i think mcdonalds should have a branded fob meal bc here is my pitch for the commercial:
this is not a fake out; the road to this mcdonalds is paved with good intentions! hum hallelujah because the fall out boy meal is here! get it now, it won't be around for centuries!
i know the Willow Mellow lore gets worse the longer you dig inside of it + it reflects even Worse on the writers when you put the actual words on her situation but let's not forget Darlings she is a child. she is 15 to 17yo depending on what piece of documentation we refer to, too young to consent to sex and therefore does not fit the category of "sex worker", and instead falls under the definitions of "sexually exploited youth", more specifically "sexually exploited child", as UNICEF, UNESCO, Convention for the Rights of the Child, [...] and general common sense all define "child" as "person under the age of 18".
she is the victim of kidnapping by her """adoptive father""" and of sexual exploitation by her (presumably adult) "clients" (as she does not appear to have a pimp, and is instead written saying she loves what she does and such giddy teehee fun. [powerful side-eye through someone in the writing team.] [she's not a Real Person I have to stress, so someone wrote her like this, wrote this kid like this.] [it is all part of a narrative in which she is struggling to shake off her "father's" exploitation, an inherently tragic one, but she still was written that way, and could have been written any other way, with any other "rebellious" act]).
calling her a sex worker as a child who is basically the same age as P2 Capella or Grace is putting her in a Grown-Up category especially harmful considering we are supposed to read her as an indigenous girl, member of the Kin (even if her lore is Mysterious and Hazy) and indigenous women and girls are sexualized in racialized ways which often paint them as more ~~~naturally~~~ sexually liberated, or docile, or submissive, or [insert racist x sexist stereotype promoted by colonizers to excuse the mistreatment of indigenous women and girls].
tldr yes it's worse when you actually call her what she actually is, and worse tenfold when you read what the writers make her say about it [even as an inherently tragic situation that we can recognize and put words on (hence this post), she could have been written any other way, with any other rebellious act, but you know.] but you know x2 (SIDE-EYES SOMEONE ON THE WRITING TEAM VERY HARD TIL ME EYES POP OUT ME SKULL)
everywhere i try to apply, even the most basic jobs are like. MUST have high school diploma or GED MUST have prior work experience MUST have a resume MUST have references. please i want to work so bad why don't you want me 😭😭
Losing my fucking mind rn because I SWEAR crunchyroll charged me the day I preordered the Law figure, bc I remember being disappointed about that. But now I can’t find the bank statement AND I was about to go order another rare Law figure I really want but it’s looking like I’m gonna get a surprise $200 charge on my account any day now 😐 and im not joking when I say NOBODY in my area is hiring, so I can’t even just get a job for this lol