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universe-friday · 21 hours

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EXCERPT #28:

Hello. I hope somebody is listening.

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I haven’t seen her since I last spoke to you, old sport. It’s been harder to wander the streets of the City these days. It’s been harder to get up and get the day started. Thalia and I were so close… We went from spending all our time with each other, to not speaking for days at a time.

What possible reason could she have…? For someone who cares the same way, she certainly doesn’t enjoy showing it.

It is so hard to read her mind. She doesn’t give me much to base any guesses on… If only she would talk to me. Have a conversation with me. One that doesn’t lead to her deflecting, or running away.

Every time I think we’re so close, but then the tide just goes back in again. And when that wave comes crashing back into shore, are we ever able to ebb and flow the way we once did?

Or am I back to drowning, waves crashing into my lungs I am no longer able to scream…? Did she ever hear me? Can she hear me?

I suppose I never recalled walking to the beach in the first place, old sport. But I found comfort in the waves. I found myself in the waves.

[A small and distant knock is heard in the background. Equipment rattles. Radio stutters in astonishment.]

Hello…?

THALIA: Can I come in…?

[Beat.]

THALIA: Please, Radio. Can we talk?

RADIO: …Okay. Come in.

[Door squeaks open, footsteps approach.]

RADIO: Hold on. Let me just mute this call quickly.

[A button is pressed, but sound continues to play. A chair squeaks and footsteps get further away. A conversation begins from afar, distant and quiet.]

THALIA: Radio, I… I am so sorry.

RADIO: I know. You say this every time… Do you want to get to a point?

THALIA: I want to be with you. But… I can’t.

RADIO: What do you mean, Thalia? What do you mean, ‘you can’t’?

THALIA: I mean that I can’t. I care for you… So much. I have never met anyone else like you. But, I just can’t be with you.

RADIO: I don’t understand… That makes zero sense, Thalia.

THALIA: I know. And I’m sorry. I can’t… I can’t explain it very well. I just- I have other commitments-

RADIO: Other commitments?

THALIA: In the City. And I-

RADIO: What can even be meant by ‘other commitments’? There’s someone else?

THALIA: No, Radio. There’s no one else. I just… I can’t be with you.

RADIO: We’re in the City… What possible- What do you mean… I… How could you have other commitments? You don’t have time? How is it possible to have that problem here, Thalia? I run out of things to keep myself occupied, stuck here. And with you gone, even fewer things. And I just have to be stuck here while you go and do other stuff? Leave me, even though I love you?

[Silence. A quiet, but suppressed sob is heard as it breaks past Radio’s boundaries.]

THALIA: It’ll pass…

RADIO: But what if-

THALIA: I love you too. And it’ll pass.

[A much louder sob is heard. It comes from both Radio and Thalia, this time.]

RADIO: [Quietly, through tears] Will I ever see you again…?

[Beat.]

THALIA: I think… that wouldn’t be good for either of us.

[The conversation fades into radio static. After a while, this fades to silence. Until a melody softly begins to play.]

♪ There’s nothing left for us anymore Why aren’t you listening? Why aren’t you listening to me? There’s nothing left. ♪

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sprnklersplashes · 1 month

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what people think alice oseman books are like: blushing awkward first meetings, little chaste first kisses, giggling teenage boys holding hands what alice oseman books are actually like: hey what if your entire personality is actually a carefully constructed facade to make other people like you and to disguise the fact that you don't actually know who you are. if you stripped away all the walls, all the artificial things that you think make you up, what would be left? what would happen if you stopped living for other people and started living for yourself? is there even a person in there or just a gaping void with nothing left in it? wouldn't that be fucked up? do you even know yourself? do you even have a real personality anymore?

#alice oseman #radio silence #solitaire #tori spring #frances janvier #aled last #nick nelson #i was born for this #jimmy kaga ricci #lister bird #angel rahimi #michael holden

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omokel · 8 days

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get radio silence'd NERDS!!! 1!1! (fuckass alien plushie under the cut :3)

here he is. The fellow

#radio silence #radio silence!!!!#aled last #frances janvier #aled and frances THE bffs of all time #all i wanted was YOUUUUGHHH (purple aled)#having sooo many thoughts about them. and their ugly alien plushie son who i saw on pinned interest #osemanverse #fanart #my art

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dearheavenn · 8 days

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Finally rereading my favorite book and decided i needed to draw them :)

#radio silence #alice oseman #osemanverse #aled last #frances janvier #toulouse #might have to turn back to traditional art #fanart #radio silence fanart #osemanverse fanart #scetchbook #doodles

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justasolitarianboy · 2 months

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ilianazzzosemanverse · 2 months

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"girl-boy friendship doesn't exist."

Well, they exist:

#radio silence #radio silence alice oseman #osemanverse #alice oseman #frances janvier #aled last #frances and aled #friendship

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purpletrashcans · 2 months

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Frances separating herself into "school Frances" and "real Frances" is so fucking relatable

#radio silence #frances janvier #aled last #alice oseman #osemanverse #universe city #carys last #radio silence alice oseman #raine sengupta #stuck in universe city #toulouse

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lonely-girl-1612 · 4 months

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I only noticed this right now but Frances and Aled have matching flower tattoos that’s so cute

#alice oseman #osemanverse #radio silence #aled last #frances janvier

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osemanverseswiftie13 · 7 months

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amen to that

#alice oseman #osemanverse #heartstopper #nick and charlie #nick nelson #charlie spring #lgbtq #radio silence #loveless #georgia warr #frances janvier #i was born for this #solitaire

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sofiaisanalien · 5 months

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To all the people who might read this, I hope you will find beautiful friendships and sweet love stories with people who truly deserve you, I hope it will be just like the kind of relationships that Alice Oseman always tends to write about in all of her books, I hope that every Tori out there finds her Michael, every Charlie finds his Nick , every Tara finds her Darcy, every Tao finds his Elle, every Frances finds her Aled and I hope all Ben hopeS on earth would disappear.

Take care <3

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friday-answers · 10 days

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they are gonna hate me for this but...

OSEMANVERSE MOOTS ‼️‼️ may i have your attention!!!!????

my lovely friend is a film student who created their final project inspired by radio silence, creating a film version of a universe city excerpt (well, multiple excerpts cut up into one) with some of their own words.

i think it is AMAZING with this awesome fucking TWIST at the end which is just so so cool

if you would be kind enough to check it out, it's here! on youtube ^_^