#thorn Hawthorne

[thornhawthorne]

The thing about writing trans characters is that it is 100% guaranteed that at least a few trans people are going to be unhappy with whatever you write — not necessarily through any fault of your own, though that is certainly a possibility, but because there is such a dearth of trans representation in general.

Trans people are hungry and we’ve mostly been getting by on crumbs. I’m not saying that there are NO media with trans characters, but you have to admit that there are not a lot of really good things to read/watch/consume that have trans characters (and this is without getting into the question of whether or not those characters or the media they’re presented in cater to your particular tastes!)

^ This is usually the real problem. Certain genres and mediums have it worse, too! Think about how expensive it is to make movies or TV shows and how many people you have to get approval from and how many people need to be hired and paid to make one that makes it to cable, streaming services, or theaters, as an example.

Books and comics give us more to choose from in part because the barrier to pushing one out into the world is lower, though still not as much as I would like.

Personally, I want to make a TV show, but I can’t. So, I’m making the story into a comic that could maybe get adapted someday. This brings us close to my point:

Two of the protagonists (and many more of the side characters) in my current project are canonically trans. To some people, these two will be refreshing / the representation that they have been waiting to see for AGES. Those people will feel like they are being presented with a feast. To others, it will feel like being handed an empty plate and told to eat up. Those people are not wrong and I will not take it personally. The way that my writing makes them feel will be extremely real and undeniably valid.

What I want fellow writers to understand is that these feelings are not always going to be the fault of the individual author of the individual project that inspired these feelings (with the caveat that it does kind of suck when a new fictional trans person turns out to be exactly like all the other crumbs we’ve been forced to call a feast.) The people you make angry by breaking away from the norm could simply be mad because they’re used to feeling seen rather than because you've done something terrible.

People will be angry if a trans character is conventionally attractive or if they aren’t. They’ll be angry if you make the character pre-everything, non-op, HRT only, 10 years into a “do everything” transition, fat, thin, tall, short, etc. They’ll be angry if you make the character gay, straight, bi, pan, aro, ace -- I could keep going, but I won’t.

My point is that while you should definitely take the reasoning behind the anger your work may inspire into consideration and you should ABSOLUTELY remain critical of your own work if you want it to be the best it could possibly be...

You also have to be aware that you CANNOT please everyone, especially not with a single trans character in isolation, and you should not work yourself half to death trying to meet some imaginary guidelines of what “good” representation is, because it doesn’t exist.

"Good representation" means something different to everyone.

Also, someone already made basically what I was trying to express in this post but better and also in a single image:

#thorn Hawthorne #the comic #blog posts #transgender #oh boo hoo my transgender protagonist might have committted a murder guess you just need to read the whole comic to find out if she did

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

so crying over aaron warner, jacks prince of hearts, and grayson hawthorne is acceptable right??!

#ya literature #ya books #ya lit #ya fiction #matthew fairchild #aaron warner #grayson hawthorne #jacks prince of hearts #tbona #the ballad of never after #the shadowhunter chronicles #the last hours #the inheritance games #shatter me #chain of gold #chain of iron #chain of thorns #stephanie garber #cassandra clare #ignite me #unravel me #the hawthorne legacy

[the-inheritance-games]

Question: how do people without a fandom obsession live? Like what do they think about 24/7? How do they spend their time if they’re not actively trying to decode some cryptic message, scrounging the internet for pieces of information or frantically combing through every social media post their favorite author/artist/ person has ever posted to piece together “clues”?

#the grandest game #the inheritance games #grayson hawthorne #the final gambit #the hawthorne legacy #avery grambs #jameson hawthorne #nash hawthorne #xander hawthorne #percy series #percy jackson #ounce upon a broken heart #taylor swift #taylornation #the cruel prince #holly black #jennifer lynn barnes #rick riordan #throne of glass #a court of thorns and roses #crescent city #sarah j maas

[f4iry-bell]

i miss the older tumblr where you can join group chats ugh.

#taylor swift #the inheritance games #shatte me #tumblr #acotar #tog #a court of thorns and roses #throne of glass #aaron warner #jameson hawthorne #grayson hawthorne #xander hawthorne #nash hawthorne #avery grambs #a good girls guide to murder #ravi singh #the cruel prince #jude and cardan

[bookishlyvintage]

Stack challenge for your Monday

Newest on TBR: The Brothers Hawthorne

Last Book Finished: Book of Doors (arc)

Fav Book by Fav Author: Sky in the Deep

Fav Book in Fav Series: Scarlet

Hope a Reread is Just as Good: Strange the Dreamer

Still Thinking About: Violet Made of Thorns

#stack challenge #bookstack #books #strange the dreamer #the brothers hawthorne #violet made of thorns #the book if doors #sky in the deep #scarlet #the lunar chronicles #reading #reader #fantasy #ya fantasy #bookblr #booklr #bookstagram #cozy

[tailsyoukissme]

intro!!

