#queenie book

[undermyellowumbrella]

[lacy-rae]

KINGERS WIFE!!!

In celebration of the third episode of the amazing digital circus coming out, I’m posting these old sketches. I did these back when episode two came out. I am so ecstatic that they talked about kingers wife. She was literally my favorite theory, i sooooo glad she’s canon.

[lexalovesbooks]

This description of Queenie in the glossary of the eidolon is pretty funny, considering.

[rubypomegranates]

"I think that we all need to scrap this idea that normality is something to strive toward."

Candice Carty-Williams "Queenie"

[queenofbaws]

Hi Queenie! My other question is how did you realise that Josh, Sam, Chris and Ashley were the characters you wanted to focus on in The Almosts? :))

well hey again!!!! ;)c

oh, i wish i had some sort of deep, meaningful answer for you here. i wish i could say that i saw some sort of potential in them. that the symbolism compelled me. that the character dynamics drew me in and that i knew from the instant they interacted on-screen i wouldn't be able to let them go.................................

but in all honesty, focusing on them really came down to two factors: (1) i was very, VERY intrigued by josh's prank affecting chris, ashley, and sam more than the others and wanted to dive into why that might've been, and (2) uh...i...i project on those four.

a lot.

asdlkfjslkdjflsdjf hahahahahahaha fr tho, at the end of the day, the almosts BECAME the almosts due in large part to how much of my own issues and foibles i saw in them. getting to go character by character and say "well, you get my anxiety, and you get my obsession with awful movies, and you get all the rest of my terrible coping mechanisms, and you get my deep, irrepressible need to talk at the worst possible moments, now RECONCILE ALL OF THAT" was incredibly therapeutic 🤣

i love the other ud kids too, PLEASE don't get me wrong, but i see...so much less of myself in them. and for that reason, i think it would've been a lot harder to flesh out such an emotional narrative from their points of view!

[saytrrose]

So, for your interpretation of Queenie, what do you think she was like when she started going bonkers? What was it like between her and Kinger?

I think, to better describe and interpret her personality she’s an extremely independent individual.

Before she started to lose it, she was likely very straightforward too, not in like a bitch way? But in a “I can handle myself, I don’t need anyone doing things for me.” I still think she was kind, nice to people if they were nice to her but she could be a little judgemental at times. The type to judge a book by its cover but she wouldn’t voice it unless she deemed necessary.

Now with Kinger, I like to imagine Kinger fell, and he fell hard. Queenie however, she fell, and she was was in immense denial. I like to think they were both older of course, adults and single and not in relationships at their age for different reasons. Queenies case is that she was too independent, thought she didn’t need a partner and that ultimately made her lonely and miss out on relationships. It also is the reason they just seem so hard for her until Kinger came along.

Idk, to sum up how I perceive their relationship- picture them bickering over who’s going to open the door for one another.

[yumitakaishi]

The princess boy —historia ilustrada

[bookishnotes]

Queenie will be on our screens this week and I’m excited!

[queenieofaces]

Have been listening to 『なんか IWAKAN!』, which is a Japanese gender studies/queer podcast recently, both with an eye on a course I'm designing for next semester and as some chill listening practice for me, so this morning at 8:30 am I was jumpscared by them suddenly starting to talk about クワロマンティック (quoiromantic).

