As a french the the funniest thing politicaly speaking was the fact that both the book and the movie acted like Paris was this 💖safe heaven💖 where they could frolick without a care, as if we are some sort of magical land completely unaware of foreign politic and not ONE person would recognize the prince of england straight up dirty-talking to the son of the us president in the middle of the day in some touristy café

I love Hamilton for the horrible horrible tumblr fandom culture it created. It's the legacy our founding fathers deserve

this wasn’t mentioned, but the history buff in me was freaking out over so many of the things in the book would have much greater political implications. The prime one being - a member of the british royal family publicly supporting a candidate in an overseas national election. i was surprised queen mary didn’t bring that up as a point as to why they should deny it

I haven't read or watched it, but I feel like the idea that the US president's son being gay or bi would be TOTALLY FINE and not cause a massive shitstorm with conservatives and evangelical nuts would instantly kill my suspension of disbelief

The ending seems so silly now, knowing that Harry & Meghan were essentially just allowed to dip. Like, if that’s a real-life possibility, there’s no way the Queen would just let Henry remain in the line of succession or represent the royal family in any official capacity. He would be disowned in all but title only.

a little beside the point, but I took a class on the american revolution/constitution and the shadow of Hamilton HUNG over us the whole time, it was unavoidable and weird and awkward. Somebody mentioned the hatsune miku binder at one point and everything went dead silent.

if someone ever reviewed my book and said that i gave off "tumblr tendencies" i'd end it all

okay as an admitted rwrb superfan (i own three copies and have read it probably five times since release) i almost did not click this video but out of trust in your opinions, i did, and i'm glad!!!! the politics of this book have always been weird to me, but i haven't really been able to pinpoint why beyond a generic "yes this is standard liberal pre-trump good faith how sweet" but you really hit the nail on the head here. honestly, it read to me as a sort of weird american propaganda almost??? like it fed a lot into those "anybody can make it here" with all the working-class-family stuff and the generally easy acceptance of alex's bisexuality, as well as a woman with a bisexual, biracial son winning texas, which hasn't gone blue since the 1980s? and it's being directly paralleled with this ass-backward, tradition-focused monarchy, as though americans are just so much more evolved bc alex has a cowboy hat. idk, the book's politics are weird. that's why i turn my brain off and say 'haha cute ship funny dialogue'

They admit themselves they were writing the book when Trump won. That means they plotted it and had started writing it during the Obama era (probably with Hamilton playing in the background) which would explain the book's optimism.

as someone who only recently read the book while waiting for the movie to come out….. it was so insane finding the hamilton references. from the moment they referenced his portrait I got suspicious, but when they finally talked about the hamilton and laurens letters omg literal sirens blasting inside my mind

The fact that this book came out shortly before Meghan Markle and Prince Harry started dating is also significant to me. Meghan and Harry had arguably done what Alex and Henry did-- assimilated into the expecations of the Royal Family. But even that wasn't enough for the crown, and they were essentially forced to abdicate. That's *after* Markle had gone on tours to promote the British Monarchy! The book was quite limited in its attempt to be optimistic, and it often took me out of the book. I feel like it would have sold better to me as a Succession-like dark comedy rather than the Hamilton-esque liberal celebration.

the plot of this book sounds very liberal honestly, like the idea that the problem was the queen as an individual person and not the monarchy as an institution. it's the same way liberals defend capitalism - capitalism can't possibly be the problem, we just have the wrong people in charge of the capital!

