#Messy Perfect

[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2025

Today’s post is sponsored in honor of the upcoming paperback release of Sydney Taylor Honor book Going Bicoastal, coming May 27th from Wednesday Books! *** The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold (January 7th) The world is about to end. Again. Ever since the first Storm wreaked havoc on civilization as we know it, seventeen-year-old Liz Flannery has been holed up in an abandoned…

[teanderthalrex]

Messy Perfect by Tanya Boteju

Boteju’s latest queer coming-of-age story about what it's like to be both queer and Christian and the vulnerability that comes with that.

Cassie Perera is a straight-A student and textbook overachiever, volunteers at her church on Sundays, attends a Catholic school, and somehow manages to live up to her parents' expectations of her.

And, well, she’s a lesbian. Not that she can tell anyone.

She’s known ever since she outed her childhood best friend, Ben, in an attempt to hide her own identity. And now Ben is back and Cassie has to find a way to make it up to him.

Just like everything in her life, if Cassie adds it to her spreadsheet of to-do items, it'll definitely happen. And she won't have to mention the messy queer part of her that doesn't fit nicely inside her rows and columns.

After a chance encounter with nearby school's GSA, Cassie gets involved, as an ally, and eventually ropes Ben into the group as well. Things go well, for a while.

There are some useful examples of community organizing (good and bad) in here that are gonna be helpful for queer teens today.

It's cute, sweet, and a good look into forced conformity (even when no one explicitly says so).

3.5/5 stars.

Content warnings for homophobia.

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

PnF Spirit Week 2: June 1st - Friend group without the Flynn-Fletchers

[yvanillewe]

͟✿֔ ͟ຼ   ꯭░   ׄ      ֪      〶⃜ㅤㅤׅㅤ ۪۪ٜ   🌸ᩙ    ۪   ⁔ ⁔

 ꯭✿    ۪    ꆬㅤׅㅤ 🥬ꯨ⃜◌⃘ ۪۪ٜ   You're my dahlia,

tulips and daises 𓈒ㅤֵㅤㅤ𓋜

❚ ❘ ㅤֵ 🎐 ㅤׂ ⬭ ׄ ㅤ◌⃘ ‎ ࣺࣹࣺࣹࣺࣹࣹࣺ ꒱

[ceaselesswatchersspecialboy]

I will die on the hill that to understand Anidala you have to accept that Padme saw the red flags clear as day and went for it anyway. Why? Because Anakin was honest with her. Because Anakin, for all his idolising and putting her on a pedestal, still saw and treated her as a human being, even argued against her at times without fear or without hiding behind clever words. Because Anakin made her feel the youth that was taken from her at a young age. She was captured by the boyish charm and the awkwardness and the blunt honesty, and so when he came to her with a billion red flags, she went for it anyway. He was a breath of fresh air to her.

To understand Anidala you must understand they are 100% freak4freak. They are both children who grew up too fast and are now in a secret relationship giggling like teenagers in their twenties. This is vital to them. Padme is not a flawless character or an idea of perfection, on the contrary she is a very human character who was put in charge of her people at fourteen, something that had a lasting impact on her, and so she is choosing her childhood joy and a fairytale romance over the red flags her husband is waving. She is the OG ‘I can fix him’ mentality. No one is doing it like her.

‘The red flags are mass murder’ and the point still stands.

[thatmooncake]

Can you believe it’s been a year?

(Happy Nexus name day everyone! 💜)

[kiriyori]

ཆི❤︎ཆྀ ⡣ 👼🏻 𝅄 𝑣irtual ⠀⠀ਏਓ ε angel з 🖥️᭄

ㅤ۫ ⠀⠀✿֔ᮬ᳘ ׅ ㅤ۫ ⠀⠀✿֔ᮬ᳘ ׅ ྀི͚ㅤㅤ ┄ 𓈒ֵ۫ ❙❘❙ ͏ྀི

▒ ❀ ̭͡⠀ Cinema Exquisite, 人月

[soulemnity]

helping hand

[robotwhoscreams]

I thought about Calhoun to long again.........make that woman clip out of the map and find her dead husband's character model t-posing lifelessly in the void. Inspired by the tags on my own post here

Shitty 10 minute doodle below the cut.

Cope with seeing your dead husband (fiancée? Does he count as a husband if he technically died at the altar before you could say 'I do'?) by cuddling your not so dead husband with something warm to drink.

boom, trauma fixed.

[florescita]

🐿️ ᩙ ❘ ❙ 𝙼𝙴𝚂𝚂𝚈⠀⠀ ͙𑱢⠀⠀𝅄⠀⠀

⓴ 𓂂 𓏸 ⠀♥︎ུ⁎̯͡⠀ °   ִ⠀ 🈖⃨ ֵׄ⃜ ⠀

[lilaquette]

⠀⠀癝ㅤ 𓈒 𓈒 ֵ.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙ ⠀ Water Lilies⠀ ( 2002 ) ʕ̢̣̣̣̣̩̩̩̩·͡˔·ོɁ̡̣̣̣̣̩̩̩̩ ㅤㅤ ⠀🌸 ￣￣ㅤ ⿻ㅤ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ㅤ꒰͜͡ ྀ👩🏻👩🏻 ͜͡꒱ ͟ຼ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ㅤ ㅤ᭄᭡ूूू ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟͟✧͟ ͟ ͟ ྀ͟

[gallusgalluss]

a light oh so bright

[soulari]

⠀⠀⠀⠀𠃮ᰍ໋ 　 ۫ 　 🕸️　 𖦹⠀　 𓈒   　 逆꯭✦ 

　❚❙❘༘ we　were　toxic　'till 　the　end 　🔪

[cwrcent]

♰𝄃❙. ⃝ ۫   . 𝐶𝑅𝑌 𝐹𝒪𝑅 𝑀𝐸 𓏴  .. † ̶ᰱ ꫶⠷..:

𖹭 𖹭 . ▓᭄ 𝑆𝐿𝐸𝐸𝑃𝐿𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑁𝐼𝒢𝐻𝑇𝒮 ⠀︵︵ ▊/❀

@kiyeuo , here my entry #2.

[doe-noo]

𝟮𝟬0͟9͟ ╰╮ 𝒚ou'𝓇e ​ m​y​ ​ b​e​s​𝓉​ ​ ​ ⫘ f​r​i​e​n​d​

​ 𝒻or ​ t​h​e​ ​ r​ꫀ​s​t​ ​ ꩜f ​ ⵓ m​𝓎​ ​ l͟​i͟​f͟​𝑒​ ⌇

ㅤ◟ ͜ ◞ ◟ ͜ ◞◟ ͜ ◞ ◟ ͜ ◞◟ ͜ ◞ ◟ ͜ ◞◟ ͜ ◞ ◟ ͜ ◞◟ ͜ ◞ ◟ ͜ ◞

[cieloculto]

sluttiest thing a man can do is be james potter