so, as of now, reading HOSAB has been a big mix of:
me generally not getting a fuck
me not being able to decide if iโm shipping Ruhn and โAgent Dayโ harder than Ithan and the wolf enslaved to the Astronomer, but wanting more of both
Bryce giving off Aelinโs iโll-do-it-on-my-own-without-telling-anyone vibes
me getting mad over Tharion being unhappy and lonely.
all of this with a (un)healthy side of unwillingness to believe Sofieโs really dead, an alarming relatableness to Ruhnโs feeling empty and yes, other tears over all of the above plus Lehabah still being dead.
you know, itโs really funny how in a normal world - with normal authors, a normal plot that doesnโt kill you 100 times over, and a reasonable number of chapters - the epilogue is the part where things โจactually go wellโจ.
Shout out to all the people that have a hard time this time of year because Christmas is a really shitty time emotionally for them.
Shout out to the people who have a hard time at Christmas because they canโt be with their families.
Shout out to the people who have to spend Christmas with a family that they find it difficult to spend time with for whatever reason.
Shout out to all the people being forced to spend time with a family that they neither particularly love nor care for just because โitโs Christmasโ.
Shout out to the people that have no-one to spend Christmas with at all and yet have to put up with all the festive advertising of all the smiling families.
Shout out to everyone who have lost people to the pandemic so Christmas is now a time of grief and sadness, not joy.
Shout out to anyone that just hates Christmas generally - itโll all be over soon for another year.
You don't know what someone is having to deal with this time of year, so be kind.
Just a friendly reminder that I would never have thought it was possible to go back and remake my previous work, uncovering lost art and forgotten gems along the way, if you hadnโt emboldened me. Red is about to be mine again, but it has always been ours. Tonight we begin again. Red (my version) is out now.
The first ever performance of All Too Well (10 min version) was at the AMC 13 theater in front of 400 fans. We recorded the acoustic performance so now we can all experience it together. Itโs available here https://taylor.lnk.to/atw-collection