#ALSO it's pissing me off that ppl are being like oh haha the Riverdale guy can act? u don't know anything . watch Riverdale

[beronicalongcon]

Elizabeth in may december is so FASCINATING to me. her greedy clamoring for the purest, truest version of the story, just this needy obsessive drive to Truly Understand and Become Gracie. She has this erotic fixation with Witnessing in the most voyeuristic way possible, entering all the private spaces of the story so that she can use art to make it "real", and more, to take it inside herself so that she is no longer separate from it, no more lines in the sand.

and Joe's, "stories like mine??!" as a reaction to the violent translation and compression of the abusive relationship that destroyed his childhood into a Narrative. how can it be a story for him when he is alone inside it?

the only time we see Elizabeth get really profoundly upset is when Gracie destroys the sanctity of the secret truth she thought Georgie had offered her. we don't get the simple explanation of 'oh Gracie was an abuser because she was abused', we don't get to understand, it will never be "real" for us like it is for Joe, and we are complicit. We are complicit.