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aletterinthenameofsanity · 1 month

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Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

#love simon #simon vs thsa #simon spier #spierfeld #bram greenfeld #my experiences #meta #the importance of queer joy #heartstopper #becky albertalli #my mom also watched rwrb with me last year when it premiered #and let me tell you that was interesting sitting in the room with her for an r-rated romance movie like that

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thoughtkick · 1 month

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Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted.

Becky Albertalli

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perfectquote · 1 month

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Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted.

Becky Albertalli

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quotemadness · 1 year

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Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted.

Becky Albertalli

#Becky Albertalli #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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aseaofquotes · 2 months

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Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

#Becky Albertalli #Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda #journal

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heartstopperthoughts · 9 months

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Ummm is Imogen going to have an Imogen, Obviously plotline???

#heartstopper spoilers #heartstopper #heartstopper tv #alice oseman #imogen heaney #imogen heartstopper #rhea norwood #imogen obviously #becky albertalli #imogen scott

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queer-book-character-tournament · 2 months

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Bram Greenfield- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Kodiak Celius- The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

Remy Pendergast- Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

#Bram Greenfield #Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda #Becky Albertalli #Kodiak Celius #The Darkness Outside Us #Eliot Schrefer #Remy Pendergast #Silver Under Nightfall #Rin Chupeco #Adam Parrish #The Raven Cycle #TRC #The Raven Boys #The Dreamer Trilogy #TGT #Maggie Stiefvater #lgbt books #polls #queer book character tournament 2.0

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quotefeeling · 7 months

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Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted.

Becky Albertalli

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eldiariodetiara · 8 months

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The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.

Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

#book #books #bookworm #bookshop #bookstore #library #libraries #books and libraries #reading #book quotes #bibliophile #literature #booklover #booklove #Becky Albertalli #Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda #love simon

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sapphicsallyjackson · 8 months

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girls named imogen who have mostly queer friends and are really really strong allys who just happen to get butterflies when they look at a pretty girl >>>

#need all heartstopper fans to read imogen obviously #and all becky albertelli fans to watch heartstopper #imogen obviously #becky albertalli #lgbtq #bisexual #sapphic #heartstopper #imogen heaney #imogen x sahar

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perfeqt · 2 months

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Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted.

Becky Albertalli

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perfectfeelings · 8 months

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Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted.

Becky Albertalli

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perfectquote · 8 months

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Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won’t shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds of exhausted.

Becky Albertalli

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theartofangirling · 9 months

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also while I'm talking about books and heartstopper, anyone who watched that last scene with Imogen and went "is she....you know?" should read Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli (which is about a "straight" girl who's such a Good Ally she pretends to be bi for convoluted reasons and oops maybe she isn't so straight after all 😉)

#heartstopper #heartstopper spoilers #imogen heaney #imogen heartstopper #imogen obviously #becky albertalli #mp

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vkelleyart · 10 months

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Hi! Would you ever consider drawing any of Becky Albertalli’s characters? I would love to see Imogen and Tessa or maybe Bram and Simon and I think you’d do a spectacular job!

Hello there! I’m so glad you asked—I actually have drawn artwork of Becky Albertalli’s characters, but I’ve just been completely derelict in my duty to cross post it everywhere, which is negligent of me and another piece of evidence in the argument that someone else should probably be in charge of my social media accounts. Lol

Here is Imogen and Tessa from Albertalli’s amazing book Imogen, Obviously:

So, funny story about this artwork: I had received Imogen, Obviously as an ARC from Becky after I’d left a comment on one of her posts about how excited I was for this book—primarily because “the discourse,” as it is referred to sort of sardonically in the book, still messes with my head when it comes to my own bisexuality. The more public my life becomes, the more I find myself discomfited by questions like “Am I still allowed to be queer if I’m in a straight passing marriage?” Or “Am I queer enough if, when people see me on the street or bump into me in the check-out line at Safeway, they don’t see a semiotically-dressed bisexual, but rather a slightly overwhelmed working mom in a cardigan and a pair of early-2000s capris?”

As soon as the book showed up, I devoured it, and like, I just can’t remember a book that made me feel so seen. Imogen, Obviously tackles queer purity culture so thoroughly and yet so compassionately, that I immediately picked up my stylus to draw Tessa and Imogen (even though I technically lacked the time to do the image as much justice as I would have otherwise like to have done) then posted it to Instagram and Twitter.

And holy smokes, Becky liked this pic so much, she retroactively commissioned the image so she could give out stickers of it on her book tour. She also granted me permission to sell the print in my Etsy shop (it’s not there yet, but soon!). 🥹

So that’s the story you didn’t ask for but which I had to share—because it looks like we both have an appreciation for Becky’s work in common and because I would love to spend more time drawing Imogen and Tessa or anyone from the Creekwood Series. Thank you so much for the ask and for your kind words about my art! 💕

#asks #Imogen obviously #Imogen and Tessa #fanart #becky albertalli

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heavensgateiowa · 11 months

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shoutout to becky albertalli. got absolutely lambasted for her very intelligent and heartfelt queer book because of its oversimplified, hollywood-ified, hit and miss but ultimately fine film adaptation (which never gets credit for being the victory that it was for queer rep because… people who couldn’t watch priscilla queen of the desert or paris is burning without passing out from shock decided it wasn’t ‘good enough’). she comes out. she gets lambasted some more. she writes a new romance book about comphet and allyship going hand in hand and breaking out of expectations, and manages to write a character you want to kill MORE than martin addison, to represent all of those swooning queers (but also acknowledge that they’re acting from a place of real trauma, even if their behaviour is unacceptable).

anyway give that woman her dues and if you’re in the mood for a delightful sapphic YA romance that’s also a massive middle finger to people who try to dictate the identities of others, go read imogen, obviously

#becky albertalli #imogen obviously #love simon #i already feel like lemon from that 30 rock meme where theyre booing her #ted talks

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