#hmmmmt

I could see all the stuff that was special to me. All the stuff that matters. I love you, Shelly. And I wanna spend my time with that. I mean, you know, if that’s okay with you.

i love villains, i love them, but sometimes reconstructing them as the heroes just doesn’t work narratively. we can have sympathetic villains, we can have villains who are deliberately coded to become heroes after much strife, but to just be like “well, everyone loves the villain when they do villainous things, so therefore they’re the main characters now!” isn’t ... good. the only difference between them and j.d. is that they have social power that doesn’t need to be violent to be effective, and veronica’s whole arc is learning to thread the needle between desiring change and forcing yourself to be kind. all the changes they’ve made just make that whole theme a MESS.

......why did i have a feeling i'll be the latter

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