#because you'll never meet me

[thelesbiansnufkin]

I've been thinking this on and off the last week or so, but I really think that any Moomins fans out there might love...

A novel called "Because You'll Never Meet Me" and its sequel "Nowhere Near You" by Leah Thomas:

🔸Two best friends on opposite sides of the world (who can never meet in person because of their unique health conditions)

🔸Snail mail! The entire story is told through these two boys' exchange of penpal letters, especially because one of them is deathly allergic to electricity and can't use the internet, phone, social media, etc. without having a seizure

🔸Deep devotion to building a friendship and mutual fighting for common ground

🔸A "romantic" quality to such a deep friendship that isn't reliant on proximity despite the pining to see each other in person

🔸But ultimately a story about the importance of friendship and how to set aside your fears, differences, and the ugly parts of yourself that you want to hide away for the sake of being seen and showing up for another person

🔸Extrovert adopting their favorite introvert dynamic (always heart-warming, in my opinion)

🔸Love is important in all forms: no matter if it's platonic, familial, un-reciprocated, or romantic, the idea that love is as much an action as it is a feeling is super prevalent💜

They're SO beautifully written, and even if the genre is a mashup of contemporary fiction, coming-of-age, and science fiction, these stories have such a unique emotion attached to them.

This feeling is so familiar if you're a fan of the Moomins, that bitter-sweet nostalgia mixed with the knowledge that you can't always be close to the people you care about, or if you've ever formed a deep bond with someone hundreds or even thousands of miles away while trying to better yourself through the invisible support of someone's words in the back of your mind.

If you need something refreshing and heartfelt to read this summer, then these two books might be for you!

[hyperactive-encore]

Get to know me, 2024

I go by the name Chess here.

My favorite color is yellow because it reminds me of Jane's dress from Tarzan.

My favorite band is The Happy Fits. I saw them live last October (2023)!!

My favorite book is Because You'll Never Meet Me.

I'm a vocal performance and music education major.

I've been learning German on and off my whole life.

I'm currently learning Spanish. (Any resource recommendations or study tips would be awesome!)

My favorite animals are cats.

I've got ADHD.

I think the school system is mighty messed up and needs a dramatic rework to bring them up to modern times.

I worked as a counselor at a sleepaway camp last summer and have many stories.

My favorite anime is Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

I always wear my fourth doctor scarf.

I play D&D. My current characters are Aurelia Amélyn (a half-elf bard who's very clearly my first character) and Elodi (a fire genasi paladin with a troubling past that the party hasn't uncovered yet)

[blunderkinder]

CALLING ALL BLUNDEREIER: EGG WEEK IS BACK!!!!

That’s right, folks: after a four-year hiatus due to various happenings of life, we’re finally bringing back the weeklong celebration of our beloved BYNMM (and Ms. Leah Thomas’s birthday)! 

The official dates are November 22nd-29th (just like last time), although we will of course still happily accept early or late posts! The prompt list will be posted later today (November 19th). Stay tuned throughout the celebration for more details!

Post your art, poetry, fic, analyses, memes, incoherent rambling, etc. with the tag #eggweek2022 so other fans can see it! We’ll also be reblogging all the submissions here on the blunderkinder blog. (Feel free to mention us in the post if you want to make extra sure we see it!)

Additional information: Blog FAQ! Ask a question! Announcement post from the first Egg Week!

[whatwenthereagain]

This looks... Familiar.

[skarnish]

love revisiting books that meant a lot to me in high school and realizing upon reread that they are still good and lovely and will leave a new, slightly different impression on me because of the ways my life and my self are different from how they were

[cardboardcheese]

bring back eggtober

[solarissantaella]

It is springtime. Birds are noisiest now. I can almost see the shape of the sky.

Leah Thomas, Because You’ll Never Meet Me 

[books-andbookmarks]

Because You'll Never Meet Me/Nowhere Near You Playlist

These two never seem to leave my mind lol

[thelesbiansnufkin]

I've been trying to share the chapter headers & pages I've been designing for BYNMM, but it looks like it's not showing up in the tags😭If you can see this, please let me know!

yo

if you see this and you post about BYNMM, reblog it pls so i can follow you bc it is a tiny fandom but it is still my all-time favorite

[babblingbonnabel]

🪡 + 🔨 | more yapping!!

NOTE: because so many bigger members of the Avarice Battalion are from the Omega clan, a big portion go to The Garden to celebrate the Omega Tree every Spring (a large symbol of longevity and legacy for the clan...before they burned down lmaooo!!!).

[hyperactive-encore]

I added paintings to the cover of my favorite book. Time to convince more people to read Because You'll Never Meet Me written by the amazing Leah Thomas!

[blunderkinder]

hi ^___^ i just recently discovered there was a fandom for bynmm!

regarding egg week, do you have a plan for when it'll happen next year?

also, have you ever considered doing a month instead of a year (eg. faulotober or something like that) ?

thank youuu :)

welcome to the egg carton! :D

in future years, egg week will likely continue to be held during the last week of november, leading up to our beloved ms. thomas’s birthday on the 29th. leah’s birthday is the original reason we picked that time period back in 2017.

as for doing a whole month, i did make a prompt list for eggtober™ back in 2020 (it can be found in the #info tag), and i’d be perfectly happy to make another one this year :)

also, if you have some fan content related to bynmm or leah’s other works that you’d like me to reblog here, feel free to tag @blunderkinder and i will do so without hesitation! beyond that, if you have specific ideas for further events, shoot me a dm (preferably on my main blog @anhedoniacity but here works too) and i will do what i can to bring them to life!

