#radio silence
i think having the same mbti type as Aled and Tori (infj) explains a lot about me
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
“This expressed the idea that I didn’t give a shit about the election, even though the opposite was true”
-Radio Silence, Alice Oseman
Isaac: (reading Radio Silence)
Isaac: …
Isaac: I should create a podcast.
Alice Oseman,Radio Silence
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.
Radio Silence by Alice Osman
Spoiler Alert: Depressed LGBTQ teenagers turn their existential terror into a podcast
Frances: I’m not sure I’m capable of talking mindlessly, far too anxious for it
Daniel: You told me you were gonna ‘fuck it and photosynthesize’ today.
Frances: I’ll just do a bit of revision, it can’t hurt, it’s only 7 pm
*4 hours later*
Frances, on the phone: Aled I’ve had 4 cups of coffee in the past 20 minutes
Aled: you don’t even like coffee?
Frances: exactly
Radio Silence Characters as Things My Friends Have Said™
Frances:Real art is bullshitting
Aled:Right I’m gonna lie on the floor and forget about the play I don’t want to study
Daniel:I wish my parents sent me to boarding school
Raine:How to steal something - don’t know that you’re stealing
Carys:I’ve been trying to be a MILF since I was 6
BONUS!Lana:Yeet the drugs before they yeet you
Raine:*reading an article*
Raine: “New year, new me”
Raine: Time to destroy the patriarchy I guess
Frances: If somebody wants coal for Christmas, but they’ve been bad, does Santa give them a gift, or do they win either way?
Daniel: Frances shut up
Aled: No, wait, she’s got a point
Frances, to Aled: I’m going to sing a song for you.
Frances: It’s called ‘How I feel about you’
Frances:*takes a deep breath*
Frances:*high pitched screaming*