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Added 2025-02-23 20:53:22 +0000 UTChello poofters!! please respond with your thoughts on Young Mungo… it destroyed me.
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that's truuee like the cops should've known who he was🤣 dafuq
shawn
2025-03-05 20:18:45 +0000 UTComg also the first scene where mungo is forced to share the tent with gallowgate and gallowgate is getting closer to mungo and u can feel that something is probably going to happen and ur holding ur breath and mungo starts talking and talking and telling random stories to somehow ward off the inevitable and gallowgate eventually falls asleep ... that fucking exhale after finishing that chapter... the anxiety was so well written it's insane.
adri ☆
2025-03-01 17:40:51 +0000 UTC"It was dazzling, how something marvelous could be destroyed so quickly and so completely." ... ouch i was not expecting most of what took place at the loch but especially not a coming of age via double homicide i think mungo and jodie's relationship was my favorite part of this book. the scene where he's angry because she's pregnant with the teacher's baby but still "had a handful of Jelly Babies and he had separated the red ones just for her" made me tear up. and when she finds out he's gay, rather than being outright disgusted because he's in love with another boy, she is more worried about how he'll be brutalized by others or of him becoming a victim of the AIDs epidemic. she even seeks out james to let him know where mungo is. she doesn't love him any less because he's gay, she's just worried about how he'll survive in their environment and goes about it the wrong way. her character also just makes me so sad for women, and FURIOUS when their mother blames her for "not raising him right." after finishing the book i had real love by big thief on repeat for days. i have nothing of value to say but this was one of the most tender and beautiful love scenes i've ever read: "James raised his arm out from under the weight and draped it across Mungo's shoulders. It made Mungo flinch in anticipation of a blow, a flick, a chokehold. But as he waited for retaliation, it slowly dawned on him that no hurt was coming. Instead of rejecting him James had made more space for him. Mungo slid into him and filled the cavity in James's side. There was a tide in James's chest, and Mungo bobbed on the swell of it. He was carried along by the slow rise and fall of his ribcage and comforted by the sigh at the edge of his breath. James's arm was heavy but Mungo liked the weight of it, he felt safe underneath it." i appreciate that the ending is ambiguous enough that depending on whether my lexipro is working or not i can see either a happy or tragic ending. mostly i like to think that the earlier talk mungo has with chickie about getting out while he still can, as well as his sudden coming of age and realization that his mother had no issue sending him to a remote location with convicted child rapists would give him the push he needs to hop on that bus with james and get the hell out. also just wanted to mention that while i was watching your latest video you mentioned something about always feeling like there were cameras on you when you were younger and (whether this is what you meant or not) it reminded me of this passage: "As Mungo leaned over the water he focused on his reflection. He wondered what it was the men had recognized in him. Where was this signal he could not see, the semaphore he had never meant to send? Was it in how his eyes never quite met theirs, how they turned themselves down submissively? Was it in how he stood with his hands limp at his side, his weight on one leg? He wanted to find the signal, and he wanted to end its transmission."
adri ☆
2025-03-01 17:00:09 +0000 UTCAnother thought, because why not? Hamish saying he was Mungo at the end didn't throw me, which isn't saying I expected it. Throughout the book, HaHa was trying--in his own very warped way--to teach his younger brother survival skills and how to be a man (and a Hamilton). Stand up & fight. Never give the Polis anything. Don't be a f*g. Obviously, what it meant to be a man to HaHa was galaxies away from what it means to "civilized" people, but was in keeping with his world view as defined by his experiences living in their scheme. HaHa knew he could withstand an interrogation, could do time standing on his head if it came to that. What DID surprise me was the two cops not knowing who Hamish was, given his many run-ins with the law. Anyway, I think saying he was Mungo fit in very well with his character.
Emjay
2025-02-28 20:50:52 +0000 UTC
