oops, rambling ruby time, about love simon

hey so i’ve spent a lot of this weekend trying to sort out my thoughts about love simon

not really as a movie, because i’m still in love with it holy fuck, but like… as an adaptation. it’s hard for me because i’m mostly a very ‘books books BOOKS’ person (in direct contrast to a lot of people i know, like my mother), and have super high adaptation standards, especially for things like this
but love simon, as an adaptation, had to change a lot. and some of the changes don’t make sense to me personally, though i’m sure there’s reason behind them
(though the minion scene… no thanks. never wanna see that again, who thought that was a good idea ever)
the plot taking a different direction post-Christmas was interesting, but i still don’t know for sure how i feel about this movie as an adaptation and that’s been bugging me ALL WEEKEND + all monday
like… this book became very dear to me as i was reading it, even though it was recent, and i’m trying to separate my feelings of ‘nothing could ever do this justice on a screen’ from ‘oh my god this is a mainstream gay movie and i need this so much’
which were basically both my moods simultaneously when i went to see it.
i’m going to see it again today/tomorrow, mostly to try and sort that out, and then i wanna talk about it more because i know i have opinions on this movie and i’m just not totally sure what they are?
(beyond go see it. go see the mainstream gay romcom please.)