omg, so re: a sad sweet anon in my box who was worried that i divorced the boys forever; they're FINE, baby!!!! i promise </3333 it was just a really bad, fucked up month and they're Fine after that (unless i create some other problems, but for now i will spare you)
BUT THEY ARE FINE, MY LOVE!!! SWEARSIES!!!!
i promise you that that on the night jerseykyle gets in that nasty bar fight defending ravenstan's honor (in his absence) against a band of idiot incel transphobes and shows up on their old apartment door step all broken and bloodied before he gets reluctantly tended to and patched up by punk rock nurse ravenstan via several hello kitty bandids...at the end of that exchange, they get back together. c':
kyle also says i love you. <3333
it's kind of a lot for me to speed run entire scenes because they take so long, but just for you, petal, i'm gonna try and get you the sparknotes on the ravesey reunion asap. and please know that as emotional compensation, in lieu of the jersey can't say i love you ask that i was never able to finish/threw into other answers...
i will instead be writing you...
the jersey CAN say i love you ask!!!!! eeee!!!
it's very cute; i'm excited about it.
tldr; ravesey is fine, i'm sorry for scaring you. :'c i promise!!!! i am a hurt comfort writer even though no one believes me!!!! i'm just so much better at the hurt part than the comfort, but i'll comfort you!!
so please hold darlings, and rest easy knowing that.
-mean nasty evil sea witch neen
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So, in preparation of the movie coming out next month, I reread Red, White & Royal Blue. I just finished it, and then I rewatched the trailer for the movie, and tbh, I have some concerns.
The thing I love so much about the book is the emotion. Alex and Henry are complex people with deep emotions. Confident on the outside, but struggling and nervous and anxious on the inside. Sure, the trailer looks fun, but I'm really hoping the more vulnerable sides of Alex and especially Henry are going to be shown in the movie.
The trailer also makes it seem like Henry doesn't like Alex either, at the beginning? Like, at the beginning of the book, the fact that Henry never really started out their interactions with antagonism like Alex did stuck out to me so much. Henry himself even says it! We know that Henry liked Alex the whole time, and it's shown through the fact that he always tried to be civil while Alex was the one who started their conversations with snark and sarcasm. That's why Alex enjoyed the moments when Henry would let a bit of fight come out. That's why it was such a noticeable thing to Alex when Henry snarked back at him during his first visit to England post-wedding.
In the trailer, it makes it seem like in the beginning, Henry doesn't like Alex just as much as Alex doesn't like Henry, if not more so. Movie Henry seems so openly antagonistic towards Alex, especially in the cake scene, and tbh it just feels wrong to me. The failure to portray Henry's feelings for Alex and his reluctance to participate in Alex's antagonism like the book does (especially considering we were seeing Henry through Alex's pov) makes me worry about whether or not Henry's more complex emotions will be shown in the movie at all, and Alex's too for that matter.
Also, I noticed that in the scene where Alex and Henry talk in the kitchen at the palace during Alex's fisrt visit to England post-wedding, it seems like they took out what was important about that scene and replaced it with surface level antagonism and snark to really sell the whole 'rivals to lovers' thing or something. It's like they're trying to convince us that Henry sees Alex just as much of a rival as Alex sees Henry, when that's just not the case. In the book, that's the scene where Alex really starts to see Henry for the first time, even if just for a moment. Not the put together Prince of England, but the sleep rumpled, pajama-clad insomniac who just wants some ice cream.
In the move trailer, it shows Henry wearing a dress shirt and tie, and his tone is snarky when talking to Alex, when in the book, Henry is genuine and unsure of himself. This is another time when we see that Henry has never really tried to be antagonistic towards Alex out of nowhere. In the trailer, it seems like Henry is going to be acting in the opposite way.
I'm not saying the movie has to be a word for word exact portrayal of the book because I don't believe that. A good adaptation will inevitably have to change things, but it only works if the changes make the story better, or at least if they make sense. Right now, I can't see the benefit of changing Henry's character so much. The Henry that I saw in the trailer, at least at the beginning of it, honestly doesn't feel like Henry at all to me.
The last third or so of the trailer, especially the clip of (who I'm assuming is) Bea asking Henry if he loves Alex, gives me hope that they'll get into the more emotional sides of these characters, but tbh I'm still kind of worried.
(Also, side-note, I hate the fact that June's character was cut entirely. She was there for Alex when he needed her, and her character gave us more insight into the complexities of the first family. She showed us that kids of divorce can see things differently when it comes to their parents, and as a child of divorce myself who has had differences of opinion with my sibling, I loved seeing that in the book with June and Alex. And, of course, there was her whole dynamic with Nora. I hate that she won't be in the movie at all. I hope they don't also cut the fact that Nora is queer.)
