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cherrie-teaa · 10 months

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no because it’s so important to me that the rest of the group is hyping nick up to come out to imogen!! even if you know that the other person will be supportive, baring your soul like that is still such a nerve wracking experience and it means the world to me that nick has friends by his side to help. this show is just so good at queer friendships

#heartstopper #heartstopper season 2 #heartstopper spoilers #kit connor #nick nelson #heartstopper fandom #heartstopper review #excuse the world’s blurriest screenshot lmfao #i just had to say something #alice oseman #what a time to be alive #heartstopper out #heartstopper s2e1

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awardswatcherik · 10 months

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'Heartstopper' Season 2 Review: Bi, Actually

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#heartstopper #heartstopper review #heartstopper season 2 #joe locke #kit connor #netflix #olivia colman

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assembledpress · 9 months

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I binged Heartstopper and now I can't stop crying 🍂

After a recommendation from a friend, I started Heartstopper. When I started the first episode, I expected to discover a fun binge-watch with cute characters. What I didn’t expect was a series that would consume my entire weekend and lead to an emotional breakdown on a Saturday evening.

For those unaware, Heartstopper tells the love story between Nick and Charlie, two teenage boys who are learning to navigate school, friendships, and love. While the first season of the show came out last spring, I was too distracted by Bridgerton’s second season. As a former teenager myself, I have long been a fan of teen dramas of all different varieties; from The Vampire Diaries to High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (HSMTMTS) to Never Have I Ever to The Summer I Turned Pretty to Euphoria. I love the music montages, the fashion, and often, the drama. However, after season three of HSMTMTS, I found myself a bit disillusioned, as the show felt in many ways to be throwing random storylines to the wall to see what might stick. It ended up leaving a bit of a bad taste in my mouth for the entire genre.

But then, my trusted friend’s recommendation of Heartstopper led me to sit for nearly eight hours straight in my papasan chair wondering how I functioned for so long not having this show, its characters, and its storylines in my life. You may be thinking “So you found a show you really liked that is quite popular right now and had a proper binge of it. So what?”.

For context, I’m a woman nearly two years post-grad who recently married her high school sweetheart, and therefore, I find myself at a point in life where I greatly miss my college friends and am super sensitive to any trope or story about first love or high school romance. What do you mean Peter Parker doesn’t stay with Gwen Stacey forever? In my head, she survives that fall and no one ever mentions MJ. Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez? Definitely happily married living in the suburbs with their athletic singing kiddos. Despite that hopeful romantic side of me, I’ve been informed throughout most of my life by almost all media and a variety of different statistics that first love doesn’t last. During the first several years of my relationship, I felt like people around me were waiting for the other shoe to drop, wondering how long we’d last before breaking up. Needless to say, I approached Heartstopper with a pocketful of caution and an expectation for the show to be just like any other melodramatic teen soap I’d seen before.

Boy was I wrong. Heartstopper approaches its main relationship with the utmost respect for how genuine those teenage butterflies are. It builds slowly, allowing time to focus on the sparks felt when your finger touches your crush’s at lunch, or when you brush shoulders in the hallway. It never takes the cheap way out, never having a character reconnect with a toxic ex, or forcing a drawn-out love triangle. Instead, the show opts to dissect the wholesome nature of a crush turning into an early relationship and eventually, through commitment and care, evolving into a deep love.

Almost as importantly though, Heartstopper emphasizes the love not just in Nick and Charlie’s romantic relationship, but within their friend group. Charlie and Tao’s deep friendship spans years and has equally as deep ups and downs, and the two friends, despite never having any romantic connection, talk about their feelings openly, never being afraid to say “I love you” to one another.

And thus, my emotional breakdown. I realized through the show’s supportive and loving friend group how much I missed the people who know me best. I found myself reminiscing over the early days of my relationship rather than being present over dinner with the same person. Piled on with the nostalgia and butterflies, I found myself crying with the littlest of provocation, and just feeling in a funk.

