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BoJack Horseman creator tweets heartbreaking ode to Marge Simpson

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Raphael Bob-Waksberg is best known for wrecking emotions as the creator and showrunner of BoJack Horseman. But it turns out he can do the same thing with The Simpsons too. In July Bob-Waksberg took to Twitter to contemplate the inner emotional life of Marge Simpson. The tweets got a little bit of attention at the time, but they’re really making the rounds on Tumblr, where Bob-Waksberg shared a popular post, noting, “Really glad my fanfic is taking off.”

Bob-Waksberg started his Marge musings with a simple question about Marge’s social life:

From there he decided to pen “a poem in fifteen tweets” about the blue-haired Simpson family matriarch:

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And what follows is an evocative, heartbreaking exploration of maternal ennui:

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[via Boring Old Raphael.Tumblr]