#bynmm tag

[undauntedlywild]

@cuttoothom :33

[zazujoy]

reblog this and I’ll send you a quote from one of my favorite books <3

[probablyalizard]

hnnng anyway here are the thoughts about When Light Left Us

1) Thank you?? @cuttoothom for Orson Liu cause as a second gen chinese living overseas his character was like. Really Validating. And stuff. I actually cackled at Grandma Liu’s antics, because it was honestly a play by play of what goes down when I bring guests over at my own house.

2) Maggie Vasquez what an icon. The Macdonalds Vanilla Latte confrontation was Really Something. Also I literally have never read a YA book which depicts a mother like Maggie Vasquez and it was so? Refreshing? Like? She was such a bad mother and such a perfect mother at the same time it was heartwarming/real/lovely all at the same time.

3) The gratuitous anime references... God this is PEAK LITERATURE

4) As I found when reading BYNMM and NNY, I loved every single character. Like, you just gotta fave the entire cast, supporting characters and all. Like... Penny? My child. Platinum? God I wish I were her. Ms Yu? Completely wrong about the morality of house cats but an icon nevertheless. Even the villain is just really fuckin fascinating.

5) As soon as ***SPOILERS*** Henry Flowers talked about a missing daughter i literally said to myself, I bet it’s Dr Ruby. When Orson drove Hank from the basketball courts I literally said to myself “They would make a cute couple.” Ya girl’s a psychic! ***END SPOILERS***

6) If you liked BYNMM you should check this out! If you like strongly character based scifi check this out! If you want to put yourself through an angst train but then finish with a smile on your face check this out! If you like diverse YA novels check this out! It really is a book written with love :)

That’s all for now I’ve practically written an essay whOOPS.

[blunderkinder]

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST ANNUAL EGG WEEK: A BECAUSE YOU’LL NEVER MEET ME FAN CELEBRATION! 

Wait, what does that mean?

It means we’re going to have a fandom week for Because You’ll Never Meet Me! (and Nowhere Near You, naturally)

When is it?

November 22nd-29th. Officially at least, late and early postings are still cool cause sometimes life happens and we get that (most of us are in the US and Thanksgiving is that week so, we get it).

So what will this fandom week entail?

Art! Fic! Meta! Screaming! Probably tears. Basically whatever you want! Egg Week is the fandom going “we like talking about BYNMM so much lets have a whole week dedicated to it”. 

It’s also a great excuse to finish any fan projects you already had in the works, but we’re also going to have various themes, challenges, and meta questions throughout the week to help guide and inspire. Themes and questions will be announced next week and challenges will be posted the day of throughout the week

Sounds neat! How do I participate?

Post your BYNMM/NNY related stuff and enjoy! Tag it with #eggweek2017 so that others can find it, and that we can reblog it here. 

Should we submit our stuff to you?

I mean...you could? But don’t you want those sweet, sweet notes yourself? If you want to make sure the tag doesn’t eat your post and we see it you can also tag it Blunderkinder.de and/or Blundereier (we track those too). Or mention us in the post! (especially for the challenges ;D)

But wait, I’m a random passerby who has no idea what this “BYNMM” or Egg Week thing is?

You can read about BYNMM and the origins of Egg Week here at our FAQ. Or better yet, just get the book here and then join us! (plz)

Eggs?

Long story. Inside joke. read about it here.

Any other questions? You can direct them here and we’ll be happy to answer them.

*Banner art by probablyalizard 

**THIS IS THE MAIN POST PLEASE REBLOG THIS ONE

[sideshowsidehoe]

Who are these two epileptic characters?

sccreams because i love you

First there’s Ollie Paulot from Because You’ll Never Meet Me which is an AMAZING book!! There’s a really small community for it on tumblr, and the author @cuttoothom loves interacting with readers. The story really centers around Ollie and his pen pal Moritz as they navigate their awkward teenage years. I really don’t want to spoil it for you… just read it.. pleas (there’s a sequel coming out next month if that sweetens the deal)

Then there’s Simon from Lord of the Flies. This is one of those books which people either really like or really don’t (I personally love LotF) since it gets really dark and violent as the story progresses. The thing here is that Simon’s epilepsy is a little more implied? I picked up on it really quickly because I knew which cues to look for, but Golding never outright says it. I have a post about Simon which you can read here, if you want.

Also there’s maybe a character in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky? I haven’t read it though since I’ve not had any time on my hands, although it’s on my 2017 reading list.

If you want a more factual text about epilepsy, you can try reading A Smell of Burning! I read it a few months ago and liked it, because it gives some real-life anecdotes regarding the author’s late brother, and it also discusses the history of epilepsy. Personally, I feel like the terminology could be a little outdated, and if you don’t like nonfiction it can drag on. Nonetheless, it gives a lot of background info!

thank you so much for shooting me a message… i love talking about this because im Extra

[gl00myharvester]

for the how/why i followed you ask meme: you sent me an ask about how funny my tags were on a BYNMM post i reblogged like a year ago and then i followed you and now you're my oldest mutual i guess and i love you dearly

awwwwwww 

[lordoftheglockenspiel]

I’m sorry to bother, but what is egg week and how did it come about? I love these books but I’m really new to this fandom!

