#Cather Avery

[true-bluesargent]

thinking about how all cath's problems in fangirl would have been solved if she had the common sense to change the names in her fanfics before she submitted them. like girl you CAN submit fic for your creative writing class just take 5 minutes to change the details

[strawberryscare]

during my most recent reread of fangirl the detail of cath struggling with her anxiety so much that she refuses to find where the dining hall is and how it got to the point that if her sister wasn’t there she’d rather eat jars of peanut butter and protein bars is so genius for so many reasons. it characterizes cather very quickly, it aids in the starting her friendship to her previously aloof roommate (as said roommate immediately has cath eat with her upon finding out that cath’s “freaky eating” was due to lack of information), and it represents cath’s relationship to college in general. that’s why it’s so striking when in the last few chapters cath notes individual, slightly off-beat foods at the dining hall in one of her last meals with reagan for the year - asking herself “where else could you get this?” and how she was going to be able to go without it for summer break. she almost dropped out several times because she hated university so much but by the end she savors drinking tomato juice of all things. i just love every bit of this storytelling!!!

[onepintobean]

happy 10th birthday, Fangirl! here's to 10 years of emergency dance parties🎉

Where would any of us be without Fangirl?? I remember reading it for the first time and feeling like I found a book that knew me in a way most books didn’t. And through the years, it’s only become more important to me.

If I might be allowed to be so so sappy for a moment, this post is a little tribute to the emergency dance party, the Fangirl reference that’s changed my life the most. I love this little corner of the Simon Snow fandom. I love that this reference has become a place for us. A discord channel, a party central, a conversation hub, an events planning committee. A space for people to show up and be together.

Thank you, Fangirl, for introducing me to Simon and Baz, and thank you, Fangirl, for introducing me to so many of my best friends. I love you guys ♥️

So here’s to Fangirl, and to my fellow fangirls and fanboys and fans. I hope I’m still dancing with y’all 10 years into the future, too.

[chemicalarospec]

finally picking up my Fangirl re-read again (it is DATED and I kinda love it for that) and aspec Cath tbh... "wouldn't want to kiss a stranger" and stuff. It's giving demi-ness, romantic or sexual or both. Knowing Rowell I think she'd also find just vaguely-aspec!Cath cool too.

[imberlae]

[rissyrosie]

I decided too name my favorite couples on my ‘favorites’ bookshelf from what I read:

~ Laura Jean and Peter Kavinsky from ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ by Jenny Han

~Jaewoo and Jenny from ‘XOXO’ by Axie Oh

(Yes I pictured Wony as Jenny and Taehyung as Jaewoo)

~Macallan and Levi from ‘Better Off Friends’ by Elizabeth Eulberg

Quentin and Margo from ‘Paper Towns’ by John Greene

~Jo and Laurie from ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott

Percy and Sam from ‘Every Summer After’ by Carley Fortune

~Levi and Cather from ‘Fangirl’ by Rainbow Rowell

America and Maxon from ‘The Selection Series’ by Kiera Cass

~Beyah and Samson from ‘Heart Bones’ by Colleen Hoover (only coho book I liked from her)

~Felicity and Alec from ‘Paper Hearts’ by Ali Novak

[harperthebookkeeper]

"'Just...isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?' 'It sets a dangerous precident' 'For avoiding pain?' 'For avoiding life'" Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell

[thelunarbar]

So a few days ago I ordered the book Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. It showed up today and I started reading it and just finished it and I’m having so many thoughts.

It honestly feels like it was written about me. So much of it resonates with me and almost mirrors my life.

I loved it and I’m little annoyed with myself for reading the whole thing in day, but it was so fucking good! Definitely be rereading, most likely very soon!

