#Cather and levi

[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.

[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

[annaspring]

I love Cath and Levi so much

[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!

[sadlittlehcrmit]

send ♡ to see what my muse thinks of yours - @fanboylevi

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"Every day I realize how lucky I am to have Levi. I've written love stories, but he shows me what it actually feels like to be in love and to have someone love you in return. And that's -- special. He's special."

[philipkindreddickhead]

100 Fiction Books to Read Before You Die

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks

The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Passing by Nella Larson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Street by Ann Petry

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskill

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Small Island by Andrea Levy

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wise Blood by Flannery O Conner

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

House of Incest by Anaïs Nin

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Democracy by Joan Didion

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O Connor

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I Must Betray You be Ruta Sepetys

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

City of Beasts by Isabel Allende

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

Quicksand by Nella Larsen

The Narrows by Ann Petry

The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir

Under the Sea by Rachel Carson

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

@gaydalf @kishipurrun @unsentimentaltranslator @algolagniaa @stariduks @hippodamoi

[booksandwords]

Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga  Adapted by Sam Maggs. Illustrated by Gabi Nam. Based on the novel by Rainbow Rowell.

Series: Fangirl Manga, Vol. 1 Read time: 1 Day Rating: 4/5 Stars

The Quote: I always get lost in the library, no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me, and revealing new passages. — Levi (look my librarian ass loves this line)

Full disclosure I still haven't read Fangirl so I'm coming into this a bit differently from most. Basically, I always intended to read it but never got around to it. I now intend on reading it before volume two is released in June (? I think), before writing this review I put it on hold at my local library. But from what I can see at this point it is well suited to a visual adaptation. This appears to be a clever adaptation. Sam Maggs has ensured that it flows properly. Particularly when combined with Gabi Nam's illustrations which are all clearly distinct. Wren and Cather have the perfect facial structure similarities that were needed. It feels like it depends on how Cath is feeling as to how they look. Both Cath's fandom self and Simon and Baz are shown regularly. Nam's take on Simon and Baz is fantastic and slightly varied. What I can clearly see from this is why people wanted Simon Snow's story so badly Rainbow sells their story well.

Cath and Wren are the ideal for the demonstration of growing apart and finding identity as twins. I quite like Reagan. I really like that Cath is Reagan's mealtime bitching buddy, I like that it is clearly leading to a friendship. Also, the best friendships to me can be shown through what you see in the random people around you. Personality traits. Nick and Levi have this interesting counterbalance thing going on. And well Dad is trying his best, he is a great representation of a parent. That's all I'm going to write in the review for now. I'll probably reread it at a later date and might be able to comment better.

[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 👇🏿

[sadlittlehcrmit]

The first time it happened, she let it slide when he said nothing, settling easily back against his chest and curled under the blanket. Cath from years ago would have never believed this would be the situation she ended up in. In love. Cuddled under blankets in her dorm with a guy -- one that she still believed was completely and utterly out of her league. She was resting her cheek on a pillow, her eyes glued onto the screen of the tablet that was set up on a streaming service that had the Simon Snow movies on them -- she owned all of them, but who owned a DVD player anymore?

She felt his eyes on hers once more, and called him out on it once more, turning her head to look over her shoulder at him and raising an eyebrow. His words sent a flush to her cheeks, shaking her head and turning it back to focus on the screen. "I use so many of your lines in my writing now." Her eyebrows rose when he murmured lines into her ear, shivering at the way his breath felt against her ear and clearing her throat. "You're extremely distracting, Levi Stewart," she muttered, shaking her head as she reached over to pause the movie. She turned in his arms, her own wrapping around him to tuck her head under his chin. "I still don't understand how you can remember everything. I've watched these movies thousands of times, and I don't even know them that well." The books? She knew like the back of her hand.

“You keep staring at me instead of watching the film. What’s up?”

@sadlittlehcrmit

"Huh? Nothing." He smiled lazily, his gaze flicking back to the movie playing on the tablet. He was curled up behind Cath in her bed in her dorm, an arm around her waist, a couple of warm blankets tucked over both of them. Most of the campus's evening activities had been canceled due to the snow, and a glance out the window said tomorrow's probably would be too. It was coming down in thick, fluffy flakes, and he already didn't relish the thought of clearing off the windows of his truck for the drive home.

But that was a problem for future Levi. Neither wind nor rain nor snow could have pried him out of the warm coziness of Cath's bed right now. When she caught him at it again, he gave a quiet chuckle. "Sorry. I know this movie by heart. Your face is more interesting." He tucked his face into her hair, murmuring the next few lines in her ear. He wasn't a good reader, but his memory was excellent. Almost anything he heard, he remembered. He could have recited the Simon Snow movies almost verbatim, but watching her watch her favorite films never got old. He loved looking at her while she was absorbed in something, when she forgot to school her face to keep people at a distance.

[celasdfg]

—Seguro que ellas piensan que intentas ligar.

—Y lo intento.

—Si no te aprovecharás, acosarias también a los chicos listos.

—Lo hago, en caso de necesidad. ¿Tu te sientes explotada, Cather?

Levi seguía sonriendo por encima de su taza de café.

—No- repuso ella—.Yo ya sé que no quieres ligar conmigo.

—Tú no sabes nada.

—¿Así que lo haces a menudo?¿Buscar a una chica para que te lea un libro?

Él negó con la cabeza.

—No, es la primera vez.

(Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell. Pág. 205)

[justchamomiletea]

Realizations Pt. 13

I am really behind on doing these, promise I will make up for that

Spoiler Alert: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell spoilers ahead

-okay, I loved the book. it was a nice and self-indulgent read for sure

-HOWEVER, some things were very unrealistic

-a prof liking you in your first year and knowing you by name? It’s LESS likely thank you think.

-a prof letting you talk about fan fiction to them? NO WAY

-a student bringing up fan fiction in front of their prof, let alone their friends? HA!

-I mean, I am very happy with how positively it showed the world of fandoms to general readers (that is if general people read a book called Fangirl) because fandoms do often get a pretty poor rep.

-BUT THE IDEAS ON GENDER ROLES AND WOMEN I HAD AN ISSUE WITH! The laundry basket scene had me ANGRY that boys thought they could have the right to assume a girl is lesser and speak as if they were right. And it made me ANGRY that Cather just let Levi say those things and she AGREED. I love Levi but dude, that's not okay.

-PSA FROM ME: people are people. most people have the ability to hold their laundry. most people have the ability to open the door. politeness is wonderful. if you open a door for me, I will accept it and thank you. but DO NOT think that you must open a door for me or hold my things because I am a weak and incapable FEMALE. that is sexist and rude and devalues me as a person. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

-ASIDE FROM THAT, I loved Levi lots. he is good and pure and his smiles made me smile too

-Overall, good and cutesy read. happy I read it. <3

[hh-rose]

just throwing this out there

levi from fangirl would 100% be a tiktok boy

[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

[quottyquotes]

"I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance."

- Rainbow Rowell