...already labelled as voluntary monsters

Insomnia.

I thought it was vending anxiety, but that's not it. Not really.

Part of the reason has to do with playing the storygame Monsterhearts wherein one of the characters is a 16-year-old transsexual. Her (first? only?) story arc completed tonight. She (1) probably avoided getting sent off to military boarding school and (2) managed to cease being the Xander/Bella/Tara/background/target in the group by "getting some fucking powers already," or at least not having to worry about further experiences with the wrong puberty sans access to (much) social or (any legal) medical support. Which is to say she became undead.
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I could take it because it's fake, but it's real. Looking at your options and knowing that your best option, your only option, is to become "a monster?" I know that.

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