Dr. Ripley's Fave Rewind

I think Aunt Lydia suffered a traumatic brain injury when Emily attacked her. That could explain her lack of emotional control in S3E4. Of course, there could be a ton of explanations for that, but I think it makes a lot of sense. Aunt Lydia doesn’t typically lose her temper in such public, social situations. Much less with Janine. TBIs can cause problems with emotion control and anger issues.

I really like writing Ripley as being semi professional and even somewhat gentle with cassandra bc it's a rly cool parallel to how she is with percy. It's personal with him. She’s obsessed with his intellect and will do anything to get him to team up with her.

Cassandra is more in line with a typical teen. Of course, she’s younger than Percy anyway, but I imagine she’s not the overt prodigy that he is. Her intelligence is still taking root and specialising.

So Ripley doesn’t have anything personal with her. Her ego isn’t threatened by this kid the briarwoods decided to keep, and I don’t see Ripley as being super petty with just anybody. So it’s fun to imagine this completely different side of Anna.

Also, I get to write ridiculous shit like this.

HIGHLY EDUCATED WOMEN IN STEM MY BELOVED

But as I got older, I began to feel shame about my identity. I don’t exactly want to be straight, but with how deeply ingrained homophobia is in society, it is hard not to grieve. How easy it would have been to know from day one that I could like girls. I thought gay people were exceedingly rare, and I didn’t understand why I wasn’t interested in boys in the way my classmates were.