#tory reads

[skateisawesome]

the way my mental health is being held together by one british gay nerd, his rugby lad boyfriend and his depressed older sister.

[buyoump3]

(— THE WATER LAPS AT HIS ANKLES AND IT IS SO TERRIBLY COLD.)

for @pendraegon (x)

[surreal-duck]

Tuesday is chuu day! (x)

[riverzsqsblog]

“It hits me then. I haven’t ever known what I wanted out of life. Until now. I sort of want to be dead.”

- Tori Spring, Solitaire page 371

[nathaniels-diary]

Now that the show introduced Michael I can finally ask but we as a fandom can agree that michael (and tori too but thats a different post) is HEAVILY autistic coded right?

[tosolv]

I wonder if Solitaire is just a reflection of my life stuck in a book, i know it's not but somehow it feels like it. Every emotion that Tori feels is stuck with me, am I crazy?

[aprito]

sos fam...they are so important to me actually...

[haridraws]

Excuse the format (I made this for instagram since that's what the publisher wants, rip) but this is basically a shorter, easy-to-read version of the history section at the back of my new book. (Part 1 || The book)

More about my relationship with queer history (& section 28) under the cut

Looking up history to make a fun queer historical rom-com opened my eyes to how my entire idea of the past in this country was way off.

It also made me realise that part of the reason queer history felt like such new, revelatory information was a law that banned it, which was still in place when I was at school.

Section 28 was put in place by Margaret Thatcher in the 80s, banning "promotion of homosexuality" in UK schools and local authorities. Local libraries were forbidden from stocking anything with LGBT content, and it effectively stopped teachers mentioning any queer history, leaving them scared to even accidentally mention a same-sex partner.

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just want to add a quote from that article:

legends.

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Although the law was finally repealed in the 00s, it cast a long shadow. Older teachers were used to it, history books conformed to it, and new teachers still feared homophobic backlash.

Today there's a huge and disturbing rise in anti-trans rhetoric and legislation being attempted in schools and beyond, and it mirrors the homophobic conversations of the 80s. The truth that we've always been here gets met with vitriol - and to be honest, also just outright surprise even by well-intentioned, otherwise widely-read cis and straight people I know, especially in older generations.

I feel like there's also the flipside: once I listened to a podcast where two american women, older than me, were both SHOCKED that anyone was ever executed in Britain for being gay?? For me the threat of execution (before 1824), exile or imprisonment (the two years of hard labour that famously lead to the death of Oscar Wilde) were the main, only things I grew up aware of about queer history.

At best, the queer history I saw growing up was absolute tragedy. Part of what was such a revelation when researching was reading historical accounts that hint at hidden queer histories, secret joys and long, complex lives.

So by the time I finished researching my historical romance book, I'd decided to make an illustrated history section at the back too - these pics are a mini version.

I wish more people knew about the real history we have and how far back it goes - I hope someone unfamiliar might be able to get get a tiny introduction, and recs for ways to get a clearer view of our past.

[sofiaisanalien]

To all the people who might read this, I hope you will find beautiful friendships and sweet love stories with people who truly deserve you, I hope it will be just like the kind of relationships that Alice Oseman always tends to write about in all of her books, I hope that every Tori out there finds her Michael, every Charlie finds his Nick , every Tara finds her Darcy, every Tao finds his Elle, every Frances finds her Aled and I hope all Ben hopeS on earth would disappear.

Take care <3

[jimjamkagaricci]

people that have ever said solitaire is too edgy have clearly never experienced being a depressed teenage girl on the verge of a mental breakdown… like the school burning down at the end was just a bonus 💀

[skateisawesome]

i almost dont want michael holden to be in hstv because the whole world can perceive him. hes my lil baby hes not supposed to be judged. WHAT IF THEYRE MEAN TO HIM

[lesboytistic]

i want to be in the heartstopper and overall osemanverse fandoms soooo badly

pls reblog this is post and tell me:

1. your favorite osemanverse character

2. the character in the osemanverse you relate to the most

3. your favorite osemanverse relationship (romantic or otherwise)

i’ll go first!!

my favorite character is tori spring, i relate the most to charlie, and my favorite relationship is a tie btwn nick and charlie or tori and charlie 🥰

[surreal-duck]

live drama adaptations part 2 (prev)

cast reveal and girls movie night 🔥

[toby-0r-not-t0-be]

Autumn is back, the urge to re-read solitaire is too.

[iwachansfavoritealien]

"Do you get angry often?"

"I'm always angry."

-Solitaire, Alice Oseman

[radiocalambre]