As someone who grew up liberal in a red state and recently moved to the west coast, something that I do appreciate about this book and McQuiston’s other works is how red states aren’t depicted as lost causes that aren’t worth thinking about. I completely agree that Texas flipping blue is total fantasy in the book, but to me the rhetoric was a vast improvement from the watching the people in my home state suffer and have the people I live around now not give a shit because they disagree with my state’s politics

its gr8 to see other ppl pointing stuff like this out bc sometimes people make u feel like ur crazy for not accepting the barest most libbed up versions of representation...my mom is definitely what i would describe as an obama era liberal and anytime i critique a movie like that she's like, "but theres gay people in it so the political message is good!" and i dont know how to explain its more nuanced than that

One of the things that bothered me about the book is like "the presidents husband is a billionaire but he's a good billionaire guys! It's cause he can't stop inventing stuff!! He's such a genius" Then it's like "henrys bff is a billionaire but he's a good billionaire guys!!! He has charities!" Look, if you want to have your characters flying private from europe to america constantly and going to balls and royal wedding, just lean into it like don't try to convince me that's they're pc or "good, actually"

You are definitely correct that the Hamilton/Laurens thing is a specific reference to the musical, because Alex also mentions Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, which LMM directly cites as his historical source for most of the show

My biggest gripe with the book was how it treated Alex's identity as a Mexican-American. Like it felt very "this is what a white liberal thinks life is like" and some of the scenes (the "helados" scene) annoyed the hell out of me to point where it even took me out of the plot with how disconnected and "outside observer-y" it felt from what I've witnessed as a Mexican-American myself.

At least Marco finally moved on from Elle, and found someone who actually liked him. Likewise, Luke left Cassie and the military behind to become a Prince!

There is actually some drama in the Taylor Swift community about this book and movie because the author was a rampant Taylor hater for years but then the movie adaptation of their book came out and the characters and plot ended up being so accidentally Taylor Swift coded that people started making edits using her songs and now the author has seemingly gone into a panic and has been mass deleting all their old hate tweets about Taylor seemingly trying to backtrack in an "oh shit" moment.

i honestly gotta applaud Nicholas for all the movies he’s been in so far like how do you go from Cinderella to Purple Hearts to RW&RB and have it work? love that for him!

I was genuinely kinda confused why Henry didn't just abdicate. Like, they mentioned that he has his dads money, so he probably wouldn't even have to get a job. But also, he does not seem to actually like anything about being a prince. So, why would he continue to be one? I know its more complicated than that, but then they should've at least gone more in depth about it once they brought it up.

I'm half South Asian, and the "henry has an Indian servant" part of the book IS upsetting (although semi- hilarious because like "why would they write that" LOL) Idk, very much a "sounds about white" moment for Casey McQuinston. Generally because as a South Asian person myself, if a white person told me these plans for their South Asian secondary character, "servant of English Monarchy" I would explain that I am uncomfortable, and would encourage them to change it up. I get the escapism bit when it comes to their work, however characters like these are NOT taking into account how REAL LIFE south asian/desi people may feel, and tbh just reeks of neoliberalism. Overall, Casey writing a sort of "anti-racist, anti-colonial fantasy (where we have a Hot Indian guy working for the monarchy!)" makes me question... is this their place to write this as a white person? They are a talented author but def have missed the mark a few times when writing about POC or ethnic minorities. For example in their other book One Last Stop, there was a questionable moment where the white character tells her Asian gf that "most of the world isn't like that" anymore, when Jane (her gf) is a victim of a hate crime. Just some thoughts from watching your video, which I really enjoyed!

changing the royal family from the windsors to the hanover-stuarts in the film made my friend and I scream about the alternate history implications of that for a solid 45 minutes

It’s a self own for me to admit to knowing this, but I was in tumblr in 2012 and there was a founding fathers fandom that existed pre-Hamilton. I remember Hamilton/Burr being a popular ship but I think there were references to him and Laurens as well

Actually, in the collector's edition there is a bonus chapter from Henry's perspective where he does abdicate! It really seems like a beautiful conclusion of his arc in my opinion. I love this book so much

honestly as a queer bme brit this book is so clearly written by a white american lib that it's practically painful.... "here's the token critique of the US as a genocidal empire but at least we don't have monarchy teehee" really encapsulates the the jingoism and blinkered exceptionalism of the american liberal. and idk if rwrb really did originate as social network rpf fanfiction but there's no doubt in my mind that it was definitely brewed in the cauldron of fic-writing - the superficial acknowledgement of serious political issues which are used as ~snappy quips~ and ~mic-drop moments~ and then completely brushed off in favour of an easy-breezy assimilationist happy ending is so fanfic-y lol

