Lettrice

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[rainbowrowell]

SIMON AND BAZ ARE BACK.

AND THEY’RE COMING TO AMERICA!

@entertainmentweekly has the full scoop! I am absolutely thrilled with this cover — designed by Olga Grlic and illustrated by @kevinwada

💛💛💛

[rainbowrowell]

I posted the complete jacket copy on my website. (EW only shared most of it.) Here it is:

The story is supposed to be over.

Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch?

What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light…

That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West.

They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place…

With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter.

Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.

[bazzledazzled]

These refuse to post on Instagram for some reason but here’s some Baz practice sketches because tbh I have no idea how to draw him

[oh-pitch-please-deactivated2020]

[jimingyue]

sun, moon, and stars

[loloztya]

Yeah sure,,, no one’s doing that

[posh-vampires-in-jeans]

Simon vs Baz: Meme Edition

[vkelleyart]

Sorry this is so enormous and likely clogging up your feed this morning. Before I forget, ”No one’s seducing a vampire” is still in production. It’s definitely a difficult adaptation (hello 12 panels of victorian bedroom), so it’ll be a while yet before I’m finished with that one. But anyhoo…

About the art: Chapter 62 was the second most requested portion of Carry On for adaptation into a graphic novel format. However, rather than pull swaths of text from the chapter, I decided to zero in on one little snippet:

(His cross is on the other side of the room now.; Snow took care of it himself this time.) 

- Baz, Chapter 62, Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Given how Simon had used the cross earlier in the novel to drive separation between him and Baz, I like to think that taking it off himself was, in part, a romantic gesture - a symbolic dismantling of that last wall between them. 

That said, artistically, I tried to evoke the sensation of falling in love. For this reason, I largely left words out of it and tried to render the format in a way that makes it feel like you’re… descending. The colors deepen. The panels get smaller. And the last page shows Simon and Baz falling into each other’s arms out of frame, with flames dominating the end shot. (*wink* See what I did there?)

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I loved drawing it. <3

PS: Baz’s hair is based on my husband’s when we were married. It’s short now, but I can live vicariously through Simon for a bit…

[lookoutfornumpties]

What carry on taught me

Simon Snow taught me that sometimes your biggest enemy is yourself. And that sometime you need to give up the thing that you love most in order to do the right thing 

Penelope Bunce taught me that you have to be yourself no matter what and that you only need to love a few happy to feel loved

Baz Pitch taught me that it is ok to be a drama queen and that in the end everything will really be ok 

Agatha Welbelove taught me that it is ok to run away and that you shouldn’t do what everything expects of you becasue you are not the winning prize.

Natasha Pitch taught me what mother love is  

The mage taught me that even the people you look up to can be the worst of them all 

Ebb taught me that it is ok to cry and that power doesn’t have to be used even if you have it 

[existential-cosmic-nakshatr-blog]

“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn’t changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.“ André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

[yankeece]

“Come vivi la tua vita sono affari tuoi. Ma ricordati, cuore e corpo ci vengono dati una volta sola. La maggior parte di noi non riesce a fare a meno di vivere come se avesse a disposizione due vite, la versione temporanea e quella definitiva, più tutte quelle che stanno in mezzo. Invece di vite ce n'è una sola, e prima che tu te ne accorga ti ritrovi col cuore esausto e arriva un momento in cui nessuno lo guarda più, il tuo corpo, e tanto meno vuole avvicinarglisi. Adesso soffri. Non invidio il dolore in sé. Ma te lo invidio, questo dolore.”

— André Aciman, Chiamami col tuo nome (p. 245)

[incorrectcmbynquote]

Elio: I hate you

Oliver: Oh, I hate me more

[nobodyisgonnacomeandsaveyou]

“Per ricordarmi che qui avevo trovato la vita perfetta per me ma non ero stato capace di viverla”

— André Aciman

[ilvuotochesenti]

“Altro che saggio. Te l'ho detto, io non so niente. Conosco i libri e so come mettere insieme le parole, ma questo non vuol dire che sappia parlare delle cose che più contano per me.”

— Chiamami col tuo nome, André Aciman

[nobodyisgonnacomeandsaveyou]

Chi altro sarei mai riuscito a chiamare col mio nome? —Andrè Aciman

[iseedreamsinyoureyes]

“Sta’ zitto, non dire nulla e, se non puoi dire ‘si’, non dire nemmeno ‘no’, di’ ‘dopo’, piuttosto. È per questo che uno ti dice ‘dopo’ quando vorrebbe dirti ‘si’, ma spera che tu pensi sia ‘no’, anche se ciò che intende davvero è: Ti prego, chiedimelo ancora, e poi ancora?”

—Andrè Aciman, “Chiamami col tuo nome”

[incorrectcmbynquote]

Oliver: Being gay is not a choice               

Oliver, holding Elio like a trophy: But it is a game and I have won                

[rialzarsi-da-soli-deactivated20]

Non siamo stati composti per un solo strumento; né tu, né io.

-Chiamami col tuo nome (@rialzarsi-da-soli )