I don't know, I was skeptical of the movie at first after just seeing the teasers (though, tbh, I'm always skeptical of book to movie adaptations at first. Maybe it's the Percy Jackson fan in me), but after the trailer came out, I had more hope. Now, after rereading the book and having all the details fresh in my mind, I'm worried again. I know that trailers are made of clips that often times make more sense in context, so I hope the movie itself gives us more than the trailer implies. It makes sense that they'd want to mostly show the happier, more fun sides of things in the trailer so people will want to watch the movie.
I get that they might just be trying to go for a fun, not super deep, silly, comedic movie kind of vibe, but tbh, as fun and silly as rwrb is, it's also so much more than that. Some of my favorite parts of the book are the more serious parts. The parts where we see Alex and Henry's anxiety and insecurities. I really hope the movie shows at least some of these moments.
I'm definitely still going to watch the movie once it comes out, but I'm kind of concerned about how the story, and especially the characterization of the characters, is going to be portrayed. Hopefully, I'll end up being concerned about nothing. The last third of the trailer suggests that this will be the case, and I really hope it is!
I think the movie can still be enjoyable even if it doesn't show us the deeper and more nuanced sides of these characters, but can you blame me for hoping to see the reason why I fell in love with the book in the first place, the deep emotions of these characters, portrayed on screen?
(Tbh, I kinda lost track of my thoughts here. I think I'm concerned about Henry's drastic change in character more than anything else. It's easy to believe that there are more emotional scenes in the movie that we haven't seen hints of yet because obviously they can't show everything in the trailer. Henry's characterization, on the other hand... we've been shown two different clips of him that explicitly imply that he will be much different than the Henry we see in the book, at least in the beginning. Again, context is everything, so maybe it'll make more sense in the movie, but I can't imagine what context could be given to make those clips of Henry character accurate. And tbh, imo, there's no excuse for replacing soft, pajama-clad Henry in the kitchen scene with a dressed, snarky version of him)
(Also, the election isn't mentioned at all in the trailer? Tbh I think the book could have integrated the political parts a bit better than it did, but I still enjoyed it, especially at the end with election night. I guess if they set the movie in current day, an election won't make much sense, but the election and the stress and responsibilities that come with it add so much to Alex's character, and I honestly hope it's still included in the movie)
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wip blah blah blah im late on tags its not even wednesday haven't posted in ages ccau taking forever thank u zo @zozo-01 dying of dance disease so much uni work fed up w discourse just shut up and let me tell u about kissing boys
under the cut: its me writing gavin you already know whats happening here
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He hops up onto the counter with his pilfered mug of chocolate milk, legs swinging idly, inspecting the bloodbath of mixing bowls and ingredients that seems to happen every time you make this damn cake. “Hope you’re not expecting me to wash this up, my deviant. The amount of magic I’d need… Ugh, you’d positively exhaust me.”
“Really? And here I thought you liked it when I did that,” you say, crouching down to slide your cake tin into the oven and shut the door. “Don’t tell me you’re tired already.”
“Absolutely shattered,” he moans, taking another slurp of chocolate milk. “No energy left whatsoever - I really don’t know how I’ll stay awake all evening at this rate.”
“I must not be taking very good care of you, then,” Hoisting yourself back up to standing, you settle yourself between his legs where he’s sitting next to the microwave - he must catch your drift, if the interested look he gives you over the top of the penguin mug is any indication. “Letting my darling wear himself out so much… It’s just not fair.”
“Glad to see my plight being recognised.” The Pingu mug is promptly abandoned on top of the microwave, Gavin now much more interested in running his hands up and down your sides, and you shiver as he hooks his legs around your waist to pull himself closer to the edge of the counter. Yeah, he knows where this is going. “Though I can think of a way or two you could make it up to me…”
He gives you that big, pretty smile, lovesick and scheming all at once, and you’d be a fool not to give in.
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Meg has said that she isn't going to make TimKon canon and that's fine. At the end of the day a ship is a ship and not including a ship does not a bad writing make.
That being said, I do think that Meg needs to be very careful not to queerbait the fans. (and yes, it's still queerbaiting if Tim is bi because Kon is straight right now)
So far there hasn't been any glowing neon signs pointing to queerbaiting but she keeps talking about how she's "going to dive into Tim and Kon's relationship" and idk. I would like TimKon to be put to bed and not have it strung along as 'a maybe' for more views. Just have them talk about it and have Tim state that he used to have a crush on Kon but doesn't anymore. Or that he's never been into Kon. Or say Kon isn't into him or something. Anything. Just don't string people along.
I saw some speculation that Meg will do a Kon-Tim-Bernard love triangle and that's a hard no from me. Love triangles are overplayed enough as it is, we don't need one thanks. Also it really plays into the harmful stereotype that bi people are 'not loyal' and 'cant be satisfied with one person' and I'd like to just not do that actually.
Even if Meg has Kon come out and reveal that he's bi too or something just please make it clear that Kon and Tim are platonic. Or break up Tim and Bernard. Either or. I really don't care. Just don't string people along because that would be really shitty.
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