love IS real and chuck tingle proves it yet again with what’s literally the book of the year imo!!! 

bury your gays is everything you could wish for in a book about a queer screenwriter fighting for representation in a capitalist hellscape (hollywood) 💛

it may be fiction, but there’s clearly real and honest feelings behind this and it’s easy to relate to several moments in this as a queer person. misha’s story of growing up wanting to be represented, but it only being through queer baiting or queer tragic stories is way too real. i could so easily see myself in this and it’s rare feeling SO seen in a book published by such a huge and mainstream publisher. but chuck did it!!! i love it. 

but also the general story was great!! it was weird, kinda bordering on horror at times and it had a great cautionary tale of capitalism and [spoiler]. it also had a great aroace character, tara, and i would lay down my life for her actually 🫶🫶🫶 

anyway, five stars baby! this is by far my most fave read of 2024 and i think a lot of it is (obviously) chuck tingle’s ability as a writer but it also hits all the right spots for me, when it comes to what i love in fiction — to me it’s basically a ‘what if kiss kiss bang bang met john dies at the end but it was infinitely more queer’. which is to say, actually, if you love john dies at the end and you’re gay, you’ll absolutely love this! 

// thank you to titan books, chuck tingle and netgalley for this arc 🥲🫶