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you know, i always rolled my eyes at media that go like “follow your dreams! believe in yourself! you can achieve anything you set your mind to!” because… as a crazy traumatized dyke, this really didnt apply to me, or what i thought was “the real world”… but in the hindsight?? my abusive mother did literally all she could think of to deter me from writing and studying literature, from hardcore manipulation to physical abuse & outright refusal to let me do what i love – throwing my books out of the window into the muddy garden, forcing me to be held back a year in highschool even tho i had the best grades of the whole school because she didnt want me to go into the literary section, forcefully going through my writings (and telling me it was shitty), forbidding me to see my writer friend & be involved in writing seminars, etc. –

she persuaded me i had no literary talent whatsoever, be it in creative writing or in text analysis, and all… 

but i persisted and now im a literature major and im going to write for the Comédie-Française lmao

so, yea, believe in your dreams, i guess!

im just DYING to see her face when im gonna tell her, “hey mom! ive been chosen to write at the Comédie-Française with 15 other writers! My texts are gonna be read in public by the very comedians you idolize, on the very building you worship!”

She’s The Most Elitist Person of the year & is a really big fan of cultural institutions (for my non-french followers: its the oldest theater in France, and now, alongside with the Académie Française, is a cultural monument. Both were funded by Louis XIV and represent the typical french intellectualism)… shes gonna be big mad lmao