Egg Week is the first ever annual celebration of these awesome books! As the good eggs of Leah Thomas’s egg carton, every day, we’re submitting something creative m based off of a prompt by @blunderkinder, who organized all of this (AND THANK YOU IT’S SO MUCH FUN).

You can participate by submitting art, fanfic, headcanons, moodboards, or other random musings, as long as it’s related to BYNMM and tagged with #eggweek2017. I’ve been doing stuff for my Ollie child every day, and I plan to continue with that trend.

We’d love to have you in our super tiny community!! It’s so great that we get to spend this week celebrating how much this story means to us. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me or the mod of @blunderkinder!

~Mira

[anhedoniacity]

@thespiritsquid​ tagged me for a question thing, so here goes!

Name: Eleanor, El, Elea, or Henri

Gender: agen

Height: 5′6″?

Star sign: aquarius

Sexuality: ace (also i’m aro)

Hogwarts house: ravenclaw

Average hours of sleep: average??????? anywhere from 4-13

Dogs or cats: cats!!!! but i do like dogs too

.How many blankets I sleep with: all of them. also a couple gay flags

Dream trip: japan, the british isles, meow wolf in santa fe, or hopping on the subway and going up to the morgan library or the cloisters

Dream job: a writer, or something with linguistics, or a music producer.

realistic dream job: let’s pretend my previous answer was realistic :)))

Reason for URL: obnoxious pun on my first name and paranormal. my writing blog is henriwithaninterrobang because i sign art like this: Henr‽

Unrealistic dream job: Professional Gay

When I made this account: like may 2017

Why I made this account: i was bored. also i wanted to get involved with the bynmm fandom :)

Number of followers: like 70 i think, i love all of you

i need to go to sleep, but if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged!

[undauntedlywild]

I need more people to talk about bynmm with because I really need someone to talk to me about Moritz in nny. He experienced s*xual assault and was having his boundaries violated frequently, and although he said no and was full of shame he still couldn't bring himself to tell his partner because he felt like being taken advantage of with in some way disloyal.

All of this, without the words to say it. I think Leah did a really good job at capturing the feeling of Moritz' feelings, and at showing how OWEN felt too at being shielded and "protected" by what Moritz was going through because he was being seen as too 'small' or disabled or just too weak to care for himself, when he wasn't.

I just feel like a lot of things were done right, right, right, right, right. Including nobody pressuring Moritz to confront what happened to him on his own when he wasn't ready or comfortable with it.

[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!

[shirleyoucantbeserious]

I'm interested to hear some of your hcs for all the characters :0

Oh man this is so open ended. I’ll control myself and focus more on the ones that have been kicking around my head for awhile.

When they’re in larger groups, Moritz starts to take his cues on where he’s supposed to “look” from Owen. To the point where he kinda over corrects and they end up turning their heads in unison and freaking everyone else out (Fieke thinks it’s hilarious)

Ollie is definitely considered a local cryptid by some of the kids in town and at one point he and Liz pulled some home-alone type shenanigans when a group of middle schoolers were dared to go up to cabin one summer.

80% of Moritz’s hip-hop collection was originally Herr Farber’s. (he just gave them to him when he realized how much he liked it)

Herr Farber also took Moritz to his first hip hop concert, about a week after leaving the lab (It was the first time Moritz had smiled since the chamber) (It was the next morning Herr Farber called Auburn-Stache to let him know he didn’t need to find “somewhere more appropriate”)

I fully believe that Joe is gonna get his old trailer tricked out to be more wheelchair accessible and go right back to doing his junkyard thing once he gets the hang of his new wheels (his family is exasperated but there’s not much they can do to stop him short of dragging him back to town)

Owen got into DJing at sign camp. They would have periodic dance parties and Owen pestered the councilor in charge of the music until he let him try it for himself one day. He fell in love instantly.

[vincentvangogh-ingtobed]

Tagged by: @shirleyoucantbeserious and also @staleoreo-qy ...... and also i think @elea-normal might have tagged me..... oops I am An Shit 

Rules: answer the questions and tag twenty of your followers that you’d like to know better 

Name: Valentine

Nicknames: Val, V, a few of my friends use Persephone as my middle name so ig that counts, one person a while ago decided to call me Cupid? 

Zodiac: Leo 

Height: 5″2′ very tiny 

Age: 17

Orientation: Pansexual 

Ethnicity: Mostly Indian with some Persian (a direct contrast to Shirley’s “this water is too spicy”?) 

Favorite fruit: Raspberries, cherries, peaches, cantaloupe, mangoes (i really love most fruits, besides like honeydew and papaya) 

Favorite season: Fall because all of fall is great, spring because it’s not unbearably cold in the house anymore 

Favorite flowers: Peonies, hydrangeas, and roses

Favorite book series: the BYNMM series of course seeing how much i post about it 

Favorite scent: I like fruity and floral scent, plus mint chocolate scents. For fruity scents i prefer raspberry and apple scents, and for florals I like roses and cherry blossoms 

Coffee, tea, or cocoa: well my usual starbucks order is a cafe mocha with some peppermint, which basically combines hot cocoa with coffee, and has a hint of my favorite tea (peppermint), so like... all of them? 

