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New Bright Sessions episode! It's not always the easiest story to listen to, and I avoid it when I'm in a bad mood, but it's also really good. Someone on ff_a put it pretty well, imo: "The way she writes Damien, Mark/Damien, Wadsworth and Joan, it's all so, how do I describe it. Incisive? Like there's such awareness of all the ways that things are dysfunctional and toxic and wrong, and it's written without a drop of apologism, so then when she does just explore in depth all the delightfully iddy aspects of these characters and relationships, it doesn't feel like she's actually romanticizing anything. My id gets so, so piqued and indulged, but my brain and heart don't get skeeved out and actually appreciate how the writing doesn't encourage any of the fucked up my id hungers for." And thankfully not all relationships are fucked up, imo there's overall a good balance of fucked up stuff and WAFF.

( Spoilery notes for episodes 46-48 )