#heartstopper ep 7

[counting-stars-gayly]

Every time I think about this scene I think that Nick must have been ready for Charlie to apologize because his “no” was so immediate and because his facial expression before the apology is one of realization and anticipation of something horrible.

#just look at his fucking eyes in the second gif #look at them #heartstopper #sad boi hours #nick nelson #charlie spring #heartstopper tv #heartstopper tv show #heartstopper tv series #hstv #netflix heartstopper #heartstopper season 1 #heartstopper s1 #heartstopper ep 7 #heartstopper alice oseman #alice oseman #charlie heartstopper #nick heartstopper #charlie x nick #nick x charlie #narlie #heartstopper gifs #kit connor #joe locke #heartstopper show #heartstopper series #charlie and nick #nick and charlie #lgbt shows #queer shows

[superhuman-bean]

Will Tao and Elle just get together already omg

#heartstopper #heartsopper show #heartstopper ep 7

[ridiculousimplicity]

Heartstopper Ep7

NOTE: There are some cuss words down there. I advise you to go ahead and read this with caution.

Gosh, Tori really pops up outta nowhere! xD

And I feel older sister magic woven with concern for little brother here! So sweet! She must know how the boys used to bully him last year. Oh, OH! She's in Higgs! Is she not in the same form as Tara, Darcy & Elle?

Ooooh, another party!!

I like Charlie's dad too. :)

Wait a minute, why does it feel like Ben & Harry will be there even if Nick said they wouldn't be?? (>.<)

Aww.. CHAR! A nickname!

How dare you say you won't ever call him by CHAR again!! :P

Somehow I feel like Ben must've been watching Charlie and Nick's interaction in the theatre since he was sitting right behind them. >.<

And really Harry, just because you are rich doesn't give you the ticket to be nasty and mean to people. If you want to genuinely have a conversation with Charlie then do it properly without putting him in the spotlight. But if you intend to tease mercilessly and cruelly then piss off!

"I'm honestly used to it by now."

Hearing this just broke my heart. I understand how fucking frustrating it is to be judged for no reason, used for your capabilities and not spared even a second glance because you are no longer useful to them. Those boys (and girls, in context of Tara and Darcy) have nothing better to do but gossip and make others miserable.

HOLD ME BACK! This other piece of shit named Ben said WHAT?!?! You have nothing but bitterness inside of you, don't you? You feel small because Charlie rejected you? Buddy, news flash! You feel small because you think yourself to be small! You have so many insecurities boiling inside of you, spilling out of you that you don't realise that you are confused AF and confuse others as well! You are trying to be macho when all you are coming off as is a bitter and miserable boy.

BITCH, WHAT THE FUCK?! Harry, you are a downright, miserable, unfunny, stupid asshole! What I said to Ben applies to you as well.

I just want to hug Nick. A big bear hug for Nick. I feel so bad for him for being surrounded by such nitwits that have nothing better to do but laugh along that idiot Harry's "jokes".

Charlie, honey, again, you do not have to be used to hearing those unfunny, vulgar, abusive words. It is one thing to ignore that shit and not let it affect you, but it's a completely different story to pretend to ignore it and still let it affect you, and basically resign yourself to hearing it again and again and again.

It seems like Harry doesn't have anyone in his family that could help set him straight and see the error in his ways.

Oh god, Tao.. Please let Charlie explain. Don't assume he didn't tell you out of spite or something..

"Is it supposed to be a potato?" "It's supposed to be a shoe."

*wheezing*

Ayy come on! Don't say you're barely friends anymore to Charlie. *so worried*

Oh god.. It's such a fucking mess..

#Heartstopper #Heartstopper Ep 7 #Netflix #Reactions #Charlie Spring #Nicholas Nelson #Tao Xu #Tori Spring

[footedhickory]

Heartstopper levels of adorableness and longing and twinkling lights and “Just Like Heaven” in the background?

This show is going to break me.

