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if you can get ahold of it, I highly recommend this book:

if you are a tldr type of person (no shame!) click on this link instead and read a summary.

The excessive resource consumption is a feature, not a bug. They are hoping to impact access to potable water in poor neighborhoods, to then turn a profit of selling drinkable water. The increased energy costs are to price you out of homes you have purchased to then be able to rent back to you.

if you can get ahold of it, I highly recommend this book:

if you are a tldr type of person (no shame!) click on this link instead and read a summary.

If Lottie wasn’t rich and wearing pink in the pilot episode, I think a lot more people would recognize how absolutely fucking weird that girl is. I say this with so much love for Lottie because I actually really enjoy this aspect of her character. She stares too intensely, she’s ominously quiet and internal, says things at the wrong moment, struggles to connect in a conventional way, and has this unnerving habit of making people feel observed rather than engaged with. She grew up in a sterile environment devoid of connection, she’s not exactly going to grow up into a social butterfly. In one of her first attempts at casual conversation in the wilderness, she starts talking about animals eating their own vomit.

These intense, disarming qualities of hers work really well in the wilderness and at her compound (cult) in the adult timeline because they turn her awkwardness/intensity into mystique and make her feel almost otherworldly, but they don’t work too well in a normal high school setting (or any other typical setting for that matter).

while I 💯 do not think Lottie was ever-- at any point in her life-- "prom queen" popular, I also don't think she was ever "unpopular" before the crash. especially compared to Misty, who probably got bullied a lot (poor Quigley). it is likely that people talked shit about Lottie behind her back, and may have even thought she was a little weird before the crash, but I don't think that would have been for the same reasons we typically ascribe to her post-crash.

I think she was likely pretty standoff-ish, which may have come across as snobbish (especially given her wealth). I think she probably said 'no' to every guy who asked her out, which likely made her seem even more standoff-ish.

most people (except for a handful of people, which I think included Nat) probably had no idea what to think of her. she would have been very hard to read, and therefore there would have been a lot of misconceptions about her.

but she was undeniably gorgeous, and there's no underestimating how far that propels someone in high school, even when they don't want to be propelled (which I absolutely think Lottie did not want). she was also likely better at socializing than Misty when she needed to be.

like, I'm not trying to denigrate Misty here, btw. there is every reason to feel empathy for the ways in which Quigley was probably bullied and ostracized at school. I'm only trying to suss out what makes her different from Lottie.

there's a reason why Shauna, Tai, and Nat included Lottie in that Allie discussion but did not include Misty, and it strikes at the heart of what I'm saying. it also relates to why Lottie attends the kegger but Misty does not.

I could also connect this to Lottie's pre-crash friendship with Nat, who was also obviously never "prom queen" popular, and yet was also included in the Allie discussion and invited to the kegger.

was Nat bullied and ostracized at school? oh most definitely, and we know for a fact she was slut-shamed. but she and Lottie had this factor in common-- they were still included as insiders within certain groups. they were not "unpopular" in the same way Misty was unpopular. Nat probably also attended her fair share of slumber parties (and god don't we hope those included make-out sessions).

If Lottie wasn’t rich and wearing pink in the pilot episode, I think a lot more people would recognize how absolutely fucking weird that girl is. I say this with so much love for Lottie because I actually really enjoy this aspect of her character. She stares too intensely, she’s ominously quiet and internal, says things at the wrong moment, struggles to connect in a conventional way, and has this unnerving habit of making people feel observed rather than engaged with. She grew up in a sterile environment devoid of connection, she’s not exactly going to grow up into a social butterfly. In one of her first attempts at casual conversation in the wilderness, she starts talking about animals eating their own vomit.

These intense, disarming qualities of hers work really well in the wilderness and at her compound (cult) in the adult timeline because they turn her awkwardness/intensity into mystique and make her feel almost otherworldly, but they don’t work too well in a normal high school setting (or any other typical setting for that matter).

while I 💯 do not think Lottie was ever-- at any point in her life-- "prom queen" popular, I also don't think she was ever "unpopular" before the crash. especially compared to Misty, who probably got bullied a lot (poor Quigley). it is likely that people talked shit about Lottie behind her back, and may have even thought she was a little weird before the crash, but I don't think that would have been for the same reasons we typically ascribe to her post-crash.

I think she was likely pretty standoff-ish, which may have come across as snobbish (especially given her wealth). I think she probably said 'no' to every guy who asked her out, which likely made her seem even more standoff-ish.

most people (except for a handful of people, which I think included Nat) probably had no idea what to think of her. she would have been very hard to read, and therefore there would have been a lot of misconceptions about her.

but she was undeniably gorgeous, and there's no underestimating how far that propels someone in high school, even when they don't want to be propelled (which I absolutely think Lottie did not want). she was also likely better at socializing than Misty when she needed to be.

like, I'm not trying to denigrate Misty here, btw. there is every reason to feel empathy for the ways in which Quigley was probably bullied and ostracized at school. I'm only trying to suss out what makes her different from Lottie.

there's a reason why Shauna, Tai, and Nat included Lottie in that Allie discussion but did not include Misty, and it strikes at the heart of what I'm saying. it also relates to why Lottie attends the kegger but Misty does not.

I could also connect this to Lottie's pre-crash friendship with Nat, who was also obviously never "prom queen" popular, and yet was also included in the Allie discussion and invited to the kegger.

was Nat bullied and ostracized at school? oh most definitely, and we know for a fact she was slut-shamed. but she and Lottie had this factor in common-- they were still included as insiders within certain groups. they were not "unpopular" in the same way Misty was unpopular. Nat probably also attended her fair share of slumber parties (and god don't we hope those included make-out sessions).