cw violence, bullying // actually i& #39;m not done. i& #39;ve talked about it before, but this passage from very early in the book always hits meârichie& #39;s clear self-hatred, the way he frames his memories to blame himself for the cruelty inflicted on him, the way it escalates
part of me wonders if the old "loser gets bullied for looking weird" narrative is overplayed and less valuable now than maybe it used to be forty years ago, and that& #39;s part of why they changed it for ch2 to something more topical and slightly less explored (coming out)