#the last of us #tlou #tlou show #tlou hbo #tlou ellie #the last of us ellie #last of us #tlou riley #ellie x riley #heartstopper #adorable #💛😭💛 #episode 7 #tlou ep 7 #tlou episode 7

[m4rs-ex3]

IM GONNA CRY

#charlie spring #nick x charlie #heartstopper #heartstopper chapter 7 #i get more feral with every new ep #this is the sweetest fucking thing i've ever seen

[ccherryred]

in the bookshop scene with Isaac and James Alice's book Loveless is on one of the display stands

#heartstopper #alice oseman #heartstopper s2 #heartstopper s2 ep 7 #loveless

[newtness532]

like 2-3 weeks ago i started rewatching heartstopper but i never finished it so im gonna go do it now

#i left it at ep 7 which is just so sad but at least ep 8 comes next which starts very very sad but then it gets very very sweet #jo says stuff #heartstopper

[septemberbells]

episode 6 liveblog

#heartstopper liveblog #i think nick is trying to come out to his mom which!!! good luck nick #nick googling bisexual after pirates of the carribean with her tho #tara and darcy are so cute omg #darcy and tara hyping elle up about her crush on tao is so cute tho seriously toooooo #'there's still one person who doesn't know we're a couple' after they get caught in the practice room late for rehearsal just hangin out #'it always pays to be prepared with antihomophobia cheese' yes cheer tara up she deserves it #nellie is the goodest girl actress i love her so much tbh more nellie pls #i love how tara and darcy adopt nick like yes hello you're the baby gay and we can help #omg the meddling gays coming together to set elle and tao up #elle and tao sharing earbuds tho!!! so nostalgic tbh i used to share with friends in middle school #tara and darcy <3 they're stuck in the practice room together and darcy's being supportive #awww interlinked pinkies to support his scared boy at the movie hope the friends aren't assholes except the episode is titled bully sooooo #oh yeah on ep 7 now #nellie is being the goodest girl again on screen thank u puppy actress so good at act and be sweet #i think nick's mom is trying to help him come out without forcing him out of the closet #nick not letting charlie apologize for nick defending him is *snaps* #omg the lil 'tao and elle' at the bottom of the shoe potato drawing #tori loves her little brother so much!!! #mr ajayi!!! dispensing advice and love!!! #nick's mum just telling him she loves him and that he doesn't have to like girls and yes she knows what bisexuals are because #she wasn't born in the eighteenth century

[sillypenguinwitch]

isaac's books in heartstopper s2

episode 1:

Tillie Walden: I Love This Part

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: Ace of Spades

episode 2:

Nina LaCour: We Are Okay

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

episode 3:

Ocean Vuong: Night Sky with Exit Wounds (the one he is carrying under his arm, I'm assuming that's his and not for the display?)

has read: Ritch C. Savin-Williams: Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth

Emily Henry: Book Lovers

episode 4:

Victor Hugo: Les Misérables

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince

Kate Chopin: The Awakening

Nina LaCour: We Are Okay (again)

episode 5:

Albert Camus: The Outsider

episode 6:

Martin Handford: Where's Wally? The Great Picture Hunt

Meredith Russo: Birthday

Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days

Sara Pennypacker: Pax Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas: How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are ? ? ? Damian Dibben: The Color Storm Alice Oseman: Loveless Susan Stokes-Chapman: Pandora Katy Hessel: The Story of Art Without Men ? Evelyn Waugh: Rossetti Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles A.O. Scott: Better Living Through Criticism ?: Then We Came to an End (?) Ruth Millington: Muse Dr. Jaqui Lewis: Fierce Love Charlotte Van Den Broek: Bold Ventures - Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy ?

Richard Siken: Crush

episode 7:

Garrard Conley: Boy Erased

George Matthew Johnson: All Boys Aren't Blue

Samra Habib: We Have Always Been Here

episode 8:

Akemi Dawn Bowman: Summer Bird Blue

Angela Chen: Ace

bonus:

Truham school library pride display (seen in ep. 3 and 8):

top to bottom, left to right: Angela Chen: Ace Andrew Holleran: The Kingdom of Sand Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan: 100 Queer Poems Scott Stuart: My Shadow Is Pink Lotte Jeffs: My Magic Family Tucker Shaw: When You Call My Name Ritch C. Savin-Williams: Bi - Pansexual, Fluid, Nonbinary and Fluid Youth Alok Vaid-Menon: Beyond the Gender Binary George M. Johnson: All Boys Aren’t Blue Mason Deaver: I Wish You All the Best Alex Gino: George Melissa

on top of shelves (left to right): Kevin Van Whye: Nate Plus One Xixi Tian: This Place is Still Beautiful Becky Albertalli: Leah on the Offbeat Mya-Rose Craig: Birdgirl Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other Connie Glynn: Princess Ever After Saundra Mitchell: The Prom

Charlie's choice at Shakespeare and Co (ep. 6): Allan Hollinghurst: The Swimming Pool Library

That's it for now.

