posting it w/o the frame bc I wanna :p ♡
okay i know nemlei is just being snarky and teasing us by censoring the gravecest kiss but also THE GRAVECEST KISS???? i feel so normal about this
First four pages of a comic i’m never going to finish
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Worlds best worst boyfriend
memories☆
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open wiiiiide😋
Some Dead Asshole: Sup Ashley, or should I say, Leyley? How's it hanging, sweet stuff? Listen, the Fall Harvest Dance is coming up and I couldn't help but notice you don't have a date. Maybe I could fix that?
🩷: My answer...
(slams her locker door)
💚: ...
🩷: ...is to run.
It’s already insidious enough when Andrew is obviously using Julia in place of Ashley, but here’s another layer:
“My very own piece of work.”
Not only is Andrew Ashley’s older brother, he was her caretaker. He raised her more than their parents ever did. So it’s not just love in the romantic and brotherly sense, which is already concerning enough, but in the parental sense as well. Ashley is his creation, who he loves but can never take responsibility for.
It puts into perspective how Andrew won’t admit it was Ashley sending the voicemails. He’s like one of those parents who knows their kid is trouble but will fight for them tooth and nail, denying they could possibly do anything wrong.
There was already numerous layers of fucked up in this cake but they just can’t help but add even more layers to it!
Okay so I saw the posts talking about the preview before I was able to watch it myself and I wanted to note some things that hasn’t been mentioned as much.
First off the reason Andrew snapped so harshly was this sentence.
It barely even implies anything, it’s a phrase with no backbone. Not even saying anything about the siblings relationship specifically, just the “situation” being a little off. The vaguest of sentences is what causes Andrew to snap.
Then the slamming of the phone. It’s one thing to be told he slammed the phone, but when it’s the only sound effect it really emphasizes how hard he slams it.
I talked about how much easier it is to sympathize with Julia than Ashley because Julia’s nice when posting on main, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel for Julia! Every time we see her poor girl is always walking on eggshells, and it’s definitely something she learned through how she’s treated. Don’t know if it’s from a family situation, her dead childhood friend, her current very volatile “friend” who happens to be her boyfriend’s sister, or her boyfriend himself. Maybe it’s a combination of all these factors, it’s too early to say. I’m getting “last girl in slasher film” vibes and I really don’t appreciate it!
Then there’s this face. He wasn’t planning on snapping, but he’s used to snapping at Ashley this way. Since Ashley’s the personification of a snapping turtle and is guaranteed to reply with a snarky comment he doesn’t see the issue. But here he’s reminded that Julia isn’t like Ashley. And I don’t think this is the first time he’s made this mistake, where he treated Julia like Ashley and had to backtrack.
Of course, instead of admitting to his mistake he throws the responsibility onto Julia’s shoulders, it was her words that made him snap. And Julia, who already was on eggshells before this moment, has to be the one to apologize for something she didn’t even so much as imply.
Andrew literally could have stopped at “It wasn’t a fight” and left it, but he just had to add the second half. He’ll forgive her, implying she’s done something that required his forgiveness. It’s not surprising that Julia breaks up with him after he’s quarantined, in a place where he couldn’t as easily smoothed things over with a peck on the forehead.
At this point Andrew is clearly talking about Ashley and imagining her in his arms. His eyes are literally glazing over and we deliberately can’t see Julia’s face in frame anymore. He might have caused Julia to feel responsible, but make no mistake, he’s once again blaming Ashley for what happened. He’s forgiving Ashley for causing this rift, not Julia. But when Julia tries to respond-
He covers her mouth. If she talks it breaks the illusion that it’s Ashley. This is the part I wished people talked more about, the fact that he literally silences her so he could continue to fantasize. Shudders man. Shudders.
In the words of Ashley Graves in Chapter 1
That one meme going around twitter...