It's always so weird for me when something promotes itself as a better version of reality and they still write homophobia in. Like, a world without some form of homophobia is so out of the real of imagination that we can't even pretend that it's possible, not even when we try to escape the bleak reality we all have to live with. Including the people who already live the homophobia. It's just weird.

i used to follow casey mcquiston on tumblr and i can't remember if they were in hamilton fandom, but they WERE in the social network fandom, so i absolutely would not be surprised lmao

this series of yearly "politically flawed new adult romance" nicholas galitzine movies is so funny to me. I love it

I just wanted to say, i think the thumbnail of this video is maybe the most visually effective thumbnail i've ever seen for any video, ever?? like at first you're hit with the meme meaning of the image and the context behind that, and then it re-contextualizes itself with the book cover beside it,, it makes an argument by the association of those images with such startling immediacy and clarity that it's instantly recognizable what the thesis of that argument is like, in the first 2 seconds of seeing it. and it does all of that with a single meme?? like, it's funny, but then it also blasts your fucking brain with the implications of the comparison and you instantaneously know what the entire video is going to be about. it's just so visually powerful i'm unironically obsessed

The gay yearning in me is keeping me from thinking too much about the political implications

I never finished this book and i think i finally understand why. The moment that really, completely pulled me out was when a whole mob turns up outside the royal palace, up in arms almost, to protest the fact that two guys aren't allowed to date. A whole crowd is absolutely ready to support these two, and to pressure the monarchy with the weight of public ridicule in order to get the main characters together. When i read it, this felt so insanely 2010's-y to me that i couldn't physically take it, and now i understand the entire book was already like this, i just didn't see it yet. If i'd read this book in 2015-2018 i would have loved it so much, i just know it.

This is EXACTLY what was going through my head when I read it a few years back. For some reason, it was the hottest book on BookTok after the 2020 election, and I honestly thought I was going insane. One thing I feel I should add is that I also had high hopes for McQuiston’s other work, since I liked the romance/writing and felt that they might do better if the book wasn’t about politics. Unfortunately, after reading their newest book, a queer YA coming-of-age romance set at a Catholic school, I don’t think I really have faith in them anymore. Like, in this book, the school the MCs are in is homophobic and conservative, and its administration stifles all students’ self-expression. It’s a very tear-the-system-down premise, without any of the wide scale of international politics, so I thought it would be fine. And then the end of the book comes! And it turns out that: 1. Almost everyone is Not Homophobic, but rather actually totally fine with the gay kids! 2. The only person who isn’t, the principle, is a Bad Dude and everyone agrees with that. 3. It turns out that that principle has actually been illegally altering grades to uplift his own daughter’s status. 4. The previously homophobic administration steps in and does its job to get rid of the Bad Dude, and everyone claps. Literally, no systemic change needs to happen, even on this very small scale, because all the Bad People are also doing Crimes! And the system obviously takes that very seriously, even if those Bad People are rich and white! McQuiston lowkey just recycled the ending of RW&RB, with the one Senator actually doing illegal things and immediately getting removed, and also everyone in Britain and Texas is a secret Ally, and Texas goes blue and everyone claps. I’m being kind of hard on them, I know, but this is really frustrating! It feels less and less like escapism, and more like active denial.

