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gotta say hearing luke tell percy that annabeth is head counselor of the athena cabin and the cut to annabeth herself—my mind instantly went “what??? how??? she’s twelve???” like I KNOW she’s head counselor. I’ve known since I was in second grade. but actually SEEING a twelve year old child being put in charge of a cabin full of teenagers rewired something in my brain. and that’s how I know seeing these kids fight is going to break me

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Chapter 7-40 (end of chapter 7)

This is the final update of chapter 7 and volume 5!

The comic will now be going on hiatus for a while! I’m not sure exactly how long the hiatus will last, but it will be at least several months, most likely at least 6 months. I’ll be taking a break from work for a few weeks, and then I need to start planning and writing the next chapter, and then eventually I will be able to start drawing again.

Thank you so much for all your support for Heartstopper this year! I am so so grateful to everyone who has shared love for this story.

I’ll be back one last time before the end of the year with the Heartstopper Q&A 2023. And I'll hopefully pop in during the hiatus with a new mini-comic or two. See you then!

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Chapter 7-39

Sleepover

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Chapter 7-37

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Chapter 7-33

A wild Michael appears!

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Chapter 7-27

Day 1...

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Chapter 7-15

Teachers were teens once too…

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everything we know about the heartstopper netflix show so far

updated march 16th, 2022

i’ll be continuously updating this post as we go, so if you see this post circling around, going back to the source post should give you the latest info :)

the show will be released april 22, 2022, on netflix, worldwide

official teaser trailer here (link), a longer trailer will follow once we get closer to april 22nd!

characters:

the cast consists of our heartstopper gang, plus two new characters (imogen and isaac), with two exceptions:

oliver was scrapped from the story because he doesn’t contribute much to the story, heartstopper already has a very large cast, and the logistical issues of working with an actor that age.

aled isn’t in the show is because of his role in radio silence: “To include Aled in the Heartstopper show and give him a satisfying storyline would almost certainly involve having to change and/or ignore major elements of the story of RADIO SILENCE, which is not what I or any of you want, I hope!”

aled’s role in the story will somewhat be taken over by isaac, but he is a different character entirely:

“Isaac is the fourth member of Charlie, Tao and Elle’s friendship group. He’s a bookworm, and doesn’t say much, but when he does, it’s usually very insightful and/or funny (…)”

“Imogen is a totally new character. She’s a good friend of Nick’s. She has a very bold, determined personality (…)”

minor characters that won’t appear in season one are mr. farouk, david and sahar, but they might appear in a potential future season.

minor characters that will appear in season one are mr. ajayi, tori, mr. & mrs. spring, mrs. nelson, sai, christian and otis (omar).

casting & production:

nick is played by kit connor, charlie by joe locke

imogen is played by rhea norwood, isaac by tobie donovan, harry by cormac hyde-corrin, tara by corinna brown, elle by yasmin finney, ben by sebastian croft, darcy by kizzy edgell, and tao by william gao; tori is played by jenny walser.

mr. ajayi is played by fisayo akinade coach singh by chetna pandya, and mr. lange by alan turkington.

the first season will have eight episodes. there might be more seasons, but that entirely depends on if netflix/whoever is in charge allows it.

alice herself has written all episodes, with input from the director and producers from see-saw films.

other stuff:

any specific details about the plot of the show (eg. what volumes it will cover) are not allowed to be revealed by alice. keep that in mind while asking questions!

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I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”. The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA.

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

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THIS POST WAS MADE FOR ME. Literally nobody gets how profound The Hunger Games are as a piece of literature, actually, because it’s been lumped in with all of the copycats that came after it.

“I’m tired of love triangles” THE HUNGER GAMES IS LITERALLY AN ALLEGORICAL FICTION REFLECTING ON THE MERITS OF JUST-WAR THEORY.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/books/suzanne-collins-talks-about-the-hunger-games-the-books-and-the-movies.amp.html

This is a FASCINATING article where Suzanne Collins talks about this. Basically, just war theory - popularized by Thomas Aquinas, and I didn’t know she was Catholic, so that makes a TON of sense how she would know about that, anyways, just-war theory advocates for this idea that a war can be just based on certain conditions being met. In the Hunger Games, Katniss is a stand in for humanity generally, a sort of neutral figure whose going through this moral/philosophical battle. Gale represents a favorable view of just-war theory, whereas Peeta represents - if not pacifism, then certainly at the very least, a rejection of war.

THATS WHY ITS SO FUCKING PROFOUND that Katniss ends up with Peeta, like, can we just collectively admire for a moment, the final passage of Mockingjay, now that we get that what’s actually going on is a statement re: cycles of violence and the needs of humanity?

“Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until the flashbacks are over. I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I knew this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale’s fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.”

I MEAN. GOD. GOD. WHAT POETRY THAT IS. Humanity cannot rely on war, and hatred, and violence, it does not need it to live, it cannot feast forever on bread and circuses gained from blood. This passage nearly makes me cry every time I read it, it’s SO lovely.

Anyways, the Hunger Games rocks.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first book in the trilogy, here is an excerpt from an interview between the publisher and the autho

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My friend and I want to buddy read a fantasy stand-alone over break. Preferably adult, not too heavy, and I like romance but she doesn’t. Any recommendations?

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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune hits your requirements pretty perfectly! Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal I think is also a pretty good fit, but it does have some death. I think The Soace Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson might be a good buddy read but it is sci-fi! The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab, or Circe by Madeline Miller might work as well!