Frances and Aled from @chronicintrovert ’s radio silence!! I absolutely adore the book and now the giveaway has finally given me the kick jn the arse that i needed to finish the picture i kinda started two years ago lmao
I recently read heartstopper and I absolutely loved it ! For the people who haven’t read it : I definitely recommend it, it reads very fast and it’s very comforting <33
I love how Alice didn’t keep Aled in the show because it wouldn’t have done justice to his character as a whole, but let Isaac read Radio Silence. He was there, just not physically.
hi, i’m alice oseman and i write contemporary YA about existential crises and lgbt+ teens and deep friendships and finding your way through this bitch of a life
It’s Asexual Awareness Week, which means that though I’d do it any time of the year, it’s the optimal time of the year to recommend and gather recommendations of media with asexual protagonists. Today I want to talk about two brilliant geeky YA novels with main characters that are not only relatable, complicated, and funny, but sit on a perhaps lesser-known place on the asexual spectrum: these are two characters who are confirmed asdemisexual.
Demisexuality is when you only begin to feel sexually attracted to people once you form a strong emotional bond with them. The most common misconceptions about it tend to be that the demi in question is just “picky” and chooses to get to know people first, or that they’re no longer, or never really were, asexual at all once they find someone they like enough to be attracted to. As with the many grey areas along the ace spectrum, it can be a tricky thing to both explain to people and define for yourself, especially given how society so easily conflates romantic, aesthetic, and sexual attraction all together as one big amorphous thing when they’re really separate and very different feelings—and, as always, different for every individual person!
I know that I’m somewhere under the ace umbrella, but finding an exact word to define my unique, personal scenario has kind of felt like I’m a sleep-deprived detective staring at a conspiracy board trying to link evidence together with bits of string. While I’m still bumbling along trying to figure myself out, it was immensely rewarding and heartwarming to read these two books where characters (who are younger than me, mind you) get to not only find happiness in their ace identities and have fulfilling relationships, but get to be the stars of moving and engaging stories.
sometimes i think I’ve moved on with my life and my brainrot is leaving me, and then i find myself awake at 2am wishing i had a charlie spring to my nick nelson
i think that,, elle argent is so important. trans representation is far and few in between no matter what, but trans representation like hers is,,, basically non-existent. her character exists without being all about transphobia and a difficult gender identity, but also mentioning that she’s struggled. her character is about her personality. how kind she is, how funny she is, and how much she loves her friends. trans characters are so often represented as suffering constantly, or being lonely because everyone is transphobic, etc. alice oseman gave her a chance to be happy and beautiful and friendly, without the darkness that trans rep tends to come with.
