Commission for @tallysgreatestfan of Shay and Tally from the Uglies series. I don’t know the series, but not complaining about getting to draw badass women kissing
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It is going to come out in 2024, it is finally going to happen!
This book kindled my love for science fiction and social commentary, and set me on the path of finally accepting how different and weird I am.
Oh my god, I am so beyond happy. Finally (hopefully) people going to see just how good this is
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thinking about Tally and Shay going on the coaster together. that moment when the hoverboard would become a useless slab of metal, and they'd be flying through the air on their own together
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Any Uglies fans out there?
I feel so alone on this I don’t know anyone who reads or read these books. Like where are my people. Also does David have a last name? Or shay? I read the books forever ago and can’t remember.
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I'm almost done with pretties and I'm only increasingly convinced that Shay is gay and just very very deeply in the closet. I mean, she fell for David sure. But it seems to me that any queer person deeply in denial could trick themself into thinking they love someone when that person can hand you your freedom. Then when they get to new pretty town Tally even says that the people who can fight the pretty brain rot are people who have secrets, who have guilt, or shame. And who fought through the brain rot all on her own? Shay. Her closeted ass had so much turmoil that she healed her own brain. She's a lesbian. Heavily in denial, but a lesbian nonetheless.
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If the Uglies books came out today, toxic yuri fans would be obsessed
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Can someone please get on the fanfic train for the Uglies series? I need some Shay/Tally, Zane/David, or even Tally/femme Zane in my life. Or can someone pleeeaase point me in the right direction!?!
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The fact that Tally and Shay are still with each other twenty years later is *clutches heart*
I mean oh my god, as someone who had a lot of very dysfunctional, jealous but also close and somewhat homoerotic friendships with other girls due to being closeted even from myself bisexual at that time and also autistic, I related so much to the absolute train wreck that was their friendship.
Yes, Tallys romances with boys were actually, unlike a lot of other YA dystopias, well written and believable, but for me the heart of the series was always her and Shay, and the way Dr Cable and their dystopian worlds system puts them against each other. I love how Westerfeld really explored that, but also how at the end, they not just were suddenly back to everything being perfect, but that it took them a lot of time to heal their wounds.
I am sad for Tally and David that their relationship did now work out, but also I love how that moment in her talk with Frey kind of implies that Shay and Tally are now together.
Oh god I ship them so much
OH MY GOD i forgot to answer this ask. entirely. i'm so sorry. since i'm answering on christmas MERRY CHRISTMAS
omg yes. tally & shay still being together after 20 YEARS was a sucker punch to the gut (but in a GOOD WAY.) their friendshi pwas One Of A Kind especially w/the jealousy and homoerotic undertones.
i also, definitely agree that shay & tally were the main core of the series. everything kind of branched from them, their budding friendship in book 1 and everything that happened after being a result from being pushed together due to the circumstances of their world which both push them together and also. pull them apart (for them to pick the pieces back up later. they definitely took some time to heal) <33 they are so so precious.
also! tally's relationships with boys were p fucking realistic and i thoroughly enjoyed that because it really isn't seen often, even outside of the dystopia genre. i'm also sad about tally/david but tally/shay makes up for it <3 even if canon doesn't say it outright in impostors at that point they are Practically Together
ty for the ask!! and i am so sorry for answering it so late haha.
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So odd how long I took until I finally noticed how damn queer their relationship feels. Oh, I always loved how deep but messy and complicated their friendship was, just like mine, but I only noticed long after I accepted my own queerness that it read familiar in another way.
Not sure if they still have Pride, since in their future all prejudice seems eradicated, but I do like to imagine they have.
Sadly not canon, just strong subtext, but in the Impostors Series there are other canon wlw relationships.
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Okay okay so. Thinking.
I've mapped out how I want to pay off my credit cards, which means I'll only be getting new stuff pretty sporadically, which means I need to appreciate the zero cost things in my life, like:
- the 2.5 foot tall stack of unread books I have
- the violin I might finally actually pick up again
- the 500+ drawing prompts I've been hoarding
- the list of anime I still need to watch
- the 3000+ songs in my watch later playlist
- the stickers I've been neglecting to cut
- yarn??? I have a lot of yarn
- all the pink fabric leftover from moth cosplay
- the candles and incense I also already have
In short, time to actually use the stuff that I have 😭
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