9 Matching Annotations
  1. Oct 2016
    1. Although Alison’s relationship to the word “lesbian” is shrouded in negativity, she aligns that word productively not simply with a gender label but with ongoing identity negotiations and personal developments that she struggles to work through as a queer young woman

      I thought originally that the story would be about Windy coming out or having some sort of crush on Rose.

    1. In the first, Jon and his father stand on the balcony as Mr. Osterman shakes the cogs from the velvet sheet they laid upon.

      i always really liked how each character had a backstory and it was very specific and detailed

    2. which allows knowledge of trauma and its symptoms to reach a larger audience and gives authors an opportunity to illustrate how the human mind experiences and processes traumatic events.

      this helps others understand their own trauma and recognize it, as well as not be ashamed by it

    3. personal histories.

      makes the characters more complex and believable

  2. Sep 2016
    1. ifferent times, a unified embodied consciousness residing in a world that exists independent of the actual dra

      Two worlds each dependent on each other, while also existing independently at the same time. Extensions of each other

  3. Aug 2016
    1. return

      the dry nature of this writing makes it the much funnier

    2. three

      same tone of voice as his suicides are dealt with, interesting.... and completely opposite emotions associated with each

    3. commits suicide.

      its very interesting how this extreme subject is dealt with so passively as it it weren't a big deal

    4. He rushes to the street, but she has vanished.

      very dry language, although that could be how these things are... I've never read a comic or graphic novel