Cat or dog person: I love cats, and i can tolerate dogs? i mean i think they’re cute and good companions, they just make me nervous, especially big and/or loud dogs

Average hours of sleep: 5 or 13. No in-between. 

Favorite fictional characters: Like... everyone from BYNMM? also Chris from Yuri on Ice (which i’m currently rewatching) 

OTP: Hard to say. I like most pairings in any work unless its like a problematic ship (incest, pedophilia, abusive, etc.) 

Dream trip: idk maybe a cruise to the bahamas? i like warm places. Or going back to Paris cuz i fuckin loooved Paris 

Blog created: right after i turned 14 so a little over three years ago 

Number of followers: 742 (i stopped making thank you posts after like 400 but i am grateful! even if a fair few of y’all are porn bots. a follower’s a follower, amirite?) 

Tags: oof this is the painful part. idk if i can tag 20 but ill try? 

@jota-i, @bellabozella, @ourladyphantom, @p-p-prongsisthebraveone, @nymphhadora, @mio-soldatino, @that-twenty-something, @thespiritsquid, @squidshavefeelingstoo, and @bridqe

[skittles-rainbow-cat]

ooo thank you sm for the tag!!!

here we go, in no particular order,,,,

castiel - supernatural

evan hansen - dear evan hansen

david rose - schitt’s creek

john laurens - hamilton

griff - the society

sherlock holmes - bbc sherlock

adora - she ra: pop

moritz farber - bynmm

marin - we are okay

spider-man - mcu

tagging: @howdoistopthetrain @sarcasm20202 @hellfire37 @galaxy-charm @drowning-in-fandoms1 @izzydefenestratedhermicrowave

Top 10 fictional characters

Thank you for the tag @sielustaja 😻 You’re right, this one can be repeated over and over again and it will always yield different results. 

Rules: List your favorite character from 10 different fandoms then tag 10 people. 

So here they come, in no particular order: 

- Irene Adler (Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)  - Anna Marie aka Rogue (X-Men) (her comic version tho)  - Twig Verginix (The Edge Chronicles)  - Vanya Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)  - Spring-Heeled Jack (Skulduggery Pleasant)  - Maria Rambeau (MCU)  - Meredith Vickers (Alien)  - Monica Jansson (The Long Earth)  - Marisa Coulter (His Dark Materials)  - Jay Cavendish (Slow West) (even though he’s an idiot sometimes) 

Tagging (as always no obligation, and sorry if you were already tagged 💖): @hellfre @secretlymagneto @adlerirene @midrashic @elimaryholmes @tinaxpow @ultralarryus @xazuco @crystallized-iron @lindstrom2020

[thedreamer001]

get to know me

tagged by @sugar-n-tea :) rules: answer the q’s and tag a few!

name: Avery (I mostly go by my birth name irl though)

nickname: aves (@sih), small friend, void bean (@wholocksupersoupofpain)

fav color: blue

average hours of sleep: ~8.5 hours

last thing i googled: “am I a boy or a girl” (I was bored)

number of blankets slept with: 1

fav character: either Evan Hansen from deh or Ollie from bynmm/nny

fav book: probably Nowhere Near You 

fav band/music artists: sleeping at last

blog created: February 2017

follower count: 182 (mostly not including porn bots but I haven't mass blocked super recently so there might be a few)

posting style: reblogging random shit I find interesting, funny, or important, shitposting, venting sometimes, and occasionally posting an actual Deep Thing.

when did your blog reach its peak: idk??

most active follower: does this mean how much they post, or number of notes on my posts? Idk for the first one, and the second one changes a lot but it's currently @crispin-cas9

what inspired you to make a tumblr blog: I wanted to follow @crispin-cas9 and @realsocialskills, and then just kinda...didn’t leave

why did you chose your url: It’s almost the same as my wordpress url (which I don’t really use any more), so i just transferred it over here. I chose thedreamer based on a song called The Dreamers (by Josh Woodward) that really resonates with me, and the numbers are just because of taken urls.

gender: non-binary (they/them, I don’t really have a more specific label rn) sign: scorpio I think?

age: teenager

sexual orientation: idk? pan is probably the closest

hogwarts house: According to a random Playbuzz quiz I took a while ago, Gryffindor.

time right now: time is a social construct

lucky numbers: none specifically but for some reason I like odd numbers better

dream trip: home probably, I hate traveling

i tag: @wholocksupersoupofpain, @premium-sky, @aliscnbechdel, @sih (a bunch of my friends were already tagged)

[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

[blunderkinder]

Day 3 — Loss

the state or feeling of grief when deprived of someone or something of value

I can’t say much about today’s prompt without risking spoilers, but loss, and how people cope with it, are certainly major themes in Leah’s works. She expertly portrays the loss of relationships, of objects, and, frequently, of childhood innocence.

Don’t forget to tag for potential spoilers on anything you post for today!

Question: If you could undo one major loss that occurs in BYNMM or NNY, what would you choose and why? Better yet, explore what sort of divergence from canon may have occurred if the loss in question never happened.