please don't go

Now I know the romantic side of Acosf let everyone down.. and YES EVERYONE because let’s face it, it was shit. There’s was like 1% of romance out of it? But that’s a story for another day..

So we desperately needed to hold to our next ship but the worst that came out of ACOSF is actually all of these fandom wars.

Elriel and Elucien have been minding their own business for the past four years.. we never had any major issue between us. We love Elain, we love Azriel and we love Lucien. It’s a fucked up situation because the three of them deserve better. But we got along, we have open debates, good comebacks, we respected each other so far.

Everyone is entitled to ship, love, hate, dismiss, or do whatever you want with your opinion when it comes to fictional characters. But some of yall are straight up bullies and frankly quite childish.

Gwynriel you guys showed up out of fucking nowhere and mostly because you hate with passion Elain. Admit it, is the only reason you like the ship. Because explain to me why out of one or two interaction you decide to ship them but never paid the same attention to Mor and Emerie?

In fact.. I dont see Emerie getting the same love and support as Gwyn does. Why is that? Is it because of Azriel? Or is it because she’s white? Or is it because she’s not into women? But I’ll leave this conversation for another day because it needs to be addressed too.

Elriel are acting up because you guys started in the first place. We’ve been listening to all of your “I hate Elain, she’s useless, she’s boring, all she does is cooking, she’s this, she’s that.. blah blah”.. and we let it go because, fine, you’re entitled to your opinion.

But when you straight up bully people, start making up fake canons to support your claims, literally stalk other people feeds to push your point, and get angry when people dont agree with you.. then that’s when we have a problem.

You think I hate Gwyn because of Gwynriel? You think the reason I dont ship her with Az is because I hate her?

FUCKING NOOOOOOOO!!!

I freaking love Gwyn, and Emerie but you guys are seriously making me hate her same as you made me hate Rhysand when all the anti-nestas where going around!!!

This pedestal that you keep on your back to hold your fictional characters needs to stop.

I will ship whoever the fuck I want. And you go ahead and ship whoever the fuck you want. But what I won’t do is purposely go into a tag with a ship that I have no business going to drag people down just because we dont have the same opinion. I said “drag people down” not debate different perspectives. They’re are two different things.

2020 YA Reads By Authors of Color

10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon - The follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something about Sweetie, Pinky and Samir pretend to date—with disastrous and hilarious results.

145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers - A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories set on one block of 145th Street.

A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong -  A coming-of age-story about a struggling girls’ basketball team of a fictional neighborhood in the LA area. 

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow - About the strength of black sisterhood set in Portland, OR, best friends Tavi and Effie discover their true supernatural identity when Effie starts being haunted by demons from her past, and Tavia accidentally lets out her magical siren voice during a police stop.

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown - Inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess, Karina, and a desperate refugee, Malik, find themselves on a collision course to murder each other, despite their growing attraction.

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson - Journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George shows readers how they can fight for themselves or be allies in the struggle for equity and equality.

A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen - After 17-year-old Ellie dies by suicide, she looks back on the events of her life that led up to the moment, directly addressing the characters in her world—including her mother and the boy she loved—both animate and inanimate, interweaving past and present. 

All The Days Past, All the Days To Come by Mildred B. Taylor - The saga of the Logan family–made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry–concludes in a long-awaited and deeply fulfilling story.

All The Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani - After locking eyes on a Texas high school basketball court, black teens Carli and Rex discover how first love, heartbreak, betrayal, and family can shape you—for better or for worse. 

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha - A Korean-born, non-English-speaking girl, abruptly transplanted from Seoul to Alabama,  struggles with extreme culture shock and isolation, until she discovers her passion for comic arts.

And the Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando - A story of suicide, mental health, bullying, grief and growing up around social media, after 15-year-old Nathan discovers the horrifying truth about his brother’s suicide. 

Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee - A  modern reimagining of Anna Karenina, set between Manhattan & Greenwich, CT, where a Korean American “It Girl” is caught between her picture-perfect, family-approved boyfriend and the guy who just might be her one true love, along her high-flying cast of friends. 

The Archer at Dawn (The Tiger at Midnight #2) by Swati Teerdhala - Set in an Indian & Hindu-inspired world, long-held secrets will force Kunal and Esha to reconsider their loyalties—to their country and to each other.

b, Book and Me by Sagwa Kim - A poignant coming of age story about two Korean high school girls, who equally despair over and desire adulthood. 

