someone does not have to be fucking valuable to you to deserve to live

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Also can we stop with the “non White” It’s a Black colleague . It’s very specifically a Black colleague and that is DEEPLY important they want to activate specific social tropes Because when it’s a different person they will be activating different tropes

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she also sees the way Esmeralda constantly devalues herself and her capability in relation to others and i think that really strikes at her empathy

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Her relationship with Esmeralda is soooooo juicy because Esmeralda is both a sort of “do over” for her relationship with Mu but also someone Mikaela sees a lot of herself within- a young woman freshly pushed out into the world, her heart easily captured and not yet hardened by experience

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“She mothers everyone except her own daughter” yes!!! yes exactly!!! Of course she loves her daughter, of course she wants her to be happy but her daughter is also a product of her failures and since she is inescapably A Mother she can only find success in that imposed role elsewhere

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