#loveless book

[boilingcowboy]

as promised alice oseman novel posters!! (click on the images for better quality) tbh could probably write a hole essay about why and how i chose the different designs and like other stuff that went into thought anyways my fav. is the iwbft one :)

all books by @aliceoseman

[h0rr0r5h0w-c1ty]

"i guess i'd always felt that friendship just couldn't compete with what a partner offered, and that i'd never really experience real love until i found romance." loveless, alice oseman

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

georgia warr from the osemanverse (loveless) is aroace (canon)

[greeen-bean]

Is this something?

(Aled is down below because he sint asexual but demisexual so its a lil different)

[lauralot89]

Loveless

I'm late on this because the book was published in 2020, but I only heard about it in the last month when I was reading an article about asexuality in fiction but in case anyone is out of the loop like me let me tell you about this glory

Loveless is a YA novel by Alice Oseman, author of Heartstopper and Solitaire. It tells the story of Georgia Warr, freshman at Durham University, and her realization that while she's in love with the idea of romance, the actuality of a romantic/sexual relationship repulses her.

Alice Oseman herself is aroace, which makes perfect sense because throughout the novel I kept asking myself, "How does she know? How does she know?! How did she get these thoughts out of my head?"

for my fellow ace and/or aro people, let me quote some of the lines that just got me straight in the soul:

"I had a theory that a lot of people's "celebrity crushes" were just faked to fit in."

"I was disgusted by the thought of him near me. Wanting things from me. That wasn't normal, was it?"

"Oh, God, this thing is actually real, it's not just in fanfics and movies. And I'm supposed to be doing it too."

"Did I even know what romantic feelings felt like?"

"He was clearly the sort of person who I should like romantically. Who I could like romantically. He looked like a boyfriend. I loved his personality. I'd loved his personality for years. So I could fall in love with him. With a little bit of effort. Definitely."

"I thought I'd understood what all these romantic things would feel like--butterflies and the spark and just knowing when you liked someone. I'd read about these feelings hundreds of times in books and fanfic. I'd watched way more romcoms than was probably normal for an eighteen-year-old. But now I was starting to wonder whether these things were just made up."

"Straight people don't think shit like that."

"Just because I'd never liked anyone didn't mean I never would. Did it?"

"I thought all the movies were exaggerating, but you're all really out there just craving genitals and embarrassment. This has to be some kind of huge joke."

"How could I feel so sad about giving up these things that I did not actually want?"

"I felt like I was grieving. I was grieving this fake life, a fantasy future that I was never going to live."

"How was it fair that everyone got to feel that except me?"

"I never had any crushes when I was a child. Not any real ones, anyway. Sometimes I confused friendships for them, or just thinking a guy was really cool."

"For a long time, I was just dating and having sex because that's what people did. And I wanted to feel like those people."

"You've been so confused about stuff. You really thought we could be together, because you do love me. Not in a romantic way, but just as strongly."

"Oh. This is an asexual thing. I forgot other people are obsessed with having sex."

seriously the entire time I spent with this book I just kept asking "was this written for me specifically?" because that's exactly how it felt.

It is a gorgeous book that explores that bizarre feeling of not knowing the word for what you are, not even knowing that you are something out of the ordinary because we don't define ourselves by what we lack and we just expect that one day, it'll happen and we'll be like everyone else. That struggle of trying to differentiate between loving someone and being in love with them, and trying to make the former into the latter and hurting everything in the process.

It is so good. 10/10, no complaints

also there's an asshole in the university's queer pride group who doesn't think aces belong and everyone hates him so that's fantastic, aphobes fuck off

in conclusion I highly recommend it

[maydayac]

little doodle collage i made :’) obviously ft. @aliceoseman

[local-neighborhood-cryptid]

Georgia is getting a little too relatable..

[undecized]

I'm reading Loveless by Alice Oseman (actually I'm about to finish it) and it honestly broke me. I think it's been years since I cried so hard reading a book. It awoke feelings I didn't even know I had. The fear of all my friends getting partners and moving on. Of ageing lonely.

I just read Rooney's declaration to Georgia and it had me bawling. I had to stop reading because my parents were heading back home and I didn't want them to see me like this.

Never has a piece of media made me feel so seen. I am ace and also honestly questioning whether I'm also aromantic or at least demiromantic, and I empathised so hard with Georgia.

Thank you @aliceoseman for the beautiful work.

[basil-doing-things]

i’m like 80% done with loveless and all i have to say is georgia and rooney AND georgia and pip are serving qpr realness

[galacticjester]

Aro week day seven (the final day!), Georgia Warr from Loveless!

I personally really enjoyed this book, Georgia was very relatable and as an aroace person it was great to see a protagonist who was like me

[dragons-in-spaceee]

me every few months:

[h0rr0r5h0w-c1ty]

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

pip quintana from the osemanverse (loveless) is lesbian (canon)

[greeen-bean]

I do belive that comparing the novels and the comics and the novellas is really just comparing apples and oranges (and pears? Bananas? Idk another 3rd fruit) because they are all compleatly different ways to tell stories

Like comparing the books to each other? Sure, absolutely, everybody has their preferences, they're all very different, rank them, rate them, whatever makes you happy

Comparing the comic volumes? I mean sure, we all have our favourites. I find it harder cuz they're all part of the same one over all story but split into 5/6 parts to practical reasons but it's not impossible

The novellas? Very much different strokes for different folks, and itll be harder to look at either of thrm outside of the context of the other stories theyre expansions of, but sure, compare them to each other

But comparing them all?? Like you're going to compare radio silence to This winter??? And expect it to be a fair fight?? Heartstopper Vol 4 vs Loveless? Nick and Charlie vs Iwbft?? I know they are all in the same universe but it doesn't feel that way!

[frick-yes-dragons]

I just think that Pip and Rooney's romance in Loveless would be so much better if Rodrick's decline in health wasn't from Rooney not watering him but was actually because every time Pip came over she watered him as well and he was being overwatered because these two couldn't find another way to express their love other than to take care of this damn plant and communicating entirely indirectly was obviously about as healthy for them as it was for the plant and Rodrick obviously starts thriving again when they eventually figure out what was happening and make out vigorously come up with a better watering schedule

[goondah]

I finished Loveless by Alice Oseman today and i expected it to be good but i didn't expect for it to be so relatable it's like she pulled the feelings out of my head and onto the page