#mumu

big fan of mimi and mumu

yes! iirc i sent you the ms so you can look, but the premise is something like.

it's 2014. Mumu, an anorexic dyke in #hermidtwenties, is failing at everything, including her ghostwriting job, and also basically about to lose her shit bc of her horrible weekly group therapy that meets in the library. she has this parasocial nemesis who got very famous writing bullshit toxic positivity ed recovery books + has a huge social media presence, who she learns in group is going on book tour - and visiting the library where they meet. this drives mumu to nuke her very fragile relationship w/ food again, stop going to group, and seek out increasingly self-destructive technologies of self-understanding, not the least of which include writing a semidelusional, intertextual "countermemoir" objecting to the subordination of her knowledge/experiences under both carceral psychiatry and within the recovery industry. she undergoes batshit insane amounts of trauma and, as the reader goes on, we gain a better understanding of how the fuck she got here - including an ill-fated relationship with her now-ex who also attends Group, and a now-budding crush on a different groupmate.

then, we have Florie, Mumu's de facto QPP and longtime roommate/friend. Florie's basically on the knife's edge between embracing a nascent but vapid "body positivity" logic popular at the time, and trying to understand & contextualize themself within a reality of constant medical and interpersonal anti-fatness. they're seeking top surgery, immanently, and with Mumu's help researching surgeons who may actually be fat-friendly - with little success. Florie's also caught up between her love for mumu and her disdain for that they view as Mumu's messiness, immaturity, and lack of self-preservation, resenting both having fallen into the role of 'mom friend' and, in so doing, having been compelled to act carcerally with few other options at multiple times in their friendship. florie's a happy slut, albeit one who is acutely aware of what it means to more through sexual situations with a body that doesn't comply with social convention, as well as one that was roundly rejected by their ex-parental figures at a young age.

all of this ultimately culminates in alexa's actual visit, but reaches several other acute crisis points throughout the text. i view Inside Story as quite a recursive narrative and also somewhat like an onion. we move from point of tension to point of tension, and with each progression, delve one layer deeper into the actual material circumstances and affective commitments undergirding the story, the characters, the metanarrative. we also get more intertextual interventions as the book goes on - eileen myles, michelle tea, italo calvino. the book is a novel of characters but also a critique of Story as hegemonically understood w/in psychiatry and within "recovery" AND literary discourse, and mumu's countermemoir is in many ways the picture within the frame of a counter-fictional text.

∖∖ ♡ · hiii!! this post is going to serve as my intro and permanent plot call. i’m dauphine and i’m twenty-two years old. only rping with people above nineteen. absolutely no minors! i can do anything above semi-lit and would just prefer to mirror my partner’s replies. i’m not new to rp or tumblr, though i’ve always been more of a lurker here. discord is my preferred platform to rp on but i’m open for other options as well.

∖∖ ♡ · i absolutely love making ocs! i’m alright with 1x1s and also multiple muses! i love plotting probably just as much as actually writing! coming up with ideas, playlists, pinterest boards, scenes, headcanons is literally my favorite thing ever. we don’t have to plot every single thing, letting some things play out is good too. i love any sort of plots where i can world build! i’m also not picky with faceclaims as long as they’re realistic! i’m also fine with no faceclaim at all, as long as there’s a detailed description and a nice pinterest board to go with the character. also just wanting to goof around in text threads? i’m literally opened to anything.

∖∖ ♡ · plots & themes!! bring a plot to me and i’ll probably like it!

all the basics!! slice of life, romance, fluff, mature, angst, horror, thriller and mystery are all welcomed. i love things with lots of drama, forbidden romances and just anything crazy and dramatic honestly.

celebrities, influencers, rich/high society !! some of my favorite go to plots!

superhero & superpowers!! i’ve been super into this lately!

fantasy!! i love coming up with ideas together, brainstorming, and building characters

royalty!! can be historical, contemporary, or fantasy! love anything court and with political intrigue (with fantasy plots more so).

apocalypse, invasions, dystopian, survival plots!! i love anything with invasions especially!

fandoms!! here’s a few fandoms i’m into, but i would rather do inspired plots with ocs, but im open to some with ccs. until dawn, criminal minds, euphoria, stranger things just to name a few off the top of my head. also some books as well!