It wasn’t until I finished my first re-watch of the show that I properly processed that it was okay if the show deeply impacted me, and I didn’t need to feel guilty for feeling all those emotions. Despite there being a near-infinite amount of quality content available at my fingertips, this show spoke to my heart, which is an undeniably special thing. Further, Heartstopper is the first show in a while that has prompted me to want to create - to create videos, sketches, paintings, short-form content, playlists, and this written piece.

To be fair, maybe I’m biased toward the show because my compulsive nature led me to read all the graphic novels and research everything I could about the cast and creator to learn that *spoiler* Nick and Charlie canonically stay together forever. It feels comfortable and safe and representative to me to see a relationship start with a first glance in a classroom and end with 'til death do us part. Regardless, I feel that the show exists to honor how pure first love is, and how much that can impact and shape a person for the rest of their life. Whether it lasts decades or only a few months, first love has a way of irrevocably changing you. It’s something I’ve experienced firsthand and something Heartstopper reminded me of - for that, I couldn’t be more grateful.

#heartstopper #heartstopper review #nick and charlie

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heartsofhorrors · 4 months

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heartstopper vol 5 (review) 🍂✨📚

⚠️ spoilers ⚠️

speaking of the characters!! not specifically just about volume 5 but i need to gush for a second. charlie is just so incredibly relatable for me. his struggles feel so personal and intimate it can be hard to read but i just feel so so so seen by him. the way nick loves and cares about him is almost healing for me, weirdly enough. the entire friend group and how much they truly care so deeply for each person has healed a piece of me that has felt broken for a long time. they’re not even a real friend group but they really feel like my friends.

tao and elle once again being the most lovely supportive besties and are also so in love!!! tara and elle are such great supports for nick it’s so sweet to watch. and oh my little baby aled!!!!! i missed my boy so much!!! with him not being in the show i feel like i’ve neglected my appreciation for him as a character but i truly adore him so much and i was so happy to see him more in this volume!

tori!!!!!!! michael!!!!!!! tori and michael not being straight!!!!! oh my god!!!!!! ok sorry this was the one page i had seen on tumblr when the webtoon came out and everyone was freaking tf out haha this makes me so incredibly happy! tori is my favourite character forever and im so happy to see her and michael progressing and growing in this. also every interaction of tori and charlie makes me cry :)

the teachers are also just so incredibly sweet and really thriving and i love that for them!! i still think charlie’s mom hardcore sucks though sry. his dad is ok but like sir please tell your wife to chill more.

overall, shocker it was a 5 star read for me! alice never misses and i would die for these characters ✨

ps i tried out something new with making the collage and it was soooo fun!! i used to love making collages so that really made me feel nostalgic to make

#heartbreak #heartstopper volume 5 #heartstopper v5 #book review #heartstopper review #review #queer books #queer book recs #bookblr #fragilelunar

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thequeereview · 10 months

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TV Review: Heartstopper season 2 ★★★★

Padam. The gently groundbreaking Heartstopper returns to our screens this week to make our hearts skip a beat, launching globally on Netflix on Thursday, August 3rd. Joe Locke as Charlie and Kit Connor as Nick. Heartstopper. Courtesy of Netflix. As the eight-episode second season of the BAFTA-nominated and GALECA Dorian Award-winning series opens, we’re reunited with adorable teen boyfriends…

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khumomarkham · 8 months

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Heartstopper review, go check it out

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ultimateblreview · 9 months

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Heartstopper-2022 British

This cute British story of teen gay romance has broke into the mainstream and with season two of the series just been released it seems everyone is talking about heartstopper right now!

Both the graphic novel series created by Alice Oseman and the Netflix series that it’s based from are definitely worth reading/watching. The main characters are Charlie played by Joe Locke an openly gay secondary student and Nick played by Kit Connor a Student in the year above Charlie who likes playing Rugby and doesn’t know he’s bi.