[tethrras]

fave female character poll

i never do these tag things but i was tagged by my loves @pinkfey and @rosebarsoap so i figured i would actually do one for once to forget the Miseries so. here it is.

i tag @lvllns @faarkas @twiddlestix @faerun @rosykims @wildmelon and whoever else wants to do this. and SORRY if you've done it already. i've been losing my mind

[lexalovesbooks]

I remember reading fangirl when I was like thirteen and there being that mini plot thread throughout the novel where for the longest time Cath was too scared to go to her college’s dining hall because she didn’t know how it worked and was terrified she’d accidentally embarrass herself so instead she just spent half a semester eating peanut butter and granola bars until her roommate noticed and forced her to go with her. And that just really stuck with me because even at the time it felt like something I would do and I thought about it for years and years and then when I was finally at college on my own and I knew. that I needed to go to the dining hall and get food and eat but I was scared to do it on my own because I didn’t know the rules and what if I did something wrong or embarrassed myself and I couldn’t even ask my roommate to go with me and make it less scary because I didn’t have a roommate (covid protocol). Anyways Cather Avery most relatable character ever.

[imberlae]

[iamamythologicalcreature]

Yup. This.

“This is why I can’t be with Levi. Because I’m the kind of person to fantasize about being trapped in a library overnight.” - Cath Avery (Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell)

I’ve never related more to a book character- 

[captain-is-king]

tagged by @thatonesquintern13

i don’t do a lot of these but this one seemed easy so i thought i’d give it a go :)

rules: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters, then tag five (or however many!) people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s favorite.

I absolutely could not just pick my top five favorite characters because that is TOO VAGUE there’s too many!!! and also, do i like the character as a character or because of their attachment to a franchise/the person who portrays them (examples include but are not limited to Mal from Descendants and Figueroth Faeth from Dimension 20) so instead i chose characters who have left irreparable marks on my psyche! characters who i feel a deep sense of connection to and who i have stolen traits from to become the person i currently am :)

Tagging:

@feigningroyalty

@koco-coko

@greek-praetor

@booknerdmusician

@g0lightly

[she-karev]

📚June Book Review📚

5/5 Stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Read to me sweetheart.”

The title is self explanatory and basically summarizes the book. My best friend recommended it to me and I am so grateful that she lent me her copy. There has never been a literary character I related to more than Cather Avery. She’s introverted like me, a book lover like me and most importantly she writes fanfiction like me. It doesn’t just show Cath writing for her fans it shows her learning to step out of her comfort zone little by little without changing who she is and what she likes to do in her free time. I always thought it was stupid of me to write stories that are set in someone else’s creations but this book showed me there’s nothing wrong with sharing your imagination to the world. Even if there’s backlash you shouldn’t let it stop you from doing what you love.

[avee155]

I feel like I'll never find another book I love as much as Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, and I am devastated that I've finished it. It usually never takes me longer than a day or two to finish a book; however, I purposely took over a week to finish Levi and Cath's story. I used my entire stack of orange sticky notes for this, and I don't regret any one of them.

I'm not sure if I've ever related to a character as much as I related to Cather. I recently wrote about my freshman year experience, and I did so because I received my college diploma in the mail. I also was reminded of how painfully hard it was for me to be a freshman while reading Fangirl.

Cather Avery is a writer, but she doesn't believe she can create her own world from her own words. I was in Cather's position a year ago. I remember the first day I spent in Tom Franklin's Fiction-Writing class; I was petrified after he let us know only publishable stories would earn you an A in his class. I thought about dropping Fiction-Writing, because I was afraid I wouldn't be as good as the other writers around me. My class was filled with real writers; publishable writers.

Tom wasn't fond of the first story I turned in, and I didn't deserve for him to be proud considering I turned in an excerpt of a story I had written for my Beginner's Fiction class. I was so afraid of starting something new; I was Cather. My day came for my classmates to critique my story, and my palms were sweating. I had been writing for days; I had been trying to come up with a story for weeks until I finally stumbled onto something. I had never written anything like Virago before; it wasn't full of Faulkner sentences. It was straightforward and dangling on the edge of too much dialogue. And the only thing I remember Tom saying was, "only a sophisticated writer would write this."

