#the pairing cmq

[kidovna]

Theo & Kit 🩵💛

from The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

[cowboymoonking]

This book was such a fun ride so naturally here’s my bodice ripper cover of it

[catdadacd]

my afterlight illumicrate copy of the pairing came RAAAAAAAAAA im fine im fine im fine im fine

[artbyflor]

Love took root in me before I learned its name🍑🪻

about a month ago i had the honor of getting an advance readers' copy of The Pairing by @casey.mcquiston

as

someone who loves art and history, i had the time of my life reading it. it was the perfect mix of romance, comedy, and aesthetic descriptions that made me feel like i was living inside a pinterest board iykyk.

i tried to capture the feeling i got while reading the book, that of a warm breezy summer in the middle of europe (in particular italy) though i took some creative liberties

[im-swimming-back]

If Casey McQuiston is gonna do one thing it’s have their characters fuck in a semi public place

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

❤️🤍💙 #RWRB #RWRBMovie #RedWhiteAndRoyalBlue

Casey being iconic-i just love Them so much!!

#CaseyMcQuiston

. https://twitter.com/ThisIsGSage23/status/1791335511728013403?s=19 .

"I just really wanted to explore both of those characters and I wanted to do it in a way that I hadn't really seen before, and also just like as a queer person I want to make queer art and that's what I'm drawn and that's what I'm interested in. So I kind of had these two different ideas, it was like one idea was that I would write a book about this rebellious first kid who's like figuring out that they're queer and what does that mean for their like political aspirations; and the other was about you know sort of a member of the royal family under all of this pressure to carry on this legacy and like what does that mean if they're gay. Um-And I'm just like kind of weighing these two different stories and deciding where I wanted to go and then I just kind of had this moment of like What If I didn't have to choose and it was the same story because they fall in love with each other? And-Um-You know in a classic bisexual fashion I was like I'm gonna have both, so I did!"

"It was really important to me that Alex was explicitly bisexual because like, you know, I really wanted the representation of like this bisexual character and then it was important to me that he was also Mexican like he is in the book and that he was played by a Mexican actor. (..) It was really important to me that, um, I didn't want any, I didn't want Alex or Henry, no matter how their stories were translated to the screen, I didn't want either of them to have any type of, um, like shame or resentment towards themselves for being queer, it was really important to me that the stakes of their lives and their like inner conflict was much more based on like the circumstances that they're in. It's like they don't hate themselves for being gay-or for being bi-they just wish that it was easier to be who they were in the world that they live in."

"..Taylor embodies that so beautifully. (..) I think he's just killer in that role. And Nick, I mean, if you like turned me upside down and shook me like he would fall out my brain as Henry (..) doesn't have blue eyes but they sure are sad eyes and that is exactly what they need to be."

"I see myself in Alex, tremendously, I'm very much in Alex, I relate to him so much, uh, truly, I think he's the most like me of all my characters."

"I very much would love screenwriting to become part of what I do, I'll say it that way."

BTW for everyone interested: Red, White & Royal Blue: Collector's Edition Henry PoV bonus chapter by Casey Mcquiston : https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/752528941905018880?source=share

CMQ spotify (characters' playlists!!) https://open.spotify.com/user/p873j0jdmqn5hye7cakdnub7e/playlists

+ also queer history/facts from RWRB(Alex engaging with queer history)(thank you SO. MUCH. CASEY MCQUISTON!!)-GREAT POST here on tumblr!!-many links here, lots of information! (Waterloo Vase, Stonewall, SCOTUS decision 2015, Walt Whitman, Laws of Illinois 1961, The White Nights Riots, Paris Is Burning, THAT David Wojnarowicz photo 'If I Die Of AIDS-Forget Burial-Just Drop My Body On The Steps Of The F.D.A' https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757305651356729344?source=share (I encourage you to research more about David!!) , Thisbe & Pyramus, The V & A, James I & George Villiers and MORE!!) https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757308307835895808?source=share (Learning about things referenced in Red, White & Royal Blue, thank you @ elipheleh)

+https://www.vulture.com/article/casey-mcquiston-red-white-and-royal-blue-the-pairing-interview.html

+https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/taylor-zakhar-perez-casey-mcquiston-interview-red-white-royal-blue-1235975977/

.https://ew.com/taylor-zakhar-perez-honors-nicholas-galitzine-entertainers-of-the-year-2024-8759399 +CAST OF RED WHITE & ROYAL BLUE |FYC Panel - Consider Amazon:https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/769737016086839297?source=share

.https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/758778031058862080?source=share

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[potato-jem]

i am already obsessed with them

[kerrier]

still really fucked up about The Pairing and how Kit lost so much and felt void of close love after Theo left him at the airport and even though he was hurt and upset he still loved them through and through and when he finally got a sign that love was worth fighting for he jumped, not knowing that when he opened the door Theo was right there ready to catch him because really Theo had been there all along because they had always been a piece of Kit

[chaoticmiserablelover]

Now I wonder if the two bisexual exes would point me out on their summer European trip and agree that I'm hot.

[smugvillanelle]

thinking about field day becoming one of the stops on the food and wine tour so like once a month kit and theo get to have a reunion with fabrizio :’) and he always makes them dine with him and his group and forces them to tell their love story every time bc he’s so proud of them :’)

[cowboymoonking]

Kit!!!

[henryclaremontdiaz]

The Pairing (2024) by Casey McQuiston

[im-swimming-back]

When you started as a fanfic writer but now you’re a published author

[alex-claremcnt-diaz]

the epigraph for the pairing perfectly encapsulates henry and alex

[potato-jem]

save me the pairing book tour cmq… the pairing book tour cmq save me…

[thighzp]

Huge bummer that I have to be an adult and go to work and have responsibilities and I can’t just stay home and binge read the pairing in one sitting