Ghostly Grey Dragon

Punk Girls in Stockport, England, July 19, 1983.

Photo by Shirley Baker

I don't know why you've chosen me for this harassment campaign you've embarked on. I don't know why you feel that my DMs are a better medium for this story than, I don't know, posting them on a writing website?? Or on your own blog??? And most importantly, I don't know why you are laboring under the delusion that I can't report you just because you are sending the chapters anonymously -- I can in fact, and you would be IP banned.

I'm issuing you this ultimatum right now:

Stop sending me your slowburn office lady yuri

OR

I will report you

OR

Send me the next chapter within 24 hours, because are a fucker for where you left it off, and you have not sent a new chapter in several days. I need to know whether, when they were the only two in the office late at night after a brutal crunch week, and the stars could be seen in the sky due to a power outage on their block, and they talked about life, they actually do kiss or if that's another fakeout, of which you have done MANY.

My patience with you has worn thin. Stop sending me this story, or send me more, or I will report you.

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I keep thinking about this moment. First of all, yeah, that's just a supremely fucked up thing to do, cutting off someone's limb and then immediately using it as a prop to mock them.

But also... the visual metaphor the Stepmother is constructing is inherently contradictory. That is Ella's own foot, it is an undeniable fact that she belongs above it. The relative positions of Ella and her foot at this moment could not be more obviously unnatural, but the Stepmother is insisting that this is the natural position of not just Ella but all of mankind.

She talks about humanity as if there is a natural hierarchy and she is merely putting them in the place they have always belonged, but she can only assert her supposedly inherent superiority by taking things that clearly rightfully are Ella's and using them to prop herself up. She will never see this as a contradiction. In her perspective, the fact that Ella deserves nothing is so irrefutable that it is only natural that anything Ella has, up to and including her own body, can be revoked the instant that it would benefit the Stepmother and her daughters to have it.

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