in honour of love simon coming out tomorrow (technically today), i decided to reread the book, yes this is a public service announcement
has a dog named bieber
once dreamed about daniel radcliffe + was obsessed w/ passion pit as a baby gay
during an eighth grade dance, he hid in the bathroom to avoid his “girlfriend” after spending the whole night eating fritos w/ his friends and eyeing people from under the bleachers
calls tumblr “the Tumblr”. BINCH.
reads drarry fanfiction
had a flapper costume when he was in 4th grade
“I mean, I can’t even.”
dressed up as a dementor for halloween
“But I’m gay. GAY. Gaaaaaaaayyyyy.” ICONIC.
he signs off his emails with “jacques”, because jacques a dit = simon says, lmao
genuinely thinks oreos are a legit food group. which is fair.
AGAIN w/ the “I can’t even.” <– this is when he had that sex dream abt blue
“The Chipmunks are kind of our thing. We had the voices perfected and the theme song choreographed…” his parents named him + his siblings alice, simon, & eleanor = characters from alvin and the chipmunks
ran a tumblr called “Passion Pit OBSESSION.”
the goddamn meaning of his name. simon = the one who hears. spier = the one who watches. that’s why this binch nosy af
“.. honestly, because I’m basically the most blasphemous person in the world. Like, I don’t even know how not to use the Lord’s name in vain.” i ghostwrote this
listens to depressing emo music
took him 2 weeks to find out that there was a note w/ blue’s phone number inside the t-shirt that blue secretly sent him. jesus christ.
Ok seriously we’re not appreciating M’Baku enough?? Boy challenged T’challa, lost, accepted it and left. Then like 3 days later the king washed up on his shore and he’s like “aye I could use this to become king but nah let’s save the guy until he gets better” so now he has an unconscious, barely-clinging-to-life king in his living room, but he does everything to save him. Then the servants of that king show up, offer him the throne and the Black Panther serum which would pretty much make him invincible, and what does he do? Does he go “Mhm ok niiice” and accept it, thus becoming rightful king? Nope! He shows them the dying T’challa, who they bring back to life with the serum and leave. They ask for his army, but he doesn’t want to risk his people, but in the end realises they should stick together so he barges into the battle like the fucking Icon™ he is ok I just love M’Baku let’s give him the appreciation he deserves
M’baku is the personification of honour imo. You won’t find a defeated warrior with pride and honour like his that easy. Respecting his rival, the needs of his people and Wakanda itself??? Putting all that over his ego???? Someone raised that man right yo.
At the same time, we can’t forget T’Challa’s role in all this. He had M’Baku at his mercy, and could have easily killed him or gone out of his way to humiliate him. Instead he treated him as a fellow warrior with honor, and assured him that he respected his leadership of his tribe. That very much planted the seeds of M’Baku’s respect for him, and wound up serving as his own salvation.
It’s the rarest of unicorns – two competing alpha males whose masculinity isn’t toxic.
Nothing but My Aching Soul 