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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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#gotham was pure insanity

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one of my favourite things is seeing posts like this that are clearly a reference to some fandom or piece of media, but having no idea what it’s referencing, so i’m just reading it like. yeah that would be weird huh

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Fantasy books written by women are often assumed to be young adult, even when those books are written for adults, marketed to adults, and published by adult SFF imprints. And this happens even more frequently to women of color.

This topic’s an ongoing conversation on book Twitter, and I thought it might be worth sharing with Tumblr. And by “ongoing,” I mean that people have been talking about this for years. Last year, there was a big blow up when the author R.F. Kuang said publicly that her book The Poppy War isn’t young adult and that she wished people would stop calling it such. If you’ve read The Poppy War, then you’ll know it’s grimdark fantasy along lines of Game of Thrones… and yet people constantly refer to The Poppy War as young adult – which is one of its popular shelves on Goodreads. To be fair, more people have shelved it as “adult,” but why is anyone shelving it as “young adult” in the first place? Game of Thrones is not at all treated this way…

Rebecca Roanhorse’s book Trail of  Lightning, an urban fantasy with a Dinétah (Navajo) protagonist has “young adult” as its fifth most popular Goodreads shelf. The novel is adult and published by Saga, an adult SFF imprint. 

S.A. Chakraborty’s adult fantasy novel City of Brass has “young adult” as its fourth most popular Goodreads shelf. 

Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, an adult fantasy in a world based on Mughal India, has about equal numbers of people shelving it as “adult” or “young adult.” 

Book Riot wrote an article on this, although they didn’t address how the problem intersects with race. I also did a Twitter thread a while back where I cited these examples and some more as well. 

The topic of diversity in adult SFF is important to me, partly because we need to stop mislabeling the women of color who write it, and also because there’s a lot there that isn’t acknowledged! Besides, sometimes it’s good to see that your stories don’t just end the moment you leave high school and that adults can still have vibrant and interesting futures worth reading about. I feel like this is especially important with queer rep, for a number of reasons. 

Other books and authors in the tweets I screenshot include:

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Day Before by Liana Brooks

A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell

Shri, a book blogger at Sun and Chai

Vanessa, a writer and blogger at The Wolf and Books

TLDR: Women who write adult fantasy, especially women of color, are presumed to be writing young adult, which is problematic in that it internalizes diversity, dismisses the need and presence of diversity in adult fantasy, and plays into sexist assumptions of women writers. 

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I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.

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there's nothing SUPER about misogyny..

based off of this post by @wlwsanji on twitter

#one piece

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Nobody in this game has any chill

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『アヴァロンコード』よりレンポ×ティア

レンポがいれば冬も温かそう。 人と精霊の恋物語、大好きです。 （Avalon Code / Rempo,Tia）

#Avalon Code

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it’s easy to forget, so I’ll remind y’all: you can make fantasy versions of anything. yes even things you might not think about. like soil types. I am thinking of fantasy soil types right now

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kyaaaaa~!! you pervert! *activates a laser grid that cuts you into a dozen bloody cubes*

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ig: chazlyn.yvonne

#fashion #photography

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The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think

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LEVEL-5 Vision 2024: To the World’s Children postponed to summer

From Gematsu

LEVEL-5 has postponed games showcase event LEVEL-5 Vision 2024: To the World’s Children from its previously planned April event date to sometime this summer.

The company did not announce a reason for the postponement.

Here is the full message from LEVEL-5:

We regret to inform you that “LEVEL-5 Vision 2024 To the World’s Children” scheduled for April will be postponed to summer 2024. That being said, we have decided to hold an additional event for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road in conjunction with the main event. We sincerely apologize to all the users who have been looking forward to this event. We kindly ask for your understanding and continued support.

Visit the event website here.

#........... how do you postpone a prerecorded video #Level 5

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powerpuff fashion

#powerpuff girls z #ppgz

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70’s style. Mother and daughter taking a walk in New York City. 1970.

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