#Cather Avery

[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 (to the early 2010s) 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]

[true-bluesargent]

i need to read cath's version of carry on so badly because like i know that's technically what carry on by rainbow rowell is supposed to be. but i know in my heart cath avery would have written it differently and i want that version

[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!

[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- 

[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]

[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

[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 👇🏿

[potentialbreakupscng]

muse update

fc change: regulus black - timothee chalamet → elliot fletcher (yes my regulus is trans) cather & wren avery - zoey deutch → kat dennings.

[potentialbreakupscng]

With how much she'd written Simon and Baz falling in love, nothing compared to the real thing. She always anxiously waited for him to text her back if she sent him a text -- she counted down days until they could see each other again. She would fall asleep on the phone with him -- when she tried so hard to stay awake to keep talking and to hear about his day, or read what she had written that day. Part of her couldn't believe that he was there -- and for someone who loved her personal space, it was absolutely killing her to sit so far from her when all she wanted to was curl up against his side and enjoy their limited time together.

With their time apart, she regretted with agreeing to room with Reagan again -- assuming that it was far too soon for them to live together. With how much she missed him...part of her wondered if she would even be staying in their room for the semester when they went back, or if she was going to be spending most of her time in Levi's room, curled up against him. She sat on the edge of her bed, waving a good night to her dad and raising her eyebrow when he himself closed the door. Always far too trusting. She immediately hated the space that was between them, especially since they were alone. There was always a gravitational pull toward him -- desperate and craving any type of affection. That was how she knew this was real -- that she loved Levi Stewart, because it never was like this before.

A smile spread on her lips and her head fell as a heat rose to her cheeks, reaching up to push her glasses up the bridge of her nose. "Dad wouldn't have minded. But Wren is -- well, Wren." Ever since everything happened at school, Wren had been practically begging for more time with Cath, and their break was exactly that -- the twins reconnecting since they had drifted so far apart their first year. Her teeth gnaw on her lower lip as her light colored eyes focus back on him -- fingers finding a loose thread on her blanket before she relented and closed the distance between the two of them. He arms encircled him, her face pressing into his arm and the sigh she let out was a sigh that she felt in her whole body -- finally relaxing since he arrived. "I would have felt so bad about you driving out here so much," she tipped her head back to look at him through her thick lenses, offering a smile that was only reserved for him, "I'm glad you're here now, though."

Did it count as long distance if they were still in the same state? Did it count more if that state was still as large as a mid-sized country? Did actual distance matter at all in affairs of the heart? Those were questions better answered by a fanfiction writer than a farm boy, but he'd had a lot of time to contemplate them while they were apart. It didn't matter if Cath was across the state or across the world if he couldn't see her.

He was new to it too, the distance, and he'd swiftly decided he didn't care for it. He missed the smell of her hair and the specific smile she had when she was trying not to smile at him, her layers and layers of sweaters and the rapid-fire sound of her keyboard when she disappeared into a story, the warmth of her body curled against his while they watched movies or Cath read him her newest chapter. He missed her. Talking on the phone couldn't come close to the living, breathing person he was falling for.

They'd set their plans for him to visit before the semester ever ended, but Levi had never had so much trouble sticking to a schedule in his life. Work at home kept him busy from dawn to sunset, and farm work was hard even if he loved it. He was happily exhausted at the end of every day, and still, he wanted to hop into his truck and drive to the city to see her. It wasn't beyond him to just show up on her doorstep, dirt caked under his fingernails and an easy smile on his face, but he really, really wanted her dad to like him.

He respected that very deliberate foot of space between them on the couch. It felt a little like she'd electrified it like a fence. He was about seventy percent positive he'd get an electric shock if he tried to cross it. Regardless, dinner was amiable, and Levi had no problems chatting with her dad and Wren. He'd never known any strangers and, frankly, Cath's dad was far easier to win over than her twin sister.

He'd seen Cath's room before, but he was still gazing around the space, hungry for new details about her life while they'd been apart. Not a lot had changed, which made sense. Cath lived in her head more than anywhere else. He was dying to hear her newest fic, but it was silly asking her to read it on voice chat. His eyes crinkled at the corners with his smile, and he sat on the edge of her bed, keeping the electrified foot of space between them. "I missed you too. Almost jumped in my truck and drove over at least once a day."