Fic rec: Karen from HR

[spindizzy]

So Karen From HR by unpretty is pretty good so far, by which I mean oh boy, the person who's really good at writing about suicidally depressed people knocked it out of the fucking park again so far. Corinne's such an unreliable narrator, but she's funny and done with everything and so recognisable in her "Okay sure I'm depressed and die basically every other week, but I'm FINE. I'm fine! Why does Bruce(!!!) Wayne(!!!) not believe me when I say I'm fine! Why are you asking about my trauma?"

(She even does the thing I did where it's like "My face is leaking but it's fine, I'm not upset! It just does that!" ... Wow it's really weird to have to go back and put that in past tense, what is that "improving my mental health" bullshit.)

Plus, unpretty is really good at world-building Gotham and writing about normal people living there. Like, Bruce Wayne being a very attractive cryptid who collects and becomes memes to upset his teenagers is good and my favourite thing about their fic in general, and "Oh shit I accidentally trauma bonded to Bruce Wayne and now he's both hot and IN MY HOUSE" is an arc, but! Normal people in a world full of superheroes! Gimme!

... I genuinely love it when people crack out their stories and OCs from when they were younger to see what they would do with them now. Yesssssssss please share what's creatively resonated with you at different ages! Show us the roots of who you are as a creator so we understand what you've grown from! ... Is that weird?[Caution warnings: suicide, depression, fatshaming, gun violence]