again. Slower this time, so we both understand what you mean."

☆ "I didn't come this far to be treated like a backup plan."

☆ "You look at them like they hung the moon. It's disgusting. I'm obsessed with it."

☆ "We were fine until we weren't. That's the part no one warns you about."

☆ "I don't miss you. I miss who I thought you were."

☆ "The audacity is truly breathtaking. I almost respect it."

☆ "I'm bleeding out and you're asking me if I'm okay. Do I look okay?"

☆ "You taught me that love isn't always enough. That was an expensive lesson."

☆ "Don't come to my funeral if you couldn't check on me while I was alive."

☆ "I was rooting for you. That's the part that hurts most."

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

Here are some things that may happen when your character realizes they are in love with someone. These can be totally obvious or be super subtle. I think that can depend on your character's mannerisms and personality! Have fun writing!

Notice everything. They start to notice things about the other person. Have freak outs when they notice they notice. They notice nervous ticks, small details no one else notices, patterns.

Hyperawareness. They become hyperaware of their own bodies and what they are doing as well as the other person’s body. They are unable to think about anything other than how close the person is. What they smell like.

They may change their behavior. They may become mean, guarded or distant. They may embrace it, try to see how the other person feels. All that matters is nothing is as natural as it had felt like before. They may realize they want to share everything with that person or notice that they have been sharing everything and stop. Inconsistencies may occur where they are normal one day and distant the next while they try to make it appear like everything is the same.

It doesn’t change the truth of what happened.

It doesn’t change the reality.

Context and how the words were used matters.

On the noble side of things, a disclaimer is always a good idea when discussing triggering content. If the person continues to watch after the disclaimer (ideal to timestamp) how is that any different than someone walking through a museum and they reach a traumatic event? They have a choice to go through that part of the museum or to walk around it. If they choose to go through that part, and it makes them uncomfortable, that is on them. The option was presented to walk around, they CHOSE to walk through it.

I hate ending my stories. I will drag a story on long after it should have ended even though I know it should be done with. If anyone else struggles as well, here is a list of the different types of endings that are common.

Full Circle – Mirror the beginning of the story, show how the tone has shifted from start to end

Bittersweet – Character wins at the cost of something else, creates emotional depth

Emotional resolution – Focuses more on the growth of the characters than the events of the story

Twist – reveal something that changes the readers perspective or understanding

Open – doesn’t answer all the questions or solve all the conflicts of the story, leaving room for interpretation

Quiet – Subtle, reflective ending rather than a dramatic event

Sacrifice – The character has to give something up to achieve a greater goal

Hopeful – Despite the events of the story, there is a distinct sense that everything will be okay

Consequence – Shows how the characters choices throughout the story impact the world or their relationship