#the basic eight

I know a few of those

queer friend groups will be like "queen bee" "the kindest boy alive" "senior year murderess" "cello player" "your tweed-wearing gay ex-boyfriend" "homoerotic hallucination" "the only teenage girl to unironically wear a chain of pearls" “girl so beautiful you must call her by her full government name”

Also read his new memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else? It's really, really good! (I ended up with four copies by accident but I don't regret it because they each had something special attached, i.e. the first one came two weeks early for no reason, which allowed me to read it at my own pace before meeting with him, which made me very happy! Forgot to ask my questions specific to that book, though, damn it!)

theres this part in the book where there’s a day when flan keeps mistaking someone else for adam before realizing that it’s someone else. if some of natasha’s words were indeed said by someone else, if some of natasha’s actions were indeed done by someone else - then flan mistakes it for “natasha” - it’s not dissimilar to how she mistook others for adam. and that’s an interesting parallel. adam who flan considered herself in love with. adam who she kept mistaking other people as him on that day. but with natasha it wasn’t a single day. it’s so, so, so much longer than that