#theo flowerday

[kidovna]

Theo & Kit 🩵💛

from The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

[peachesobviously]

Theo & Kit from The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

[flashingolives]

lol kit from theos pov in the first half seems so calm and collected. Meanwhile;

Kit’s inner monologue:

TheoTheoTheoTheoTheoTheoTheoTheoTheoTheoTheo

[hiding-in-my-happy-place]

Cannot believe Theo Flowerday gets to be a hot bisexual nonbinary flaunting across Europe eating amazing food and having incredible sex while I get to be a hot bisexual nonbinary who has to go to work on Monday

[lily-s-world]

Where is my great queer romance story?

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Genly Ai/Therem Harth rem ir Estraven- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Shesheshen/Homily- Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

Simon Torquill/Patrick Lorden/Dianda Lorden- October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire

Theo Flowerday/Kit Fairfield- The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

[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

[happyleakira]

Oh you ran away to Paris to become a patisserie because you thought I didn’t care about you or love you but in reality I have loved you all along and thought YOU were pushing ME away and I didn’t want to drag you down so I let you go? sorry i'm never getting over this book actually

[caffeineandfandom]

guys i’m only like 30% through the pairing so far but casey mcquiston is a genius and im losing my mind they’re such a good writer

[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

+

[whichcouldmeanothing]

THE PAIRING by Casey McQuiston published August 6ᵗʰ, 2024

I look up to find handsome, enduring Theo thumbing the same knuckles they bruised for me when we were children. I know them. I know this person better than I know anything, better than Bernini or Middle-earth or the importance of good butter. And they know me, and they're still looking.

[potato-jem]

i am already obsessed with them

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

*theo and kit when they see each other on the bus* this is going to ruin the tour

[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

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Chappell Roan and Casey McQuiston let’s go

Good Luck, Babe - Shara Wheeler!!! Shara heard this for the first time when it came out and dropped to her knees.

Naked In Manhattan - One Last Stop!! The most One Last Stop song to ever One Last Stop. Seriously. It’s SO them.

Casual - Alex after the lakehouse. I know you’re thinking “but the song is so Henry!! Two weeks and your mom invites me to her house in Long Beach!” but you’re wrong. Henry meant for it to be casual the whole time, and when it was clear than for Alex it wasn’t casual, he ran. It was never casual for Henry, sure, but Alex thought it was after he left the lakehouse. Also Jane when August kept insisting the kisses were purely “for research”.

Picture You - Somehow both Henry and August.

Pink Pony Club - IKSW cast after leaving False Beach in the future (specially Shara), also August through the book, with all the people she met (oh Santa Monica, you’ve been too good to me)

My Kink Is Karma - Chloe Green!

HOT TO GO! - I feel like this will fit The Pairing (no I haven’t read it, but I do have read reviews)

Red Wine Supernova - August!! I mean, “she was a playboy, she showed me things I didn’t know, she did it right there, out on the deck, put her canine teeth on the side of my neck” and “fell in love with the thought of you” is SO august.

Femininomenon - Nora, Shara, and Myla would know the whole song from memory and scream it during car rides.

California - Teen Jane after running away from home to be herself, finding herself missing her sisters and her parents.

Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl - June Claremont-Diaz the super graphic ultra modern girl that you are.

Kaleidoscope - Henry before the lakehouse, thinking than Alex would eventually get tired of him and it was all just casual fun.

Die Young - Somehow, Bea (before rehab)

Coffee - Kit perhaps. Again, haven’t read the pairing, but based on reviews (containing spoilers) then…

After Midnight - Our bisexual icon, Alex (while drunk)

Guilty Pleasure - August! Also Shara (guilty cause you know)

Love Me Anyway - Both Alex and Henry!!! “When I met you at summer camp, I would never give you the chance,” Alex hating Henry after meeting him at Rio, and Henry wanting to keep distance from Alex. “Turned you down at your high school dance” Alex insisting to keep things casual and Henry leaving the lakehouse.

Good Hurt - Baby Henry with Philip’s uni friend, who he knows is not the best choice, but he’s just lonely and grieving and needs someone, anyone.

Meantime - Perhaps Liam’s pov of his situationship with Alex during high school.

Sugar High - Rory about Smith.

Bad For You - idk (and no, it is not rwrb)

The Subway - DUH august during the month she thought Jane went back to the 70s. Also Alex after the lakehouse, but mostly August.

rest in peace, chappell roan, you would LOVE one last stop

[butchprose]

cmq5 reading every person with adhd to filth (me)

but genuinely it is so refreshing and Good to have a character speak so plainly and honestly about executive dysfunction, to have a character who feels innately fuckup-prone because of their adhd. theo’s arc being informed by them realizing their self-worth & capability spoke to me on such a Level bc i think that’s something neurodivergent people experience so often, and it’s never spoken about. we are capable, we are worthy, we might just need to go about it differently.

so thank you for theo, casey mcquiston :) <3