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Being the best and at the top is truly lonely 🥀✌🏾😂😂

Today is my sister's birthday! They just grow up so fast🥲 Wish her a happy birthday gang😄

Good morning chat🫡 New week, new opportunities. Let's go get this bread 🔥🔥

Genuinely an amazing take and piece of writing by @cerebralsymphony. Bro pushing me to upgrade my writing skills. Go check him out (plus he's an amazing artist too)

Fridging and Misogynistic Tropes in Literature The question of whether female characters are written well has long concerned authors and audiences. Tests like the Bechdel test, the Mako Mori test, and others attempt to measure representation, but another approach is identifying recurring tropes that reflect bias. One such trope is fridging. What are tropes and what is fridging? Tropes are common narrative devices or patterns used across stories to establish expectations or quickly communicate ideas. Examples include the damsel in distress (Cinderella), the chosen one (Harry Potter), and the mentor (Obi-Wan Kenobi). Tropes are shaped by culture and power structures, and they often carry embedded biases. One persistent bias in storytelling is misogyny: reducing women to supporting roles, limiting their agency, or defining them through male relationships. Fridging is one manifestation of this. Fridging refers to female characters being harmed, assaulted, or killed primarily to motivate a male protagonist’s emotional arc rather than serve their own narrative purpose. The term comes from Green Lantern #54, where Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt is murdered and her body discarded, prompting his story arc. Other commonly cited examples include Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man, Vanessa in Deadpool 2, and Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, where their deaths primarily function to advance male protagonists’ guilt, rage, or transformation rather than explore their own narratives. However, not every female death is fridging. Tragedy is a normal part of storytelling. Fridging occurs when a character lacks meaningful agency, when her suffering exists mainly to advance another character, and when the narrative shows little interest in her life beyond that function. A useful counterexample is Eo from Red Rising. Her death motivates Darrow, but she is not reduced to a passive plot device. She chooses to resist the system knowingly, making her death an act of ideology rather than narrative disposal. More importantly, Darrow’s revolutionary path is shaped not only by grief but by Eo’s beliefs, which continue to influence the story long after her death. The pattern is not exclusive to women. Male characters can also be used as motivational sacrifices, such as Uncle Ben in Spider-Man or Mufasa in The Lion King. However, female characters are disproportionately placed into this role, especially in action and superhero narratives. Male deaths are more often distributed across multiple narrative functions, while female deaths are more frequently reduced to emotional catalysts for male growth. If you're a reader trying to flag fridging, the following elements could be indicators: a lack of character development before death, absence of the woman’s perspective, and a sudden shift of narrative focus from her life to a man’s emotional reaction. If you're an author trying to avoid fridging, you should ensure female characters have independent arcs, agency, and thematic significance before any harm occurs. If a character dies, the story should treat that death as meaningful within her own narrative, not just as fuel for another character’s development. All in all, fridging is not about avoiding female suffering in stories, but about recognizing patterns where women are systematically denied narrative independence. Critiquing it helps highlight when storytelling reduces characters to functional tools rather than full participants in the narrative world. At its core, the goal is not restriction, but richer writing: stories where every character’s life, choices, and consequences matter beyond. their usefulness to someone else’s arc.

Talking about workouts, a friend of mine made me a plan which will kick my ass. Imma follow it and track my completion here for the next 7 days (I am so cooked)✌🏾

Sunday workouts hit different gang

🎉We’re excited to announce that Totals is now officially live on the Google Play Store alongside the v1.3.2 update. What’s new in v1.3.2: • Added support for CBE Birr, Ahadu Bank, Apollo, Berhan Bank, Hibret Bank. • Multi-category transactions for better tracking of mixed-purpose payments • Improved auto-categorization flows with clearer rule management • SMS reparse support to recover missed transactions more reliably • Category labels in transaction notifications • New SMS parsing patterns Fixes & improvements: • More reliable background SMS handling • Improved duplicate transaction prevention • Cleaner and more accurate SMS parsing • Fixed budget calculations for self-transfers Thank you to everyone who tested, reported bugs, and shared feedback throughout development. You can now download the offical app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=detached.totals

This heat got me understanding what scrambled eggs go through. World making me a scrambled nigga🥀

Good morning peeps, fabulous Sunday we are having today. Stay blessed🙏🏽

@Natyiu0 follows the channel (I definitely did not randomly find him on substack and "marketed" myself to him)😂😂 Really cool dude tho ong, wish to talk to the twins sometime✌🏾Have them block me for being a brainrotted (insta reel) techie🥀😂

Learned a lot about refresh tokens and refresh token rotation. Added something new to my arsenal gang, feels good!

Son✌🏾😭😭😭 Copilot cannot be real my nigga😭

Dawg it aint that deep😭

Congrats to the 2026 ICS batch for graduating today. Making me feel old af🥲

People entering @XcodeAndChill's channel after he decided to do a give away:

CINEMAS PLEASE RELEASE MICHEAL PLEASE😭😭😭

Clearpath is almost done. MVP wise at least but I'm so happy I kept going with this project. I hope to release before the end of May😁 #projectcore