Rainbow Rowell is sophisticated; she is simple. She doesn't need sequins or diamonds for her words to stand out, and that's why I love her writing. I'm not sure I've ever read an ending so simply written; I've never smiled so much at an ending. I smiled at all her words.

"It's just... everything. There are too many people. And I don't fit in. I don't know how to be. Nothing that I'm good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn't matter-and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it's only because people want something from me. Not because they want me."

There are people who learn that my major in college was English Literature who look at me differently. Some always have a snarky comment to make; some people always somehow find a way to tell me I worked so hard for pointless degree. It doesn't matter how much I love words, and it doesn't matter that books changed my life. They tell me 'good luck with that' and smirk. I would be lying if I said it didn't bother me, because I've cried plenty of times over it. But, the thing is, I'm a writer. I'm going to make it as a writer, because I have these stories in my head that don't go away until I write them down. Because people have told me I am talented. It's so hard to do what you love when it's categorized as belonging in Liberal Arts, but I know that if you really believe it can happen then it will. And it doesn't matter if you're published or not; what matters is that you just keep doing what you love because it feels so good.

"Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy," Wren said. "It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for."

Rainbow Rowell writes love stories, and what I love about them is they aren't overzealous. She shows readers that love doesn't have to be dramatic, and she shows readers that the greatest love stories don't have to end badly. They can end so purely; they can end so simply. I used to be petrified that I would only ever write love stories. So many people seem to look down on them, but that's what I write. You write what you love, and there's nothing I love more than reading about two people finding each other. I write love stories, and it makes my heart so happy. Because happily ever after really is the "most courageous thing two people can shoot for."

"Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?"

"It sets a dangerous precedent."

"For avoiding pain?"

"For avoiding life."

I'm just in love with Rainbow Rowell, and I'm so thankful that she helped me without even realizing it. We can't avoid things in our path because they will be hard or because we will get looked down on. I'm so, so happy my friend, Alison, forced me to read Eleanor & Park, because I would have never picked up Fangirl otherwise, and I would have missed out on so much. I want to sit on the floor and read this book every day for the rest of my life, and that's so magical.

And like I said, I almost gave up Tom Franklin's class because it was going to be hard, and because I was afraid he would make fun of me for writing love stories. And I'm so glad I didn't, because, had I quit, I would have read this:

"Alex - Well, this is an excellent opening to a story. I'm eager for the mother-in-law to visit. You write excellent dialogue and use drama well. Excellent prose. Let me know if my notes need explaining. - TF"

Scert gift for you 👇🏿

[tiny-bird-of-sunshine]

these aren't even really headcanons since this is all from information in fangirl, their neurodivergency was just never confirmed in hard terms

cather avery is neurodivergent and has a sensory disorder

i can't decide whether she has either adhd or autism, i feel like she has a mixture of both. she is written a lot like simon in AWTWB (or I guess the other way around)

levi has adhd, and possibly dyslexia but his reading issues are more attention based

i could add more characters from other stuff but i'm just putting fangirl characters here

characters that are neurodivergent because i said so:

simon snow (simon snow series) has autism and adhd

penny bunce (simon snow series) has autism

newt scamander (hp fantastic beasts) has autism

sirius black (hp marauders) has adhd

james potter (hp marauders) has autism

remus lupin (hp marauders) has dyslexia

sherlock holmes (bbc sherlock in particular) has autism

klaus baudelaire (a series of unfortunate events) has autism

todd anderson (dead poets society) has autism

jake peralta (brooklyn 99) has adhd

everyone in the good place is nd in some way

the doctor (particularly 11 and 13)(doctor who) has autism and adhd

90% of demigods (camp half-blood chronicles) have adhd and/or dyslexia

pleas please please feel free to reblog with your own additions