re: magicmirror

thats pretty much exactly how i feel! as a jake enjoyer, i think a lot of the more frustrating discussion around him views his actions (or passivity) in isolation rather than within the wider picture of him being a teenager with identity issues who grew up alone on an island. like should he have been more upfront with his feelings? yeah totally, but he is also a mentally ill teenager in a friend group of other mentally ill teenagers, of course they aren’t going to communicate healthily and not every interaction is going to be perfectly palatable.