i think we as a society need to start accepting that fictional love stories need to be a bit toxic for us to go insane over them… like, sometimes you kinda need the two parties to be obsessed with each other and fucked up and willing to bring each other back from the dead instead of moving on and go to therapy i’m sorry😔
Connor combs my hair back and leans close to whisper, “So long as I may be living, I live with you.“ I reply what I replied nearly three years ago, “In spirit and in mind, I live with you."He brushes my tears with his thumb, one kiss away from my lips, he breathes, “I live with you.”
Rose Calloway and Connor Cobalt
Kiss the Sky, Fuel the Fire and Long Way Down by Krista and Becca Ritchie
So the subplot of Holes is that Kate Barlow deals with the politically-sanctioned execution of her black boyfriend—who unlawfully kissed a white woman who was in love with him!!!—by becoming a serial killer who targets racist/sexist white dudes who harassed her, were rejected, then went after her boyfriend as revenge from the depths of the “friend zone”.
Go off Louis Sachar, let em know!
Don’t forget the main plot was a damning satire of the brokenness and inherent racism of the American justice and prison systems! Louis Sachar does not fuck about
It always fuck me up that older people don’t understand how this story is as essential to most american children as Gone with the Wind or Mary Poppins was.
unironically, this is one of the best books/movies for young people that exists
Kissing Kate Did Nothing Wrong
And the technical writing of Holes is perfect. Like, it’s one of the most technically-perfect books ever written. Basically any plotting or pacing or characterization issue you’re having, read Holes and really study how Sachar did it. THE LIZARDS! THE LIZARDS.
the twisty prophecies! the lizards! the lipstick! the humor! this book doesn’t play. a true classic.
Actually obsessed with how Wyn wants to touch Harriet all the time. How he literally loves her so much he couldn’t get over her when he tried. How he calls her his gravity. He’s so sickening miss Emily henry I am in your walls.
ok we all know “war, then” is eddis’s coldest mic drop and you might say that “diplomacy in my own name” is attolia’s, but actually the line of hers that always gives me chills is
ALT
