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Currently working on a very long character analysis for Tori even though i have a chem final monday. anything for tori though. very excited about it as well!!

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i am aware that raine is canonically pansexual!! i didn’t know that while making this post!! she just gives off the vibes!! okay great!!

Radio Silence Headcanons (because come on i have too much-);

Frances; bi (canon-), uses she/they pronouns, has sat and listened to every waterparks album in one sitting while staring at her celling, works as an elementary school art teacher/animator, i was gonna say scorpio that can and will kill you but she is a scorpio so-

Aled; gender-queer (uses any pronouns but usually sticks to they/he), goes to therapy three times a week, his therapist lives in fear constantly because this dude never answers when she calls/texts them because yes, Aled would go to a woman to talk about his issues, fight me, listens to kING. MALA and all time low religiously (fight me he would bop to she calls me daddy and sugar blind, as well as so wrong it’s right-). astrology obsessor. eventually makes universe city into a cartoon, gives tips to the animators based on frances’s words.

Daniel; tired gay, he/him pronouns, anxious gay, 100% crushed on jason grace, hero’s of olympus stan, secretly and religiously listens to conan gray, taylor swift, olivia rodrigo and keshi. idk if he’s a leo but he’s a leo. rolls his eyes every time aled starts talking abt astrology but still listens and gives commentary.

Raine; A LESBIAN. I take no criticism on this. she/he/they pronouns, no preferred ones. listens to the 1975 and arctic monkeys to infinity. britney spears was her gay awakening, secretly and religiously reads classics and middle grade books, no in between. will work at a bookstore while starting to work on her acting, eventually becomes a musical theater actress.

Crays; also a lesbian (fight me), she/her pronouns, on the ace and aro specs, got aled into astrology before she left, rants with aled about astrology, while daniel and her housemate sit and sigh. dates her housemate (fight me). goes to therapy after countless pestering from aled, frances, daniel and her housemate, and goes to therapy twice a week every week. agressive gay. writes really well. like really well. eventually becomes an actress. listens aggressively and constantly to david bowie, cavetown, and txt.

yeah um, this is messy because i haven’t had lunch yet and im really hungry so i can’t ~english~ but i hope you like it. i might make playlists for every radio silence character i really like we’ll see-

(yes daniel gets another playlist)

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YES IN THE LAST CHAPTER AT THE START

rereading radio silence is honestly the best decision i’ve made recently (aside from making my wallpaper mach charlie’s in the comics)

apparently there’s a scene where frances meets tori tho and im just confused

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rereading radio silence is honestly the best decision i’ve made recently (aside from making my wallpaper mach charlie’s in the comics)

apparently there’s a scene where frances meets tori tho and im just confused

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the best part in loveless is rooney, fight me

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OKAY IVE BEEN SO INACTIVE WHAT-

i have finished loveless (thank god) incredible book but, i don’t think i’ll be posting anything analysis related or something that takes work because school is already taking a lot out of me. anywho, i do want to talk about jewish rep in books, queer rep in books, and ofc more osemanverse related things (IVE READ THE FIRST TWO HEARTSTOPPER VOLUMES AND OH MY GOD WOW) so yeah. my point is, i’m now looking for my rooney, and also want to find someone like jason

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still currently reading loveless and i think one of the things alice oseman does best with writing is writing friendships that feel genuine!! not only friendships but relationships too, it’s honestly so lovely to see

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just started loveless, pip my beloved!! hoping to finish it in the next few days and write out an analysis for that soon!

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my leg hurts and i just spent the last few minutes crying because aside from kaz (six of crows) i never saw my symptoms ever represented. i never saw my illness represented. it fucking sucks.

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[id: a screenshot from the simpsons of marge holding a potato. it is edited so that the potato is labelled, “radio silence and all the other nb characters in universe city,” and marge is labelled, “aled, before realising they’re nonbinary.” subtitles at the bottom show that marge is saying, “i just think they’re neat.” end id.]