hi my name is gabi and i mostly made this acc because i saw there are a lot of the inheritance games fans on here, but i also have a booktwt acc with the same user🌙

averyjameson stan human second

here are some of the other books i like:

-soc duology

- shatter me

-the cruel prince

-maas verse

(you get the pattern, fantasy girlie for life)

-if we were villains

-john green’s books

-check & mate

-book lovers

currently reading the caraval series!!

also a swiftie,stars wars fan,editor and just an art girlie🪽🎀💕

#the inheritance games #avery grambs #averyjameson #jameson hawthorne #grayson hawthorne #xander hawthorne #nash hawthorne #taylor swift #books #bookblr #booklover #six of crows #the cruel prince #folk of the air #throne of glass #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #caraval #shatter me #aaron warner

[faguscarolinensis]

Crataegus marshallii / Parsley Hawthorn at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

#This may be one of my new favorite trees #Despite the fact that it apparently has thorns at times #Crataegus marshallii #Crataegus #Rosaceae #Parsley Hawthorn #Parsley haw #Hawthorn #Native plants #Native flowers #Native trees #Plants #Flowers #Trees #Nature photography #photographers on tumblr #Sarah P. Duke Gardens #Duke Gardens #Duke University #Durham #Durham NC #North Carolina

[toointofiction]

OH MY GAAAWWWD THERE'S GONNA BE A SEQUEL TO SORCERY OF THORNS 🤩🤩🤩🤩

#don't mind me just squealing like a lunatic #sorcery of thorns #elisabeth scrivener #nathaniel hawthorne #silas #margaret rogerson #holy fuck guys #blessed

[obbsessedfan]

Announcement!

Hi ya'll, so a started a new blog in addition to this one! It will not replace this one, or in anyway change it. The new blog is @duskcourthighlady and it is more fandom related stuff if you want to check it out. Some of the reblogged stuff might be 18+ so just look out for stuff that says that. One last thing, what is ya'll favorite fandom or series and book world? Tell me in the comments what it is and I'll create and post a moonboard for it on @duskcourthighlady! Bye ya'll! 💙 🤍

#new blog #dusk court #acotar #throne of glass #a court of thorns and roses #warning #announcement #random moodboard #favorite fandom #faves #fandom poll #fandom things #fandom culture #the inheritance games #the final gambit #the hawthorne legacy #the brothers hawthorne #tog #books #favorite books #fav books #books and reading #fave aesthetic #favorite aesthetic #aesthetic #moonboard

[thanatoseyes]

So this is Ares altar right now. I'm working on getting some other offerings. They are in the mail as we speak. But I think it's a nice little space for him.

#the thorns are from a hawthorne so yeah big and scary #thought hed like them #i was gonna go with rose thorns but i felt like that was cliche #cite ares #deity worship #ares

[yanny-77]

At its heart, this is a story of a fae lord, his son, and the female who turned their lives upside down. Join Lord Hawthorne and his son Tristan Flynn as they navigate the post-Asteri world and cross the Northern Rift into Prythian. There will be secret identities, unexpected villains, romance, epic battles, drama, broken bonds, and so much more.

#A tragedy of fawns and fate #lord hawthorne #elain archeron #acotar #crescent city #crossover #sarah j maas #tristan flynn #declan emmet #azris #azriel #eris vanserra #the morrigan #mor #isaac hale #cc #a court of thorns and roses #house of earth and blood #house of sky and breath #a court of mist and fury #a court of wings and ruin #a court of frost and starlight #a court of silver flames #mating bonds #broken bonds

[shallyne]

The only good thing that came out of Acotar reddit was Lord Hawthorne x Elain

#It's hilarious #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #Crescent city #Lord Hawthorne #elain #elain kingslayer #elain archeron #elain acotar #Lord Hawthorne x Elain #Hawthlain

[planthorrornovel]

My plant boy is going through some things

#Hawthorne Archer's bad time in a man eating forest #hes going to be covered in thorns by the end of this #hawthorne archer #horror #plant horror #body horror #hearts tangled with ivy and vines #botanical horror

[jumpingjoltiks]

Hawthorne and Emmet meet while she's visiting Nacrene City for an academic conference. He heard there was going to be a professor there with a regional form of Galvantula and desperately wanted to meet them.

Of course, Hawthorne was all too happy to infodump about her Volcantula and Coaltik, as long as she got to meet Galvantula and the Joltiks too!

#em and thorne immediately becoming bffs and mutually pining after each other is something that can be so precious to me #professor hawthorne #my ocs #willow whispers #emmet x oc

[captainscabins]

#dnd #hawthorn #nadir #mucormycosis #siren calls #defiance of felirfate #thorns thingy idk what to tag the thing thorns running as

[la-dame-grise]

It is the moment of the year where Hawthorn are in bloom ! I highly suggest to take a moment to go outside and contemplate the delicate little flowers of a Hawthorn tree.

#hawthorn tree #hawthorn #aubépine #hawthorn flowers #white thorn