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bulletbilltime · 2 months ago

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Between Ethel Cain's Preacher's Daughter, Shisumo's Bookstore Max AU, and whimsicalcotton's polluted marrow Max AU (and let's be real pretty much all of Life is Strange 1 & True Colors), I am noticing that I may be latching on to stories about traumatized ppl more than may be healthy

#bulletbilltime rambling #life is strange #ethel cain #this is an odd pivot especially since I generally enjoy more wholesome cutesy stories #but goddamn there's something about seeing ppl Going Through It #Especially when they finally see a light at the end of it all #even if in the case of ethel cain the character only finds peace in death #that one is just more of a tragedy than anything #but it is still a compelling story nonetheless #as for the max caulfield AUs #yeah it's just about the catharsis of seeing someone go through the worst possible things ever #believing themselves to be so unlovable and monstrous #pushing everyone away #and then being proven wrong #it's why I don't really like the bay ending of LiS1 on its own tbh #it has a narrative arc of letting go of something dear to you #without any sense that things will be ok #it just doesn't feel conclusive in a satisfying way to me #which is why the Bookstore Max AU works so well for me #we see a post bay max that is wracked by the guilt of letting chloe die #and is continuously unable to make connections to others #and tho the oneshot where she meets cassidy ends on a sour note #it still feels more cathartic in a sense #maybe because it feels like more of a character driven tragedy than just 'the universe says chloe dies and that's it'#and that is always far more compelling to me than a depressing/dark narrative for its own sake #ANYWAY reminder to read shisumo's The Wicked Run (When No One is Chasing Them) and Where The Dead Cannot Speak #and if you haven't yet GO LISTEN TO PREACHER'S DAUGHTER it is probably my favorite album ever #the post is stored in the tags #(didn't talk much about polluted marrow in these tags but honestly that could be its own post)#GO READ IT TOO IF YOU HAVE NOT

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