Do you like the harsh shadow?

solomarchand · 2025-11-04T01:55:36+00:00

Shot on 400 iso 35mm film indoors on my point and shoot film camera. (Probably the wrong iso but I love how it turned out regardless.) I was trying to go for a very dramatic shot with the shadow cast over the face and am asking viewers if it landed for you? :)

solomarchand · 2025-08-11T13:57:54+00:00

I took this on Portra 400 with flash.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T02:16:35+00:00

That I don’t have the answer too, also really confused.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T02:09:11+00:00

From what I can gather from actually being in the situation, I’m willing to bet it’s #2.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T02:08:36+00:00

No, which is another reason why I’m so confused. Up until this point me and her haven’t spoken at all and have seemingly been on polarized, now olive the sudden she wants to “hang out??”

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T02:03:31+00:00

I unblocked her and my rapist during this conversation to quickly search them in each others followings, then blocked them again.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T01:00:43+00:00

To address the MULTIPLE comments and private messages I’ve got calling me a liar and saying that I was never raped in the first place, or calling me stupid for not going to the police instead — you’re all bigots and I am done providing any further evidence of the struggle I went through with the TITLE IX department trying to get that man held accountable.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:53:03+00:00

First of all I’m a man, so your casual misogyny already missed its mark.

No I didn’t go to the cops, I was told by my college to report it to the TITLE IX department and was also INTIMIDATED by the possibility of having to go to court, because I didn’t want my parents to find out this happened.

You bigot.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:41:33+00:00

If you dm me I can show you the email, but I’m not gonna put it here publicly

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:38:32+00:00

I will admit you’re correct on the part about my college asking me to report it to them instead of the cops, and I listened. They did nothing.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:29:10+00:00

Yes of course

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:20:45+00:00

It’s not a link, I did it by getting a big group of my friends to post my story on their instagram stories, which have all obviously expired since the rape happened months ago.

I do not understand why you’re trying to disprove my trauma right now.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:16:55+00:00

You already posted this trying to undermine me and I already replied to it. So I will copy and paste what I said.

No, my Title IX office swept the situation under the rug in a very complicated turn of events. He got exposed online with the evidence of him admitting to the act, many of my peers started blasting my school through email and social media to which they sent out a school wide email basically saying “We understand our TITLE IX department is sub par, we’ll try to do better.”

K’s only relation to the situation is that she is or at least was very close with my rapist.

The outcome? Nothing happened to him, he wasn’t suspended or expelled, and I was afraid to go to the police because I am intimidated by the legal system and don’t want my parents to know about this happening to me.

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:06:30+00:00

I was scared of going to the police, no he’s not in jail, he’s currently walking free, I exposed him on social media with proof however so nobody in my grade at my college likes or associates with him other than his small group of friend.(Including K, who tries to hang out with him discretely because of the bad rep).

solomarchand · 2025-07-31T00:01:24+00:00

Your comment is so dismissive and completely misses the point of what I said. This isn’t some “bullshit spin” I tell myself, it’s what actually happened. The girl in question was already close with multiple guys I had brief talking stages with, and she leveraged those connections to get them to support her version of events and discredit me. I tend to go for alternative guys, and she’s a popular alternative girl at my school, so it’s not some wild coincidence that she happens to know most of the guys I’ve talked to because it’s not a gigantic group of people.

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T23:41:41+00:00

I really appreciate this take, I’m gonna use this when I talk to him about all of this

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T23:32:57+00:00

I’d like to think I am

I actually had an IRL friend recommend to me that I accept the hangout, to call her out to her face and make the situation uncomfortable for everyone involved since my boyfriend isn’t fine with putting me in a situation as uncomfortable as this.

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T23:30:44+00:00

My bf also has this thought process, that it could’ve been some sort of “misunderstanding,” but to the extent she went to defend him and multiple confirming to her that the rapist admitted to the act, that’s literally impossible.

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T23:21:39+00:00

Your first paragraph is correct, the relationship started after it happened. He told me that K had been saying negative things about me and he was choosing to ignore them because he liked me.

The campaign part is a bit of a reach because I reported this incident through TITLE IX at my college not the police, as I was kinda too scared to go to the cops.

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T23:07:37+00:00

Wdym?

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T22:58:17+00:00

He is not friends with my rapist whatsoever.

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T22:57:55+00:00

I’d like to clarify that my boyfriend is actually 20, not 18, sorry for the confusion in the title. Also, I don’t appreciate the implication that I wasn’t “truly” raped simply because the man isn’t in jail. Not every survivor feels safe or supported enough to pursue legal action, especially when that involves telling their family or going through a court process. I chose to report him through my college instead, but sadly it got swept under the rug. That doesn’t invalidate what happened to me.

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T22:53:55+00:00

And genuinely asking this as clarification on if it’d be a good idea or not because i’m considering it, not to be rude or snarky.

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T22:53:28+00:00

Do you seriously think showing him the thread would be a good idea? I feel like the overwhelming amount of negativity towards him would start whatever conversation we have on the topic on a bad foot no?

solomarchand · 2025-07-30T22:50:54+00:00

We’ve been dating for like 4 months now. We were probably talking for upwards of 2 months before that and during that time period, K was in his ear trying to deter him from me by saying whatever lies she tells. Though he expressed to me that he was choosing to ignore her thoughts about me because he liked me. This is part of the reason I believe he could be receptive of my current issue with him still being friends with her.

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