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i am not doing well, but i am ALWAYS thinking & appreciating & loving my beautiful writing partners and friends on this site and cheering you all on so much. 🤧✊♥️

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Christina Marie Brown, Chronic Illness

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Katherine LaNasa as Dana Evans | The Pitt

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to literally everyone's surprise, frankie was once exceptionally good with guns. from the ages of 9 to 19, she hunted with her grandfather and thoroughly enjoyed it. not so much the act of killing something innocent, but the ability to cause death on purpose. hunting gave her an aspect of control in her very out of control life. her outings with her grandfather were the exceptions to her showing up to places high or hungover. unfortunately, that respect for safety didn't extend to her high school gun club and she got kicked out for smoking weed before practice. unrelated, but she was also pretty good at swimming. not as skilled as she was at the gun range or in the woods, but she probably could have earned herself some sort of scholarship in college.

shooting is a skill she's mostly forgotten– partially purposeful because of its sentimental tie to her past and her strong desire to distance herself from her youth (even if some of the memories are good) and partially because of her use of benzos and their amnesia-like effect. frankie can also gut and skin something, though that's less applicable to her canon story. au's though? watch out.

the only guns she handles now are the ones her shitty, drug dealing "boyfriends" ask her to shove in her purse or beneath her skirt when they get pulled over. gun handling and shooting accuracy would likely come back to her in some procedural way if she ever tried to pick up the skill again, but it's incredibly rare that she'd use one to defend herself. defending someone else though? absolutely, but she's inexperienced in using a gun in that way. presently, she's not in any sort of hurry to head to the local cabela's to buy a gun.

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frankie's #1 problem is that she wants to be good so desperately that she's willing to destroy her life and the lives of people around her to get there, thus making her in fact very NOT good. she can't stop seeing her actions as a means to an end to get to that "goodness" and prevent herself from acting in selfish, self serving ways. in this essay, i will-

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i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer

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frankie has tattoos... i just need to iron out wtf they are.

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The reoccurring theme of being unwanted in your childhood and seeing yourself as some kind of monster and how you feel like you have to move mountains to get people to like you

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"You're losing blood" no I know exactly where it is. The floor. Don't ever underestimate me.

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What’s your “serial killer trait” that (hypothetically) would make everyone say, “We should’ve known”?

idk if this ask is for frankie or for me, so i'm gonna give you both. my serial killer trait is that i will share 6 of those overly positive "your life will be great because you are great, your life will be wonderful because you are wonderful" type messages on my instagram story per day and be equally touched by every one of them i see. 💀 frankie's serial killer trait is that she prefers light mode on EVERYTHING.

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frankie isn't immune to the sweet treat pushing, red and pink aesthetic of valentine's day. of course a lonely bitch loves the holiday that celebrates love. she works on valentine's day because she works all holidays the club is open, she's a singular person and other people have their families to spend time with and they should do that. she'd never outright say that if ever asked though and instead hit you with a, "people tip better on holidays." which is sometimes true and sometimes not. anyway, my point is that frankie loves valentines day in whatever shape it takes form in her life. galentines day? romantic evenings with romantic partners? even if a random patron at the club asked her to have a 5 star dinner with them? she's there. a warning though: if you end up coming to her place, you are obligated to eat exactly one bite of whatever butchered pastry she's made. god speed.

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