{ hitched my skirt and did the talking. }

[delga]

meish: [...] and I'm pretty much of the opinion that Amita would be all, fuck this shit - get out of my city! I mean, y/n?

denz: Your AU Amitas are always so aggressive. What's with that?

meish: That's not-- wait, yeah, that's totally true. She was red-dress woman who came between Charlie and Colby that one time.

denz: Right, and now she's cell-phone-toting, NYC-living woman who comes in between David and Colby. AND. And. She doesn't care. SHE NEVER CARES. WHY. ?

meish: It's not that she doesn't care, it's that she's not Little Miss Timid.

denz: But she's not a bitch.

meish: DENZ. If your guy runs off with another guy who has COMMITTED a CRIME and then comes back to you only to then AGAIN ditch you for said crime guy (who is stalking you), I think you'd reserve the right to a little bitchiness, y/y?

denz: You make good point. But. She doesn't care? OR. OR! Or, is it actually that Amita, in her insane NYC-living awesomeness, has NO NEED for Charlie/LA's disgusting (we're agreeing it's disgusting, right?) surplus and has GROWN so much to the point that dating David is a two-steps back, two-steps back sort of thing?

meish: DING-DING. You get the food processor! Because, I think, if she's going to be the woman who sticks two fingers up at CalSci and all those Ivy Leaguers to head to NYU, and that, for her, is a revolutionary thing (in her personal sphere, natch) THEN, then, well, to go back to anyone from LA who is still basically part and parcel of LA and the LA scene, well, that's a cop-out, and it's a regression.

denz: But she's still--I don't know, you make her out so grossly acerbic.

meish: OK, so, natch I have to curb that. But still, I think if she's made that move, then she's made this decision to sharpen up, like maybe Charlie screwed her over in some big way, and if she's leaving LA, then she has to leave LA completely. And I think, in some way, if she just lets David go - I mean, they're crutching each other, it's not healthy - then she's sort of passed a test, right?

denz: OK, I see, because if she can just let David go then it means she's actually over LA/Charlie/The Brothers Eppes.

meish: Exactly.

denz: [...] it doesn't matter so much because I don't think that canon!Amita is in that position whereby she needs to get out now. In the s2-s3 hiatus, yes, that felt like it needed to be addressed, but now she seems to be pretty stable. Which is brilliant, and I don't want to detract from that in anyway. She needs to grow away from being Charlie's prop, of course, but she's no longer hanging in that limbo where she's being used by Charlie.

meish: She's giving and she's getting.

denz: Precisely. But, if ever there was a case of Amita leaving [...] we said this before, yes, that if she leaves she's either broken or she's strong?

meish: I think what it was was that she had to be strong enough to end whatever that was with Charlie (because in not being a relationship, it was damaging).

denz: Exactly, and also, if it didn't end that way, then it had to be a train wreck and she had to surface from the rubble. So it's not that it couldn't have gone right with Charlie, but that they outgrew the relationship and she got over the crush she had as a post-grad.

meish: Sure.

denz: But NYC-living!Amita is not That Girl. NYC-Amita is train-wreck-LA-exit!Amita. Yes?

meish: Oh, definitely. Because for her, separating from David is then a triumph. I'm standing on my own two feet, rah, rah &c. But I figure she's also a little jaded.

denz: OK, but to clarify: canon!Amita is a million miles away from NYC!Amita, right? Because that would be tragic otherwise.

meish: Sure. I don't see how canon!Amita gets to NYC!Amita now. Because canon!Amita is stable, and I think if it ends now, then she's the strong one to break it off.

denz: What if it's Charlie who ends it?

meish: Maybe that leads to NYC!Amita. But possibly she gets it, and is saddened by it. I don't think she'd be in enough of a crisis to make that drastic a cut. It would be sad in that cliché way, and it would hurt like a mofo, but she'd deal with it like an adult. I think that's the difference.

denz: Hmm, maybe. Actually, again, I don't think it matters because I think she ends it with him, not vice versa. I think ultimately, he's more invested in this now than she is (which, you know, ironic) [...] she's secretly strong. Or not so secretly. She doesn't fall apart the way Charlie falls apart. I think we have to put NYC!Amita to bed. Y/y? Y.

I don't really like posting IM conversations/email chains, and I wouldn't have done so this time because I don't think it's easy to understand who NYC!Amita is (long-story). BUT! Flist! From what you can tell so far - Amita is stronger than Charlie, or nay?

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In case you couldn't tell from this post, I'm back to working on the numb3rs100 prompts. I don't know why but it's so different to working on the first c.80 that I did. Anyway, I'm debating with myself how to post them because I have a few sets that I can post right now. I think I'll wait until this month's prompts are all published so that I can finish with the end of the month. I should really be working on my numb3rswom3n and numb3rswriteoff prompts. Um. Yeah.

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We did this word association thing today in Experiments in Writing, and the tutor asked me to read my list out. After which the following comment was made. "Curious. It's interesting that you ended with 'tumult'. There was a lot of violence in there." !!! WHAT. Hmm. (Denz! Maybe this is why NYC!Amita comes across so aggro?)