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Even though Amy & Samey got double-eliminated, I still see Samey insulting and fighting her sister as a sign of growth, and I like to think she stopped taking Amy’s shit when they got back home. 😌

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Plain Bad Heroines is a story so much about storytelling that it feels almost obscene to point it out. “This is story-telling, people!” it seems to shout, in the voice of The Happenings at Brookhants movie director Bo Dhillon, calling “cut” on a disastrous scene that somehow fits perfectly into his plan.

(...) And Plain Bad Heroines is a story so much about storytelling that it feels almost obscene to point it out.

(...) Upon closer inspection, Heroines has even more main characters than it initially appears. Each has an outward appearance, cultivated both in their own universe and in the eyes of the reader. And then they have hidden selves, simultaneously mundane and terrifying and often so recognizable that they almost ache to read.

(...) Brookhants’ obligatory three-word Latin motto Esse Quam Videri (much cooler than my school’s) means, “To Be, Rather Than to Seem.” And yet, what’s so wrong with being and seeming, both? That is the question I found at the heart of Heroines: what is the difference, if any, between a story and the truth?

When things are manufactured, we see them as being less authentic. But what is it to manufacture something, other than to labor over it with great intention, whether it is a book, a film, or a self? To pour so much of yourself into it that it can’t help but be honest? All of the heroines are caught in the maelstrom of this question, wondering if telling a story with intention makes it less real. At the end of the day, ghost is just one of many words we choose to use when bad things happen, and a haunting is what you make of it.