Banned Book Club by Hyun Sook Kim, Hyun Ju Ko & Ryan Estrada - Set against the backdrop of political oppression, bookish college student Hyun Sook finds her political views slowly challenged after she joins the Banned Book Club and befriends a group of student activists.

Before The Dawn (RWBY #2) by E.C. Myers - Unsure of whom they can trust, Teams CFVY and SSSN must contend with new teammates and uneasy rivalries, all while The Crown continues to plot their next move. 

The Betrothed by Keira Cass - Lady Hollis Brite realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be, after she crosses paths with a commoner who challenges her future. 

Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown - Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, who transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. But a black veil of depression soon threatens to undo everything she’s worked for.

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta - A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his wings as a drag artist. 

The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed - A coming-of-age debut exploring race, class, and violence through the eyes of wealthy black teen Ashley, whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.

Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz - 17-year-old Lana Torres, who after rescuing a prized dragon, is awarded a spot on her native Puerto Rico’s Blazewrath World Cup team. But the return of the Sire, an ancient dragon, soon threatens to compromise this year’s tournament.

The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith -  Set in Japan during eight days in 1945, two teens, former student Hana and violin virtuoso-turned-kamikaze-pilot Taro, find their lives intertwined in the midst of war.  

Breath Like Water by Anna Jarzab - When swimmer Susannah Ramos finds her sports dreams put in jeopardy, she struggles to keep her career afloat, before two important people enter her life: a new coach with a revolutionary training strategy, and a charming fellow swimmer named Harry Matthews. 

Broken Wish: The Mirror by Julie C. Dao - As 16-year-old Elva taps into her powers for the first time, she discovers a magical mirror and its owner—none other than the Witch of the North Woods herself. As Elva learns more about her burgeoning magic, the lines between hero and villain start to blur. 

Brown Girl Ghosted by Mintie Das - When the queen bee of the school ends up dead following a leaked sex tape, Violet Choudry’s spirit world friends decide it’s the perfect time for Violet to accept the legacy of spiritual fighters from whom she’s descended. Her mission? Find the killer. Or else she’s next.

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas - Latinx trans teen Yadriel, hoping to release his cousin’s spirit and prove himself as a brujo, accidentally summons the wrong ghost and resident bad boy Julian Diaz, falling in love with him.

Check Please!: Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu - Bitty and Jack must navigate their new, secret, long-distance relationship, and decide how to reveal their relationship to friends and teammates. And on top of that, Bitty’s time at Samwell is quickly coming to an end. 

Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron - 16-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia flees, hiding in Cinderella’s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all.

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo -  Separated by distance and Papi’s secrets, sisters Caminos and Yahaira Rios, are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.

The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant -  In 1828, Paris, talented cat burglar  Eponine Thénardier goes head-to-head with the nobility as well as the leaders of Paris’s criminal underground, during her quest to save her sister Cosette’s life, which will take her from the city’s dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII, following the dangerous days after a failed French Revolution. 

thatanimetrash111 said: I know Kit and Ty will be in the last two stories of GotSM and then TWP, but I was wondering if GotSM would provide conclusion for the tension between the two of them or will we have to wait until TWP. Thank you so much!

Well, here’s the thing about the short story collections: I love them, and I appreciate the fans who love and read them, but they are material for superfans, basically — I’d say 90% of my readership never reads them and doesn’t know what happens in them. So we/I generally avoid having massive developments take place in them that would completely confuse readers who went from one “main” book series to another — as most will go from TDA to TWP — if they didn’t know about them. That means major deaths don’t happen (to those shaking their fists about George, he was introduced in and died in Tales, so if you didn’t read it, you were never confused by his absence in TDA since as far as you knew, he didn’t exist anyway.)

Since Kit and Ty are two of the three protagonists–Dru is just as important–of TWP, it wouldn’t be fair to anyone to end their story and solve their problems in a short story, and would also baffle anyone who didn’t read the short stories — because they left Kit and Ty in one place, and they’re expecting to see how that plays out, not find out it happened in between the series. (That always peeves me when I’m reading — like two people are about to get together at the end of a book and then the second book has a five year time jump and they’re married and I missed the whole thing.)

The anthologies are meant as nice additions to the ongoing plotline, but optional additions. I think they deepen and enrich the experience of reading, but it wouldn’t be fair to Kit and Ty to take the whole arc of their relationship story and crush it down to a ten thousand word story instead of a full trilogy of books. I know it sucks to wait, but it’s better to wait and get a full and fabulous meal than get one goldfish cracker sooner. :)

Kit did Dru’s makeup

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