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Radio Silence Headcanons (because come on i have too much-);

Frances; bi (canon-), uses she/they pronouns, has sat and listened to every waterparks album in one sitting while staring at her celling, works as an elementary school art teacher/animator, i was gonna say scorpio that can and will kill you but she is a scorpio so-

Aled; gender-queer (uses any pronouns but usually sticks to they/he), goes to therapy three times a week, his therapist lives in fear constantly because this dude never answers when she calls/texts them because yes, Aled would go to a woman to talk about his issues, fight me, listens to kING. MALA and all time low religiously (fight me he would bop to she calls me daddy and sugar blind, as well as so wrong it’s right-). astrology obsessor. eventually makes universe city into a cartoon, gives tips to the animators based on frances’s words.

Daniel; tired gay, he/him pronouns, anxious gay, 100% crushed on jason grace, hero’s of olympus stan, secretly and religiously listens to conan gray, taylor swift, olivia rodrigo and keshi. idk if he’s a leo but he’s a leo. rolls his eyes every time aled starts talking abt astrology but still listens and gives commentary.

Raine; A LESBIAN. I take no criticism on this. she/he/they pronouns, no preferred ones. listens to the 1975 and arctic monkeys to infinity. britney spears was her gay awakening, secretly and religiously reads classics and middle grade books, no in between. will work at a bookstore while starting to work on her acting, eventually becomes a musical theater actress.

Crays; also a lesbian (fight me), she/her pronouns, on the ace and aro specs, got aled into astrology before she left, rants with aled about astrology, while daniel and her housemate sit and sigh. dates her housemate (fight me). goes to therapy after countless pestering from aled, frances, daniel and her housemate, and goes to therapy twice a week every week. agressive gay. writes really well. like really well. eventually becomes an actress. listens aggressively and constantly to david bowie, cavetown, and txt.

yeah um, this is messy because i haven’t had lunch yet and im really hungry so i can’t ~english~ but i hope you like it. i might make playlists for every radio silence character i really like we’ll see-

(yes daniel gets another playlist)

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an analysis on alice oseman’s writing in radio silence (only radio silence since i’ve yet to read any of her other books) because wow this human can wRITE:

(this will contain spoilers so don’t blame me if i did spoil you<3)

this will just be split up to sections because i have a lot to say and this is how i organize my thoughts best.

The way she writes first person P.O.V;

The entirety of ‘Radio Silence’ is written from the perspective of our main character, Fraces Janvier, speaking from a future stand. The entire story is written in a past tense from the perspective of an older Frances who knows what will end up happening, who knows everything.

From someone who enjoys writing, first person point of view is sO HARD TO WRITE. I was honestly mesmerized by the way Oseman wrote this book. Another thing about the writing is that the first-person point of view, truly made the story feel genuine and real. I don’t know what was Alice Oseman’s age while writing this book but it honestly feels like such a true experience of a 17-18 year old who goes a huge change in her life and doesn’t really know what to do with herself, and then finds something she’s passionate about. Truly passionate. It just really feels genuine and true and so I wanted to point it out.

The way the plot builds up;

I think, one of the main reasons Radio Silence is a comforting and fun book that many people enjoy reading _and _rereading, is because of the way the plot is built. Because the book is written in the point of view of Frances, in first person, she describes the plot of the book like she experienced it. It was getting to know someone from ‘saving his drunk ass in a pub’ to ‘this is my very close friend that I truly cherish and don’t want to lose’. And because of that, the entire feel to the plot up to when the universe city fandom figures out that Frances is Toulouse and through that, that Aled is the person behind the anonymous podcast, is so... organic in a way. 

The way this book is written truly makes you feel like you’re a little speck of dust in the air, looking down at these two absolute nerds slowly become so close. You have fun with them, you laugh with them, you get shocked with them, you feel with them. You feel with Frances throughout the book in its entirety. Feeling with these characters as they slowly build their friendship is what makes the big blow when tumblr (and the internet) find out Aled’s identity. An identity he wanted to keep secret. He needed to keep that secret. Because there he could be anyone he wanted. He didn’t need to think of what X, Y or Z would think about him after he said this or that. It was his space. And through Frances, we learn that. And we learn how much it matters to him. And like Frances, we want Aled to have this space. To have this bubble. 

And as the plot moves forward from that big blow of that tumblr post revealing who Radio is (aka, Aled), we feel with Frances and for her. Because after the action of some anonymous user on the internet, she lost her closest friend at the time. She lost a person she cared so much for. And that is emphasized so well when Aled snaps at Frances outside the pub. When he yells and shouts and says things until Raine takes Frances away. And we feel so bad, with Frances. Because Aled lost his bubble, Frances lost her friend and her safe space, and everyone lost something from the situation. 