I’m so glad somebody else noticed the weird politics in the book! There’s a lot of stuff in rwrb that I’ve learned to chalk up as a ‘product of it’s time’. The optimism about politicians, the genuine belief that democrats work to improve America, the weirdly lukewarm look at the monarchy, the general wealth the characters take for granted- all this is no longer conceivable now for a multitude of reasons, but in 2019 ( and the years prior to 2019 in which the book was written ), it was still somewhat…understandable. I completely understand why the additional chapter took a different route for Henry and Alex, and I find it somewhat interesting that nobody really questions the choices or character coherency in that chapter- because a lot of us lost the optimism Henry and Alex had in the years between 2019 and 2022, so their choices make complete sense to us, without much explanation

I'm glad that you brought this up (and if you don't want talk of the movie, it's fine to delete this) because this was basically the exact same nonsense in the movie. The King (instead of Queen) just decides to have a change of heart and let Henry be gay after a passionate speech. It's the most unsatisfying writing ever, I couldn't have imagined it was practically the same in the book.

i’ll never forget that there was a throwaway line about a harry potter ship in the book like casey is a true millennial at their heart and i think that explains a lot of the liberal tendencies

Love the phrase "coffee shop AU about the fouding fathers". Oh tumblr, we really are something ❤

Honestly, the only thing that REALLY took me out of the book was the "flipping Texas" subplot. Cause, yeah... naw, dude, that's nearly impossible.

I was patiently watching this as an old person, smiling with condescension at the notion of 2015 being seen as a time of idealism, when suddenly you hit me with that Joanna Russ reference. I'm so glad to see Russ has not fully vanished into the mists of time. As for 2015, okay, sure, if you were 14 it would have looked very different than it did for older people, or at least for old leftists. To me, Obama's friendly demeanor did nothing to obscure his monstrous treatment of immigrants, his "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to the collapse of the global economy and the crimes of the Bush administration, his fear of addressing race substantively, his constant kowtowing to every idiotic Republican demand, his worship of corporate domination of the country... and so on. For me, that kind of ruined this novel. The glib "liberalism with blinders on" style of politics is simply repulsive. And the movie made it all even dumber (though it had a few good moments). In any case thanks for your perspective. It's fascinating to see how differently young teens experienced those years.

all of mcquiston's work is like this re: politics unfortunately. every book ends in a "yeah the system sucks but if we all work together we can make the system work for us!" kinda way. i'm glad that they believe in they power of collectivism but post the 2016 election and the u.s. response to covid i cannot relate lol.

To me it’s a period piece (2014-2019)

If you liked the writing on it's own, I would actually recommend one of McQuiston's other novels, One Last Stop. It has all the wit, endearing characters and cute romance, without (most of) the intense and suspicious political implications. I read it first and personally liked it way more, it's so cute! The girls are falling in love on the New York subway!!! I mean come on!!!!!

You, about Hamilton: "It was the calm before the storm." So, are you saying... in the eye of a a hurricane, there is quiet?

It turns out that in the collectors edition of the book there's a bonus chapter where a few years down the line Alex is persuing a law degree and Henry's after abdicating and become a philanthropist (also Nora x June is teased)

this was such a great video!! as someone who enjoys both your content and this book i really enjoyed hearing you speak about it. something that is so interesting to me is that henry does abdicate but this is only explained in a bonus chapter in a collectors edition of the book that most people who just casually read the book will never see. another amazing video!!!

Im really glad you brought this up because I watched the movie and really enjoyed it, but when I finished it I had this feeling that it was missing something? Like, something about the problem wasn't solved, and it's great that Henry gets to have his fairy tale romance, but at the end of the day, that wasn't the whole issue. The problem was, for Henry specifically, that the monarchy and life as a prince was stifling and he didn't like 'benefiting' from a system with such a horrible past, worse when he doesn't even enjoy the benefits. I always expected Alex to go into politics, but I was kinda looking forward to Henry getting out of being prince. Stil, I had a fun time watching the movie,and maybe it'll be used to their benefit, and they'll make a sequel or something? Have Henry realize that the problems of the monarchy can't be solved with them letting him have a boyfriend, and if not leave the monarchy, actively work to remedy what it's done.

You gotta read "Fan Fiction" by Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek), would love to hear your take! He calls it a "mem-noir" which is a fun concept and centers around threatening fan mail. The audiobook is voiced by a bunch of Star Trek cast members too!