It a classic story of friends to lovers with some wonderfully sweet moments and a genuine feeling coming of age journey for both the characters. They make a realistic couple and the relationship is believable and extremely cute.

Overall I really enjoyed reading the graphic novels and watching the series and would highly recommend both!

Series rating: 5/5

Where to watch: Netflix

Graphic novel rating: 5/5

Pre Order volume 5 on Amazon!

#heartstopper #heartstopper review #nick and charlie #lgbtq graphic novel #gay comic

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hollywoodhandle · 10 months

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‘Heartstopper’ Season 2 Review: Continuing To Be The Loveliest Series Around

This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn’t exist. Continuing on from Season 1, Nick and Charlie navigate their new relationship; Tara and Darcy face unforeseen challenges and Tao and Elle work out if they can ever be more than just friends & with exams on the horizon, a…

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toneelspeelster · 9 months

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heartstopper’s secret weapon is hugs by david opie (x)

#heartstopper #heartstopperedit #nick x charlie #heartstoppercentral #charlie spring #nick nelson #mine #beautiful article as a beautiful antithesis to the copious amounts of articles and reviews that mention tiring shit

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fandom · 9 months

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Life, it never die. Nick Nelson is our favorite guy.

The second season of Heartstopper dropped on Netflix and has all of us wishing for a love like Nick and Charlie's. Conversation around the latest season of Good Omens shows no signs of slowing, and creator Neil Gaiman is at the head of it all. Hoyoverse has finally revealed the region of Fontaine as part of their upcoming update for Genshin Impact. DJ Crazy Times newest single Planet of the Bass reignited everyone's nostalgia for 90s European dance music, even those of us who weren't alive yet. This is Tumblr's Week in Review.

Good Omens

Heartstopper

Ineffable Husbands | Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens

Crowley | Good Omens

Aziraphale | Good Omens

Baldur's Gate 3

Artists on Tumblr

Barbie

David Tennant

DJ Crazy Times

Michael Sheen

Five Nights at Freddy's

Neil Gaiman

One Piece

Jujutsu Kaisen

Bungou Stray Dogs

Critical Role

Ineffable Bureaucracy | Archangel Gabriel & Beelzebub, Good Omens

Genshin Impact

Red, White & Royal Blue

#week in review #08/07/2023 #heartstopper

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thekeeperofscrolls · 2 years

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Happy Ace Awareness week! 🖤🤍💜

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#book blog #bookworm #currently reading #book review #booklr #books #bookish #book recommendations #booklover #bibliophile #books and libraries #reading #book nerd #ya reads #queer books #asexual #alice oseman #heartstopper #ace

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osemanobsessed · 4 months

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#heartstopper #osemanverse #alice oseman #solitaire #heartstopper comics #polls #tumblr polls #becky allen #charlie spring #tori spring #film review #nick nelson #imogen the ally #tara and darcy #elle and tao

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thetypedwriter · 2 days

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Solitaire Book Review

Solitaire Book Review by Alice Oseman

I’ve loved every book I’ve ever read by Alice Oseman. Granted, that’s only been Loveless and Radio Silence, but both of those books were fantastic. I never read Oseman’s infinitely popular graphic novel series Hearstopper, but I did watch the first season on Netflix and really enjoyed that too.

So going into Oseman’s book Solitaire, had me filled with high expectations and eager anticipation. Unfortunately those expectations and excitement dwindled to something I’ve never experienced with Oseman before: disappointment.

Apparently, Alice Oseman wrote Solitaire when she was seventeen-years-old. I’m a little confused on the history, but I’m assuming she wrote Heartstopper first and then Solitaire as a follow-up side novel.

Again, I didn’t look into the details. All I know is that she wrote this book twelve years ago, that it was her debut novel, and that it shows.

Instead of focusing on Nick and Charlie, Solitaire focuses on Charlie’s sister, Victoria Spring. The best way I can describe Tori is that she is Wednesday Addams embodied, which is ironic seeing as Tori dresses up like Wednesday for Halloween in the novel (very on the nose, Alice).

