I love how her pronouns are sometimes she, sometimes they. It's like she came out as nonbinary and then she skim-read her post to change the pronouns, but missed some.
I think it's one of those she/theys that expect you to use both, at random. The more confusing, the better.
So i floated your idea in a writing club I'm a part of and several liked the concept. Then someone pointed us to this:
As much as I'd love to have this be a physical product you can hold in your hands, the logistics of that are very much outside of my capabilities.
nah that's what I'm saying you should see if you could connect to those people. They could help you with the physical product, and would probably love to have someone help them with the digital.
Damn this is on my To Read List and a copy currently sits on my shelf
I think what she wants here is stories about tabletop gaming, rather than stories that are derived from campaign settings. Looking through her list, I think the kind of book she's looking for would be about a group of multi-ethnic (maybe one token White) teens, some gay, trans, or "queer", coming together in a vaguely magical school where they spend all their time thinking about who they *really* and what they *really* want, and occasionally getting together to play D&D while swapping Marvel-tier quips and being oh-so-much smarter than everyone around them.
Well, a certain segment of librarians absolutely are, I don't see how anyone can dispute this.
Funny you post this right as I was in the middle of a video looking back at Goosebumps. I remember that series and other YA books being thin and light. Smaller sometimes than even Light Novels.
This cunt sounds like another Genderspecial who is a they/them not out of genuine dysphoria, but because she gets off on trying to confuse people and then “correcting” them when they inevitably see her as a she.
Two backpacks? Do these retards bring all the books they need for the week with them every single day? When I was in high school I packed the books I needed for that day only and I had plenty of space. Essentials only and you'll have all the space you need for a doorstopper. That said, I do agree that if you're bringing something to read for the day during lunch it's nice to have something small and light. You could easily break a bigger novel down into individual chapters and sell them as a set. Best of both worlds.
Depends. I could easily go through something like any of the Belgariad books in a day when I was in high school. I usually had at least 4 books, from the adult section of the library at the time though usually trade paperbacks, in my bag at any given time because I read so fast. Granted this was in the 90's, so no e-readers or smart phone to lighten the load.
Agreed. She doesn't understand at all and her being a librarian for so long and being upset with 'book banning' shows her ignorance. She's just another woman stuck in the arrested development mindset of being main character in 'Young Adult.'
How about instead of pushing them to read gay shit, they do what the rest of us did and read the ubiquitous 'adult' books on our parents bookshelves. I know I didn't want to read "age appropriate books that speak to their current lives and issues." I wanted books that contained manly men, womenly women, villains, heroes, adventure, blood, romance, and sometimes even a little sex if I was lucky. Stories that showed when shit is rough, things will work out if you keep at it. That's what teens need, not stories about how they're special and misunderstood. I wasn't special and neither was anyone else.
This I agree with. Covers are so abstract and stupid and gay now. Do I have to bring out The Colour of Magic's comparison of when it was first published to the travesty of the modern cover? That's a hill I will die on: awesome covers.
I noticed that the article brought up mega sellers like Harry Potter without an ounce of self awareness as to what made that series a best seller even years after it concluded.A Treatise on the State of Middle Grade and Young Adult Publishing Today
It might be worth a read. It was kind of weird reading about how YA books are too heavy to carry
Is this actually an issue? Who brings hardback novels to school?
Well, a certain segment of librarians absolutely are, I don't see how anyone can dispute this.
One hobbyhorse I have in this area is that virtually nothing YA is written to appeal to boys in the supposed age demographic, other than books about coming out as gay and learning to suck cock. (But they're totally not groomers, guys.) And of course that issue went unmentioned.
prime example of this is korra. while aang was a heroic example for young children to follow, korra is just a cunt in every sense of the word.
Will be interesting to see how the NetFlix adaptation plays out. Had One Piece not happened I'd be assuming woke trainwreck. Now, well, we shall see, I guess. Never watched Korra, and only watched A;TLA once.
Yet Brando Sando does kickstarter after Kickstarter, raking in the bucks with leather bound, illustrated chonkers. Though I suppose his audience is largely adult at this point, it is an interesting case study. The exception that proves the rule? I'm assuming Tor hates what he's doing, but are powerless to stop him; oh, look here's another Trump screed from John Scalzi. That'll sell books.
Spoilers for whorra. There's two episodes in season 2 called beginnings 1 and 2, korra gets amnesia for no reason (I'm not joking) and goes into a trance to see the story of Wan, who was the first avatar (allegedly, according to bryan and mike). He is a not so subtle reboot of Aang's character, with the trickster trope taken to a retard degree. Anyway the plot of the episodes end by retconning the ENTIRE avatar as a concept of basically being a deity who embodies the planet that acts as its defense mechanism to ensure balance between the four elements is kept. Now it is a human-spirit hybrid with this random light spirit called rava and for some reason this dark spirit called vatu will reincarnate every 1000 years and they have to fight him. Along with bending simply being given to humans by the lion turtles instead of being a discipline that humans have to master, this basically destroys the avatar. Also there is a scene where all the previous avatars including Aang are destroyed from existence by vatu when he rips rava out of korra. So now korra is the start of a new avatar line.