It's interesting listening, for anyone who happens to speak Japanese. One of the really striking things about it for me was how little they seemed to associate quoiromantic with ace or aro communities. Part of that is probably demographic--of the four people on this episode, one said they were probably ace and the other three are not--but it does mean that the conversation goes in different directions than a lot of the wtfromantic/quoiromantic conversations I have seen in Anglophone communities. For example, they spend a lot of time talking about how quoiromantic is helpful because many of them never thought about the difference between romantic and sexual orientation--but quoiromantic in Anglophone communities is often a pushback against romantic orientation. (Also, a lot of the examples that the regular presenters bring up would, in Anglophone ace communities, often tend to be classed as mismatched romantic and sexual orientations, e.g. a gay man having strong non-sexual attraction to a female friend or a straight woman having strong non-sexual attraction to a female friend.) There's also discussion of polyamory and alternative family/relationship structures, romantic friendship, the assumption that two people who have the possibility of being attracted to each other will always wind up dating, and S関係 (S relationships). It is really interesting to see a lot of conversations that I've seen primarily in ace communities being picked up and lauded as useful by larger queer spaces...but (at least in this case) being sort of divorced from a lot of their history and context. But, then again, it's a 40-minute podcast that's a supplement to a special issue of their magazine and an in-person event they were running, so they probably couldn't cover all possible topics. (Also I personally know most of the coiners and popularizers of wtfromantic/quoiromantic, so I may have...more knowledge...than is normal...)

(Also very charming when the guest speaker is like, "oh, can I swear on this show, do you have to bleep it out" and then upon getting confirmation that swearing is okay, going, "WHAT THE FUCK ロマンティック.")

[blackgirlreadingbooks]

[queenie-ofthe-void]

Falling in love with characters who die is one of the best parts of experiencing a story. It's visceral. You care because they matter.

What is so much worse is falling in love with characters who don't die-- but change, fundamentally. The ghost of the character you love haunts the narrative, but it's not them, and it never will be again.

[undermyellowumbrella]

[liesonthefloordramatically]

our ILL librarian referred to me as a "power user" slkjfdaufoidsuafoiuaoiusoiauoifusa

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Headcanon: Queenie Holroyd from Bell, Book and Candle is aromantic!

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.

[queenofbaws]

🎀 [Bow] How many named characters are in this WIP? How many do get a POV?

aw man, see, the problem here...is that, while working on the (almost)s, i got a taste of the low-stakes oc creation euphoria that is putting 2-dimensional characters in the background of a story, so like wringing blood from a stone has....................QUITE A FEW NAMED CHARACTERS

i'll throw a handful of the ones we've already met (in one way or another ;P) under the cut for anyone who's just like. collecting fun facts about this fic 🤣 there may be some EXTREMELY MINOR spoilers about plot points that we haven't gotten to quite yet, but nothing earthshattering, i pwooomise

the only characters who get POVs are the family themselves, though - jed, constance, travis, chris, bobby, caleb, kaylee, and jack - the good people of north kill county will have to wait for some other project if they want a POV of their own, i'm afraid 😔 but lord knows they live in my head

random wip asks!

NORTH KILL'S FINEST (background characters)

the hacketteers

y'all already know these fools ;P

the neighborly sort

jim & pearl warren (80s), the ones who live on the other side of hackett woods

diane kelly (40s), the camp mom nurse and chris's good good good pal

silas vorez (teens/early 20s), :)

the day crew

carver graves (30s), the responsible one; nephew of the late sheriff hank

callie kildeere (30s), the one who probably shouldn't have a gun but does anyway

graham cutter (30s), the one who thinks he's funnier than he really is

abel gore (70s), the one whose sister absolutely saw bigfoot that one time

the dead

hank graves (~50s/60s), previous sheriff of north kill

amelia grant (30s), chris's wife; caleb & kaylee's mother; niece of sheriff hank

eliza vorez (70s/80s/???), silas's handler mother...and a problem

susanna hackett (???), one of jed's sisters

francis hackett (70s), jed's father

john fiddler (~50s), jack's grandfather; a monster hunter and occasional friend of jed's (but "occasional" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here)

hannah & beth washington (early 20s), the girls jack couldn't didn't save

charity (~30s/40s), constance's mother :)

"mama" (~50s/60s), constance's grandmother :)

amos grundy (~60s), constance's father; a good old fashioned preacher by trade :)

maybe a pattern has begun to develop, hmm? hehehe

while i can't promise every character on this list will be pivotal...they all very much have their roles to play, and if it doesn't seem like it just quite yet, well...

we've still got us a few more weeks of summer now, don't we? ;)c