Honestly Ben (Openly Straight #2)Bill KonigsbergArthur A. Levine BooksPublished March 28, 2017
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About Honestly Ben
Ben Carver is back to normal. He’s getting all As in his classes at the Natick School. He was just elected captain of the baseball team. He’s even won a big scholarship for college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg…
Was tryinf to find honestly ben shit and everything was unrelated aside from book reviews like and then i started cryinf cause i saw a Craig x tweek fic
the reason why transfem elias is my favourite theory for gwendolyn is because think about the implications.
so let’s say this alternate universe reveals that elias is actually transgender, and would present/identify as female if they had the opportunity to figure themself out and transition (elias was reportedly very young when jonah possessed them)
then the idea that in the tma universe they not only didn’t live long enough to do that, but THEIR BODY WAS TAKEN OVER BY SOMEONE ELSE WHO THEN PRESENTED IN A MASCULINE WAY AND LIVED AS A MAN USING THEIR FACE AND BODY FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS?!? FUCKING TERRIFYING
as a trans person myself, even though the real elias was dead the dysphoria that idea gives me is absolutely unreal, and really creeps into serious body/existential horror territory which i think would be really interesting and very in-character for a writer like jonny to explore.
Guys wait do more people know about openly dtraight here like im desperatly hyperfixated on it oh my fucking god i can talk about rafe specifically for hours AND BEN his growth and the parralles and LIKE ZYOU CAN TWLL how much Bill koinsberg GREW CAUSE 3 YEARS AFTER LIKE ITS SOOO GOOD BUT RAFE DESERVES THE WORLD TO ME PLEASEEE
OMFG THERES NO NOOOOOO TEXT LIMIT anyways openly straight brain rot go crazy 🥰🥰 ALSO PLEASE WHO ELSE HAS READ THIS BOOK im too autistic for this
Washington's on scrolling duty yessir 🫡 I don't recall if I ever done these two but as we all know i'm multishipper win as long as my favorite boy gets love 🙏 I actually have read about the relations between Alaska and Washington before, dare I say, but never talked about my findings for whatever reason 🤨