#I also would love an adaptation of Klune’s Under the Whispering Door

[ladyannelister]

Since we will soon be getting film adaptations of Red, White and Royal Blue and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, I hope there will eventually be adaptations made for these excellent queer YA novels as well!! 🤞🏳️‍🌈

For The House in the Cerulean Sea in particular, I need the adaptation to be animated! Now that we have films like Nimona on Netflix, I am hopeful that a similar animated adaptation can be made for TJ Klune’s novel. *speaking this into existence*

[deuterosapiens]

Started reading TJ Klune's Under the Whispering Door because I very much am not quite ready for Ravensong. Roughly a third in and I'm very fond of the pacing here. So far, it's charmingly taking its time.

You know that gorgeous moment in Sandman, where Dream and Death are just sort of talking? Where Death reminds him that they don't really exist for themselves, but for us? Beautiful writing on Neil Gaiman's part, and I loved how Netflix's series translated that to television.

Not important, spotlight is on Klune here. So far I cannot help but think of The Sound of Her Wings while reading this. This is not a bad thing. There's an incredible amount of finesse and poise, decorum and delicacy one should have in narrative works centered on Death, what it means and how dying reminds us of how to live.

Wallace is a prick, but that's sort of necessary to make a book like this work. There's whimsy, but I feel very much like this book is coming from the right place.

I plan to have this book wrapped-up neatly before the week's end, but I'm also expecting to feel feelings and we know how that goes for me.

For no real reason I've already decided that Tony Todd would be a fun Nelson, even if he does not fit the character description, like at all.

I also cannot get Dishwalla's Counting Blue Cars out of my head. It seems a bit on-the-nose here, but I can definitely see it making its way onto the soundtrack of a decent adaptation.