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I fucking love this book :)
LOVELESS
I LOVE LOVELESS, GEORGIA WARR YOU ARE MY SPIRIT ANIMAL
also its like super unfair that the us get the cool cover art for the osemanverse books
happy ace awareness week w iconic aroace fav, georgia warr from loveless 🖤💜🤍💚
read "loveless" being aroace is the most comforting thing that ever happened to me
I got four A grades. That's the highest you can get at AS level.
I expected to be happy about it. I expected to be jumping up and down and crying from joy.
But I didn't feel any of that. It just wasn't disappointment.
Oh fuck I felt this
For the one millionth time I just finished Radio silence (perfect way to start off pride) and for the millionth time I am crying and for the one millionth time I so badly want the life of Frances and for the one millionth time I have goosebumps.
And every time, I have fallen in love with this story.
I am the person that I am today because when I was 14 i would wake every day before school and put this on the background reading my favorite passages from the book and writing universe city podcast episode of my own
Radio silence it seams like I've been quite taken away from you
ATTENTION RADIO SILENCE ENJOYERS‼️‼️‼️
Universe Friday, this blog inspired by 'Universe City', has now officially been brought to YouTube with the first episode "icarus", recorded by yours truly.
If you have been wishing for more Universe City content, then look no further. Especially the many people who have asked me to record my excerpts! It's here! Come look!
Please check it out! I'm super proud of this, despite how long it took. I will still be answering all asks about this in @friday-answers' ask box!
Thank you! I hope you'll be listening...
EXCERPT #33:
Hello. I hope somebody is listening.
[...]
I am doing well, thank you for asking. In fact, I have been searching for a new favourite hiding spot, actually.
The last one ended up being infiltrated by a group of youngsters, and suddenly there were too many people there who could mess with my things.
Hell, once, some teen actually took one of my things! Those menacing kids… The only person I truly trusted in my hideout was Thalia. I don’t think about her much these days.
On another note, I can’t wait to try out this new hiding spot, although it is a big risk, as you never know when them kids could show up. It seems they end up finding all of my good hiding spots! I would hate to have to be an adult and kick them out.
I want to have a good spot for my set-up, one that allows me to talk on this radio to anyone who may be listening, like you, dear listener, directly. Especially so without this bad, busy background noise. I do apologise for my microphone, it seems to have been bugging out recently.
I do miss talking to you, old sport. I am always wishing back the old days. But, instead, I must not dwell on the past. Instead, I need to keep looking towards the future.
People say a lot of things about the future and its memories. That they’re scary… Unknown… Even dangerous. But that mustn’t stop you from dreaming and fulfilling those dreams. They could come true, you know?
You must be true to yourself, old sport. Keep on shining.
And, always, keep on listening.
[...]
Did anyone here read radio silence for the first time because of kat from the yt channel paperbackdreams?
"On the first of November (29th of april) , I turned eighteen . I expected to feel different but, of course, I didn't. I don't think age has much to do with adulthood "-radio silence
What I sometimes be putting on my universe city pintrest board.
It's giving universe city if it was a harry Potter house...
As a fan of heartstopper who is also a lesbian I hate how people keep painting the narrative that the show is bad representatiom because its not "gritty"enough or that its made for the straights. First off Heartstopper deals with some very serious topics; Charlie was accidently outed by Tao and got bullied to the point he developed an eating disorder, Nick is constantly battling biphobia, Elle was bullied for years while transitioning, Tara and Darcy have to deal with a huge amount of lesbophobia from their peers and the show recently added scenes that suggest Darcy has a difficult home life.
Just because the show has cute squiggles and leaves instead of a dark colour palate and moody lighting doesnt mean its not a serious show. Also Heartstopper may be cutesy but the novel isnt chaste and sanitized in the way people often portray it. Nick and Charlie have some serious conversations about intimacy and how to balance that with Charlie's insecurities due to his ED. They also have sex and there is even a scene where Nick and the girls go on a college trip and they stop to buy condoms and lube and have a conversation about safe sex.
Heartstopper is an incredibly important show. I think alot of its haters take for granted just how healing it is for queer teens to have a show about queer joy and community while still seeing the characters deal with serious issues in a way that feels authentic. Nicks whole arc with coming to terms with his bisexuality and coming out was a gift within itself and the shows constant messaging about never assuming people's identities and letting people figure themselves out is more relevant than ever.
I'm not saying Heartstopper is the pinnacle of queer representation in media. What I am saying is that this is a good show that has done good things for the community wheter you like it or not. I'm also saying that just because a teen show is cute and heartwarming and isn't hyper focused on drugs and sex doesn't mean it lacks depth not every show is euphoria. Not every teen is doing drugs and having loads of sex and thats fine.
Also stop trying to say Heartstopper doesnt match up to Ofmd or Young Royals or Good Omens. It doesn't have too they arent even in the same categories and believe it or not we can hold space for more than one popular gay show at a time without them being in competition.
Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.
EVERYTHING IS BETTER UNDER THE STARS
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 ^_^
thank you :,] hope you enjoy it as much as i do
Re-reading radio silence, is like reliving an old memory, a one that is "yours", a one that YOU own . And we never even get to do that with our "real life" "own" memories, and at this point I'm not even sure why we keep combining the word "real" with the word "life".
just for the record. i'm actually only at university as the creator of universe friday because it gives me inspiration.
i feel the dread and stress with the undertone of wanting to die and go 'guys this is sooooo aled last'
i am actually not here for a degree only for this tumblr blog
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?
This is awesome
kinda proud of this ngl
Universe city themed wall paper/ lock screen
I don't think I belon there.
I never actually even Invisioned my self there.But here I am and "there" is actually "here" now.
I don't get it at times, I have been not getting any of it for months now. I don't really know what to do , I just know what I'm feeling, and what I've been avoiding to face.
But this is safe, this is a safe space. If I take off I'm nothing, there's nothing out there in the real world .old sport ..
"Do you listen to universe city?"
" i am universe city "
if they really wanted to see you, they'd COME !!! but they won't. who cares ? /ly
Radio Silence (an Aled Last CMV) @the-dreamers-production