It truly doesn’t matter how many times i’ve seen Hatsune Miku binder Thomas Jefferson, it’s always a jump scare…

damn i was kinda hoping this was gonna be about Alex turning Texas blue cuz that was crazy

As usual, an absolutely excellent video. I also have to say, I hope you get good money from your sponsor because this is the most compelling ad read I have heard in a long time. It's very you and honest and thus, fresh. I had fun even during the sponsor moment, that's how good it was

as much as i adore this book, this video is 1000% true and i think the reason i loved it is because i myself was 15 when hamilton came out in “post-race” obama era america and (even tho obviously for many people, including myself, the country was not actually a realized “american dream”) i just kind of missed that sureness in such a turbulent time like high school that everything would someday be okay and we could make a better america. like i read this book this year in 2023, but it did elicit a warm, fuzzy nostalgia for the ignorance of 15, but i subconsciously did pick up on the hamilton references and how white liberal this book is and understand it even better now lol.

Wildest thing about this book is it started as a Social Network fanfic

just one thing: there is a bonus chapter (it was released in the 2022 collector's edition) which takes place during the years after the book's storyline and in this Henry actually abdicates. so at least there's that. as someone who will defend this book with their whole heart everything you said makes sense (although i think the whole US politics thing is more of a wish fulfillment than Casey being actually this positive/idealistic about it)

The fact that the royals in the book were so progressive really annoyed me. Even in real life, Prince Harry, who seems to be the most progressive royal, isn’t a Republican, has never spoken out against imperialism or in support of reparations, and only ever talks about issues when they directly affect him. Yet, in this book, the royals are anti-monarchists who hate the institution. It’s just so unrealistic that a man of Prince Henry's background, who received a private education at Eton and who grew up alongside the aristocracy, would be left-leaning that it’s laughable. It’s also annoying how McQuiston painted the U.K. out to be a backwards, conservative country and the U.S. as the opposite when, in actuality, both countries are as socially liberal as each other. You can’t just use the monarchy to represent the U.K. when a lot of British people are largely uninterested in the Royal Family.

as a former gay man i remember there being a lot of problematic micro aggressions in the book but as someone who's also from a country still suffering from englands colonialism, all the hand wavy stuff also was upsetting. edit: wanna clarify that i'm a trans lesbian not a straight man 🤢

I love that Uma Thurman was cast as the POTUS. I'd certainly vote for her, and she's an excellent Mum to Alex. Plus, it's fantastic to see a cheesy Queer Rom Com which has a happy ending, and doesn't involve one of the leads dying. 🏳️‍🌈💘👬

ive had this book rotting on my shelf unopened for like 2 years now, and nothing has made me want to read it more than this critique

I feel like there’s something to be said for just letting them have an uncomplicated ending for a while. Alex graduated college DURING the book, and Henry isn’t much older, so I think an actual “change the world” narrative would have felt a little weird to me. It’s shown that both of them are going to work towards some kind of large-scale reform (Alex and law school/politics, Henry and the Henry Foundation for lgbt+ youth), so I didn’t really feel the need for a grand reworking of two entire countries’ political systems (by a couple of early twenty-somethings) to be completed within the year that the story actually covers. It’s true that it’s not a full happy ending, but I never got the impression that it was intended to be.

i think there are many interesting inaccuracies in the book but bizarrely, the one that still bothers me to this day is the part where alex mentions the sound of the spoon moving in a circle while the queen is stirring her tea. as an etiquette nerd it bugs me because in ”proper” etiquette, you NEVER stir in a circle, instead you slightly move your spoon back and forth (without it touching the cup) so as not to make a clinking or dragging noise. so the queen would absolutely not do that in any situation. this is such a nitpicky thing, i know, but it’s one of those things that once you know it, you cant unknow it. and it took me out of the already flimsy belief that these were realistic portrayals of british royals

There's no way that this book didn't start as a hetalia fanfic. It had to be.

