#hes just so cute yall im losin it

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Hnng

I saw Monsta X in Houston last night. And I’m dead. Seriously. They put on an amazing show. I’m beyond proud of those boys and to call myself a monbebe. <3

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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

⭐⭐⭐; the amount of game blue had was actually top tier for a highschooler and the fact it was being used on simon ‘i traded all my smarts for oreos’ spier was an absolute crying tragedy

Oh?? 👌😉😏

cute love story, stakes weren’t really that high, teeth-rotting fluff

great sibling dynamics - no joke, I call my siblings boop too. I’ve done it for years, it just stuck. I’ve never read this book before

realistic high school characters / drama but still managed to be compelling and cute! (see the caveat for this in the third bullet point of the no.. section)

simon spier’s narration is heartfelt and adorable. we love a soft sweet babie MC (though he could stand to gain a few thoughts in his head. just a lil sheen of white matter)

No.. ❌🤢🤮

blackmail surrounding someone’s coming out. it was highly realistic and so uncomfortable, which is good, but check trigger warnings just in case that’s a real pressure point for you

being outed against your consent. see above

this is not a bad thing necessarily but this book sends me back to high school and not in a rose-tinted nostalgia way (like To All The Boy’s I’ve Loved Before does), but in a more “oh GOD i remember being that awkward/weird/overbearing/up myself/insert-other-oof-trait” like becky im sorry but i need to pour one out for ME after this book. rip to the babe i was in high school. she served me well but man, did she have some lukewarm takes 😬

Summary: Here’s the thing about high school - everyone likes to say they aren’t into drama, but no one is immune to the gut-clenching, overly emotional rollercoaster. Simon Spier, avoidance-master and quiet pushover, is no exception to this rule. While trying to stay under the radar, he forgets to log out of his email at the school library and ends up being blackmailed by “”Nice Guy”” “””Class Clown””” Martin about a secret penpal. Being shy, aggressively nonconfrontational, and possibly the most clueless boy on the planet, Simon feels overwhelmed juggling the ever-shifting dynamics of his friend group and his attempts at flirtation with the cute guy he’s been emailing every spare moment, all while keeping their privacy from the rest of the school. Thankfully, it’s a love story - so no matter how few braincells they have left, the protagonist will always come out on top 😏 (please, don’t clap)

Concept: 💭💭💭💭

I don’t like contemporary romances, but I like romance movies. Something about the format makes it cute and fluffy instead of boring and too-close-to-life, but I wanted to do my dues right with Love, Simon, which meant reading the book first. (And then I put it off for a year or more. Three cheers for doing it right??) Plus, the entire premise sounds cute. I like penpal stories! They’re so unrealistic but they have a special place in my Jane Austen-loving heart. *gesticulates wildly with a ferret* The inherent romanticism of penning a letter to your loved one and anxiously waiting for their reply is ingrained into the human psyche. I don’t have an essay I just know its true

Some spoilers under the cut!

Execution: 💥💥💥💥 I wanted what I got, and what I got was a short sweet book with a happy ending about two shy baby gays. There was nothing less and nothing more! And I gotta say, I really liked how down-to-Earth the narrative was. Like, there was no hidden meaning to parse out. Simon was so dumb so it really needed to be clear for the guy, you know? I read the middle part of this book when I should have been taking a nap and still figured out who Blue was before Simon did - that’s on a university education. *nods sagely* so thankful that going to college gave me the braincells I needed to be smarter than a 16 year old fictional boy

Personal Enjoyment: ❤❤❤ Let me preface this by saying that there was nothing wrong with the book. It was so cute. I rooted really hard for Bram. But the fact of the matter is it took me four hours to finish on a weekend in between work, and while I thoroughly enjoyed it for the reprieve from Big Brain Thoughts that I had to think, the fact it provided that fluff and nothing much more precludes it from being higher than 3 stars. I did not vibe with it, although I think you could really vibe with it, if you were closer to the source material. I have passed through that stage of high school. I remember it fondly and cringily in turn, but ultimately I’m glad it’s over. It was all in good fun, and I like it for what it was, but...it did not synch with my wavelength, and I did not shift to fit it, either. Finishing this book was the reading equivalent of a two-hour transit for me.

Favourite Moment: the part when bram comes to sit down on the amusement ride and simon finally knocks two brain cells together hard enough for a single coherent gay thought. the mastery, the poetic cinema of the reveal - i tell you the level. of game. this young man is working with. give him five years he’s gonna have mad pull. simon is a lucky boy. (do i find blue sexy or dreamy? no! do i think he has major game for a highschooler? yes)

Favourite Character: BLUE AKA BRAM HAD THE MOST FUCKING GAME OUT OF ALL OF THEM AND HE BARELY EVEN HAD ANY GAME!!! 😤 good lord am i glad you get to grow out of high school. bram was highkey romance the whole damn time and it. went. so. underappreciated - if bram was a romantic walk down the pier and fireworks show, everyone else was a half-assed netflix and chill with minimal snack options. the amount of wasted effort. the total tomfoolery. the sheer. tragedy. of it all. BOY HAD HIS NUMBER RIGHT THERE! FOR TWO WEEKS! *head in hands* im mcfreakin’ losin’ it yall...