#all of mandy's angst and awfulness is self-inflicted

[fantastic-nonsense]

flipping through I Am Not Starfire and am legitimately baffled at how awful the writing is. Like...I like Mariko Tamaki's writing. But not only is IANS bad, it reads nothing like her normal writing voice. It's utterly bizarre.

#dc comics #koriand'r #starfire #I am not starfire #mariko tamaki #genuinely baffled about this entire project #who greenlit it? why choose tamaki to write it? why is it so bad when basically everything else she's written is at least passably decent? #all of mandy's angst and awfulness is self-inflicted #the actual *plot* (re Kory vs. Kom) makes no sense #it's tired tropes and bad stereotypes all the way down #bad writing and relationship development between her and her love interest #the cringe dialogue #like....how did this project get published as-is? where were Tamaki's editors?