#and look where we are now

[dallonwrites]

LOVER BOY - WIP INTRO

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disclaimer: this is my own original work

Genre: Literary that wishes it were horror Setting: San Francisco, 1987/88 Aesthetics: fake blood, uncanny SFX in old horror movies, grainy home videos, a deeply orange sunset, retro arcade games, an empty mall, overripe fruit, anatomical heart models, heart shaped candles, leather jackets, rolling fog, the moon in the ocean, bowling alleys, red lights, trying to see a ghost in the hallway, real blood, mixtapes from former lovers, nightclub bathrooms, vampire fangs, neck kisses Summary: Sometimes, to cope with change and unpredictability, Beau likes to pretend he's the protagonist of a blood-soaked horror movie. And all he's ever wanted is a lover. But after the death of his childhood best friend he retreats into himself - frustrated at love and frustrated that Bobby hasn't haunted him the way he promised to - until he's jolted back by former friends needing his help with a movie project, an ex lover returning as new ones find new ways to hurt him, his friends and his community getting sicker, and a near death experience that comes with the urgency to record everything around him whilst he still can. The more that happens, the more he tries to find ghosts around him. The more times he sees blood on his hands, the more painful his old coping mechanism becomes, as his thoughts become less and less tasty.

what if you were autistic but you didn't know it because it's the 1980s and your special interest is horror movies and sometimes your brain feels a little bit blood-soaked but it's okay because it feels good! it makes you feel better, right? but then your best friend dies and also you lose the closest person you had to a lover and you wonder if you've wasted your time obsessing over romance but you don't have time to think about it because life keeps happening and nobody seems to care that your community is dying and no matter how hard you try you never see a ghost in the hallway or the bathroom mirror like you want to, and then your lover comes back but he's different, and so are you, and you really want to stop looking death in the eye, so you try to capture everything around you on your video camera to show that you were here, we were here and we're alive, and your queerness is your heartbeat and all you want to do in this life is love, so that's what you do, despite everything, whatever that love looks like, even when everything gets louder and brighter and too much to bare and you're starting to get scared by the blood in your thoughts

I call this "the culmination of my growing obsession with horror and the undergrad dissertation I wrote on how the AIDS crisis functions in queer narratives". I think it's my favourite thing I've started in a long time! There's so much flesh to this story that I haven't even dug my hand as deep into it as I could go. It's fun, it's silly, it's raw, it's sweet, it's emotional, it's complicated, it's a bit bloody, it's theatrical, it's trying it's best. It doesn't take itself too seriously but it's also crying in the bathtub you know

Characters (just a few otherwise this would get way too long)

Beau (he/him) the bestest boy in the whole world. Someone pleeeease take him to a farmers market on a chilled Sunday afternoon

Benji (he/him) Beau's little brother who Beau thinks is the bestest boy in the whole world. Even though he loves bugs and dirt and wants to be a shark when he grows up

Bobby (he/him) dead but before he died he thought being a ghost would be so fun. It'd be so much easier to sneak up on Beau! He could finally go to Fire Island! He loved handmaking jewellery and wanted to be a volcanologist.

Felix (he/him) the ex lover! He's doing sooo much better since the last time you saw him! Hey why is he crying in that movie theatre bathroom

Tiff (she/they) Beau's old friend and roommate. Tattoo artist who collects eye shaped decor and broken rotary phones. Lesbian/gay solidarity is the backbone of this novel.

Dorothy (she/her) In love with the moon and acrylic paints. What if you bumped into your ex boyfriends twin sister and feel like you shouldn't get involved but then you remember she's realllyyy fun to talk shit about people with?

#who peeped the hannibal/red dragon reference at the end of the summary LOL #wip intro #lover boy #long post #ALSO i will be reblogging a version of this with text image descriptions later today #THIS IS SOOO MUCH DIFFERENT TO WHEN I INTRODUCED THIS PROJECT LAST YEAR LOLLL #i deleted that post but remember when this was the Beaulix novel? now it's just Beau! #this is by far the most fun take on grief ive done in my writing about grief to cope with my own era #i read this wip intro and i remember 2020 when i created beau and he was just meant to be a guy that liked surfing and gave felix weed #and look where we are now

[oldkiteclan]

They said let her cook so I took some measures

#flight rising #fr hoard? #I'll only get some for baldwin fodder I said #and look where we are now

[nozunhinged]

What if the pit babe novel was just meant to be silly little f1 fanfiction...what then

#and look where we are now #is that what you call a full circle moment? #pit babe the series #pit babe

[kitxvoss]

kitbell in every episode / 5x6

#kitbell #kit voss #randolph bell #the resident #Jane leeves #bruce greenwood #theresidentedit #kitbell by ep #kb: 5x06 #kb mine #gahhhh when we thought for a split second they weren't going to be together #because of the promo for this episode #sighhhh #and then we got them AND #our first kiss #and look where we are now #mine #mine kv #mine tr #mine rb

[i-like-orange-juice]

I don’t know where I went wrong but somehow I’m in a pmseymour video

#pm Seymour #i was just like “haha what if I put a minimal effort post in the pmseymour discord” #And look where we are now #Youtube

[the-manderville-mambo]

I would just like to go on the record as stating that I called this as soon as Aglaia dropped

#ffxiv #ffxiv spoilers #endwalker #endwalker spoilers #all you people doubted us #but we opo-opo truthers persevered #AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW #6.5 spoilers

[h3xactinellida]

everyutme i see mikey wa smile i cry

#remember when mikey way why u no smile #rmemeber when #and look where we are now #ooobh #ow #mikeyway

[rochellehassan]

the sequel to the buried and the bound is called THE SUMMER QUEEN, and it officially has a cover! art by helen mask; design by samira iravani.

here’s a synopsis:

As a new coven, Aziza, Leo, and Tristan faced evil and triumphed. All that’s left is to put their lives back together, a process complicated by the fallout from painful secrets, the emotional and physical scars they now carry, and the mysteries that still haunt them. 

