CW: homophobia, reference to past transphobia as before, but newly we have eating disorders, reference to past self harm, past bullying As you can tell from the content warnings, things are getting serious and not in a cute “will you be my boyfriend” sort of way. Charlie has deep seated demons that are coming to light, and Nick has his issues as well. Before we get there, though, there’s a fun jaunt to Paris (because this is a UK based school, in case you forget, […]

Herein we have the finale of the Charlie/Nick happy times story (spoiler alert: they get together). This takes us through the second part of the TV series [from after the kiss to when Nick comes out to The Queen his mom]. Much has been written about Heartstoppers being part of the “next generation” of mainstream queer stories–in a nutshell, these are stories not about coming out as queer, but about what happens afterwards. There are century if not millennia of stories about heterosexual relationships, with all sorts […]