#young-adult

[thepersonalwords]

When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.

Caroline George, The Vestige

[quotelr]

Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.

Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

[dartumbles]

Review: Second Wave: Acorna's Children by Anne McCaffrey

Second Wave: Acorna’s Children by Anne McCaffrey My rating: 3 of 5 stars With reluctance, I am rating this one only three stars. Sadly, it was because it was whispersynched with a child’s voice that didn’t modulate between characters. And here I had been longing to have the Acorna books audio. This story was fun in this time-traveling, interplanetary plague-ridden space opera. The robots and…

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[indrani-maharaj]

The Weight of Stars

I walk alone beneath a sky heavy with stars,their light dusting the edges of the horizon,turning the night into a map I can’t quite read.They whisper secrets I’m too young to understand,yet too old to ignore. The world stretches wide and endless,its heartbeat thrumming beneath my feet,but still, there is a quiet ache in my chest—a longing for something I’ve yet to name. Perhaps it is the pull…

[ninelivesofemilee]

Mosaics of Myth and Muse

June 12, 2024 2 minutes Like Loading… In halls of hushed whispers and marble so cold, Imogen wandered, a story untold. Sunlight slanted through stained glass above, Casting mosaics of myth and lost love. A gilded sarcophagus, a knight’s rusted helm, Each artifact whispered, a fragment of a realm. Her fingers traced carvings, worn smooth with the years, Echoes of laughter and battles and…

[kolesmom]

The Break Up Pact by Emma Lord

In Emma Lord’s novel, The Break-Up Pact, readers are transported to a charming small town where the boundary between fiction and reality becomes blurred, thanks to her vivid storytelling and well-crafted characters. Lord’s ability to capture the essence of small-town life, with its intricate web of rumors and hushed love stories, is simply mesmerizing. As the narrative unfolds, readers are…

[amherstnews]

American Tragedy: Young Victims

Revitalizing Family Roots means cultivating a safe future. The conviction of a Michigan mother on four counts of manslaughter in connection with her son’s tragic rampage at Oxford High School in 2021 sparks a profound discourse on parental responsibility, societal dynamics, and the role of institutions in child rearing. This unprecedented case marks the first instance in which an American parent…

[artseniccatnip]

is this anything

[clowns0up-felix]

Linktober day 16- time

The flow of time really always IS cruel huh. Damn

Anyway, no more sad art for linktober I prommy ❤️‍🩹 the perspective here was hard af

His big ass legs 😭😭😭

[thepersonalwords]

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

Ann Marie Frohoff

[magentasnail]

ok pause from bill art time for some mystery twins art !! specifically, 12yo selves meeting their current day selves!

[dartumbles]

Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion My rating: 5 of 5 stars Now, this was a fun book. How is it I never heard about it until recently? I wish I hadn’t finished it so quickly. Luckily, there is a book two, so as soon as Libby has it available, I can go back into M’s world and watch brains form in the once-dead zombie. Go check out the blurb on GoodReads or Amazon. But maybe, like me, you only need a good…

[dora-papp]

Writers who can draw too

Those motherf*ckers

You don't have the faintest idea how lucky you are

You're awesome, keep it up

[talesfromthecrypts]

“I really did live and breathe Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I cared about Buffy more than I cared about my real life. And just having that consistency — when I was, like, 10, I watched the first season of that show while it aired, and was with it for seven years. And it was such a tool of dissociation for me. It was, in hindsight, I think, very much a coping mechanism for not being able to form the kinds of deep romantic relationships that other people can form when they’re an adolescent in the right body. I wasn’t in a place where I could open myself up to people, but here was this show that was so emotional, that I could have this relationship with.” -Jane Schoenbrun

I Saw the TV Glow // Buffy the Vampire Slayer