#adult genre

[blitzsicedcoffee]

I chose no. My rule for minors is always: if you wouldn't read it in a published YA Novel that's being carried at Barnes and Noble, then it's too spicy for minors. I have read YA Novels where the character pleasures themselves even but it's still vague. I think the farthest I've seen a scene go in a YA novel is the insinuation that they have sex. Or blowjobs, oral, framed as 'fooling around', etc.

I think exploring sexuality is really important in YA as it can not only teach lessons of boundaries and safe sex, but also relationship dynamics and especially we need more queer relationship rep in this aspect. It's important that explicit sex scenes are reserved for adult novels and teens/parents decide when they are mature enough to read them.

(ie theres nothing stopping a teen from checking out an adult novel from the library. Just like there's nothing stopping them from watching a mature show except their parents. But I also don't condone policing your child's readiness and listening to them when they say they're ready.)

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[vakariaan]

ultimate ships challenge - [1/10] movie otps

Nicholas/Mia  »  The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Just think how lovely she'll look on our postage stamp.

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[proselles]

What I don't get is why news outlets and Netflix are trying to convince us that arcane was expensive to make. 250 million usd for both seasons they said, and obviously that's a lot of money, but they make the mistake of comparing it to big budget movies like Tangled. So you're telling me that I got an animated masterpiece that combines multiple different art styles fantastic voice acting and creative and passionate writing, that's 6-7 hours LONGER than major animated movies, and its the same fucking price?? And you're expecting me to agree with the corporations outlook, that it's too expensive? Yes, tangled is considered one of the most expensive animated movies, but arcane is like FOUR Tangleds. Many other 3D animated movies fall within the 160 million mark, but again, they're hours shorter than arcane was. I think the prices are comparable. I believe in saw someone (on reddit maybe?) divide the cost down to minutes of screen time for each show or movie and it becomes really obvious. I'm also pretty sure that many of these movie budgets do not include marketing in their overall expenses; arcane does.

This isnt even bringing live action tv shows into the equation; i dont think arcane even touches like the top thirty of those. And yet it's framed as such an expense!! Bitch its an incredibly successful tv show!! Ik Netflix is cheap as shit and has its own reputation to grapple with, but is the disdain for animation so much? Is it disdain for female lead action, for poc representation, for LGBT rep on screen? For the animation medium as a whole? I know the answer of course. But it's still very upsetting to acknowledge and think about.

Separately, arcane is absolutely crushing it. Ik act three is going to knock it out of the ballpark. Keep crushing corporate execs expectations please.

[climbdraws]

im so so sick of the infantalizing takes of "this children's media is soooo dark its not for kids!!!" and it's just a millennial recounting scene for scene what happens like this

[chickensauras]

Its not 'aging' or 'an art style change'- this is just the result of puttin up w that grim dark angry kid for a 11 years

[ofmermaidstories]

a little concerned about the number of adults im seeing on twitter who think YA should be for them, and not like… the young adults aka teens it’s intended for??? get the fuck out of their space!!! “oh i don’t want to read about smut all the time” ok there’s like a million other genres for you to choose from…. go pick one!!!!

[albino-parakeet]

Who is she talking about? Literally any of the people who tried to harm the camp fam.

[allthebooksandcrannies]

Really loved this video essay, so I thought I'd share!

[plaguedocboi]

I am more and more seeing people call YA a genre and I think we really gotta stop that. It’s an age range and the books marketed to that age range include a huge amount of subjects that are wildly different from each other. I get that 15-20 year olds are on booktok and instagram and are getting flooded with shallow badly-written romance novels set in a vaguely dystopian society that’s based entirely in Aesthetics and clear-cut morality but that is not the only type of books marketed to young adults. Lumping everything that’s for teenagers into a genre that you believe is The Decline of Literature is perhaps not good for anyone.

[lemonlimestar]

also, thinking about anita and cassie right now. i think there should be a point after cissie and cassie have freshly started dating where cassie’s like “huh. anita’s kinda acting weird. i wonder why— oh duh! her and cissie had a thing! man, it’s probably so weird to hear me talk about us dating so often. i should make sure she knows i care about her feelings!” meanwhile anita’s internal monologue is just “GOD i wanna be a superhero again.”

​cassie goes to talk to her and assure her and anita’s like “oh she’s gonna ask me to join the team? team? me? join team?” and when cassie’s doesn’t (<- still oblivious) she just :/

[writtenroses1813]

Just putting this out here cause I had to explain it to my mom, but here are the types of fiction (sorry if I leave out any)

Urban fantasy aka “I live in a modern society but turns out the creatures of old live in the forest” Ex: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Paranormal (Romance) aka “My sexy neighbor is secretly a werewolf/vampire and I’m a human teenage girl” Ex: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Epic Fantasy aka “This is a crazy quest isn’t it my dear found family” Ex: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

High Fantasy aka “This is a crazy quest of prophecy isn’t it my dear found family oh look a dragon” Ex: The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien

Dystopian aka “This future world is apocalyptic and quite obviously favors the rich” Ex: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Utopian aka “This future world seems peaceful on the outside but that just covers all the absolutely insane problems only this 16-year-old can fix” Ex: The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

[greenerteacups]

Never a Romione shipper but tbh, love Harry and Ginny or at least the potential of them. It always irked me to no end that JK Rowling reduced Ginny to "hot cool girl who likes Quidditch" when, in reality, that girl's been through some stuff. There was so much missed opportunity here for them to bond on a deeper level i‘ll be mad forever. Hello?? She knows what it's like to have Voldemort in her head, she was possessed for like a year at ELEVEN. That's insane, only to be brought up literally once

This is what I'm talking about with Early Installment Weirdness! The transition from children's book to Y/A involves a major pivot in how serious you can be about the almost-dying stuff. Plus, if you take it on face, Chamber of Secrets is by far the darkest book. The main plot is a slasher thriller stapled onto a murder mystery. There's an 11-year-old girl being possessed by a malignant spirit. There's a dead girl haunting the bathroom. Threats are painted in blood in the walls. Dumbledore warns Hogwarts might have to "close forever." Harry's hallucinating a whispering voice in his head saying "hunt, hunt" and "kill, kill." It's all gothic as hell and fucking awesome, but also, uh: "children's book"? HEWWO?

This is part of the reason I cut Ginny's possession arc in Lionheart. It's a shame to take a major plot beat away from her, but I didn't feel that Book 3 or Book 4 gave her any space on the page to deal with it, and by the time she loops back around to being a major character in Book 5, it's been two years and the book's so crowded I can't imagine where an arc for her would fit.

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[nougatbit]

thalia just recommended me das bürgerliche gesetzbuch as a new adult novel???

[moltensmusings]

I feel like adults in fandom spaces need to realize: not every genre is made for you. Yeah we're going to enjoy kids media, and often that media is made the with intention of it being for a young audience.

I saw an ask someone sent a person I follow talking about how they don't like the magical girl genre and how it puts teenagers/kids into positions of superheroes when kids shouldnt have jobs/heavy responsibility when the point of magical girls is wishfulfillment.

It's meant to be whimsical and childish. Something kids can watch and imagine themselves as. It's why pokemon keeps ash so young for so long. Children's media making their protagonists close in age to the audience watching it is good. If you want media with adults then there is so much out there for you to engage with.

"But nothing is quite what I want" I'm afraid you'll have to make it yourself then. Stop trying to co-opt children's media and make it a space for adults.

No magical girls shows for kids aren't going to be hyper critical of the genre, if you want that there are shows out there like Madoka which do it and do it very well.