![]() ![]() ![]() Their relationship is tepid at best it’s a childhood relationship that they’re holding on to simply because it’s safe, it’s comfortable, and it presents a secure future. At the beginning of Carry On, Simon is with Agatha. Simon’s journey is something that’s still evolving. Though his downright obsession over Baz’s whereabouts is suspicious, we don’t actually have confirmation of what’s been quietly simmering between them until one of Baz’s chapters partway through the book when he thinks to himself, “And I’m hopelessly in love with him.”īeyond featuring a love story between two male characters, what makes the Simon Snow series a particularly great example of representation are Simon and Baz’s individual experiences as members of the LGBTQIA+ community. When we meet Simon Snow in Carry On, his final school year at Watford School of Magicks has just begun, and he spends weeks in a huff over the fact that his mortal enemy slash roommate Baz has yet to show up. And whereas the idea of Simon and Baz canonically being in love was but a pipedream in the world of Fangirl, Carry On came barging in to save the day with the perfect enemies-to-lovers tale. When Fangirl came to an end, Rowell decided that she wasn’t quite done with the idea of Simon and Baz, and so she plucked them from that story and dropped them into their own series with a book called Carry On. ![]() Fangirl follows the protagonist Cath’s journey through her first year of university, while also introducing a key aspect of her personal life: Cath is an avid Simon/Baz shipper, and she dedicates most of her free time to writing fanfiction about them. Simon and Baz were first born on the pages of Rowell’s 2013 novel Fangirl, a universe in which they exist as two characters in a Harry Potter-esque book series by a fictional author named Gemma T. ![]()
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