I helped Simon pick out a sofa today.
Chapter 56 of Any way the wind blows by rainbow rowell
Wanted to try a little more of an “artsy” composition with some of these panels ^^
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what a good day to remember that butch lesbians (ESPECIALLY trans, poc, and/or fat butch lesbians) aren’t fucking predatory
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Percy @ Annabeth: I picked you because I’m not sure we’d ever be friends
Book readers:
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nothing in the world makes me more evil than just being kind of annoyed
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favourite thing in the world is when the pages of a book go all soft and yellowy and the edges are slightly fuzzy and rounded. these books couldn’t give you a papercut if you tried they’ve been loved too much. they love you too much
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Am I wet? Am I on my period? Did I pee my pants?- next on wtf is going on down there.
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“Killing Eve ended with Villanelle’s death. This is why I’m bringing her back to life” - Luke Jennings
When my transgressive heroine came to a sticky end on screen, many Killing Eve fans felt cheated. Now they can pick up her story again – this time for free.
In April last year, the final episode of the BBC drama Killing Eve was broadcast. The series was adapted from my novels, initially and brilliantly by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and with Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in the lead roles of Villanelle and Eve. All in all, it was a spectacular ride. Phoebe passed the reins to the capable Emerald Fennell for season 2, and other teams made the third and fourth season.
These last two seasons went in a very different direction from the novels. In the final seconds of the show, having finally shared a kiss with Eve after three-and-a-half years of elaborately perverse courtship, Villanelle is summarily killed. This doesn’t happen in the books. The third novel concludes with the couple living anonymously in St Petersburg, having lost everything except each other. This is where I pick up the story again.
Villanelle, for all her winning ways, is a homicidal psychopath, and transgressive characters often come to a sticky end on the screen. There’s a long history in film and TV of the same treatment being meted out to one or both members of same-sex couples, a trope known to LGBTQ+ audiences as Bury Your Gays. Killing Eve’s fanbase was, and is, acutely attuned to such issues. I know this because many of them have contacted me. The Killing Eve universe is their escape, they tell me, and Villanelle their heroine. Not because she murders people, but because she’s powerful, she’s her own creation, and she goes through life doing exactly as she choses.
Publishing using Substack, I am writing my book in instalments, with readers commenting along the way. The process would be more organic than conventional publishing.
I’ve posted three instalments of Killing Eve: Resurrection so far, and I’m enjoying the process. Writing a novel like this is fun, a series of sprints rather than a marathon. And it feels so good to return to my mismatched heroines.
One of the lessons the wider Killing Eve project has taught me is how much the relationship between writer and reader (or viewer) has changed in the past decade. To create memorable characters today is to invite shared ownership, because the growth of fan-power – fan-fic, fan-art, social media opinion – ensures that those characters will live multiple lives in multiple dimensions.
It’s in that spirit that I’m bringing Villanelle back. The story will continue unrolling over 2024. “I read the first sentence and literally started to cry,” one subscriber wrote, and that’s good enough for me.
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so yeah i might be in love (platonic)
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15 popped out of davids pussy pantsless and fully therapized
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jack harkness seen sprinting directly toward london at 1000 mph
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someone correcting me on something i said to be silly on purpose and now theyre treating me like im stupid
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