airheadedness arc
A defined period in someone's life — or a character's story — where their airheadedness is at center stage, usually played for comedy or warmth.
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A defined period in someone's life — or a character's story — where their airheadedness is at center stage, usually played for comedy or warmth. The airheadedness arc often precedes a glow-up or a getting-it-together era, making it retrospectively endearing. You look back at your airheadedness arc and wince, then laugh, then maybe even miss it a little — before going back to triple-checking everything.
My junior year of college was genuinely my airheadedness arc — I once showed up to the wrong campus for an exam.
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