#us against you

[doloriads]

In the end, I’d do it all again. You’re my best friend.

unknown, coffeepeople on tumblr, ribs / lorde, mid90’s (2017), us against you / fredrik backman, war of the foxes / richard siken, radio silence / alice oseman, the morning star / anne carson, my friend / hayley williams

#on friendship #on first love #web weaving #parallels #lorde #ribs by lorde #mid 90s #fredrik backman #richard siken #radio silence #the morning star #war of the foxes #us against you #my friend #hayley williams #yearning #pining #mine #yes this post is about the same person from my pining post

[broresteia]

that william and benji scene…

#beartown #us against you #william lyt #benji ovich #doodles #cw blood #tw blood

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Hi! Can I request a web waving on a close friendship breakup but moving on and feeling bittersweet but happy that you met them?

i hope you're doing okay <33

pinterest / Fredrik Backman Us Against You / her (2013) dir. Spike Jonze / Mikko Harvey / pinterest / Ross Gay Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude / Maggie Nelson Bluets

#on friendship #on love #on loss #on heartbreak #web weave #web weaving #poetry compilation #poetry parallels #literature #fredrik backman #us against you #her movie #spike jonze #mikko harvey #ross gay #catalog of unabashed gratitude #maggie nelson #bluets #poem #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #poetry #spilled ink #dark academia #dark academia quote #dark academia poetry #writing #words #spilled feelings #spilled words

[contagiousrhythminmybrain]

Beartown series - first & last lines

Beartown pg. 1 Late one evening toward the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barreled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead, and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there. pg. 415 Because people recognize the bear around here. Cherry trees always smell of cherry trees. They do that in hockey towns. Us Against You pg. 1 Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. We'll end up saying that violence came to Beartown this summer, but that will be a lie; the violence was already here. Because sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else. pg. 434 Because it's a simple game if you strip away all the crap surrounding it and just keep the things that made us love it in the first place. Everyone gets a stick. Two nets. Two teams. Us against you. The Winners pg. 1 Everyone who knew Benjamin Ovich, particularly those of us who knew him well enough to call him Benji, probably knew deep down that he was never the sort of person who would get a happy ending. pg. 670 One day she will make us feel like winners again. Because she's the bear. The bear from Beartown.

#beartown #us against you #the winners #books #litedit #fredrik backman #edit by a

[viridializard]

more beartown art 🥲

#maya andersson #benji ovich #beartown #the winners #us against you #fredrik backman

[ellickalways]

idk if any of y’all are readers but please just go pick up any book by fredrik backman it will cure something broken in you. please i’m begging you.

#fredrik backman #the winners #beartown #us against you #my grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry #a man called ove #britt-marie was here #anxious people #any of these please #just go and read

[catocomet]

ohhhh shut up the way benji ovich literally gives and gives and gives and no one recognizes it because they refuse to look deeper or because he doesn't let them. its interchangeable tbh. the way he destroys the rest of the bathroom for maya. the way he gives her his and k/vin's island. i will never be quiet about him

#i love benji ovich #HATE fredrik backman though. hes too good of an author #benji ovich #beartown #us against you #the winners #beartown hbo #bjornstad

[genyasafinsmissingeye]

I can’t express to you how grateful I am that Amat and Maya never got together in Beartown. And how Maya didn’t get with anyone in the series.

Amat went through some serious growth, but we can’t forget that he witnessed Maya’s rape and allowed her to get cruicified by the residents of Beartown for it. Despite him knowing the truth- that Maya wasn’t lying- he didn’t say anything in favor of fitting in with the team. He did come out in defence of Maya later on, but the damage was already done. He chose to be silent. 

Maya forgave Amat and they became friends, but after what he did, having a romantic relationship would be off the table. Not only that, but because of Maya’s trauma from the assault, she probably wouldn’t be in the mental head space to date anybody. Even in the last installment of the series, she is getting there, but she isn’t ready to be with anyone romantically.

Not all female characters need romance subplots. Maya was a character that didn’t need a love interest, so she didn’t have one. She existed as her own character, and her plot focused on her, her familial relationships, and her friends. Some authors- mostly male- can’t comprehend that women can exist without a boyfriend, but Maya remained single the whole series. Another reminder that Fredrick Backman is a genius and one of- if not the only- man I trust to write female protagonists with grace and respect.

