SO YOU CAN TELL ME WHY MY LIFE IS SUCH A DISASTER.'Ģ) "'OMG HAHA - Did you just take a pic of me? I want more, forever.ġ) "'I'm working towards a psychology degree to become a therapist.' I feel seen like when I read a rude, true astrology take, and even though I'm too grounded to believe in astrology (typical Taurus!), I still examine my behaviour. I feel like I have been seen in the same way I do when a friend tells an extremely relatable, often embarrassing, ultimately heroic tale (preferably over a pack of cigarettes on some fire escape, somewhere).
She is foolish and silly, but also brave and honest and vulnerable.
In Wendy's Revenge we see the first real adult moves of her art career being made: Machiavellian politics, grade-school social hierarchies, wacky hijinks, and all. She's smart, but also cares too much about being smart, and more so about being perceived as smart. Wendy is not a straight-through sympathetic character: she is self-indulgent and usually has a black hole where her discipline should be. My friend with a psychology degree mused to me once that people with low self-esteem will consider negative feedback as inherently more honest and worth hearing than positive feedback. You know that Screamo is based on me, right?
Moments later, having seen a post about my reading and enjoying that book on instagram, that same friend messaged me: This was reinforced when, as the character of Screamo was introduced, I chuckled to myself about how much he reminded me of one of my closest friends. As an only recently sober, often-dysfunctional, self-important multidisciplinary artist, in my twenties, who lives in an art loft in Montreal, I can't help but feel there is slightly more Wendy in me than the average person. At a book club I lead, where we were reading the third and most recent Wendy book (Wendy, Master of Art), one of the attendees mused that there is a little Wendy in all of us.
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