what people think alice oseman books are like: blushing awkward first meetings, little chaste first kisses, giggling teenage boys holding hands what alice oseman books are actually like: hey what if your entire personality is actually a carefully constructed facade to make other people like you and to disguise the fact that you don't actually know who you are. if you stripped away all the walls, all the artificial things that you think make you up, what would be left? what would happen if you stopped living for other people and started living for yourself? is there even a person in there or just a gaping void with nothing left in it? wouldn't that be fucked up? do you even know yourself? do you even have a real personality anymore?

JIMMY AND ROWAN SINGING TOGETHER MAKES ME SO HAPPY

my boy lister is definitely doing the right thing by recording

an avatar i made for the osemanverse discord server i’m in! thank you for asking me, it was really fun to do <3

I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.

- more wise words by Angel Rahimi (I Was Born For This, Alice Oseman)

osemanverse playlists part 2

this post is long overdue

miss them

my osemanverse quiz results. I did this before but I don’t remember the first result I got. and I found out I’m a hufflepuff and not a ravenclaw anymore.

here’s the link if you want to try it

“i am not afraid, said Noah. I was born for this.”

i miss jimmy kaga-ricci and lister bird and rowan omondi and angel rahimi i can only read iwbft so many times i need a sequel so bad i miss the boys so much

fortunately for us, i’m excellent at faking being okay with things, even when inside my brain there is a tiny screaming gnome who is definitely not okay

i was born for this by alice oseman

3 underrated characters.

“Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times. I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”

- I Was Born For This, Alice Oseman (2018)

u can't expect me to do an activity during iwbft without me making it all about iwbft . so behold: mug was born for this

i found this meme i made right after reading iwbft and i nearly cried laughing