#and it's never really adressed in the text just treated as part of her wild tomboy personality

[thesmokinpossum]

I feel like both the book and the show wants me to dislike/despise John’s girlfriend Ashley but I honestly think she’s one of the least unhealthy character and one of the few I could imagine having a somehow healthy life later so....

#not offense but i honestly do find john's family weird and unpleasant even knowing that they're very much innocent victims in the story #like i'm sorry for not hating the extroverted and superfical teen girl who don't know how to handle a very hardcore tragedy in a mature way #but idk i just feel like a lot of her very innocent actions are treating at those manipulative bitch moments and it's just like... #treated* #gillian i know you're talking about themes of women violence and all of that but not everything a 17yo girl do is inherently evil #like i'll take the overbearing girlfriend who try to bring me food before i take the kid who litterally stab her classmates tbh #btw i am still weirded out by how the book lowkey treated this as this semi-normal not like other girls moment #like this child inflicted a permanent disability on another child and the parents just moved her around to a new school #and it's never really adressed in the text just treated as part of her wild tomboy personality #like there's being a free spirit and there's being a danger to all the other grade schoolers #but i'm getting off topic #the possum watches sharp objets