But with the approach of the solstice comes the arrival of strange new visitors to Blackthorn: the Summer Court, a nomadic community of fairies from deep in Elphame. They’ve journeyed to the border between the human world and fairyland, far from their usual caravan route, to take back something that belongs to them—something Leo’s not willing to lose. 

Refusing to give up without a fight, he makes a risky deal with the Summer Court’s princess and regent. The challenge she proposes sends Coven Blackthorn into the farthest, wildest reaches of Elphame. 

But when you play games with the Fair Folk, even winning has a cost.

the summer queen will be released on 1/23/24, and is available for pre-order now!

#booklr #fantasy books #ya books #lgbt books #book art #book covers #the buried and the bound #i love how they look together #the fox in aziza's arms is an important character who absolutely deserves a starring role on the cover #many of my plotting decisions way back in the early drafting stages of this book came down to me asking myself: #how can i put a sword in leo's hands? #and look where we are now #there might be a version of this cover with slightly different colors floating around online but THIS is the final! #tbatb

[snowddeong]

@codyquesting reminding me about the length of the promo too cause yes as glad as I was to see all those cake stages by that last week honestly.... imagine being unwell, travelling to LA for fucking kcon AGAIN then travelling back, getting maybe an hour or two of sleep then immediately off to music shows????? Did we really need them to be moving like that???? Mind you the company did jack shit to promote the song so they couldn’t even win anything. On top of ringo teasing starting in like the second week of cake era.

They don't give af about Lia they dgaf about ITZY and I'm baffled that company shooters are coming out of the woodwork again quoting jay why pee about mental health as if he's not the same person who pushed yejisu to that extent in the studio literally this year lmao. And that's how he acts on camera like mfs are stupid as hell if you actually believe he sees his artists as anything more than a way to line his pockets with money.

All I can hope for is that the girls don't renew and can somehow keep the name ITZY like Got7 fought to. Lia you deserve so much better.

#snowdd.txt #i'm still so heartbroken for her #anyone who's had a convo with me about Lia would know #I always say my top worry is that it'd get to a point where she's so overwhelmed by it all that she can’t perform #cause as much as we don't know and shouldn’t assume her life it's obvs that the hate and mistreatment she gets might affect someone #and look where we are now #i hate kpopies I hate jyp i hate div 2

[sanyastraightfrombrain]

Spy x Family manga reader experience is finding the manga and just knowing that it’ll get its own anime. It was just the matter of “when”. And look where we are now

#spy x family #i got into it when it was on ch 39 #It was praised heavily but there was barely any fan content #and iirc there wasn't any news about the anime #AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW

[nightingaleflow]

I refuse to join the chojuro brainrot🧍🏻‍♀️

All in due time.

#that's what I said at first too #and look where we are now #ask nightingale #Chojuro

[baron-von-slipped-on-soap]

Literally why don’t we just make trans categories in sports? Once upon a time we didn’t have women’s sports either but now that’s a legitimate and recognized category, why not do the same for trans athletes?

#Im not trans but that just seems like the next logical step to me?? Makes so much more sense than literally barring ppl from competition but #Discrimination is easier I guess #You’re not going to stop trans people from existing just make the damn category #There’s no reason for this bs argument to continue bc guess what? #We had an extremely similar conversation with women’s sports decades ago #And look where we are now

[st-hedge]

To the temple in the woods

#loz #legend of zelda #twilight princess #loz tp #link #that’s where we are headed #the fucking temple of time #now I know this is not what the way looked like in the game #and at this point link has the Hylian shield and master sword #I spliced a whole lot of references for the vibe the journey had #not accuracy #the in game sequence to discovering the temple and entering it to the music made me so nostalgic #I definitely cried a lil

[deityforged]

the imagery of ashmi blood soaked and sobbing her eyes out after killing like a dozen people because she's angry and upset and she's got no one to comfort her because well.... she killed everyone who cared about her (her siblings) or they had died prior.... big oof

#out of character. #all she wanted was to be held #and happy #and look where we are now

[patchw0rk-quilt]

the “has a neko girl persona” to furry pipeline

#i can attest to this it happened to me #when i was around 12-13 i had this gacha life neko girl persona who was creatively named neko #and look where we are now #also it’s funnier cause i vaguely remember being anti furry around that time. like i think i watched a furry cringe compilation or two #so yeah the pipeline exists #writing in my diary 📔

[buckhelped]

i'd forgotten just how much of an asshole pilot buck truly is. an asshole with a heart of gold for sure but very much still an asshole

#and look where we are now #bon.txt #bon rewatches 911