#i post ya lit

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

HCs about Kit’s instagram:

• has a couple candids of himself that jem or tessa took

• most pics are of mina

•some good ones of church when he doesn’t look like the devil he actually is (kits words not mine)

•some reels he made w his school friends

•he doesn’t put much thought into what he posts but kinda gets a lot of followers

•dru shows him tiktoks of people using his parts of the reels into edits

•dru: look someone’s famous 👀

bonus:

•dru’s an avid user

•posts many reels and hops on trends (w thais ofc)

•becomes famous for doing each of them flawlessly

•ty’s not much of an ig user but dru install’s it on his phone and follows the whole blackthorns (+extended too)

•anush always spends all his free time watching funny reels

•also cute ones of cats/animals in general and keeps sending them to ty

•idt ash has a phone as he’s in faerie but dru makes him get one once everything’s normal

•jaime doesn’t have any time for all this as he’s always on the run

#yeah i saw someone edited all their IGs and got this idea #but i can’t find the posts lol #kit herondale #twp #dru blackthorn #ty blackthorn #ash morgenstern #ya literature #ya books #ya lit #ya fiction #cassandra clare #tsc #shadowhunters #the shadowhunter chronicles #the wicked powers #the last king of faerie #the last prince of hell #the last shadowhunter #tda #the dark artifices

[batmansymbol]

hello, my sweet sweet tumblr friends. i have a new book out one month from saturday. here we are together, the book and i:

this one was fun. i wrote it with my sister! when we were young, we were cutthroat competitive. she (older) would forbid me from reading the books on her shelves, and i (gremlin) would booby-trap her room, so you decide which of us committed the greater sin. now we have a blast.

our names are pronounced REE-uh-nock and SHEE-fra, and our book was pitched as THE PARENT TRAP meets THE VANISHING HALF. it releases August 15th, 2023. logline is "Two half-Chinese half-siblings collide for the first time at a summer art camp, not knowing they're related—and begin to understand who they are as artists, as brother and sister, and as Asian-Americans."

it's a book about summer camp hijinks, about passing, about what we long for and where we belong. it also says "Robinson & Robinson" on the spine, which makes us sound like an accidental injury law firm. sweet.

of all the books with my name on it, this one is probably the "book club"-iest. if you like coming-of-age novels or stories about the AAPI diaspora, you might like this one :)

you can preorder a signed copy from my local indie here, or non-signed copies from Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon. i really cannot stress enough how much every single preorder helps, as i am what the industry calls "a midlist author," also known as "an obscure author who has difficulty placing projects with publishers because of sales figures lmao." (this is not to whinge. the majority of working authors exist in this financially & existentially precarious position)

alternatively, i would be totally thrilled if you reblogged this post, or mentioned the book to any teachers, librarians, bookstore workers, or other readers in your life :)

happy summer everybody—may it be the lazy river of your dreams. xoxoxo

#riley writes books #ya lit #ya books #aapi #aapi authors #this book is very weird and personal but i think it's quite fun #maybe i'll post some quotes from it or something idk #there will definitely be more stuff about it on ig @rileyredgate #character intros etc etc. might do them here too who knows #WAIT MAYBE I SHOULD TUMBLR BLAZE THIS POST #lol

[tarotphil]

no fditl, no wdapte 2023… SAD. well, there are other rhythm guitarists.

#dp🌓 #dapg #dnpg #dan and phil #phan #amazingphil #phil lester #daniel howell #writing this made me think about that post that’s like. ya lit acronyms are keyboard smashes at this point #also to be clear I am fine w this #they have been going so hard #robin 📢

[tsareviich]

❝ he was handsome enough, though he'd had the bad luck to inherit his father's weak chin, and his eyes were so heavy-lidded that he always looked bored or slightly drunk, but now he seemed to have roused himself from his perpetual stupor. ❞

#i made a new promo :) #and i've been active again i'm allowing myself to post it :) #indie ya lit rp #shadow and bone rp #indie grishaverse rp #indie shadow and bone rp #grishaverse rp #ya lit rp

[oldshrewsburyian]

I think I just need to accept at this point that I’ve lost any ability I might once have had to distinguish between the titles of actual YA fantasy novels and parodies of the same.