When I saw who had been casted, my first thought was "oh i have GOT to know celebrated youtuber Jane Mulcahy's opinion on this!"

not even a minute in and im giggling about nicholas galitzine being the unofficial mascot of the channel

any time i see a hamilton reference in the wild, my fight or flight kicks in i swear to god

not the miku binder thumbnail XD

it's always a great day when jane uploads

I wanted to like this book so badly, and i get why people do. I can see a lot of people wanting some escapism and self-indulgent fun. I never really expected anything revolutionary in terms of the book's politics either. But i just couldn't stand McQuiston's prose. Especially the constant pop-culture references. Maybe their writing improved in their other books but i just couldn't get through this one.

I feel less alone now because I remember bringing up similar thoughts re: how the novel is Obamarotica for affluent liberals in a book club discussion, and being kinda despised for saying so. A killjoy to my white gays who read. Also, Bollywood gurly to Bollywood gurly: we both know that RWRB is what we'd get if Karan Johar decided to take a stab at a movie with a political bent.

I saw Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson in the thumbnail and my mind touched the VOID.

Nothing more romantic than selling out with your one true love

My personal main problem with rwrb is Alex’s race. I recently watched the movie but haven’t read the book I’m a few years so I don’t remember exactly how this was handled in the book but I don’t think it was commented on much in the book either. Alex is a mixed, his mom is white and his dad is latino, I love that, it’s actually similar to me (my dad is latino and my mom is white, in fact we couldn’t be more similar my grandparents also immigrated to America just as Alex’s dad says in the movie) my problem was that he talks about how he’s latino, but never about his white roots either. And yes it does completely change your perspective on race ethnicity and identity. His mom is very different from him, and he lives with his mom. But he never actually talks about how that affects him, and only talks about how he grew up working class and his grandparents immigrated. Which makes me wonder why he was made mixed in the first place if it’s completely ignored that his mom is white, and why his mom is the white one who is also the president. Idk just something I thought about while watching, I would’ve really liked to see a character like me deal with the problems of having family of two different ethnicities.

found it weird they talk mostly about imperialism in England. Like hellooo one of you is half-Latino do you know what US imperialism did in Latin America?

i’m so happy this video showed up in my recs, this is EXACTLY how i felt reading the book😭 i was so shocked when i looked up the publication date because it felt sooo 2015 to me. not to mention the tumblr hamilton war flashbacks LMAO

One of the funnier moments of the Hamilton fandom finding out Hamilton was (Probably most definitely Bi) was that Doctor Who (Another Tumblr beloved British show) referenced it long before the musical in an offhand joke about Hamilton Jefferson or Adams fancying the Doctor.

thank you for this video- it put into words exactly why i found the entire book embarrassing in the same way the “and then everyone clapped” story was embarrassing

the audible “YES” I just let out in my group office upon seeing the notification for this

It's an often-repeated fact that Lin Manuel Miranda was bullied by Immortal Technique in high school. My theory is that Miranda's entire career is his way of taking revenge on hip-hop itself for what one rapper did to him. Some theater kid got stuffed in a trash can, and an entire artform has to suffer for it.

I’ve never known a single thing about this series but I’m legally obligated to click on any youtube video over 30 minutes long with trans masc hatsune miku binder thomas jefferson in the thumbnail

I am 100000% here for more book reviews. I also miss Bollywood content since you got me to watch Kal Ho Naa Ho 🙏🏻💕

Thank you so much for your thoughts, Jane. I had read the book in 2020 before the world ended and while I found the book entertaining and enjoyable, you shared pretty much the exact same thoughts that I had overall, minus the Hamilton reference lol I hadn’t seen Hamilton prior to reading the book. Despite my criticism of some of the plot elements, I can definitely see the appeal and I am grateful that other writers have had opportunities to share new stories and to have them all have a chance to gain popularity too, especially since queer stories up until recently have been harder to come by. If I may make a suggestion, “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” is an incredibly beautiful story and I always look for excuses to recommend it because I still feel like not a lot of people know about it and that book is getting a film adaptation release next month, so that’s fun too lol

Idk if it's because I'm a almost 30 year old millennial, but I literally discovered Hamilton through Spotify when I was going to listen to some in the heights and saw the album. Don't know about the social political implications of that all, but it seems like it was popular primarily because it was drastically just oppopsed to basically everything on Broadway. That and and be blunt representation that offers makes it more similar to something like black panther IMHO. The thing I took away from it (As former a Black Theater kid) was that Hamilton himself place value in the wrong thing that is what led to his ineffable downfall. The reaction the people on Tumblr hats with though isn't surprising since ship anything with everything

we're just innocent men...

