I mean I get that Beth has been behaving like an asshole but I find it really difficult to fault her for that when she’s literally in the middle of running away from her abusive home in the middle of the night. Jeordie is trying his best but this is really not a situation that a teenager can manage, on both sides, and that’s without how fraught the emotions would be between them right now anyway.
Off topic from what’s going on in the comic but I love the tiny bird footprints leading up the roof on the left and then wing prints! Something happened to the bird but who knows what it was!
“how dare you care about me, or be worried I would do something I already did, again”
Like I get it I’ve been in that position but man is it also tiring to watch from the outside and whewie I hope she clears her head and realizes he’s not the bad guy – and that he might be one of the few people in this town who’s still in her corner, unconditionally.
even without this fraught situation, bringing up someone’s self-harm will make them feel a deep sense of shame and embarrassment and panic, and i would probably react this exact way at her age. especially if it were happening while i was being forced back to the household that made me self-harm in the first place. away from my friends, isolated and only allowed to be around people that hate you, with no escape–the kind of situation that makes people try to kill themselves. but you know, what a brat or whatever
Man keeps finding exactly the wrong thing to say, good job Jeordie.
Dude could give her exactly what she wants to hear and she’d still be mad at him. She’s spiraling hard rn
This is true, but “why would you do that” is very much the wrong thing to ask someone who self harms
I mean I get that Beth has been behaving like an asshole but I find it really difficult to fault her for that when she’s literally in the middle of running away from her abusive home in the middle of the night. Jeordie is trying his best but this is really not a situation that a teenager can manage, on both sides, and that’s without how fraught the emotions would be between them right now anyway.
Off topic from what’s going on in the comic but I love the tiny bird footprints leading up the roof on the left and then wing prints! Something happened to the bird but who knows what it was!
It flew away! Nicely symbolic given the narrative in that panel too
“how dare you care about me, or be worried I would do something I already did, again”
Like I get it I’ve been in that position but man is it also tiring to watch from the outside and whewie I hope she clears her head and realizes he’s not the bad guy – and that he might be one of the few people in this town who’s still in her corner, unconditionally.
even without this fraught situation, bringing up someone’s self-harm will make them feel a deep sense of shame and embarrassment and panic, and i would probably react this exact way at her age. especially if it were happening while i was being forced back to the household that made me self-harm in the first place. away from my friends, isolated and only allowed to be around people that hate you, with no escape–the kind of situation that makes people try to kill themselves. but you know, what a brat or whatever
oh, beth
related too much to Beth here unfortunately (doing better now I suppose)
I don’t blame Jeordie here though, or any of the Jeordies I met when I was younger.