it’s just. the way to the man in rome, jude is just a good looking boy who he complemented to his father, but the man will never know everything that happened to jude. that jude thinks he’s horrifically ugly. the way jude’s story ends. it makes me so fucking ill
not going to lie a specific scene in the book that really fucking hits me sometimes and i need to double down is when someone tells harold jude is beautiful . i just can’t. there’s something so solemn about it
thinking about jude making gougères today what if i exploded
jude wondering if he did something wrong because willem didn't hold him one time. all i can say is i relate
THIS IS TAKING ME OUUUUTTTT
Harold in Lispenard II
I think one of Jude's majorly overlooked character traits is how funny he is. I still lose my mind everytime I read that one scene where Harold was interviewing Jude for his research assistant position and he mentions how, except for a few of them, the majority of the amendments in the constitution are the "dross" of politics past. Dross has a couple of meanings, the one Harold meant was "remnants" but another meaning is "worthless" and Jude is so quick to ask him "You think the thirteenth admendment is worthless 🤨?"
For non-Americans the thirteenth amendment is the one that abolished slavery lmfao get that white man Jude
snoopy read a little life... thoughts and prayers
yeah and who wants to see him find love? who wants to see him get adopted? who wants to see what the other boys in his life do? who cares? he got raped that’s the only valid or worthwhile thing to mention!!!!
floating jude st. francis head but he's no longer floating and also my ipad is pissing me off bc it makes the colors all wonky when i save it 🤬
i think about jude’s biological parents everyday actually. why did they leave him? did they regret it? did they wonder if he’d been successful? (he was) did they wonder if he’d actually even survived?