#beartown #Bjornstad #maya andersson #amat beartown #beartown amat #Fredrik Backman #us against you #the winners #benji ovich #benjamin ovich #kevin erdahl #peter andersson #kira andersson #books #book #anxious people

[soulluvs2read]

Us Against You | by Fredrick Backman ch.49

*screams in agony*

#I can’t stop thinking about this #and i can’t stop crying #beartown #us against you #fredrick backman

[ladysansa]

Alicent Hightower & Rhaenyra Targaryen, House of the Dragon // Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

#rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #rhaecent #rhaenicent #us against you #fredrik backman #web weaving #parallels #hotd spoilers #hotd #hotdedit #words #post*

[broresteia]

us against you

#us against you #beartown #doodles #might redo these but #the idea is there

[thebearsfrombeartown]

can't believe it's been a year since The Winners came out (in English) and I’ve read it three times and still haven't made any long/detailed posts about it. i can smell a beartown trilogy reread coming on any day now though. and then i will resurrect this blog and inundate you with new beartown content

#i say hopefully #optimistically #i haven't been a functional person lately y'all #this past year has been a fucking lot #lmao #beartown #fredrik backman #us against you #the winners

[theinquisitxor]

March 2024 Reading Wrap Up

I read 6 books in March, which was a little less than I was hoping for, but I thought the quality of what I read was very good. I read 3 fantasy books, 1 nonfiction, and 2 fiction. I read a few new releases and continued some series.

1.Us Against You by Frederik Backman (Beartown 2), 4/5 stars. I started March with reading the second book in this series, and it was just as emotional and good as book 1. I don't read a lot of fiction like this anymore, but I have been enjoying these books. I'm hoping to finish the series next month.

2. The Poison Prince by SC Emmet (Hostage of Empire 2), 4/5 stars. This is the second book in this courtly political east asian fantasy series. While the first book has bursts of action, this book was primarily no action/just politics. This is really shaping up to be a new favorite series which I hope to finish next month.

3. The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black (The Stolen Heir Duology 2), 4/5 stars. This was a good conclusion to this duology, and I think I enjoyed this book more than the first. I liked seeing some of the characters from the first series, and get caught up with what is going on in Holly Black's world.

4. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester. This was my nonfiction audiobook for the month, and the author narrated the audiobook himself. This is a huge topic for an author to try and address in one book, and I enjoyed the stories that Winchester tells throughout.

5. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors by Curtis Craddock (The Risen Kingdoms 1), 3/5 stars. This was my Random TBR Pick for the month of March. This book has been on my tbr since 2018, so I was happy to finally read it. This had a very unique world and setting which was cool to explore. Even though this is a series, I feel like you could read this just as a standalone. As of right now I don't plan on continuing.

6. North Woods by Daniel Mason, 5/5 stars. This was my favorite book I read this month, and a new all around favorite. This is exactly the type of literary fiction I enjoy, and checked so many boxes for me. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time to come.

That's all the books I read in March!

April TBR:

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

The Winners (Beartown 3) by Frederick Backman

The Bloody Throne (Hostage of Empire 3) by SC Emmet

Random TBR Pick: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

Nonfiction Audiobook / The Language of Trees

If I have time:

The Hedgewitch of Fox Hall by Anna Bright

Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland

#March reading wrap up #reading wrap up #fantasy books #bookblr #bookish #Beartown #Us against you #the poison prince #the prisoners throne #holly black #an alchemy of masques and mirrors #curtis craddock #north woods #daniel mason #my post

[cup-noodle]

feeling extremely normal about this:

Beartown, ch. 50

Us Against You, ch. 49

#mr backman i just wanna talk (with a knife) #my baby boy???? #and just now that he’s starting to be somewhat happy #i knew it was coming in book 3 but seeing it put so plainly hit me over the head with a hammer #*flings self off a cliff* #beartown #us against you #fredrik backman #benji ovich #beartown spoilers #noodle rambles

[foulranchhumanoidpeanut]

There should be a separate category called 'women written by Backman'

#backman is a genius #fredrik backman #beartown #us against you #a man called ove #anxious people #women written by Backman #maya andersson #kira andersson #ramona #sonja #fatima #Elizabeth zackell

[sun1seeker]

i want to put benji ovich in my pocket and carry him around so he never gets hurt and ask him how his day is going and beat up anyone who even looks at him the wrong way and give him my jacket when he’s cold and tuck him into bed at night and and and

#he is everything to me #i feel so strongly about him #it’s almost concerning #is this what being a mother is #beartown #benji ovich #frederik backman #us against you #the winners