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Bring back the old ACOTAR & Throne Of Glass covers, PLEASE! 🙏🏽😭
#The new ones are SO boring. 😒#acotar#acotar series#throne of glass#throne of glass series#a court of thorns and roses#tog series#sarah j maas#sjmaas#sjm books#ya books#ya novels#ya genre#book photo#book photography#(These aren't my pics btw.)
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BRO????!!!!
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I need some adult queer books; they don’t necessarily have to be romance (though I’m not opposed cause I love the genre) and I’m not against YA but yeah I need some recs please
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I am going to make a more elaborate post about this. I am so mad.
More things I hate about modern literature because today is a bad day and I need to be a dick online to feel better:
How much sex there is in everything
And again I am not a prude, erotica has existed for decades and it's okay but every popular YA or adventure book nowadays is a bad erotica with some low stakes adventure in the background
And somehow they are able to be both bad porn and bad adventure
And also people will promote those books as " yes the plot kinda sucks but there's good sex scenes"
The word Mary sue
The misuse of the word Mary sue
Any attempt to make a "LOTR inspired" book made by a man
Because usually the things that made LOTR good go just over the authors head and we end with basically a vin diesel movie set in the middle ages
This is not just about modern literature but books about or set in horrible moments for a oppressed minority(like holocaust or slavery) written by people who aren't part of said minority
Coleen hoover
She did for feminist literature what Seth MacFarlane did for adult animation
The harry Potter/Percy Jacksonification of children's literature
The magical choose one trope being taken to a magical world did irremediable damage to children's literature
The mean girl trope
Books set in fictional middle ages but the protagonist go to balls in fashion show modern runaway style dresses
You know the tacky Pinterest glittery showing shoulders back and leg
Those official arts of the same exactly white women and the same white guy in slightly different clothes with the same 2016 style eyebrows and the sharp jawline and the nothing expression
Characters being described as "golden skin" so depending if the author needs some representation points they can be interpreted as people of color but if no one says nothing they stay as just tan white
Comparing dark skin color to any food
How many authors try to make at the same time "this is brainless wish fulfilment fantasy about being desired by a hot dominating guy" and " this is a profound take about the horrors of abuse"
Usually by having the second love interest to abuse the protag
In the end the message that stays is any abuse is forgivable if the abuser is hot enough
The "I'm skinny but not hot super model skinny I am ugly skinny my bones show because of malnourishment"
"yet I don't feel any other effect of starvation like being weak and I can carry five times my body weight in whatever animal the author needs me to hunt in the beginning of the book because making me a farmer wouldn't be cool"
"I am ugly" cried the skinny girl with locks of auburn hair porcelain white skin and eyes of emerald green.
The jk Rowling stupid name school (she named the werewolf Wolfy mcwolf in Latin and people though it was smart now we have a girl who fights on a island named island and the archer who marries a fae named fae archer )
And again faes because fuck faes
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Attached At The Hip By Christine Riccio |Book Review|
I have been a major fan of Christine Rissio’s since the early Book Review days of her YouTube channel. Attached At The Hip is her third published novel. Christine has playlists on her channel that she created while writing her novels (this one, and the previous two Again, But Better and Better Together). This is an excellent resource for inspiring other authors; and as a bonus, readers and…
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Hii :)) I'm writing a fantasy ya story on ao3 called Oliver Burns, and I'd be thrilled if you checked it out since this is my first try at the fantasy genre
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I've never read the Pacy Jackson books series before. Even when I was a kid/ young teen, I never had much of an interest in it. I'm sure that's the books are well-written and all, but to literally say that they are the very height of top literature is a massive reach if you asked me.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is my nostalgic favorite childhood book series, I still have a lot of fondness and such great memories and attachment when it comes to this book series growing up for a lot of reasons, but despite that I still wouldn't called them the ultimate top best of literature ever written. Mainly because you got so much out there in the world of books besides just Series of Unfortunate Events.