This is brilliantly brought to light even more with the ‘Childhood Kisses’ episode, where we finally see Daniel talking. We see how bad and heartbroken he feels, and we feel so bad for him because he doesn’t deserve this. None of the main cast of characters did. 

And so, Alice Oseman made us feel for her characters. From Aled, to Frances, to Daniel, to Crays, to Raine. We feel for the characters because we care for them.

The stakes;

The stakes in Radio Silence are directly tied into my last point — the way that the plot was built up. Because, if we hadn’t seen Frances and Aled build their friendship like we did we would’ve never cared about how Aled snapped at Frances. We wouldn’t have had any connection to him, and I mean yeah, losing a friend is hard, but if we hadn’t seen that the personal level of empathy to both Frances and Aled would’ve been lacked in this situation.

This is also very well seen in both the time Aled was struggling to keep his identity a secret and the time Carol almost took Aled with her on the train from uni (at the very end). We know Aled and we know how important it is for him to 1) have universe city, 2) be able to keep universe city a secret from the world and his mom specifically, and 3) not go “home” with her because that’s dangerous for him. If we hadn’t seen Aled and Frances grow close (as I’ve mentioned before), these situations would have had no emotional affect on the reader because you wouldn’t have known Aled.

Basically Alice did an amazing job, I’m in awe<33

Alice Oseman will have you falling for each and every one of her plot twists;

In the entirety of the book Alice has planted multiple little ‘traps’ for you, the reader. These ‘traps’ are just pieces of information that are never confirmed to be true, but are assumed to be based on what we know from Frances and the story so far.

Examples; the whole ‘who is February Friday ordeal’, wtf is going on with Aled and Daniel’s relationship, what’s going to be Frances and Alex’s relationship status, whether Aled was going home or not, and so much more because she is good with this shit.

Using the correct tone to convey whatever she wants to, Alice Oseman managed to keep the reader at the edge of their seat, making them think “oh this is so obvious! I know this!” thinking they had figured it out when she is ten steps ahead of you the entire time. That’s such a smart way of keeping your readers interested and invested and she did it in a way that didn’t feel annoying or ‘ugh i didn’t get this right as well damn it’ but in a interesting and enticing way because the clues — and the solution — to the actual answer were and are right in front of you the whole time.

More on the tone of the whole book;

This book can pride itself on correct tone usage with its writing. Something I personally love to look for while looking at writing critically is the tone of the writing. Does the writing feel like this or that, specifically in dialogue or first person point of view. Does it actually feel like different characters speaking or thinking or narrating, if it’s one person, is the narrating consistent? And with radio silence I can say it just checked all of the boxes.

With every chapter I can feel the exact tone Fraces would say this in if this was spoken, I can understand exactly why it’s her speaking and when she’s speaking to her mother, or Aled, or Raine or Daniel I know who’s she’s talking to and why. There’s so much personality splattered through their words both while speaking (and in Fraces’s case) while narrating honestly it was so brilliantly done I was just having so much fun the entire time.

A little conclusion since I tend to ramble;

In her book, ‘Radio Silence’, Alice Oseman tackles the first person point of view as if it’s a piece of cake, builds the plot brilliantly in a way that makes you connect to the characters and feel like they’re just chatting and enjoying their time together while actually building a plot so nicely, and when it comes into play it’s so well executed, not out of the blue, just *chef’s kiss*.

Through the first part of her book, Alice creates stakes to further conflicts so well and so smoothly it’s honestly mesmerizing, and plants little traps, tricking you into thinking one thing without confirming it while the answer is right under your nose. It’s just so well done I’m gonna sob smh.

+ the tone usage of the entire book was superb.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed my ramble. Have a good day babes <3

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i’m heartbroken-

i finished radio silence last night and it feels unreal, i love this book so much 10/10.

crays and her housemate are lovers and you can fight me on this

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okay, i may be 71% through Radio Silence but, you can’t tell me that daniel wouldn’t have listened to sour by olivia rodrigo on repeat while breaking down because aled went “yeet bye” without saying anything-

also just finished the ‘childish kisses’ chapter and oH mY gOD- this is the problem with getting overly attached to characters isn’t it-