prettyboysdontlookatexplosions: let’s take a moment to detail everything amazing about this, t
prettyboysdontlookatexplosions:let’s take a moment to detail everything amazing about this, the greatest character introduction in the history of literature:jake desperately searching for an excuse to spend time with his crush, landing on sexism because he’s a doltjake instantly realizing he has picked the exact worst girl to say this to, which, in what contexts of their normal middle-class suburban lives has jake already had a chance to understand that rachel thinks she is storm from the x-men? did he watch honors-student rachel get herself sent to the principal’s office telling off a math teacher who implied girls would have a harder time in the subject? did she (to borrow an anecdote from my own childhood) kick a dude in the balls in sixth grade because he was harassing a younger kid? did precociously beautiful rachel get hit on by some creepy college kid at the mall and respond by screaming for everyone to hear SOMEONE CALL THE COPS, THIS CREEP TRIED TO TOUCH ME? is this just about years of the two of them scurrying away at family outings and rachel being like “DO YOU DARE ME TO CLIMB THAT DEFINITELY ROTTING TREE” and 9 year old jake is like “uh sure” and then she does and she’s like “OKAY YOUR TURN” and he’s like “this was not part of the plan?” and she’s like “ARE YOU CHICKEN? ARE YOU CHICKEN, COUSIN JAKE?” did she give tom a bloody nose because she thought he was cheating at a game of H-O-R-S-E (he wasn’t. he was just tall.)?“you big, strong, m-a-a-a-n?”“you big, strong, m-a-a-a-n?”“YOU BIG, STRONG, M-A-A-A-N?”god i fucking love rachel so muchmeanwhile, cassie’s being cassie, but what i really want to know is, how much of cassie’s skill for defusing tense situations is just the fact that she is kind and emotionally intelligent and prefers it when people get along, and how much is a skill she has developed specifically because of a lifetime of being rachel’s best friend? -- source link
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