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tsukkei17 · 5 years

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I know Ride or Die (RoD) is an ultra amazing book ever made by choices but if I were the MC, I won't stick my nose where it doesn't belong. She might get lucky getting out alive but in a realistic standpoint, she may not even have atleast 10% chance of survival. Plus, she's a mediocre driver (literally pulls off fast and furious stunts, Michelle Rodriguez is shook bich)

and she is well, literally naive.

I mean c'mon, who says 'I Love You' just after less than two weeks of hardly knowing each other. It may be fun and cool and siiick, but I won't risk my entire future for a crew I hardly even know.

I know I'm messed up and it's just a book but, I can't help but wonder ya'know.

Oh, and the thing with Logan is kinda weird. he just casually walked into campus dragging his super sleek car and randomly said nice things to MC then MC instantaneously felt like a queen and finally "yay! A hot guy even batted an eyelash toward my way and I'm gonna be a strong independent woman and I won't let my dad control my decisions ever again, woohoo!!" And that just happened.

In real life scenario;

Logan: hey, you're different. there is something in you that I can't find in any other girls.

Me: Ohhkay, what is happening? And why are you even talking to me?

Logan: I'm hot. Sooooo... you can't resist me and just come with me.

Me: Mom always said don't talk to strangers.

Logan: but i'm hot and cool and smooth talking an--

Me: bich bye !!

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Yeah he's hot and all but he comes to you for no reason and talk nonsense, that sure is shady asf! It always comes with an ulterior motive, always.

So that being said 👇

This is due to hyperboredium disorder

don't hate, this is a great book and i love it and pixelberry is the best.

I just want to write something to ease my hyperboredium disorder 😂😂😂

#pixelberry #choices #ride or die #rod #colt kaneko #logan #ride or die: a bad boy romance

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purplerakath · 7 years

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Conceptually Awesome - Shay Powers

So with Shay it’s a lot more of what she isn’t than what she is. This seems like a zen trick thing to make myself sound smart but honestly this is my best description for what’s going on. See, nothing about Shay on paper is all that interesting until you say what they don’t do with her.

What’s so Great About Shay Powers?

So what we start out with, perfect student top athlete Olympic hopeful, is pretty great. Not all that dynamic or confusing... but then they made some writing choices that could be labeled dubious, and then suddenly she gets better. And this isn’t plot dubious, this is characterization dubious. In the same way that biology nerd made Tiny something great, what Shay isn’t suddenly adds a new layer to her.

I’ll just get onto the subsections and hope my rambling answers make sense.

She isn’t Romantically Confident

Sex is a big part of this show, for a show with a bunch of underage actors playing underage characters with a general air of ‘this is for kids.’ So a lot of the stronger, confident, female characters get written into one of two styles of physical confidence. Either the ‘I’m the hot female lead and I’m sexy’ style, or the ‘I’m the tough no-nonsense Michelle Rodriguez type who hopefully won’t die like every Michelle Rodriguez character.’ Shay is neither, because however confident she is in her body athletically, it doesn’t translate to her dating, dealing with her peers, or anything like that.

This is part of why having her side by side with Lola is great, because Lola is all too comfortable and confident in her features. And even without Lola telling Shay she has the butt of a four year old boy, Shay is still well and truly unaware of her own attractiveness. Which is directly feeding the ‘Shay is ace’ theory, which I’m entirely down for. But that divide, because when it comes to Degrassi ladies, Shay is by far one of the most confident (with reason) on the show past or present... but it falls away in the one area that should be most obvious.

She isn’t Socially Aware

So Next Class hit us with a huge helping of racism awareness. But one of the interesting choices was to have Shay ask the question. Now part of this might be directly comparing how Switched at Birth handled racism, but the choice to have Shay not know immediately the banner was racist, was a curious choice. As it meant Shay was well sheltered from anything negative. Now Shay’s home life is probably the most stable of any Degrassi kid ever, but to have her be as alien to racism as Frankie was (only more willing to listen than Frankie) was a call they made.

Intersectionally she has zero understanding of classism, which goes on the list of things I wish the show wrote better with her and Tiny as a couple. Given what a huge part of Tiny’s character is. Suburban bubble syndrome is kinda here, she isn’t in as bad a spot as Frankie’s princess bubble, but this is what’s going on. And honestly seeing the interplay between Shay and Tiny + Tiny’s past would be really good to help things along (along the lines of having Conner there with Dallas during his racism plot).

Sidebar: So I’m keeping this one short because I’m having trouble coming up with all the words I need to express myself. There’s a certain level of personal matter feeding this, but that’s not an excuse I’m making. I might revisit this with a bit more detail if I get a chance to rewatch everything. But Shay is a good character who needs more real plots S4-6.

Perfect Setting - Athletics Drama

So if Shay had taken that training camp that wanted her to apologize for having a view, a series set there with all the cutthroat rigors of athletic training would be fantastic. Putting the character where they can drive full out for their dream, but see all the bumps in the road, and try to balance it with personal sanity would be lovely.

And of course there would be some race/class/sexism+lack of sex bashing that would come from such an environment. Shay would, unquestionably, be the lead. With someone much more socially capable as the lead rival/antagonist.

#degrassi #degrassi next class #shay powers #conceptually awesome character studies

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