The Substance is actually about how you should sleep 8 hours a day. If you steal hours from your sleeping self, you'll end up harming your waking self.
Unfortunately we’re now caught in a cycle. The more she fails to mother, the more she mothers because she is becoming the mother of not mothering. Online gay culture is obsessed with an idea of camp and irony where the bad and ugly turn good and iconic. Unmother becomes mother.