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Having a bad day and health issues so I just started re-reading my favorite moments in In Other Lands. I ended up re-reading for hours lol I just love this book so much. It's painful how much I miss these characters 😭
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Any zquad wanna help an international fan with those new songs? 😭
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Zayn gifting homemade food from his farm to interviewers.
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I dreamt that I had a new book of short stories and one of them was a new Snowbaz story and another was a little In Other Lands adventure and I was so excited and then I woke up :(
#my faves are never coming back huh#simon and baz I miss you so much#Elliot Luke and Serene I need more of you too
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“How much kissing would there have been? If I’d figured it out sooner?”
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THEY'RE COMING BACK!!! Look at them being gayer than ever! Seiji looking at Nicholas instead of Jesse, oh this is gonna be delicious
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I'm gonna need all European zquad here to help me out cause so much merch of Zayn is dropping/ will drop soon and everything is either U.S. only or UK only (which kinda sucks cause the uk website used to ship internationally). Like, if any of you know other websites that ship internationally I'LL BE GRATEFUL FOREVER IF YOU SHARE THEM. Lowkey I'm heartbroken cause I was gonna buy the pretty RUTS green cassette and then I realised it was uk only... have the biggest fear those pretty hoodies will be unavailable for me too :(
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I just need to know the date of the next Fence volume, I NEED TO KNOW WHEN MY BOYS WILL COME BACK TO ME 😭
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Have you been Baz? 😂😂 I forgot the inside :P
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the best smile/laugh 🥺😍🥰❤
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Everyone should read In Other Lands.
I love that book. It holds my heart.
#I agree with OP#everyone should read In Other Lands#and fall in love with the world and humour and the most wonderful characters#Elliot my chaotic scholar I quite miss you
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Penny slept literally in the same room and bed with Baz in wayward son so I think she would be the one to tell him, like she would straight up call him out on it lol
Do you think Baz snores. Like, with a broken nose he has at least a little septum deviation, which is a common cause for snores.
Do you think Simon needs to hear his lawnmower symphony to fall asleep. "I fall asleep better listening to Baz breathe snore."
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Blue berry and lemon short cookies. 🫐
You can read it on AO3
Or a cooking with Lucy/ cooking with Simon fantastic fic by @aristocratic-otter and art by me for the @ladyruthsrecipescharityzine 🫐
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Are all the themes in “in other lands” supposed to be a commentary on something? Or do you just like writing sex scenes between minors, age gaps, and reverse misogyny?
Genuine question.
Ohhh, my dear anon, I don't believe this is a genuine question.
But it does bring up something I've been meaning to talk about. So I'll take the bait.
Firstly. Yes, my work contains a commentary on the world around us. I wonder what I could be doing with the child soldiers being sexually active in their teens (people hook up right after battles), and the age gap relationship ending in the younger one being too mature for the elder. What could I possibly have been attempting when I said 'how absurd gender roles are, when projected onto people we haven't been accustomed by our own society to see that way'? I wasn't being subtle, that's for sure.
Secondly. Yes I do enjoy writing! I think I should, it's my life's work. Am I titillated by my own writing, no - though I think it's fine to be. The sex scenes of In Other Lands aren't especially titillating, to be honest. It is interesting to me how often people sneer at women for writing romance and sex scenes, having 'book boyfriends,' insinuating women writers fancy their own characters. Women having too much immoral fun! Whereas men clearly write about sex for high literary purposes.
… I have to say from my experience of women and men's writing, I haven't found that to be true.
I’m not in this to have an internet argument. I prefer to leave my anons open since not everyone has a tumblr, as @neil-gaiman says it’s an internet backwater, but a lovely one for those like myself who enjoy an essay about fictional characters! Still I will close my inbox to anons if I must. Mostly people use bad faith takes to poke at others from the other side of a screen for kicks. But I do know some truly internalise the attitude that writing certain things is wrong, that anyone who makes mistakes must be shunned as impure, and that is a deeply Victorian and restrictive attitude that guarantees unhappiness.
I've become increasingly troubled by the very binary and extreme ways of thinking I see arising on the internet. They come naturally from people being in echo chambers, becoming hostile to differing opinions, and the age-old conundrum of wanting to be good, fearing you aren't, and making the futile effort to be free of sin. It makes me think of Tennyson, who when travelling through Ireland at the time of the Great Famine, said nobody should talk about the 'Irish distress' to him and insisted the window shades of his carriage be shut as he went from castle to castle. So he wouldn't see the bodies. But that didn't make the bodies cease to be.
In Les Mis, Victor Hugo explores why someone might steal, what that means about them and their circumstances, and who they might be - and explores why someone else is made terribly unhappy, and endangers others, through their own too rigid adherence to judgement and condemnation without pity. The story understands both Jean Valjean the thief and Javert the policeman. Javert’s way of thinking is the one that inevitably leads to tragedy.
Depiction isn't endorsement. Depiction is discussion.
Many of my loved ones have had widely varying relationships to and experience of sex (including 'none'). They've felt all different types of ways about it. If writing about them is not permissible, I close them out. I'd much rather a dialogue be open than closed.
I do understand the urge to write what seems right to others. I've been brain-poisoned that way myself. I used to worry so much about my female characters doing the wrong things, because then they'd be justly hated! Then I noted which of my writer friends had people love their female characters the most - and it was the one who wrote their female characters as screwing up massively, making rash and sometimes wrong decisions. Who wrote them as people. Because that's what people do. That's what feels true to readers.
I want my characters to feel true to readers. I want my characters to react in messy ways to imperfect situations. I love fantasy, I love wild action and I love deep thought, and I want to engage. That's what In Other Lands is about. That's even more what Long Live Evil is about. That sexy lady who sashays in to have sexy sex with the hero - what is her deal? Someone who tricks and lies to others - why are they doing that, how did they get so skilled at it? What makes one person cruelly judgemental, and another ignore all boundaries? What makes Carmen Maria Machado describe ‘fictional queer villains’ as ‘by far the most interesting characters’? What irritates people about women having a great time? What attracts us to power, to fiction, and to transgression?
I don’t know the answers to all those questions, but I know I want to explore them. And I know one more thing.
If the moral thing to do is shut people out and shut people up? Count me among the villains.
#classy and smart#now can everyone please read In Other Lands cause I need more of this world and characters? thank you very much
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Zayn at @/maisonvalentino (Paris, 20.01.2024)
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