Early update for June 21, 2023
Added 2023-06-20 03:55:01 +0000 UTCoh, jennifer
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I mean, he did also have Blaine killed. Regardless of how much of a monster Blaine was, that's pretty damn scary, so personally, I wouldn't say you're being irrational.
Adam Best
2023-06-20 14:13:42 +0000 UTCI don't know if I'm being irrational in this, but I sort of worry Jennifer might also be poking a sleeping bear? Like she's used to her dynamic with Ruth, which wasn't healthy either (primarily in the suicide pact days) but I feel like Asher is a little enigmatic. His grandfather being a mob boss a la Blaine that Asher cut ties with makes me wonder how hard it was for Asher to break out of potentially dangerous coping mechanisms or expressions of anger (since Sal keeps reiterating that Asher is dangerous.) Like does Asher get really dangerous? As in we should be a little scared for Jennifer? Or are Sal's insistences in Asher potentially hurting Jennifer projection? I don't want to throw Asher under the bus here, either, because his environment must have been really hard to break out from, and he might be way more well-adjusted than I can imagine (we haven't seen much of his internality or development outside of his tender moments with Jennifer) but I'm a little nervous that Sal's warnings are referencing something other than just the awful "prank" Asher did by calling the cops when they were kids. Not to say any bad things that Asher and Jennifer have done to others are excused, but I'm a bit nervous how the eventually fallout to this is gonna play out.
Chloe
2023-06-20 12:43:23 +0000 UTCAbusers gonna abuse abusively
KingOfKarrotFlowers
2023-06-20 12:26:56 +0000 UTCIs BJenie talking to Asher or God Also, what the fuck
darklion
2023-06-20 11:47:46 +0000 UTCPoor Asher.
HenryVolt
2023-06-20 07:08:09 +0000 UTCat this point jennifer and asher deserve this lil hell spiral they have created
sunnybutch
2023-06-20 06:31:45 +0000 UTCAlpha bongo
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2023-06-20 05:37:18 +0000 UTCI don't think she cares about "genuine"—that's Malaya's thing. I think she cares about Asher being what she wants him to be without having to tell him what she wants him to be.
Dan Rabin
2023-06-20 05:36:03 +0000 UTCJennifer, I get that your deal is complex and all, but fucking Goddammit.
Sajuuk-Khar
2023-06-20 04:51:16 +0000 UTCRegardless of whether or not Asher is doing this on purpose, Jennifer is beginning to seem paranoid of nobody being genuine around her
Gale Tazzin
2023-06-20 04:45:37 +0000 UTCGods below, Asher! Free yourself from this bullshit!
Uniquitous
2023-06-20 04:45:27 +0000 UTCI think you're close, but I think it's less about magic and status and gratification than it is, like. Jennifer thought being a stoic bad boy was actually core to who Asher is. It turns out he's more than that, and she doesn't like those parts of him. Which I think is a natural part of feeling out a relationship, especially in the early days! Like yes, Jennifer absolutely cares about gratification and status and not putting in effort. She can be a real piece of work. But I don't think being into a brooding bad boy and not being into big goofs who remind her of her brother is, like, a character flaw? If she's desiring magical lack of effort in this moment, it's in her trying to passive-aggressively nudge Asher back towards perfect boyfriendhood in very shallow, quick-fix ways, without discussing the underlying issues with him at all.
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2023-06-20 04:20:24 +0000 UTCOK, I'm starting to get the nuance in Jennifer's attitude. I still think she wants (wanted) Asher as a perfect robot of a hot-guy boyfriend for gratification and status purposes. But now I see that she wants a MAGICAL perfect robot of a hot-guy boyfriend, who is just that way without practice or instruction, because 1. MAGICALLY perfect makes a better trophy, 2. MAGIC means she doesn't have to do work, and 3. her high social status DESERVES MAGICAL things, and conversely, putting the MAGICAL things on public display shows off her status (see #1). I recall Ruth telling her that college was where she stops getting things she doesn't deserve...
Dan Rabin
2023-06-20 04:06:36 +0000 UTC
