sage

Despite the warnings, this is a happy ending.

Me getting unreasonably emotional about v!Apo (/pos) below the cut (mention of sa)

shubbledrift magnet because i had a vision

Because they weren’t accepting, they were either transparently manipulative or outright bigoted. Here are my examples;

Laura’s friend from Tall Pines who got sent there by his family only because he was gay, who insists to Alex that Evelyn didn’t perform conversion therapy on him, but helped him ‘accept his true self’. Despite this, Laura is disturbed to learn that this friend has remained completely celibate and that Evelyn told him to abandon all attachments (romantic and sexual included) that weren’t about her. He later joins Laura’s developing cult and said that Evelyn ‘used his deepest, darkest secrets against him’ while Leaping him.

Homophobic comments and insults towards Abbie and Leila go unchecked and are even encouraged, because of the nature of the Hot Seat “therapy”.

Laura and Rabbit clearly had something going on, but Evelyn turned them against each other.

Alex’s manhood is only affirmed by the men at Tall Pines when he kills Riley, to manipulate him into thinking he did the right thing. When he starts questioning and investigating on his own, the other men become antagonistic. His trans status is manipulated to get him not to leave, because he wouldn’t be accepted in the real world and Tall Pines had been collecting blackmail on him - and were ready to smear him at a moments notice for things he either didn’t do or to manipulate the truth of what he did do.