Sorry about the ones i couldn't identify and sorry if i missed any! Might try and do some of the ones in Isaac's room later but that'll take a minute

#hearstopper #heartstopper s2 #isaac henderson #books #shakespeare and company #lgbt #charlie spring #alice oseman #aspec #aroace #aromantic #asexual #heartstopper season 2

[thedecadenceofwar]

i've just watched the ep. 7 conversation with ben for the second time (spoilers)

it's a lot, and it's really fucking heavy, and this time just like the last i had to pause and walk away, especially because of the moment after charlie leaves.

ben hope in this season, somehow more than last, is extremely punchable. he smirked a lot, notably. but in this moment you want him –

to just take a step forward.

the thing about ben in that apology was that he really believed that he was being so sincere, that he had figured something out, and that once he apologized, it was all gonna be okay. but he still wasn't able to comprehend that what he did wasn't just bad, it was wrong, and it severely affected charlie (see the charlie spring spectacular for more). and he was so pitiful! "I just wanted something good. You were something good."

he says to charlie: "If I just had more time." he tells nick: "charlie didn't even give me a chance to figure myself out." his whole argument hinges on the idea that he WOULD have been better, that he COULD have been better, if only they understood that none of it was his fault, never his fault – charlie was the one who didn't give him enough time, or nick was the one who stole charlie. he's dead set on being the victim. the victim of his parent's disapproval, of charlie's impatience, of nick "messing up [his] life." he refuses, even in the apology, to acknowledge what was actually wrong, acknowledge his actions. he says, "I was a dick back then." "I'm a messed-up person, Charlie." why, ben? why? what did you do, exactly, that makes you such a messed-up person? he doesn't know. he knows what he wanted: "something good," and he knows that he fucked it up, because he doesn't have it anymore, so he must be a bad person.

and it's – in a moment, for a second, you feel really bad for him, because he's smiling a little, and he's so sorry, and he really liked you, charlie, you know that, don't you. but then charlie speaks, and you watch his face fall, and fall, and fall. because he wasn't expecting charlie to call him on his actions. you can call yourself a bad person and get away with it until you face your actions head-on, and charlie is a collision.

here's the thing: ben says, "I want to be like you two, but my parents would never accept who I really am." but then when he's alone, with no one to see him but himself, faced with a safe space, one that is literally, narratively, welcoming him, he walks away from it. the waves lap at his feet. he could take the first step towards being better right there. redemption, right there. and goddammit, you're supposed to WANT HIM TO! because without knowing it he's hit on the theme of the season: be who you are on your own terms. being honest with yourself, by yourself, is the first step. and ben can't.

if ben wanted to apologize, he would have taken charlie's explanation, and he would have walked into those waves, and taken a chance on being honest with himself. but he just wanted liberation. he just wanted forgiveness. he just wanted to stop feeling bad about himself for long enough to feel good about being the victim.

ben hope is a tragedy. alice oseman and the writers know that most of heartstopper's audience is queer, that most of heartstopper's audience knows exactly what it's like to take one step forward into a queer space for the first time, and the terror and bravery that accompany that. you've been there, faced with a choice, walk forward into freedom and light – or walk backwards into secrecy and darkness.

And Ben makes his choice.

I think sometimes that becoming a better person means walking forward even when you know you don't deserve it.

#heartstopper #heartstopper season 2 #heartstopper spoilers #heartstopper meta #heartstopper analysis #ben hope #my stuff #i think that's all i can think of to say at the moment

[grapehyasynth]

heartstopper ep 5 thoughts (more coming as i watch)

-tao acting like he has to give nick The Talk when he sees the hickey -nick packing a croissant for charlie <3333 -lmao mr farouk "i didn't give a rats arse rudeboy"???? -i love darcy but she is NOT making this easy on poor tara -elle looks so pretty in her eiffel tower dress -the way tao has clearly been beating himself up with the thought that he outed charlie -tiny year 7 tao and charlie!!! -"you're a good person who deserves love"!!!!!

