and then maybe you'll remember me when i'm gone (that's all i could ever want)
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i'm not afraid of anyone (not a soul alive can get behind this wall) by bythebookarchive
Fandoms: Mean Girls - Richmond/Benjamin/Fey
10 Jul 2020
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By now, Regina knows that she isn’t the hero in this story called Life, but she keeps that to herself, folding up into a little ball to fall asleep, holding a pillow over her ears so that she can’t hear the fighting.
Tell me about Regina learning to be mean because it hurts less than crying, about the old bullies who left the walls of Northshore that tell her that she would soon love all that power, all the praise, all the promise of being first in line, of nobody getting in her way.
Tell me about how girls like Regina don’t just one day become mean.
Tell me about how broken homes that refuse to truly fall apart and judgement and silent sobs build monsters.
(Or, a (meta) study, a fic, an analysis of Regina George, her life and her faults and her absolution. An open letter to anybody who says that she isn't worthy of forgiveness.)
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made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter by bythebookarchive
Fandoms: Mean Girls - Richmond/Benjamin/Fey
17 Jul 2020
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"Maybe she falls as quickly as an anchor in an ocean, or maybe it’s a true slow burn: maybe there’s a new girl in town, a waitress at her and Damian’s spot. They trade names and stories, and Regina waits years to buy her a drink, waiting to see if she would start to judge her like all the rest in town. One day, maybe, the girl might take Regina to California to meet her family. She meets her mother and father, who are happily in love, her siblings, and, for once, Regina swallows her jealousy, her resentment, the echoes of her father screaming about God and duty, and instead, she breathes out, 'I’ve heard so much about you. It’s a pleasure to meet you.'"
-i'm not afraid of anything (not a soul alive could get behind this wall)
(Or, the what-if with the waitress, what she would show Regina, and how she helps her take the first steps in her pursuit toward learning how to love herself.)
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Regina has haters, blatant faults, and because of this, we had to strive to give her redemption, to allow her to reach absolution.
Karen doesn't need to be redeemed, and she doesn’t need to be absolved; she just needs to be understood, and in order to be understood, she needs to have a life beyond the pages we are given.
Let’s fill in the blanks. Allow us to provide her with reasons, to show that she is not a stereotype.
Let us give her a story. Actually, tragedy may be a better description.
Tragedy is the only explanation. It is difficult to believe that Karen Smith, the most emotionally intelligent of her kind, was born dumb.
(Or, a study of Karen Smith, why she became what she was in the story, and what she could be.)
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