-admin el

[thelesbiansnufkin]

I am! It's been a WHILE since I've been on Tumblr, but I still love how it's a great place for tiny fandoms to come together, discover, and share whatever creations they've made with one another☺️

I'm most active on Instagram and have been sharing most of my BYNMM art on there, but if there are fans who still frequent the halls of Tumblr then please reblog or message me or tag me so I can see what you've made, felt, or thought about BYNMM or NNY!

(I'm not sure if the art I've posted for it here on Tumblr has been showing up in the tag searches, but I've been trying, believe me🤞)

These books made my heart hurt in the best ways, and I'm dying to find others who know and love them, too, so feel free to say hi!💜💜💜

every day i get closer to convincing all of my artistic friends to read bynmm so i can exploit their abilities for content

[thegreatyin]

And thus, with the passing of 24 hours, Caeru's ambition truly comes to an end. Major Nemesis spoilers below the cut- we're talking endgame ambition business here. Mostly on a character RP front.

The Doomed Scientist made quite a few... choice decisions, in the end. Killing Cups once and for all, recording his story as one of grief-

And sparing what little remained of Mr Mirrors, leaving it free to roam Parabola as it sees fit.

Some of them, he can explain. Others, he's still left to feel... discontent.

Cups needed to die. That much was certain from the start. It was a tyrant, as all Masters are, and complicit in the bargaining and eventual destruction of four (potentially five) cities, as all Masters are. It was an obstacle. A murderer. A petty monster that felt no remorse even on its deathbed, and it went out of its way to ruin multiple lives just because it felt owed its own sick and twisted idea of revenge.

It killed his first love. It looked him in the eyes and he knew what it had done and he knew from the start it was going to die.

Perhaps, in the end, it knew too. And yet it still pleaded, and wanted to live, and-

It made a bargain.

A bargain Caeru didn't take.

Not because he didn't want to. Gods, he wanted to. He wanted it. He wanted it more than anything else in the world. To have Greylu back, to give him the gift of life, of love, to show him the wonders of the Neath and the beauty of the correspondence and all of the people Caeru has met and loved and found home with along the way-

But. He couldn't.

Because Cups was a monster. And no matter what, it deserved to die. And he could not, in good conscience, allow it to live.

Even if sparing it meant everything he's ever wanted.

So he's left here, now. With a bloodied traveling coat, and a bloodsoaked knife, and a favor finally fulfilled.

And nothing to live for. No resurrected lover, no charming visits to Helicon, no slow dances in the living room, no memories to rebuild and lives to live and he won't live again-

Nothing. All he has is a coat born of obligation, not to his love, but to people he's never even met. To lives he's never even touched. To a paramour, still alive, with hair of rose-pink, who doesn't even remember her own brother's existence.

Cups didn't die for Caeru's sake. Cups died for the sake of all who wanted it dead. For the revenger's court, and the ghost screaming in his ear, and the reckoning that will not be postponed indefinitely.

And Caeru, who acted as a tool to carry out their wills? Who all but betrayed his own lover, just to satisfy a cause he never knew existed?

All Caeru is left with, is regret. Regret-

-And grief.

[cozylittleartblog]

GRAAAHHH SORRY THIS IS SUDDEN BUT OH MY GOD I FINALLY FOUND YOU. IM THE BENREY THAT RAN UP TO YOUR BOOTH AR AMW THIS YEAR AND MY FRIEND BOUGHT ME LIKE ALMOST ALL YOUR VALVE STUFF, I LITERALLY CRIED WHEN I GOT BACK TO THEIR ROOM CAUSE LIKE DUDE. THAT MEANT EVERYTHING FOR ME, I WAS GENUINELY SO SO SO HAPPY TO SEE THE FANDOM IS STILL ALIVE AND IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR FANS IN THE WILD FOR YEARS. THE EXPERIENCE WAS ENLIGHTENING TO SAY THE LEAST AND IM SO SO JOYOUS ABOUT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH !1!11! :•3

:D !!!! HI!!! I REMEMBER YOU!!! THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY, I'M SO HAPPY IT WAS MEMORABLE FOR YOU!!

people who are so enthusiastic about the things i make and the fandoms i rep at my booth are THE #1 coolest part of the experience 🥺 i feel like convention artist alleys these days are mostly filled with the same 4 popular anime/mobile games and it's really hard to find less popular anime, let alone things like video games and webseries. you would not believe how many comments I got that people never see things like Team Fortress 2 or Portal in AAs, let alone stuff like Infinity Train or HLVRAI 😭 the people who recognize them are always SO excited and then I'M excited and we are BOTH excited and nerding out together. it's fantastic!!!

the hlvrai fandom is definitely still going strong! i still see a lot of fanart and community posts and my sales on my few hlvrai things on my etsy have Not slowed down lmao. i'm sure if covid didn't happen there would have been so many benry cosplayers in 2020. we were ROBBED </3 i've seen You and one benry cosplayer at ACEN last year and that was IT </3 </3 </3

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I just had a whole actual married, mother of two adult woman be the first person older than about 21 to actually accept the fact that I don't want to get married and be willing to talk through what that means for me, instead of trying to convince me that I'll change my mind as I get older. I'm going to fucking cry