#a curse of this and that #a forest of that and the other #a noun so adjective and adjective #ya lit #this is because i saw a post for a real book and almost reblogged it to congratulate the op on their satire #fantasy #queue

[lunar-years]

i'm kind of past the point where i enjoy teen shows about teenagers being teenagers but perhaps i should watch heartstopper....

#it looks kinda cute ngl #also absolutely zero judgement if you're an adult who likes YA shows/lit this isn't meant to be a judgey post #it's simply not usually my thing anymore! #i fully watch and ship stranger things teenagers so again no judgement whatsoever lol

[improbable-implosions]

Need something to do tonight? Try my stream!

We're taking another bold step outside the public domain on Paper Cuts tonight, this time with Marion G. Harmon's Wearing the Cape!

I absolutely loved this book from the first time I read it in high school, it's got an absolutely fascinating take on superheroes and how they'll enmesh with celebrity culture in a world not unlike the one we knew then. The series at large poses some fascinating questions about duty, legacy, and just what it means for these cities to court powerful superteams, and this first book in particular focuses on the difficulty of "coming out" into hero society.

Want to hear more? Need specifics on some of what I pointed out there? Come drop by tonight, 8pm pacific time, and I'll be reading it aloud, live!

(That's April 5th, 8pm pacific, and if you miss it, there'll be a VOD, too!)

And if you want to grab the book to read along, you can find it here:

Last but not least, if you like the sound of a live audiobook, go check out the podcast, available in your favorite podcatcher! I'd suggest looking for titles that sound interesting, I name the first episode of each book after the title!

#live audiobook #Paper Cuts #Public Domain #Podcast #Live Stream #Superheroes #Wearing the Cape #Marion G. Harmon #YA Novel #Young Adult Lit #modern fantasy #speculative fiction #linky link #shameless self promotion #(don't mind those last two that's just me categorizing the post) #i heartily suggest you come watch! this'll be a really good read

[dadfathers]

Finished Babél by RF Kuang last week and reflecting on it. What did ppl think of it? I found the writing very heavy handed and didactic but I can see why it is a hit w the intended (?) audience (highly educated white people who haven’t yet discovered that colonialism is a bad thing or a thing at all 🥴) I can also see that this is a topic RFK herself is really grappling with like right immediately now as she is writing it lol. The world building and character archetypes are kind of simplistic but it serves the above mission of dictating an anti-colonialism 101.

I liked the character relationship between Robin and Rami 👍 will be giving my copy to the neighborhood children via the community lending library, I think they could enjoy it.

#this book is kind of out of my wheel house in practice but totally my thing in theory. lol #kind of expected it to have less allegiance to the YA genre but I also never read Poppy War so idk maybe it’s on me #I do think her follow up with yellow face is …… #like as a fellow Chinese American. lol. lmao. 😭 #ppl somehow find this post sometimes I’d like to say that hating on RFK’s approach to the apparent genre of Asian American lit is now a #beloved and regular pastime for me and friends. sorry. #I just don’t think if u talk a big game about being untranslatable to western audiences in ur essays about translation that ur books should #all be written like u want liberal white ppl to think ur smart and no one else

[dem-khuya]

have any of you read babel by rf kuang? i'm reading with some friends rn and i hate it. i can't believe that people have raved on and on over abt this like i can't lol i have found no redeeming qualities so far

#please stop calling it post colonial literature.. #i cant even call it young adult lit cuz it'd just be an insult to ya writers lol

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

evey scion in legendborn:

#it’s been too long since I made a legendborn post #i miss those people ugh #tracy pls write the third book asap #legendborn #bloodmarked #bree matthews #selwyn kane #nick davis #merlin #king arthur #the legendborn cycle #tracy deonn #ya literature #ya books #ya lit #ya fiction

[katnissmellarkkk]

Everlark Aesthetics :

Post Canon, after her exile is lifted, Katniss and Peeta visit Annie and little Finn in District Four.