However, people seem to like Wednesday Addams’ despondent and cynical attitude (I don’t get it, for the record). I abhor Tori Spring. Maybe abhor is too strong of a word, but she was not a likable narrator. She’s pessimistic, apathetic, rude, judgmental, callous, and mean.

Her whole schtick is that she thinks other people are “fake” and dislikes that people don’t act in the world, allowing the world to happen to them and only being bystanders to violence, hate, and toxicity.

And yet…Tori does nothing? The entire novel? The person she supposedly hates the most describes the person Tori is herself.

Which I guess is fitting because Tori seems to despise herself more than anyone. You think as a reader that Tori will grow out of her depression by the end of the novel and come to some sort of understanding or epiphany.

Spoiler alert: she doesn't.

If anything, she spirals worse and worse, becoming increasingly sleep-deprived, paranoid, despondent, and obsessive. I get that Oseman wanted a more realistic portrayal of mental health perhaps, or maybe she didn’t think it was realistic for Tori to have a happy ending.

However, she didn't really get any ending at all.

Before I get to the conclusion of the story, I guess I should actually explain what the novel is about.

Tori’s childhood best friend, Lucas, suddenly reappears in her life years later. Around the same time, mysterious pranks start occurring around Higgs, Tori’s school.

Harmless at first, the pranks pulled by the anonymous group Solitaire continuously grow in popularity and in danger, eventually leading to a boy getting beat up, Tori getting hurt by a firework exploding near her, and then, at the end of the novel, Higgs burning down.

You might ask: why did the school burn down?

I wish I could tell you, but I have no idea.

Apparently, Lucas was in charge of Solitaire and was doing it all to impress Tori and to bring some “joy” back into her life before the jokes spiraled out of control.

However, Lucas comes to understand that Tori is no longer the girl he knew back in primary school and that she’s drastically changed. He did it because he was in “love” with her, but then admits at the end that he was more in love with the idea of her.

Okayyyyyy.

Then, for some inexplicable reason, other people are at Higgs at 5am, including one Michael Holden, Tori’s new fiend and resident “weirdo.”

The ending of the novel then churns out nonsense after nonsense. Tori and her ex-best friend Becky confront Solitaire and persuade them to not burn down the school.

But then, inexplicably, Tori walks out of the room and a classroom is on fire. How? Why? I don’t know.

I’m unsure if the insinuation is that Michael did it or if Lucas or Solitaire still managed to do it, but all I know is that I was confused.

Instead of getting better it gets decidedly worse.

Somehow, Tori thinks she’s going to put out a raging inferno with a single fire extinguisher and chooses now to act instead of evacating a burning building, is lead to believe that Michael is dead from the fire, and then decides to go up to the roof to contemplate suicide.

Somehow, though, her brother Charlie, Nick, and some other people are outside telling her not to jump. Why are they out there? Some kind of reason.

Apparently Lucas tweeted about it or blogged about the fire so the whole student body is there at 5am to witness the school burning down and see Tori standing on the roof.

But no fire trucks, police, or authority were there originally, because that would be too logical.

Alas, Michael is not dead and shows up on the roof to tell Tori that she’s his best friend, they kiss out of left-field, and Tori is convinced not to kill herself.

The novel ends with them driving to the hospital and with Tori realizing she’s not alone.

….what?

The ending was such a jumbled catastrophe that I don’t understand what really happened. It was too climactic and intense in a way that was completely at odds with the tone and plot of the story.

You don’t get any kind of meaningful resolution with Tori other than realizing that she needs a lot of help and care.

This book was a mess.

Tori was unlikeable, has no discernible growth as a character, and other people weren incomprehensibly drawn to her and wanted to be friends with her, despite her flat out ignoring them, blowing them off, or being uncommunicative.

The plot involving Solitaire was ridiculous and uninteresting, culminating in an ending that made no discernible sense and lacked purpose and logic.