I would 100% read speculative fanfic about Hunter Biden and Prince Harry

I think theres now a collector's edition of the book with a bonus chapter in which it is said that Henry has given up his royal title shortly after the events of the original book.

Good lord I remember being so deep in the fandom during the 2020 elections, and EVERYONE was checking whether different states turned blue, particularly Texas. I remember genuinely crying because it was so close yet it was red and it didn’t happen like the book. I’m not even from the states but god I was invested.

God dammit ffs im here to watch your entire video and learn from it and possibly enjoy more videos from your channel bc I was accosted by the thumbnail of Jefferson in his hatsune miku binder. well played

well i have good news for you, nicholas does have a tv show coming out probably next year where he plays the lover of king james 1, and the whole plot they have to kill him, so another politically adjacent one! unless his romcom with anne Hathaway has unexpected stuff in it lmao

Someone probably already mentioned it but I think the series Young Royals does this effectively. It blames the monarchy as an institution that treats the royals kinda horribly (and not just the queen). The main character, Wilhelm, has been vocal about disliking being a prince and the rigidity of his life because of it. The last season isn't out yet but abdication has been mentioned and I think that even if he doesn't abdicate, he will at least try to do something to change the system he was born into.

I had been eying "Red, White & Royal Blue" for a while, so I appreciate this review/analysis! I wonder what has become my life that I continue to search for any small mention of "Hatsune Miku binder Jefferson". It is still a bizarre concept, like watching a trainwreck happen in real time due to the sheer absurdity of it.

This was so well done ! (and the thumbnail was a bold choice but necessary)

I thought it was interesting that the public coming out was the book's final triumph. Not just their coming out as individuals, as a couple.

from being in a lot of queer internet circles i’ve known about this book for the last 3 years or so, but everything being based on real countries always put me off, i don’t think i would’ve been able to read it without questioning all of this. I’m not surprised about the hamilton references either, it definitely feels like a product of 2013-2014 tumblr and american politics culture that happened to come out recently

as a person /somewhat/ interested in the usa politics, the entire premise of FLIPPING FUCKING TEXAS is hilarious to me

I feel these flaws so much and I do enjoy the novel in spite of these things, but the main reason I am hoping that the film adaptation specifically does well is that RW&RB is not as good of a book as One Last Stop, her Sapphic novel, and selfishly I want an adaptation of it so bad.

i think about how this book started out as tsn 2011 press tour RPF every day of my life i will never know peace

Classical composer you might enjoy: Varvara Nikolaevna Golovina. Sources suggest she had a romantic relationship with Empress Elizaveta Alexeievna. Her music is banging too!

there’s like a bonus epilogue thing written from henry’s perspective and i’m like 99% sure they say he abdicated in that but that’s also something that’s only gonna be known to a fan of the book not the average consumer and it was also written a lot later sooo

the delight I felt upon hearing jane suggest someone write a hunter biden x prince harry fanfic, immediately opening ao3 and finding that someone actually had. incredible scenes

It’s not the point, but I do remember the Obama administration differently as I was a teen for a good chunk of it. I remember half the teachers at my school refusing to tune in to his education address. And I remember doing current event projects for civics and seeing Tea Party protesters with signs calling him an ape who should go back to Kenya. There are many valid criticisms of Obama, but everyone definitely didn’t love him.

as soon as I saw miku binder thomas jefferson I knew where this was going (and I love it)

thank you for reminding the importance of the strikes! here's to hoping amazon loses so much money that they cannot avoid paying their writers and actors fairly.