#I saw someone refer to Maggie Stiefvater as 'clean teen' and I was like 'you mean. you mean YA? YOUNG ADULT? WYE-AYY??' | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rabbits-of-negative-euphoria · 8 months ago

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if you want to know how the lines started to blur between YA fantasy and adult bodice-rippers, and how TikTok catalyzed the market shift, look no further than middle-aged women writing Harry Potter fanfiction in the early 2000s

#there are plenty of YouTube videos about internationally famous YA authors and the fanfic communities they created #amongst EACH OTHER. many of them go back decades together and you never knew about it because they got great PR reps #like. bet y'all don't think of The Mortal Instruments anymore. I knew Cassandra Clare had a bad reputation for plagiarism.#but I didn't know she first earned success writing incest fanfic. (and was I surprised? no lol)#and it was through that fanfiction that she grabbed the attention of Holly Black (of Cruel Prince fame)#who connected her with publishing professionals #and think about the very term 'smut'#it's gone mainstream too. a once-obsolete word you pretty much ONLY encountered in a fanfiction context along with words like #'slash' or 'squick'#x #I saw someone refer to Maggie Stiefvater as 'clean teen' and I was like 'you mean. you mean YA? YOUNG ADULT? WYE-AYY??'

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