It’s Thanksgiving So I’m Remembering How Much Jude Loved It

me and @bombaciouscaboose were absolutely brainrotted about lil 16 yr old Jude and his summer job at a bakery and I was simply COMPELLED

Might finish this rough sketch;might not; im just livin la vida loca

jude is so me i also have such an obviously catholic full name

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

Thinking about the wildflowers that Willem and Jude planted in the fields around their house and how they’re probably still growing, year after year. They probably spread out over time, with no one to mow them or trim them back. They probably smother the house now, growing right up to the doorstep.

The happy years didn’t last long enough. But the flowers will continue to grow.

I woke up in a cold sweat..,,,, gnod told me to make thjs

The true “boys will be boys” is when all FOUR of you managed to forget your keys and phones and it’s freezing outside and the best solution you and your friends (Ivy League graduates, may I add) could come up with was launching yourself off the roof ledge to break into your own apartment

“You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.”

imagine being harold and losing your son in law and knowing EXACTLY like EXACTLY what’s going to happen to your actual son and doing everything you can to keep him alive but just KNOWING that it’s all futile.

auuuuuGHHHH the old man in Rome. Harold being so happy that Jude is recognized as his son by others even when they don't look anything alike, but the love is so clear and so vivid that people can just tell. Like when Harold was telling Liesl about adopting Jude and she can just tell how much he loves him that she says "You love him a lot" bc Harold loves so freely and so intensely and so unconditionally and his love shines out of him like warm rays of sun

And also the old man teasing Harold for being so plain but having such a beautiful wife and handsome son,,,,,,,,,,justice for Harold Stein

literally and the way harold and jude just fit, so well so that people think they’re biologically related. :(

*tosses some Jude fanart @ you and then scuttles away*