I personally feel like there's nothing wrong with still enjoying YA books every now and then or rereading your favorites from your teenage years, but too only exclusively just read the YA genre and never reading anything more challenging and more complicated mature stories dealing with actual adult characters and characters that aren't always teenagers or middle schoolers, is I feel deeply limiting yourself.
Seriously, not to say that stories dealing with young protagonists can't also be well-written or good, but doesn't it get tiring to always be reading books dealing with teenagers all the time? Like as a adult wouldn't you want to read stories dealing with actual adult characters that you can resonate with on some level, adult characters dealing with somewhat similar struggles and the sometimes bullshit fuckery that's comes with adulthood and life in general as you get older.
Only just mainly reading YA novels and nothing else is doing a great disservice to your own growth in some way. There's so much more to adult literature than what you were forced to read in high school okay.
the last time disaffected 20-somethings decided they didn’t have to read anything by old people bc old people ruined the world and that this was a legitimate political statement, many of those 20-somethings ended up basically inventing fascism
#anti intellectualism#books#reading comprehension#media literacy#adult literacy#reading#books and reading#literature#adult literature#college students#ya genre#classic literature#Please challenge yourself once in a while and realize there's more compelling storytelling out there than just the YA genre#novels#critical thinking
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ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.
#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead?#'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had#but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value#while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour#supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events#meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism#(especially misogyny and homophobia)#especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance#in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness#for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing'#the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism
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the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.
if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.
choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.
if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.
even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.
Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.
#twilight#twilight renaissance#bella swan#the twilight saga#edward cullen#twilight saga#twilight meta#not to be a downer but the edward/jacob feud is silly#i understand this feud will continue in perpetuity because controversy & drama will always garner attention in online spaces etc#but the idea that either of these men will provide the happy story some people in this fandom want is an illusion#because no matter what happens The Twilight Saga still operates in the context of the vampire/gothic genre which by design can't produce#a 100% happy ending.#'oh but it's a YA romance so-' yeah so the black walls get wallpapered. they're still black underneath & nothing changes that#'this story is a romance' and 'this story is a horror story' are two ideas that can coexist.#i wish we were able to debate the choice between Edward & Jacob while still bearing in mind neither choice is wrong#i think this fandom would be a lot less toxic & mean to each other for no fuckin reason but oh well
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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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how fucked up would it be if shen yuan transmigrated into shen qingqiu because bing-ge had an errant thought of ‘i wish he was kind to me’ in the woodshed literally nanoseconds before the switch?
the system couldn’t figure out how to give shen yuan to bing-ge, or it simply didn’t care enough to figure out the logistics of setting up such a divergence. as long as the possibility was explored in an alternate simulation-type setting, it would be satisfied.
he inadvertently created a better life for himself, but not one he’d ever get to live.
#svsss#bingge#binggeyuan#(tragic version (aka canon))#just. fuck man#he’s always on my mind#also about the system: i know its just a genre thing. the consensus is that it’s just there#but it’s a character!! it has motivation#characterisation personality influence on the plot etc etc#i always look at it like. it just no can no bb’d itself ya know#plagiator also#fuck the system. all my homies hate the system#.txt
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If I had a nickle for everytime one of my favorite book series was adapted into a single mediocre movie with bad writing but great casting choices that had all the sequels cancelled AND a mid teen show that's fine on it's own but horrific as an adaptation that also got cancelled AND had Dominic Sherwood playing a main character.... I'd have 2 nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
#the bane of being a fan of the YA genre#i always get my hopes up with the shows too#vampire academy#va#the mortal instruments#shadowhunters#dominic sherwood
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what colleen hoover did to literature is what rupi kaur did to poetry
#**#edit: changed ya literature to just literature#her genres are ya lit & romance but most people didnt know about the ya part#hence the confusion in the tags + comments
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#my art#doodles#dan vs#the bad guys#sam and max#pinky and the brain#ren and stimpy#this brush is rly rly fun to scribble with so thats p much what ive been doing#my favorite genre of fictional character is horrible unhinged little men#varying degrees of unhinged depicted here#anyway ya. it feels good to mindlessly scribble u kno#esp before work. helps w my nerves#crossover
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