#everlark #thg #hunger games #aesthetics #myaesthetics #everlark edit #edit #aesthetic #ya lit aesthetic #ya lit edit #ya lit #post canon #post mockingjay #Annie Cresta #kind of if you squint #yes Peeta is v hot here I didn’t have a choice Peeta came to me and said btw I’m really hot and I was like if you must be bae

[miabrown007]

mal in the grishaverse is to alina what jacob in twilight has been to bella. in this essay i'll...

#okay so in twilight jacob is like bella it's unnatural that edward is alive he should have been dead long ago. and if he was and he didn't #meddle with natura and the timeline i would be the one for you in our timeline. but he's here because he's extra special and that makes me #obsolete. because like alina and mal matched until they were both common and not special but now alina is a summoner and #she's the specialest of special girls and mal is throwing a tempter tantrum over that right #and they are like. they should be best friends and nothing more. #anyway that was point A #I'm over not one not two but three glasses of wine but even like this I know that one point justification belongs in my friends DMs not #an essay so let me present point B #so he's like the firebird right (he just circled her hand where the last amplifier would go and they felt weird #incredible foreshadowing btw) so like he belongs to her but only part of her belongs to him and that's very jacob vibes with all the #renesmee business. and also mal is just. so desperate to define himself by what he is to alina like he expects the answer to his own #identity crisis that is the consequence of his own actions (deserting literally no one asked that of him) from her #like the only way he thinks about defining himself is in relation to her . and like yeah ig they are teenagers and 'in love' or whatever #(they have zero chemistry while the darkling and nikolai are constantly standing next to alina and it works but ig I digress) #so i'm just constantly being told and they are in love and want a simple life (and that's the very thing that made me side with Gale instead #of Peeta back when so I'm probably primed to not want that for characters) but idk I just don't see it that they'd make such a good pair #anyway I guess this is a Mal hate post and I'm dragging the moder YA lit's each and every love interest into this 'analysis' #blueberry wine is excellent by the way would recommend #miaing

[lightstar789]

Icon and Inferno ARC review coming soon!!

#coming soon as in i am about to start drafting the post #i read through it within two days and i have many thoughts. #not all of them are good #marie lu #stars and smoke #ya lit #bookblr

[springsteens]

srsly my problem with ya genre of books and movies is mostly how it's all about romance. even the hunger games that are about survival in the authoritarian country is full of romantic relationships and the main character is wanted by two boys and she doesn't know which one to choose uwu 🥺 and the big bad president seems to be bitter because of a heartbreak 👉🏻👈🏻 like, write some ya book about a teenager locked in her bedroom going absolutely insane while she feels her life slipping through her fingers and crying herself to sleep after isolating herself from all the people and situations that would make her feel more real. thank you

#thats why after i stopped being like 14/15 i jumped straight into classic lit #bukowski and fitzgerald had something that ya books couldn't give me #posted by me

[thethiefandtheairbender]

sometimes i remember my own work is just *the unending burden of memory* *recognition through the other of the self you can never have* *the inherently cyclical nature of pain and suffering* *examinations of grief of loved ones yes, but also of childhood and self* *does god hate you if you are god?* *hope as religion and friends as family* *the inherent cycle of rebirth and renewal*

#my books #anyway they slap if i do say so myself #also just so many teenage girls being absolutely Feral #mine #text post #fantasy #ya lit

[apencilandpen]

This new world, it’s up to you now.

“New World:” the revolutionary, the leader, the survivor, the unbroken

Inspirations: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1&2, Zendaya for the 2018 Met Gala “Heavenly Bodies” theme, Joan of Arc, dystopian YA lit circa 2015

#ateez #the world ep 1 #the world characters #character design #sci fi character design #ateez new world #im actually genuinely really happy with this one #(ive never actually seen the last hunger games movies but like the VIBES) #this song is so very much giving 2015 YA lit in the absolute BEST way possible and i love it so much #we're ignoring the 'light source' in the background #if you see lighting issues...no you dont #my art #my stuff #my post #digital sketchbook #digital scrapbook #its been a while since ive posted and since ive started these so this was really really fun