bradleydanger
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No no no you don't understand. I don't want to write a fic. I want to have written a fic. These things are not the same.
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Christopher Abbott in Sanctuary (2022) dir. Zachary Wigon
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my two followers: let’s chat whoot whoot
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Somehow I have written 3.1k words today. I am not sure how but I did. Good day off from work!
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well, hes a fine young man. if you overlook the atrocities
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every tuesday i forget r/fanfiction goes down and then i wake up looking to chat with friends and there’s no one there 💔
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Sth ive always wondered about a little life is how Jude was so extremely traumatised but still had good enough social skills to make so many lasting friendships. Like I know not all traumatized people are the same and it is possible for someone to be as severely traumatized as Jude was and still have some social skills, but I think it must be unusual, right? Like I'm just wondering where he learned social cues and how to interact with people his own age and how to behave in relationships and all that. And how he managed to be so different from the people around him - not revealing anything about his past, wearing long-sleeved shirts to the beach - and still got people to accept him easily and not question all these things a lot. It's something I've always wondered. What are your thoughts on this?
It's not something I ever thought about specifically, no. Or, rather, it wasn't something that struck me as particularly unusual or noteworthy. I'll do my best to articulate why.
Hanya discussed, in one interview, why she chose the narrative structure that she did for the book. She initially considered having the book in three parts, with the first two describing two alternative life paths for Jude—one where he was able to overcome his past, for the lack of a better word, and one where he wasn’t—and the third part describing what had happened to him. But she explained why she ultimately disposed of that format, saying:
“I think it establishes this binary that someone who cant function in society is somehow a failure and someone who can is a success, and that's simply not true. I think that's too reductive of a way of thinking about a person.”
I feel like that quote is important to keep in mind when talking about Jude as a character.
Regarding social skills:
I feel that it's worth noting that Jude wasn't unsocialized. I don't think his socialization through age 16 was normal by any means. There is no easy way to say this: people can be sexually abused as children and still be socially and professionally normal as adults. I personally know people who fall into that category, which is partly why it didn’t strike me as strange.
Going into greater detail, however, as to how he was able to learn social skills, there’s a few things that come to mind.
Ana seems to have given him a huge amount of support without which he may not have been able to really interact with others.
Plenty of passages in the book describe him having to learn how to interact with his peers, too.
My impression was that Jude made a concerted effort to learn about how to comport himself, an effort made easier by the fact that he kept quiet when it came to his personal life.
Regarding how he was able to maintain friendships while divulging so little about himself:
People did ask Jude about himself. Fairly often, actually, particularly in the earlier portions of the book. I mean, substantial portions of The Postman—including but not limited to this section touch on the matter outright.
But, really, I think it’s that his friends accepted him for who he was. So, for all of his differences, that was who they knew him to be, and they liked him.
I think, too, that after a certain point, his friends understood that Jude had some good reason for not sharing more about himself. It didn’t impact his ability to be a good friend otherwise, so it seems reasonable to me that they chose not to pry. If they had an issue with him being private, or different in any particular way, they could have simply remained acquaintances.
I hope this makes sense--I had some difficulty in organizing my thoughts here, so if you'd like me to clarify about anything, please feel free to ask.
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HI MILES BABY!!!!!
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so everyone was worried vanessa was gonna steal their girl and this girl ended up bitchless! you were threatened because she fingered your girl and knows how to shuffle cards??!?! goodbye
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when i was post op after top surgery i had a good friend there with me to help recover. but the nurse didnt get the memo and when i woke up she was like “ok i’m gonna go get your girlfriend and bring her in to see you!” and i remember being so zonked on anesthesia and so disoriented i just laid there thinking wow…… all that an they’re bringing me a girlfriend too this place is amazing
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