i recently read Radio Silence for the first time and if you’ve ever read it, yk that tumblr plays a pretty big role in it and now literally every time i post something on here i feel like Frances Janvier
I just read radio silence a few days ago and have been trying to figure out the feeling it gave me. I knew it was something to do with a story focused on friendship but that wasn’t it. There are lots of amazing stories that focus on friendship and radio sielnce is one of them but radio silence has something else that is unique and I have never read before. I kept describing radio silence as a romance but with friendship. I meant this both in the way that radio silence follows the arc and some of the tropes of a romance (especially at the start) but also because it gave me the feeling of a romance. I have never read a book about friendship that gave me the close to the same feelings as reading a story about a romantic pair. I have never read a story about friendship that felt heartstopping and gave me butterflies in my stomach. Radio silence showing that you can still have that feeling with friendship and not just with romance means so much to me as someone who is ace, that those heartstopping, butterfly moments are not reserved for romantic relationships for alloromantic people, that we can have that too, is frankly groundbreaking. Aled and Frances’ friendship is so beautiful and unique and heartstopping and I can’t stop thinking about it.
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
“and i’m platonically in love with you.” “that was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but i appreciate the sentiment.”
@chronicintrovert just an appreciation post for radio silence, my all time fav book. this book is so personal to me in many ways, thank you so much for writing it <3
[id: a five-panel digital comic drawn in warm tones of frances janvier and daniel jun from ‘radio silence’. the first panel shows frances sat at a table with her head resting in her hand. there is a disposable coffee cup in front of her. she says, “i know it’s stupid but i still wish i could go to cambridge just for all the uni life stuff.”
the second panel shows daniel with his own disposable coffee cup halfway to his mouth. frances continues, “there’s jsut such a culture of it there that i don’t think i’ll find at art college.” daniel replies, “you can just visit me.”
the third panel shows frances with wide eyes and raised eyebrows as she looks at daniel. the fourth panel shows daniel, confused and looking at frances, with a question mark beside his head.
the fifth panel shows both of them, leaning slightly away from one another, each with extremely confused expressions. frances says, “are you joking??” to which daniel replies, “no??”. end id.]
extremely rare danielfrances content. neither of them are used to daniel being nice.
I recently reread Radio Silence by Alice Oseman and I was reminded of how much I loved it! Here’s a redraw of this piece from a few years ago of Aled and Frances.
