kelpling · 3mo
hellooo i LOVE ur art first off!! its amazing and it so wonderfully captures emotions in a way i (personally) feel i rarely see in art, its absolutely beautiful! i have a question about the relationship between ronnie and max! so in some of your posts you add things like like putting girlfriend in quotations and the fact that max didnt like ronnie much and i wanted to ask if that was all/mostly from max’s misogynist views or if their relationship was more complicated than that? i know obviously max cheated on her but i didnt know if their relatiomship was generally complicated or if max was purely just lowkey an ass 😭 thank you in advance if you respond + sorry for how long this is 😭
Ahh thank you! Ronnie and Max's relationship is a weird case. I often put girlfriend/boyfriend in quotations because they were very on and off and never very faithful. By technicality, they were together, and Ronnie even lived with him for a while, but never much of a romantic love or mutualistic understanding. It was a relationship of convenience, sort of. They both got company, Ronnie got easy drugs, and Max got easy sex. Max's misogyny and general aloof attitude definitely contributed to the disfunction of their relationship — he would dismiss her and insult her in pretty demeaning ways and enjoyed the feeling of lauding power over her. But he also cared about her in many ways. Even if the relationship was unstable and toxic, there were undoubtedly close and the most consistent presences in one another's lives. For as much as they fought and he mistreated her they also shared sparing good moments and they looked after each other. It didn't mend anything, but it was there.