#heartstopper

[twig-tea]

2023 BL/GL/QL Round-Up Post

I thought for posterity I'd post a reflection on everything I watched that completed in 2023. For me, that means anything that started in 2022 but the last episode was in 2023 is on this list, but anything that will still be airing after 31 December 2023 11:59 my time (EST) is not on this list, even if the bulk of the show did air in 2023.

A few stats:

110 discrete pieces of content (series/films)

clocking in at est. 600 hours of NEW BL/GL content only

from 9 different countries (Cambodia [1], Philippines [3], Hong Kong [1], Japan [18], Korea [19], Myanmar [1], Taiwan [6], Thailand [56], Vietnam [7])

~50% of the content I watched on this list is from Thailand

~85% of my content was on YouTube [40%], GaGaOoLaLa [23%] and iQIYI [21%].

[Note that this year a lot of older GMMTV shows moved off of YouTube and onto Viki so if you're looking at these stats to decide what to pay for, this won't account for that.]

This doesn't include re-watches or catching up on old shows [e.g. I re-watched Love Sick, My Ride the Series, Semantic Error, ITSAY/IPYTM, Our Dating Sim at least 3 times lol, and anything with a s2 I re-watched s1 to prep, among others, watched Fujoshi Ukkari Gei no Kokuru (2019) for the first time] or non-QL [e.g. Heartstopper s2, Our Flag Means Death s2, Taskmaster s. 15 & 16, Uncanny Counter s2, One Piece s1, etc.] but does include films as well as shows, though I don't count special episodes separately (so Wedding Plan counts once, though I watched both the show and the special).

I hope you all appreciate that with this much content, and with my general brand of being unable to make decisions, I really struggled to narrow down a top 10 list. What follows is the best I could do lol

Top 20 Shows I'd Recommend From This Year:

Moonlight Chicken

Our Dating Sim

Bed Friend

The Eighth Sense

La Pluie

Sing My Crush

Tokyo in April Is...

Wedding Plan

Laws of Attraction

I Cannot Reach You

I Feel You Linger in the Air

What Did You Eat Yesterday S2

I Became the Lead in a BL Drama

If It's With You

Love in Translation

Our Dining Table

My Personal Weatherman

My Beautiful Man: Eternal

My School President

Be My Favorite

+10 I liked but I would only recommend with caveats:

Love Class 2

The New Employee [for the Rainbow Rice Cakes]

Let's Eat Together Aki and Haru

Never Let Me Go

Kiseki: Dear to Me

Unintentional Love Story

The Day I Loved You

End of the World with You

A Breeze of Love

Jack O'Frost

Bonus: Not a BL but worth calling out:

One Room Angel

Midnight Museum

Grand Guignol

The Warp Effect

Sadly, of the GLs that aired this year, I wouldn't recommend any of them. The best one was Show Me Love, which was not actually good but had very gorgeous women and a LOT of flirting.

The other huge thing that happened this year was that I stopped lurking! Thanks specifically to @lurkingshan and @bengiyo demanding everyone start talking about La Pluie, because they got me to post my first meta post. And because I started actually talking to people, I started making actual friends, and participated in organizing things like the Be My Favorite clown checkpoint for ep 11. I also disappeared a month because of life, and am still catching up on everything I intended to write this year. But it's been really rewarding finding this corner of tumblr with likeminded people who like good shows, like to think about these shows, and who are interested in talking about them in a way that's insightful and respectful.

It's been a long time since I felt comfortable enough participating actively in a fandom, and I just want to say to everyone I've interacted with this year: Thank you!

Full list under the cut for anyone curious! [Mostly in order it aired but may be slightly off].

