"I wrote this book for a few reasons: Because I wanted more stories about boys like me. Because I was angry. Because I still am. But mainly, I wanted to show queer kids that they can walk through hell and come out alive. Maybe not in one piece, maybe forever changed, but alive and worthy of love all the same. "That's what you'll find here. Terrible things, survival, love, and a future worth fighting for. "Sharpen your teeth, take up your fire, and let's do this."

"For the kids who sharpen their teeth and bite."

I will never be over this book, bro. Just looking back at the author note makes me want to reread it again and I've read it 5 times now. It's a book that makes me want to scream and cry and throw it across the room and vomit up my insides and finally yell at the people who hurt me in the past. It makes me want to reach out to the people I used to know because it reminds me of them. Because Theo reminds me of one of my old best friends because Benji reminds me of myself and so many other beautiful and hurt and angry people because Nick reminds me that I'm not the only one going through this shit right now, that just because I'm neurodivergent doesn't mean I'm automatically weak or broken or less than even though that's what so many people that I grew up around want me to belive. This book makes me feel so many fucking things at once, and I don't understand half of them, but I have never felt so seen. I have never felt so real and understood. I have exhausted my friends of sharing about it and gushing it, but I don't care because it's a book about boys like me and I can't get enough of it. For fucks sake, I could already recite half of the god damned bible verses in the book and it made me cringe everytime but it made me feel so fucking seen because I know that I'm not alone in thinking like that. I know other people know that pain of not being able to get away from those verses and quotes, no matter how hard I try.

Andrew Joseph White has touched me in so many fucking ways with his writing, and I don't know how to feel about it, but I know for one thing now, no matter how much shit is thrown at me. I am not alone, because I am one of the kids who needs to sharpen their teeth, and bite.

I hate Theo as a person but his character is SO GOOD because being raised in the church there are queer kids just like him. He just wants to be accepted and live in the way that he was told god wants him to, and in the process of trying to live up to that he hurts the other queer kids around him.

Like Benji says in the end, Theo was as much a victim to the church as Benji and all the other ALC members were

Just finished reading Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. WTF it was so good, I finished in 3 days. I loved the gore and writing style. Benji is such a lovable character and the last couple of chapters (despite being a little confusing) broke my heart.

Nick has such a nice character arc, And Theo is such an interesting character. You end up loving all the side characters despite earlier grievances or grudges.

Great book to read as a queer person and even more so as a trans person, I think it mixes apocalypse (for lack of a better word) and being trans very well. Also who doesn't LOVE some good religious symbolism.

listen i understand that theo is objectively deranged but i have a soft spot the size of texas for him and i have to live with that every day

some of my favorite quotes from hell followed with us ((:

I need an edit of the archer x the angel sound to Benji and Nick or Benji and Theo from Hell Followed With Us. It’s taken over my mind and won’t let go.

benji & nick my besties

erin my beloved

theo my bastard

So I read hell followed with us and maybe it was obvious but I’m 95% sure Theo and Nick used to be A Thing?

The way Nick left Theo as the only survivor, the way he asked him to leave the Angels with him, the way Nick didn’t kill him and chose to be expelled from the Death Squad instead? Nick calls Theo handsome, too