I know people love Heartstopper and Alice Oseman (myself included), but this book is not it. If they decided to publish this novel written twelve years ago simply because the show is popular and they said, “Hey, why not?” they chose wrong.

I know publishers these days have the mentality of milking a series for all its worth, but this book didn’t add anything of substance, purpose, or heart.

If anything, it detracts from the Heartstopper universe and makes me appreciate how much Oseman has grown as a writer. The Heartstopper universe is doing just fine on its own. It doesn't need side novels about Tori or about any other character.

Leave it alone, please, I beg of you.

Recommendation: Solitaire is a poor man’s crappy version of Catcher in the Rye—a book Alice Oseman herself mentions at the end of the novel, stating that none of her characters have read it. Well, they probably should have. It’s a much better story than Solitaire.

Score: 4/10

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godzilla-reads · 5 months

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💘 Heartstopper Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Nick and Charlie have been through a lot together and feel comfortable in their relationship to take it a step further. Then, Nick struggles with making a choice for Uni that could affect his future.

Heartstopper Vol. 5!!!! I was so incredibly happy to get my hands on this after waiting so long. Heartstopper will always have a special place in my heart by being a graphic novel that I wish I had growing up. Alice Oseman never ceases to amaze me by writing poignant and interesting stories with teenagers that cover a wide area of topics from mental health to sex.

These are the conversations people should be comfortable having. Vol. 5 made me so happy to be back in the world of Heartstopper and love these characters over and over again. I’m greatly anticipating Vol. 6.

#godzilla reads #heartstopper #heartstopper volume 5 #book review #alice oseman #book blog #book blurb #booklr #bookworm #graphic novel #lgbtq books #queer books #reading #bookish

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thatcrazybooknerd · 4 months

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I’ve read through all the heartstoppers, Nick and Charlie and this winter so I’ve started on solitaire, tori is such a relatable character, I have no clue what I’m reading next out of the series

#heartstopper #solitaire #nick and charlie #this winter #books and reading #books #bookworm #book review

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gayrootvegetable · 5 months

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year in review: favorite lines :3

thank you to @songliili and @littlemisskittentoes for tagging me!

RULES: simply share your top three/top five/however many favorite snippet(s)/line/quotes/paragraphs from your published fics (or wips) and don't forget to share the link!

i didn't write too much this year (i say that but it's the most i've ever written ever lol), but i still wanted to scour my fics to see what i could find! let's go babeyyyy 🫡

heartstopper fics

from incriminating evidence:

Charlie: we need to flee the country Charlie: my mum found our lube Nick: Booking our plane tickets right fucking now.

from tooth hurty (2:30) in the morning:

Most people think the tooth fairy has magic powers, like being able to walk through walls or perhaps spawning into the correct bedroom. But, no, breaking and entering is standard practice.

(03:07) Nick: i think i’m in love with the tooth fairy (03:07) Nick: his eyes are so blue and his lips are so soft (08:16) Christian: Jesus Christ, mate. How strong were those painkillers?

rwrb fics

from i don't wanna look at anything else now that i saw you:

Their attention is pulled forward as the GSA meeting begins. Henry tries to pull his hand back, but Alex tightens his grip. They hold hands for the rest of the meeting.

from too in love to think straight (rwrb drabble collection):

Alex attempts an explanation, but it only makes things worse. "Yeah, you know, sometimes in high school my friend Liam and I would make out during our sleepovers." Henry doesn't know how to respond, so he starts with the obvious. "I thought you were straight." "I am." Alex shrugs. There's so much to unpack here.

turns out i think i'm hilarious 🤭 for real though, i'm proud of what i was able to accomplish this year. i look forward to my brain thinking of more bangers in 2024 hehe

i have no idea who was already tagged so i'm just gonna wing it sjhfjshdgfj

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#me? comedy genius? perhaps #gaycelery writes #my fics #year in review favorite lines #rwrb fic #heartstopper fic

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