𝗔𝗟𝗟 ‎‎ ‎╴ ᵀᴴᴱ ╺‎‎ ‎ WAY!

WHO THE FUCK SAID ANYTHING ABOUT SISTERHOOD?

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Doll Pack were an American girl group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1996. Their albums targeted a young female audience, boasting pop anthems of girlhood, relationships, and identity, and were met with critical and commercial success. The group dissolved in 2001 due to tensions following a studio fire, an amateur hip injury, and arising bitchiness amongst its teenage members.

HEATHER PARKER, THE GOLDEN GIRL. HAS BEEN WATCHING HER SONGS BE TURNED INTO WATERED DOWN DEPARTMENT STORE POP BULLSHIT FOR ALL HER ADULT LIFE NOW. BISEXUAL.

ALEXANDRA PARKER, THE RUNNER-UP. GOES BY ALEX. ALSO BY MOM, THESE DAYS. DOESN’T LINGER ON HER DOLL PACK DAYS FOR A REASON. CAREER IS BEST DESCRIBED AS A ‘WHIMPER.’ BISEXUAL.

VICTORIA MARTIN, THE SPITFIRE. GOES BY VICKY TO FRIENDS & VICKY SHRED TO LISTENERS. THE FIRST TO EXPLOSIVELY ANNOUNCE A WANT TO GO SOLO. ON HER FOURTH POP-PUNK ALBUM & HER SECOND DIVORCE. LESBIAN.

SLOANE SIMPSON, THE DOLLFACE. ACTUALLY FUCKING MADE IT! AS A PRODUCER, ANYWAY. BOTTLE BLONDE BRAT WITH A HEART OF SILVER. WOULD HOP BACK ON STAGE IN A HEARTBEAT. BISEXUAL.

ANGIE DE LEÓN, THE WILD CARD. GOT PINNED WITH A REPUTATION EARLY & RAN WITH IT. HASN’T SLOWED DOWN SINCE. LAST SEEN ON A GAS STATION CURB WITH A BROWN PAPER BAG TO HER FACE ON 06/13/2016. LESBIAN.

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heather parker you will always be famous

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slashre​:

there’s noodles in front of them,   a carton in jamie’s hand       (      food always tastes better when it’s on the company’s dime:    he eats ravenously,   indulgently,    shoveling as much as he can      ).       when he speak,   it’s around a mouthful of food,   which lessens the impact.   you can trust me,  you know.      ‘‘     yeah,  but the difference is?   i mean it.   come on,    you don’t think i’ve got a little more moral backbone        –        a little more fucking character        –        than those other clones you talk to.     ’’       he leans back in the shoddy little office they’d gifted him after he had complained about having nowhere to go in the whole damn studio.   it’s more of a storage closet,   but the desk makes it easier to eat at.   besides,  the gift of it all had pissed dahlia off.     ‘‘     you haven’t heard?   throaty is my new thing.    dahlia’s big on it.   says it’ll make me a sex symbol.     ’’      there’s a sticky sort of hatred in his voice.     ‘‘    just don’t make me sound like an asshole.    please?   can you do that?     ’’

‘   a sheet of notebook paper has more character than all the other clones i talk to.  it’s not a hard metric to meet.   ’     every swallowed grimace of the day comes alive around jamie.  heather indulges in a frown she buried this morning,  pinned to her lips like a sad party favor     (     the party ended some fifteen years ago now;  she’s been sweeping up the aftermath ever since,  tiredly,  dutifully.     ).     ‘   well,  if dahlia said so.   ’     trained in the art of shutting her mouth,  she takes a forkful of noodles and thoughtfully chews.     ‘   i’ll do my best,  jamie,  but don’t take it out on me if it gets spayed and neutered before it gets to you.  especially if we’re going for sex symbol.  besides,  asshole works for you.  what’re you worried for?  you’re good at being an asshole.   ’     she stiffens in her seat,  a sudden stumble in her voice,  then leans over for a curt sip of her coke.     ‘   you know,  i mean,  as far as personas go.  it plays great.   ’

[stream]

Elle Fanning performing Lights by Ellie Goulding in Teen Spirit (2019)

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like like like for a starter 💖

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older vicky... mama

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ELEANOR FROM @vihilum SAID…     do the right thing. make me proud.

♡   …   the weight of a small world is on vicky’s shoulders   :   it’s a headache, all pen-scratch throats and sore expectations, sitting heavier by every missed deadline.  she’s always liked a good bit of pressure.  more than that, she’s always liked proving people wrong   ---   but she’s not as young as she used to be, not as bright-eyed and forgivable.  on better days, she likes to joke about the morning that america’ll wake up, realize she’s too much for the scene, and send her on her way.  doomsday feels closer than ever now.     ❝   yeah.   ❞     vicky sighs and takes hold of eleanor’s hands for a beat, voice summer soft.     ❝   yeah.  you know i will, babe.  i’m just out my fuckin’ head.  you know what it’s like when the label starts getting nervous, it starts with one person and spreads and spreads and spreads ‘til it catches up to me.  it’s bullshit.   ❞     she turns away and pulls a sparkling water from her mini fridge, letting it open with a fizz as she collapses into a loveseat, leather catching leather.     ❝   i’m good.  don’t worry about me.  tell me about your day.   ❞

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JESS FROM @slashre SAID...     imagine having enough money to trust people.

