good shirt from the market today

surprised this hadn't been made yet

guys help i'm setting more unobtainable goals

i am so focused right now perhaps unobtainable is the new obtainable

While Simon and Baz duke it out in that queer book characters poll, I think it's important to acknowledge that these two characters represent different types of queerness.

Baz has been self-assured as a gay man for a long time. He may struggle or reject other pieces of his identity (vampire, sworn enemy of the Chosen One, etc.), but he knows he's gay. That part of his identity is on lock.

Simon acknowledges his queerness much later by comparison to Baz (as if 18 or 19 is particularly old to have this discovery). He also does not define his sexuality in clear terms. Is he bisexual? Gay? Somewhere on the ace/aro spectrum? Who knows? In Simon's view, it doesn't matter. He may have loved Agatha in the past; he loves Baz now, though, and that's what counts.

Both Simon and Baz also have unique gender expressions as queer men. I don't feel equipped to analyze that aspect right at this moment, but it is something worth acknowledging.

I think the character you resonate with personally, solely on the basis of them as a Queer Character, is a reflection of your own experience with queerness (assuming you have one). It's not necessarily about one being better representation than the other.

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Tyrannus Basilton (“Baz”) Grimm-Pitch- Carry On Series by Rainbow Rowell

Simon Snow- Carry On Series by Rainbow Rowell

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I've been wandering in the Carry On fandom for about a year now, and I'm pretty familiar with how things are, I think. I made this blog to finally be present in my fandoms without being recognised in real life, but I still don't know how to share my writing. It's horrible sharing it because I usually don't like people reading it (it's too personal), and now that I joined the AU fest, I think I want to share what I'm working on. (I'm not sure if I should share this anyway, but I will try to not get my work spoiled by telling you my AU)

I have this written:

As Simon pulled off his heavy, mudded shoes, he responded to all of Baz’s questions.

Yes, he walked all the way home with a broken umbrella, which he knew was broken.

Yes, he was ignoring Baz’s messages on purpose.

And, no, he was not okay.

It’s not that he feels bad about Jeremy getting married, not per se. He was not jealous or still heartbroken for the great relationship they didn’t have anymore. It was that it was the second fucking wedding he had been invited to [redacted].

Maybe they knew he didn’t have anyone to take to a wedding and that was orchestrated to mock him.

I had to ask my boyfriend (who introduced me to Carry On) if there were any more characters who were couples. I had already ran out of Penny and Shepard, Agatha and Niamh. I'm a DevNiall truther so they're already married, and Fiona and Nico too. Their love is so strong they are already together! He told me about this fanfic? Rainbow did where Simon had an ex, and I was elated!!!! I loved the concept of Jeremy and I couldn't let that opportunity go to waste.

I'm going to pretend that people will read this (my bf certainly approves of my ideas, but doesn't like tumblr:( ) and that I know what I'm doing.

Thank you for your time!

the problem with being creative is that you start to feel very guilty when you haven’t created anything in a while

it's so funny that you can hit all these buttons on a keyboard to make words appear on a screen. i will use this power to write about gay sex

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