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‘I want to hold your hand,’ I say softly. Because we’re in public. Because I don’t know if he’s out. ‘So hold it,’ he says. And I do
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The fact that Simon is a Hufflepuff will forever resonate with me.
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I'm so scared to get attached to Love, Victor because Love, Simon was the first movie that I saw have a gay main character and its special to me. I really don't want another disappointment or heartbreak. Idk that just my opinion.
There’s this prevailing idea that people can’t write stories about LGBTQ+ people, or act as LGBTQ+ characters, unless they themselves are LGBTQ+.
And while it’s a good practice to have people with personal experience in the matter tell those stories, also consider, you have no way to know someone’s sexuality/gender identity, and they don’t owe it to anyone to make that knowledge public.
It was worded much more eloquently than this, but the gist of Becky Albertalli’s aforementioned coming out essay is “I spent years getting harassed bc I was a straight woman writing mlm stories while I was also actively questioning my sexuality but guess what guys I’m bi so fuck you”
And Kit Connor (a lead actor on Heartstopper’s tv show) had a similar experience. He was harassed for months for being a “straight man” playing a bi character. And then he made a post saying “back for a minute. i’m bi. congrats for forcing an 18 year old to out himself. i think some of you missed the point of the show. bye.”
Moral of the story, don’t cyberbully people for not being something you have no way of knowing if they are or not.
i love(/sarcasm) when ppl say things on this website abt authors who write/illustrate mlm books/graphic novels being “straight women” fetishizing gay men bc you can google literally any of the preferred examples (red white and royal blue, heartstopper, love simon) and guess what! they’re typically neither straight NOR a woman!
and all it does when you guys do this is solidify in the minds of non-binary and bisexual people that we’ll never actually be considered LGBT. it’s harmfully dismissive to actual lgbt authors who are trying to write lgbt stories. but y’all want to keep dismissing it so you can comfortably mock book series that are, once again, LARGELY FOR CHILDREN/TEENS. grow up and get a life or go outside.
love, simon (2018) ☼ movie adaptation of the book simon vs the homo sapiens agenda
@beckyalbertalli: I wanted to share with you all that the Simon movie has a pretty adorable new title. Meet LOVE, SIMON!
On Love, Simon
Okay so Love Simon is one of many LGBTQ+ movies I have seen and I can honestly say it wasn’t my taste.
But seeing so many people react with so much happyness and especially young people having a mainstream movie to look at is wonderful.
When I was a teen you had to go and really search for happy LGBTQ+ movies, only Brokeback Mountain was widespread and it doesn’t have a happy ending.
So many LGBTQ+ movies don’t end happyly and you know what it’s amazing to see one that is so popular and spreading and getting seen by teenagers, instead of the many unhappy ones.
Don’t get me wrong there are amazing movies out there that do not feature a happy end and bad ones who do, but growing up I had to search really hard to find something happy (give me all the hurt, as long as there is comfort) and it’s just wonderful to see that that has changes.
So manybe I didn’t like Love, Simon, maybe I thought of all the movies I watched that were way better and did something better than this movie.
But fuck it, I love what this movie does to people and it makes me super happy that people are getting joy out of it. That people are getting more open, that a movie like this exists for teens to just watch and see that maybe the world won#t be all that bad in the end. Screw everything I love how many people this movie made happy!
sometimes i see lake and lucy and scream into my pillow . they are so so cute it makes me genuinely insane
Day 1 of Spierfeld week- alternate first meeting.
Simons dog escapes and Bram finds him that's how they meet.
(this is kinda messy and I don't draw th e faces super consistently but it was fun.)
Our hands touched and colour slowly seeped into the world.
Day 2 of Spierfeld week- SOULMATE AUs
You see the world in black and white until your soulmate touches your skin than colour seeps into the world.
Day 3 of Spierfeld week- CANON-FILLER
after the Ferris wheel scene they spent the rest of the time at the fair together and shared some candy floss.
Day 4 of Spierfeld week -COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY
“And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”
— Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
guess who is re-reading the first queer novel I ever read…this was my Heartstopper and I continue to quote it in my head to this day
might do a long ass review when I finish re-reading it just so I can ramble about how much I love this book
I love all of the great gay icons, but when are we going to get a love, simon/mean girls movie for the lesbians? I think we can call agree the L word is a little outdated by now.
“love, simon” was great but i just want a second part about leah and abby, based on “leah on the offbeat" am i asking for too much? anyway here’s a music video i did for leah and abby from bits of footage featuring both of them
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DO YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT LGBT SUMMER CAMP? OF COURSE YOU DO LETS GO!
Ok so I met this super cool gender fluid person who’s super good at hugs and is just as jumpy and scared of stuff as I am! Though I think they handle loud noises better. And we spent as much time as we could together and IT WAS AMAZING AND FUN AND I WUV IT TO BITS
Also there was a pool thing but honestly I’d rather avoid that part. Let’s just say I’m not the biggest fan of water when it’s not going in my mouth.
Other then that we watched love simon which was AMAZING! mostly cause I got to rest on that one person’s legs when we watched it and they played with my hair and it was fun!
Also one person had a beard made of blue glitter on their face and it was glorious. I am probably gonna draw that sometime soon but shhhhhh spoilers.
Also another person was always dressed as some form of sweets.
Another is a super cool dancer guy who is the sweetest purest thing and I love him.
Alright now the big event was a big festival thing which was great and WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN WITH THIS!
It started with the camp manager doing a drag show (they were fabulous) and after that it was basically a talent show.
One person just got up there and read about their lives and thanked us for being so kind. Two people jumped on stage and hugged her. (I wanted to but crowds are scary)
Another sang a song while playing guitar and the mic wasn’t working so they were too quiet for clapping. We snapped our fingers instead and it was magical.
There was a large group who danced and by the end of it everyone was dancing along! Not me of course but I was dancing in my heart.
So many others were there and my memory suuuuuucks so I can’t quite say but I remember there were some drag queens and some singers and even some poetry.
So in conclusion... LGBT summer camp was cool!
I never got to see love Simon till much later but as a queer person who's been reading heartstopper comics for long time even before the show came out.
God it resonated so hard. It made me cry. It me laugh. More importantly it gave me hope.
The point of it is to give hope. Hope that things will get better. That someone's personal mess and pain can get better. That you can find a community of people who love you always. That's the point.
Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)
I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.
On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.
But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.
And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.
When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.
Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.