♡   ...   sloane doesn’t like to think of herself as someone with money  (  her wardrobe, her home, every gleaming award she’s nabbed in her career would beg to differ, but lucky for her humility, she’s telling this story herself  ).  success stories lose their shine once they reach a certain metric of accomplishment, whether it looks like a hefty paycheck or a single step up the corporate ladder.  even after achieving both several times over, she keeps her face daisy fresh, an unassuming woman by design.   ❝   jess!   ❞   her tongue clicks, a light scold.   ❝   you know, if you want to see price tags everywhere you go for the rest of your life, that’s your decision.  but i choose to see people as people, no matter how much money either of us have.  and it’s done me good.   ❞   with open palms and a butterscotch smile, she gestures to the hungry mouth of her office, a rose gold magazine spread of neatness guided by pinterest’s steady hand.  she plucks two peppermints from the glass dish on her desk and pushes one jess’ way, french tips untwisting the other for herself.   ❝   besides, who says i trust everyone i work with?  maybe that’s your problem.  maybe you want to trust people but something’s holding you back.   ❞

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COLTON FROM @slashre​​ SAID...     try not to mistake ‘damaged’ for ‘deep’.

♡   ...   a lifetime of unsolicited opinions, and she’s never gotten any better at holding her tongue.  criticism comes with the territory.  she gets it by now.  and with vicky comes a brutal scoff, a roll of her eyes, a lashing kept close to her chest.   ❝   man, you got it twisted.   ❞   course he does.  she doesn’t expect much out of anyone but the diehards, and even those get a bit too comfortable now and then    [    THE ONLY THING @VICKYSHRED CAN’T DO WITH HER MUSIC IS RELEASE IT ON TIME!    ].   ❝   i’m not mistakin’ shit for shit.  i’m just writing it all down.  if little becky in wisconsin thinks my lyrics are the most beautiful things she ever heard, who am i to disagree?  who am i to argue with her?  she’s happy with the record, i’m happy with a fan.   ❞   most importantly, the label’s happy she’s put something out.  but it’s always best to pretend they’re not a factor.  best to pretend it’s vicky versus the world, happily bankrolling her own mid-life crisis.   ❝   i’d sign something for you, but, uh, you don’t sound like much of a fan.   ❞

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JAMIE FROM @slashre​ SAID...    you can trust me, you know.

♡   ...   if he’s making a joke, it’s a funny one.  she’d even laugh if she’d never heard it before.  but he’s a broken record.  they all are these days.  someone on the other side of her desk smiles at her and lures her in with an inky deal, heather smiles back and signs away something she practically wrote with her eyes closed  ---  a testament to the industry and its week-long trends, not to her talent.  she knows how to churn them out and the charts know how to eat them up.  symbiotic, routine, and absolutely mind-numbing.   ❝   thanks, but no thanks.  do you think this is the first time a musician’s told me that?  i don’t even think it’s the first time you’ve told me that.   ❞   cue the smile.  the one jamie gets is warmer, cut with a sharper knife.   ❝   i’m in the middle of writing something else for you, anyway.  your voice’ll be better on this one.  it’s not so throaty.   ❞

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REINTRODUCING...  HEATHER, ALEX, VICKY, SLOANE, & ANGIE.

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abundance.

dialogue prompts from abundance by jakob guanzon.

you order whatever you want.

wouldn’t be much of a surprise if i told you, would it?

don’t ever make me come back here.

the question is, what do you want?

it’s expensive to be poor.

just what the doctor ordered.

i hope you learned something.

what do you think of your surprise?

it’s your birthday, isn’t it?

want to know a secret? you know how much i love you?

you and your big words.

what would you consider your three greatest strengths?

what would you consider your three greatest weaknesses?

if parenthood has taught me anything, it’s helplessness.

imagine having enough money to trust people.

i practiced saying ‘hey’ to you in the mirror for a solid fifteen minutes.

group therapy’s too competitive.

try not to mistake ‘damaged’ for ‘deep’.

i want to write you a symphony.

you sure are sensitive, huh?

you look so, i don’t know, different.

everything — everyone — has a price.

you don’t want to end up like me.

it’s been a minute, huh?

i’d never do anything to put you in danger.

please don’t leave me. not like this. not alone.

you look like a movie star. you look like christmas.

i don’t think i can go to school today.

do the right thing. make me proud.

parents are just people, as scared and confused as anybody else.

you can trust me, you know.

why do you want to be so different?

i want to come home soon.

you’re too far gone to remember the truth.

no hard feelings. i know it’s just business.