have u heard of our lord and saviour sara al bazali

she's so much more interesting when you take into account that cruelty. yes, heather chandler is a victim just as everybody else in the cast is, but that does NOT make her exempt from being a bad person. i think the musical downplays the abuse she subjects duke to by making duke comically unlikeable to the point where it feels deserved?

yes, she has redeeming traits. yes, the movie explicitly displays her being victimized (and being coerced into non-consensual sexual activity!). yes, she is intentionally deified after her death as a point of irony because the real heather chandler did not possess the depths that her fictionalised self did.

it's like saying that kurt & ram are secretly gay lovers. you completely miss the point of veronica & jd's forgery and it underplays everything their storyline is meant to point out about homophobia and toxic masculinity.

I think everyone is deep and complete and whole, but sometimes that doesn't look like how we want it to.

Heather Chandler being a normal high school girl (for the 80s) doesn't mean her life was meaningless or purposeless or that she was too shallow to be real. Her being mean isn't bad enough for her to deserve the death penalty, so I don't know why people are afraid of making her mean.

Same for Heather McNamara and Veronica. They start the movie as mean girls, so I don't know why they're portrayed so innocently.

Also, JD can be cruel without it tying into his tragic backstory or his quest for a "better world." Let him be casually mean as well.

Like yes, their traumatic backstories add to why their mean, but that makes no difference to Martha. She's still bullied to the point of attempting suicide. And it sure as hell doesn't make a difference to thr kids JD killed. They won't be raised from the dead.

her full ref is still a work in prog... but i had to crank this out before july 1st at least!!! heres ronica ^__^

more about her design + work in progress info below cut :3 2nd image just for formatting...

yeah i gotchu

and a kuhoo because she’s my fav 🥰