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walpschein7 · 3 days

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#wreckage #divorced #ya books #ticklish #the x-files #cult classic #houglass #glgesizler #curvy body #ddbbg

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international-after-within-gas · 9 hours

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#canon #ㅈㅉ #ya books #jade west #rise of the guardians #phanart #chicago cubs #apps #rengoku x reader #horror games #thor 3 #magi

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wingsdippedingold · 12 hours

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Help??? I think this is by definiton a negative effect of booktok? Obviously men grooming women started since men were thing, but now media has convinced women that it’s okay and attractive? It also permits the behavior of younger men by saying “we prefer older men because they’re more mature” no babe they’re just better at manipulation 😭, saying that just allows guys to get away with shitty behavior longer. Younger guys are equally bad they just don’t have the skill to hide it yet (obviously I’m referring to men like this, not all men do not come at me with not all men)

But seriously?? all the girls genuinely frothing at the mouth and not as joke is concerning. Now if they were like 30 and the guy was 45 whatever, but these are TEENAGE girls who would legitimately jump at the chance of dating a man 20 yrs older than them

Also fuck Rhysand, he 100% would say that to his 19 yr old wife

#Anti booktok #media literacy #Ya books #writing #authors #writing community #publishing #anti sjm #anti acotar #anti rhysand

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start-always-decade-surface72 · 1 day

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#canon #ya books #weightlifting #design #bts x reader #saigenos #moonsun #trees and forests #kpop aesthetic #marichat #superhusbands #melanie iglesias

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station-heavy-guess-personal · 2 days

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#carrie underwood #drums #Natali Nemtchinova #saturday night live #schitt's creek #Dark Souls 3 #canon #sissy hypnotize #ㅈㅉ #gay bulge #ya books

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septemberkisses · 4 months

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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.

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jasminewalkerauthor · 6 months

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sperandiopeggy · 5 days

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#410 #lgbti #a wlw concept #in rosa #lol oh well #90s 80s #ya books #hommies #orginal work #tennis

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belle-keys · 1 year

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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

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headspace-hotel · 1 year

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There is a type of plot that is prevalent in YA books and starting to get into general lit that I do not like. It is a similar trope to the MacGuffin, but instead of the plot being driven by an object, it is driven by the characters being in some sort of situation with formally fixed stakes.

Just as a MacGuffin is an object with no specific properties that affect its importance to the story, the identifying characteristic of this plot is that exact nature of the situation is irrelevant or at least not very important.

A very common example is when characters are involved in some sort of game or competition—for example, the first Throne of Glass book involves the protagonist competing to become the king's assassin, but the plot of the book would need to change very little if the competition was a beauty pageant.

"Gamified" plot lines like this often also include MacGuffins (to drive the "game"), confirming the tropes' similarity in my head.

The other common example is the "magic/superhero/assassin school" plot. The "school" is often just a device that brings the characters together and keeps them on a predetermined track, but there's nothing about what the characters are learning or even the school's specific identity as an educational institution that affects the plot.

#tropes #fantasy #books #writing #ya books #young adult books #young adult tropes #fantasy tropes

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lynsstrange · 1 year

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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?

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soctopus · 6 months

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the crows as onion headlines:

Kaz:

Inej:

Nina:

Jesper:

Wylan:

Matthias:

#jesper fahey #leigh bardugo #nina zenik #kaz brekker #wylan van eck #wylan hendriks #six of crows #crooked kingdom #shadow and bone #inej ghafa #grisha netflix #grishaverse #ya books

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crow-caller · 2 years

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Tiktok sensation LightLark is the final boss of bad fantasy YA— a failure built on aesthetic boards and tropes, unable to pretend it has a heart

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A full summary with spoilers, analysis, quotes- and so much more on the subject of a book you should never read. This is a long piece. Like ‘Youtube Video Essay’ long.

Lightlark is joyless, a husk beyond parody, a checklist of every Island of Blood and Bone and Glass and Hearts that has come out in the last five years, built and sold on tropes and aesthetic boards. This is a book written by an author who is not a writer. It would fit in on the dregs of an amateur writing site with eerie perfection.

But Lightlark is more than that. You see, Lightlark is… a TikTok book.

EDIT:

Thanks :')

There's now a video version. I heard Tumblr likes video essay long watches on obscure very specific content... may I introduce you to:

youtube

I'm not making a dime on this, I have no horses, only like 70 hours of work looking at this mess of a book and I just want to make sure everyone knows how bad it is. Let's be bitter at this multimillionaires flop together.

#Alex aster #Book drama #Book Review #booktok #fantasy #fiction #Lightlark #Review #romance #writing #YA #YA books #YA fiction #young adult #Youtube

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scared-to-look · 6 months

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I’ve never heard a quote about transness I’ve related to more

#book quotes #book quotations #trans man #transgender #transmasc #trans pride #ya books #the spirit bares its teeth #tsbit #andrew joseph white #hell followed with us #hfwu #transgender books

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briggycat · 4 days

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I genuinely think trc/tdt is the craziest thing I’ve ever read cause what do you mean her dad’s a tree?? what do you mean he got banned from harvard for summoning a crab on a hoverboard??

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jasminewalkerauthor · 5 months

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