#nicolibby love

[nicolibbyquotes]

Nicolibby:

[nicolibbyquotes]

Okay I hardly ever do a double reblog so soon but boleyn.mp4 on instagram just did a nicolibby edit to my tears ricochet and I’m in pain (in the best way). They even put in parts of the audiobook narration and it’s perfect and that song is so them 😭😭😭 and I just needed everyone to know okay thanks bye

(it does have TAC spoilers though so beware)

Nico and Libby are this; Nico and Libby are that...

Maybe Nico and Libby are literally the embodiment of My Tears Ricochet by Taylor Swift.

[septxwber]

Get in losers, we’re fangirling over another slow burn

[hehevoldy]

My boyfriend made me a wire sculpture of a person reading some time ago. Today, I finally made a tiny The Atlas Six book with my favorite Nico/Libby quotes in it to give to the sculpture.

[lynchollow]

i love how cute and welcoming it is here :( i love seeing so much nicolibby, elriels and opinions and point of views and not see an ounce of judgement for liking what we like !

[tristancaine]

every time I remember how the atlas trilogy ended I get so angry all over again lmao

[joseopher]

** spoilers for the entire atlas trilogy **

Is it just me or does it grind anyone else's gears when someone markets the atlas six as enemies to lovers? They are always talking about nicolibby which is a great ship but they don't become lovers??? There's cannon evidence they may like each other but they never kiss or date or become lovers??? Libby just kills him.

Again I have no problem with the ship but I feel like when book reviewers market the book as enemies to lovers people are going to go into the book with the wrong impression. BECAUSE THEY NEVER BECOME LOVERS. You can want them to become lovers, there is evidence that in some au they could become lovers, but don't market it as that because they never are lovers!

They aren't even enemies, they team up instantly and only harbour a mild dislike of each other, they are academic rivals, they are twin stars, and they are doomed by the narrative, by their own faults, by Atlas, by the universe to never become lovers in this timeline. Which is unique, wonderful and far more interesting! They shouldn't be boiled down to a trope that will give readers the impression they are going to get a romantic plotline with them that ends with them together. In Nico's last breath, they are still dating other people and he basically shut down any romantic chance for them.

The reason I hate this is that people are going to rate the books low when they find out:

a) this book is actually about philosophy and not romance

b) the supposed enemies to lovers spend the entire page time getting together with other people and never have a single scene where they are together

c) the supposed enemies aren't enemies and don't follow any of the tropes one would be hoping for with people who hate each other (tbh they have a much more complicated and interesting relationship)

These people are going to be expecting "knife-to-throat" and scenes where they are trying so hard to hate each other but give in to the growing sexual tension and all that stuff. Not a tragedy about broken people trying to exist in a broken system. LIKE I LOVE NICOLIBBY, I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO HATE THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T FIT INTO THESE ROMANCE TROPES THAT ARE BEING MISTAKENLY APPLIED TO A BOOK THAT ISN'T ABOUT THAT.

And note, I'm not talking about fandom blogs that post all the time about nicolibby, those guys are having fun and shipping! Good for them! (god knows I won't shut up about novacaine). I'm talking about when influencers recommend the book to their audience as enemies to lovers, cause that is just going to get the book bombed with one-star reviews.

okay rant over.

[olivieblake]

Hi Olivie bestie!

This is so random but “The Prophecy” on Taylor’s new album (which right now is my absolute favorite off the album-and is slowly on its way to overtaking a song and getting on my top 10 Taylor songs of all time. Don’t worry I’m sparing you all the personal reasons why it's my favorite) feels very the atlas series or more just OB/AFF literary universe coded.

Like to me among other things it dabbles with questions like: Does fate exist? How much of our life is controlled by it? Who controls it? Can we change it? If we can change it, how? Who can change it? Can I do anything about it? Or is it set in stone? If it’s set in stone, who decided what my fate was? Why did they decide that? How can I have all this power and still not be able to control my own fate? Or my own happiness? Does my power mean anything if I can’t be happy? What does happiness mean? What does loneliness mean? How can I have everything but also nothing? etc etc etc

I just feel like you bring up these questions and themes a lot (which you already know I love) in your writing and so the song made me think of your books a lot. Maybe Taylor read one of your books and was like oh wow let me ruminate on these questions and put them in a song (using some of her own life story of course too).

