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Can 2017 please be the year people stop using Lucky Blue Smith as a fancast for every fucking charater

Hello!! My name is Rixalynn!!! I am also currently writing a book, and I am slowly going to be releasing prompts from the book!! Yay!! Here is the first one:

Umm, basically this is for ya books🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌

So true Lmao

Other YA characters taking down their enemies: massive scale magical fight scenes, complex good vs evil moral conversations, love triangles, tragedy

vs crooked kingdom

kaz brekker: so, what do you fuckers know about the stock market?

That’s the problem with letting the light in—after it’s been taken away from you, it feels even darker than it was before.

The grace year, Kim Liggett

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear

The folk of the air, Holly Black

Memories were like love: wound and cure, both at once.

Ghosts of the shadow market, Cassandra Clare

It didn't matter whether she decked herself in knives or pearls. The world would always demand that a girl apologize for herself, but she would apologize for nothing.

Ace of shades, Amanda Foody

He was always sad, he knew. But there was a difference between a perpetual state of unhappiness and a sudden gust of it, leaving him cold and helpless. Floundering with no sight of an end.

We hunt the flame, Hafsah Faizah

Hung up over a book? Can't get it out of your mind? Can't unlove it?

Go watch it's movie.

I can't stand how amazing The Queen of Nothing is!!

I need a whole new series just about Cardan's and Jude's relationship. They are just perfect!

Book reccc

A few books I’ve haven’t seen recommended online even tho they’re SO good and deserve more recognition:

Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner (YA)

The Butcher Game by Alaina Urquhart (adult I think bc murder)

A History of Wild Places by Shea Urnshaw (adult)

Death and the Conjurer by Tom Mead (YA)

The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken (YA)

“dude” but like romantically

there are these books that seem more like a symphony, with beauty and rhythm, words rising and falling like a slow, sleeping breath, and it’s like i’m sitting in a theatre with the music echoing through me, while my eyes are closed and i watch a lifetime projected on the inside of my eyelids, and that is why i read.

You know what I’d like?

I’d like more ya fantasy genre fiction that features homeless kids where they aren’t homeless due to the consequences of the fantasy universe...

Like- Growing up it was just cool to see kids in books I liked who had similar experiences to me

But I’m tired of the only examples being things like

“My super powers got out of control and now I’m forced to live on my own on the run”

“I’m the solitary leader of a child rebellion due to the circumstances of my dystopian society”

And even

“You aren’t able to tell what the normal age to move out is in my universe- but there are just plenty of teenagers living on their own or living on the run- and no one ever fucking questions it”

One the one hand- it was cool seeing characters like me with these cool destinies and powers

But at the end of the day it made it that much harder to have to go- “I’m not in this situation because I’m important, I’m here because my mother’s a deadbeat”

I wanna see more homeless kids in ya fantasies that live that way cause sometimes shit happens- not because they’re special- but cause that’s life...