#half wild

i hated the books with a passion like wdym one of them died and the other turned into a TREE

love the show tho ughh it's so good

Okay, for absolute real, WHAT THE HELL, RIGHT?

I will apologize in advance if I sound a little manic and/or get a little long-winded, but this series rewired my brain when I read it. I loved it so damn much, and when Gabriel died, it was like my heart was torn out. I have never mourned a fictional character so deeply. Because, seriously, what the hell???

Nathan went through absolute shit his entire life, just constant abject misery, and he found ONE good thing in his life, ONE hope for a better future, ONE spark of light at the end of that endless pitch-black tunnel that would make all the awful that came before "okay"...And the author takes that away too!? FOR WHAT?? He died for NOTHING, and it is bullshit.

I was devastated for Nathan, and I was devastated for Gabriel. Gabriel, who loved Nathan so much that he would have done anything for him, followed him anywhere, and the only thing that love got him was killed.

But, ohhh, Nathan became a TREE and blah blah magic blah, implications that their spirits can be together in the earth through magic blah whatever - I would rather they had both died, and shown some sort of afterlife. Quite frankly, there are a dozen different directions it could have gone that I would have preferred.

Anyways. Thanks @seolihexagon for giving me an excuse to rant. I don't know anyone else who has read this so I was soloing in my misery when I finished it. And hard agree that the show was amazing. It is criminal that it got cancelled.

• It’s a loose adaptation, it’s definitely more inspired by the books than a direct adaptation

• IT IS MEANT TO MAKE YOU A BIT UNCOMFORTABLE!!! It’s about politics and racism but in NO WAY is it meant to attack poc or encourage racism!! If you read the books you’d understand that, I also saw someone say the books don’t have a poc main character?? Nathan is described as “olive skinned” that’s considered Type III, Type IV, and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale and given he has dark eyes and hair he’s most likely in the IV-V range!

• Please at least google the summary of the books or read the first one, it’ll help you understand a bit more

• It’s dark but not as dark as the books, there’s definitely gore but even that is considerably less bad than what’s described in the books

• A bunch of things changed from book to the show (I rebloged someone’s post that had a list before this post, go check it out!!)

• GABRIEL IS 19!! I know he looks older and dated an older guy (iirc 28) but he’s 19 so it’s not actually weird for him to be with someone who’s 17, it’s a 2 year and a couple months difference

update: more trailers have been released which lead me to believe that it may thankfully not be what I was worried about lol, however I will still probs update this as I am way too nit picky about book->show/film adaptations for my own good lmao

update 2: AHGHH THIS SHOW IS BANGING EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH IT :D the representation is *chef’s kiss* and it’s so fucking cool. it’s very different from the books but still very enjoyable, seperate to the books tho

As I said some days ago. I want to write some thoughts about the Half Bad Trilogy of @sallygreenhalfbad.

First at all, the books are amazing with a great world and characters. Mr.Green writing blew my mind with her use of the present tense with a first-person narrator. I'm not an English native speaker and this was the first time that I read something like this. The way that your inner voice mixes with Nathan's thinkings really helped to feel in his skin. My new WIP is using this tense. I need to find my own voice in it because it's great.

Then we start with the story and spoilers (don't read more if you don't read the whole trilogy)