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you! Okay I’m off to go relisten to the whole album to see which songs can fit my OB/AFF universe ships (nicolibby, aldoregan, mayracal, portercecily, etc-don’t worry I’ll spare you my lists of these too) 🥂🥰

-Amanda ❤️

it's sooooooo hard for me at this point to feel creative about taylor's songs because her lore is so ubiquitous (like, I need matty healy's face to vacate my brain, I also really need travis kelce's coachella outfit to leave) but certainly that quandary is very on brand

(my favorite song on the album is florida!!! but I also like cassandra)

[princessamericachavez]

do you see nicolibby or nicogideon being endgame? or maybe nicolibbygideon? i just finished atlas six and the nicolibby quotes are rather unhinged and i can't really see them being with anyone else if that makes sense. i'm open to nicogideon but the imagery of binary stars is powerful stuff.

Honestly? I assume no one in these books is either straight or monogamous, for starters, but also the narrative has had some pretty clear hints to Nico being equally in love with both.

Especially during Atlas Complex, there's several times where he compares how he feels about them. It's almost like he can't think about one without bringing up the other (whether it is to compare them, or because he misses them in particular ways, or he simply happens to 'remember' something about them in tandem).

Furthermore, there's Parisa's line, asking whether there's a limit to how many people Nico can "hate".

She knows.

SHE KNOWS.

Anyway, just dying to see how this polycule gets resolved. Still curious to see if we'll see any sort of relationship develop between Libby and Gideon or whether they'll just amicably share a reckless boyfriend.

[malinaa]

Thinking about how similar nicolibby and aldoregan are in so many ways 😭 even how Regan thinks her and Aldo’s love is a perfect circle because it’s always them and Nico knows his half will always follow hers. How Aldo tells Regan there’s nothing to fix and how Nico tells Libby that her morals aren’t what he loves about her/would love her even if her hands weren’t clean. Etc etc etc. They both make me insane. So many Olivie books/stories (including her YA ones) have so many common threads as nicolibby do it’s insane but I feel like this one means the most to me.

this ask is so dangerous to me u put aldoregan and nicolibby in the same sentence and i just 😵‍💫 olivie leans towards this dynamic (partly because she writes it well) and it makes me so sick to my stomach bc i love both ships separately and fiercely and they both did a number to my head for sure UGH now i’m gna be thinking about this for DAYS

[nicolibbyquotes]

Libby’s (and therefore Nico’s) birthday has been revealed!!! June 13th is now officially international nicolibby day 🎉🥂❤️

[julesblackthorns]

i don't even like the atlas six but i loved watching nicolibby not happen

[gambitandrogues]

Bisexuality culture is reading The Atlas Six and loving both nicolibby and nicogideon

[lynchollow]

I am so so so in love with seeing so many nicolibbys in this app and the way each shipp and group has it's own little corner to talk and analyse their favourite shipps and characters ! I don't see this in any other app and i'm so happy i get to share a but of the things i love without feeling weird abt it!

[thatsweeird]

I've just finished the atlas six and tbh i love nico and libby but i can't imagine them as lovers?? cause for me it's like something purely platonic u know? idk why but when I see them I can only think "they're more than friends but less than lovers." maybe like a sibilings bond?? idk. the only thing i know for sure is that as lovers their potential would be burned, trust me. not every platonic souls have to be lovers.

btw everyone talks about "academic rivals to lovers" but why noone is talking about the fact that we have the "roommates to lovers" with gideon pls NICO IS SO IN LOVE WITH GIDEON WTF. the only thing I was thinking while reading was "how is possible that the only one who didn't understand it is nico himself??" even parisa and callum did lmao

Obviously ship whoever you want, nicolibby or nicogideon. this is just my opinion :)

[maliha-lili]

I love seeing Nicolibby fans. I've been seeing majority nicogideon ones since I finished atlas paradox and I was worried I lost my people