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Meat and Bone Page 196. And this closes the arc! FOR NOW. Hijinks ensue on Tuesday, when I’ll be back with more Meat&Bone, as ever.

Anne wants so much more from Marshall that Marshall is willing to give, it seems. Every page in Meat&Bone is some metaphor for my own problems, some more literal than others, and Marshall is a particularly metaphorical character. My own eating disorder and attachment issues are mirrored in her story, even though it’s been fictionalized so much it’s unrecognizable. Still, working through the most honest scenes in this comic can be very hard for me, bringing up a lot of memories from when I wasn’t eating, or from when I was locked in a fast & binge cycle, which was a lot more common for me. These cycles have always been triggered by emotional episodes over my relationships, every time.

I’ve been reading the comic “I Don’t Have an Eating Disorder” by Khale McHurst, and it’s really made me question the honesty of Meat&Bone. Khale tells her story with such raw and unfiltered imagery. I wish I was better at being vulnerable and straightforward with my experiences that made me need to tell this story. Maybe it would affect people more then. Measuring my self worth with the popularity of a comic is a terrible thing to do, and kinda impossible not to do when I see every note and reblog. I wonder if I was better at exposing myself, if this would be a more relatable story.

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