Not Your Schizo-Affective Pixie Doom Girl

J Gonzalez Blitz
Nov 7 · 3 min read
image copyright 2019 JGB

It’s midday and I’m standing in a long line at the market, swapping one-liners on Twitter with a guy who makes a joke about men who seek out their own Manic Pixie Dream Girl. (Does anyone still talk about Manic Pixie Dream Girls in 2019?) I make a self-aware wisecrack about endorsing the message while ignoring the trail of broken Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl-Seekers in my wake. Briefly I wonder if I should be so flippant…

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J Gonzalez Blitz

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Multi-discipline artist. Appears in Drawing Power anthology from Abrams Books, WW3 Illustrated, Tales From La Vida, etc. jennydevildoll.wordpress.com/

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