How to grow a Garden

More flower suits. We all need more outragiously gay flower suits.

▪ Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch ▪

Disaster Gay™

Simon + Baz

Snow kissed me last night until my mouth was sore. He kissed me so much, I was worried I’d Turn him with all my saliva. He held himself up on all fours above me and made me reach up for his mouth–and I did. I would again. I’d cross every line for him. I’m in love with him. And he likes this better than fighting.

*aggressively shouting* charaCTER DEVELOPMENT 

LOOK AT HIS FACE

LOOK AT HIS RESTING SMIRK

LOOK AT HOW HIS HAIR HAS GROWN

HIS CHEST HAS FILLED OUT

HE’S TANNED

possibly one of my favorite scenes from Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On ✨

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