Love Bill

Director Who Buys Me Dinner, The

Star Always Follow You, The

Cutie Pie 2 You

Between Us the Series (Hemp Rope)

Reason Why He Fell in Love with Me Special & S2 [international release]

New Employee, The

I Will Hit You/I Will Knock You

Individual Circumstances

609 Bedtime Story

GAPYuri / GAP the series

My School President

HitBiteLove the Series

Never Let Me Go

Moonlight Chicken

History 5: Love in the Future

Oh My God (ToDo) the Series

Warp Effect, The

End of the World, With You

My Blessing the Series

Our Winter (miniseries)

All the Liquors

Once in Memory: Let Me Be Yours

Shoulder to Cry On, A

Jack O'Frost

Our Dating Sim

Midnight Museum

Me, My Husband, and My Husband's Boyfriend

My Colleague at BL Shop might be My Meant-to-Be

Unintentional Love Story

Chains of Heart

Bed Friend the series

Bad Brother the Series

Stormy Honeymoon

Eighth Sense, the

Bad Brother the Series

Future Series

Tin Tam Jai the series

Crush on You

House of Stars the Series

Happy Merry Ending

Boss and a Babe, A

Pastsenger the Series

Love Mate

Love Syndrome the Series

Promise the Series, The

Day I Loved You, The

Our Dining Table (Bokura no Shokutaku)

Our Skyy 2

My Story the Series

Starstruck

Love Tractor

Naked Dining

Luminous Solution, The

Omai Series / Is My Roommate A Foreigner

Stupid Genius

Step By Step

La Pluie the series

Tie the Not

Sing My Crush / Follow the Wind

Tokyo in April Is .../ Shigatsu no Tokyo wa

Senior Love Me?

Be My Favorite

Show Me Love

Dinosaur Love

Low Frequency

Stay Still

Stay By My Side

Jun & Jun

Wedding Plan the Series

Laws of Attraction, the

Love Class s2

Minato's Laundromat S2

Hidden Agenda

Bon Appetit

Why RU the Series [Korean adaptation]

Be Mine Superstar

Star, The Season 2

Love In Translation

My Beautiful Man: Eternal

My Personal Weatherman

Bump Up Business

Naughty Babe Series

Only Friends

Grand Guignol

Dangerous Romance

If It's With You / Kimi to Nara Koi wo Shite Mite Mo

Y Journey: Stay Like a Local

I Feel You Linger in the Air

Venus in the Sky

Kiseki: Dear to Me

I Cannot Reach You

You Are Mine

Breeze of Love / Weather Forecast of Love

Mr. Cinderella 2

Let's Eat Together Aki and Haru

One Room Angel

Marry My Dead Body

Lucky My Love the Series

Pure Vanilla: Recipe for Romance

Absolute Zero

Memories, The

My Dear Gangster Oppa

Shadow

What Did You Eat Yesterday? S2

Middleman Love

Beyond the Star

Bake Me Please

You and My Stars

I Became the Lead in a BL Drama

#2023 round-ups #bl meta #multi bl #typed so i can stop thinking it #twig talks #top lists are so hard for me this is the best I could do #if anyone wants to know anything about any of these shows feel free to ask! #best of bl 2023 #long post

[whatiswrongwithmelolz]

fav heartstopper images 🍝

Ton of information, none retained, probably. Be honest we all skipped that block of text. I love the little reactions Charlie has. From ep 7

#heartstopper #charlie spring #nick and charlie #nick nelson #bisexual #gay #lgbtq #alice oseman

[ccherryred]

THE FOLKLORE ALBUM POSTER IN TARAS ROOM????

#heartstopper s2 ep 7

[asaerwinarts]

Spoilers to Heartstopper Season 2 Ep. 7 : “Sorry”

Props to Sebastian Croft on his portrayal of Ben Hope and how this character is undeserving of a "redemption arc" just because consequences have caught up with his actions. Coming out is hard and has to be done on your own time and when it is safe to do so. But that doesn't excuse Ben on spreading his misery and harming others with it just because he has his own battles to deal with. Charlie doesn't owe Ben his forgiveness for what he did to him, and Ben will just have to live with Charlie's decisions. Bash and Joe gave a wonderful performance for this scene!

#procreate art #asa erwin arts #my art #alice oseman #osemanverse #heartstopper season 2 #heartstopper #heartstopper comic #nick nelson #nick and charlie #charlie spring #ben hope #kit connor #joe locke #sebastian croft #procreate #digitalart