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abby littman stans are either thirteen year olds or have the maturity of one. yeah, i get that the girl is going through it, but the extent that some people will go to defend her is ridiculous

oh say that!

don't get me wrong i love mang's toxic dynamic and find abby and ginny's strained hostile relationship really interesting. the tense back and forth had me hooked. abby is so jealous and threatened by ginny, she's so cunty, and i love that. her antagonising ginny is literally the best part of her character for me and is why i genuinely love her. like i hate her but im absolutely thrilled she's here and i wouldn't change her for the world. im a fan of her, shew not my #1 but i like her presence on the show.

i get fandoms scrambling to defend flawed characters and alieviate them of their Sins so they can feel like good people for liking them is In right now, but it's my opinion that insight into abby's life isn't there to make us sympathise with her and excuse her targetting ginny but understand her better and humanise her. her illness and home life are motivations for her to displace her anger onto ginny, her anger is displaced onto ginny because max really took to her and she's threatened, it ties into her own insecurities about how she sees herself and feels in her own skin versus how beloved ginny is. they're all reasons, not excuses.

some fans of her essentially make out like because ginny is annoying and messy and maybe everything abby sees in her has some truth to it she deserves the way abby treats her which is wrong to me. and if they genuinely think that then yes they've got the emotional and mental age of a 13 year old.

i was extremely taken aback by how loved abby seems to be by fandom in contrast to how hated ginny is simultaneously, when abby is only interesting because of ginny jdskrjsjrhsj. ginny made her special. away from her dynamic with mang she's bland.

abby is bitchy and mean but they sympathise because of her home life, but ginny's struggles don't overrule her flaws the same way, she doesn't garner the same reaction. she gets the opposite because people tend to be witnessing her from their preference for georgia from what i can see.

the gng fandom can't exactly cope with conflict between characters. they simply have to pick a side instead of comprehending the nuance of it and both parties involved and realising the show never asked you to bet on either of them nor did it tell you which one was right if there was a right. it just showed you something. you did the rest. most of the time they BOTH have a Point, or at the very least you Get why they're on the side they are and that's what made it so engaging for me.

something i find especially fascinating is her reaction to herself slapping ginny. her real feelings leaked through in the moment before as more than just a catty or passive aggressive comment. the "screw you ginny" is dripping with vitriol and pushed down bitterness and you can see she really does feel strongly about ginny. now ginny wasn't wrong. she wasn't right either but she wasn't wrong. we saw it ourselves how completely off the fucking rails ginny's home life is all season, abby isn't the only one with family troubles, abby calling them "bad friends" was a little harsh and entirely hypocritical considering the way she treated ginny from the start, ginny was then hypocritical back to her saying "it's not always about you" when ginny does tend to think everything is about her and abby KNOWS THIS. and that was the final straw. that's been bothering her since DAY ONE. that in her eyes everything's ALWAYS about GINNY. so she literally shocks herself by lashing out. then she punishes herself and makes it 'even'. and that's what abby does. punishes herself. projects onto ginny, takes it out on ginny who represents her insecurities and fears but it's herself who isn't good enough. it's ginny's fault for being better, but she knows it's her own for letting her. that's how i inferred abby's internal monologue through some of their interactions. i think it would be really fun to see ginny return more unapologetic and push back against abby this time. might spice things up between them.

i personally would love to see more of nora tbh.

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