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Clothing? Clothing’s boring.

chapter 7-6

daydreams

chapter 7-3

Much to think about!

chapter 7-4

BIRTHDAY!

chapter 7-5

future plans

chapter 7-2

A spark of something new…

chapter 7-1

Happy Birthday Charlie Spring!

Guys I’m going to make a hot take

The whole “I wish I could be with a woman, but instead I’m stuck with my stupid, gross husband/boyfriend” sentiment I see repeated in bi circles is just the “progressive” queer version of the boomer “I hate my wife” jokes

if he’s stupid and gross you should leave him and if he isn’t you’re just being cruel for internet points and he should leave you

Not wanting to be with your partner is a sign that you don’t want to be with your partner.

A+ example of how the media manipulates people for clicks and anger engagement.

[id: tweets from the New York Post reading “Daniel Craig believes James Bond should not be a woman” and from DiscussingFilm reading “Daniel Craig says ‘why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman? There should simply be better parts for women and actors of colour.’” followed by screenshotted tags reading “interviewer: do u think james bond should be played by a woman? daniel craig (hates james bond and playing james bond: she can do better” /end id]

Hey everyone!

I’m a week late, but I wanted to stop by and say thank you for 5 years of Heartstopper. Five years, four books, and a TV show in the works… I can’t believe what a journey Heartstopper has been on. And none of it would have been possible without the support of Heartstopper’s online readers! So thank you everyone.

I know this hiatus is long, but it is necessary (otherwise my mental health, and the comic itself, will suffer!) and I thank you all so much for your patience! The comic will be coming back - I honestly don’t know exactly when yet, but Heartstopper is deeply important to me and there are still two more chapters of the story. I hope you’re excited!

Stay safe and well,

Alice xxx

England is falling💔

Long Live our Queen. And you will live forever in fandom and in my heart, Dear Una Stubbs. Thank you for Mrs Hudson

that supergirl lesbian kiss where the girls look like they are going to quit after that take is the polar opposite of the scene in brokeback where alma sees jack and ennis making out and heath ledger almost broke jake gyllenhaals nose

the binary

#someone said ‘the supergirl kiss looks like when michael kissed oscar on the office’ and it does and i’m screaming

this is literally the same gif

I fucking choked

Hollywood cast queer folks to play queer characters challenge. And cast POC to play POC

This last point is absolutely true.

HOWEVER.

Having been in high school when Brokeback Mountain came out, I can tell you Heath and Jake took A LOT of heat for many of the scenes in it (including this one), because they WEREN’T all awkward and afraid to touch each other. They both went in with the attitude of “we’ve been hired to portray a relationship, and we’re going to do that.” I lost count of the number of times they were asked if it was weird/different to kiss another man. I think it was Jake who made the most confused face ever at the camera and kind of went “….no…..? A kiss is a kiss?” The speculation on their sexualities ran RAMPANT—at the same time that Heath started dating Michelle Williams (who played his wife, in the most positive-but-ironic turn of events ever). They literally were basically not allowed to say “queer people are people, and you don’t have to be queer to see that queer people can love and cherish each other emotionally and physically.” They did their best to do that, working against a mass media that was going “look, it’s a story about TWO MEN!! And they HAVE SEX!!! HOW FREAKY!!!”

So while I agree that in 2019 we should be aspiring to cast queer actors to play queer roles, please recognize that the fact we can aspire to that now is partly because of what two straight actors did fifteen years ago, when they decided they weren’t going to be afraid to risk breaking each other’s faces in a show of passion and longing.

#I’m happy that young queers are getting so much compared to my youth #but there’s such a lack of understanding at the same time #like you can tell they never grew up in a world where their first experience with queerness was a brutal violent murder

Brokeback Mountain was released in 2005.

Lawrence v Texas, the lawsuit that overturned sodomy laws that made gay sex illegal, was in 2003.

The cast was set before SCOTUS made that ruling. The film was already being planned at a time when gay sex was a crime in more than a dozen US states.

They couldn’t “get queer actors to play queer roles” because the majority of queer actors were deeply closeted, because it was a crime in a lot of places, including all of Texas and Florida. Your movie has a scene at Disneyworld? Can’t have known queer actors or they could be arrested during filming.

I don’t know how to get across how different it is now.

https://linktr.ee/myelasticheart

[Video descriptoin: a TikTok by @myelasticheart, showing the user talking to the camera. When they talk about the limits on savings, text appears on the screen that says: “For married couples the limit is $3,000. average rent in the US is $1,098. a motorized wheelchair is $600-$3,000+. a car repair costs $400-$900”.]

this is huge?! Holy shit you guys.

it’s not all over the news, but here is an article I found:

Sanders co-leads senators introducing Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act

I am going to gather up all my spoons tomorrow morning and call my reps.

Yo this is like a big deal. Do this immediately. I will be as well.

chapter 6-16 (end of chapter 6)

into the night

Heartstopper is going on hiatus!

Now that chapter 6 (and Volume 4) have concluded online, updates are going to stop for a little while. Due to my work on the Heartstopper TV show throughout this year, I had to stop working on the comic full-time back in March, so I haven’t been able to properly start work on the next chapter of the comic. I haven’t even finished planning what happens! So to make sure I can make the final chapters of Heartstopper as good as possible, online updates are taking a break while I start working on pages again.

I’m not yet sure when it’ll be back - hopefully just a few months at most - but until then, ‘full comic tier’ supporters on Patreon will see the pages first!

Thank you so much for your support, everyone! I’ll see you soon!

chapter 6-15

family talks

just some things Steve wishes he’d done more in no particular order