Safe Haven

1) you’ve been a teenager before. You get to judge the characters on a different level, which makes for good fun

2) easy, chill reading for when you want to turn the brain off

3) the fantasy and sci-fi novels are much less likely to contain rampant the male gaze and actual sex scenes with weird descriptions of boobs

4) the fantasy and sci-fi novels are much less likely emphasize how inferior the women

5) disliking certain content won’t get you “banned” from ever discussing a genre again because some bigbrain gatekeepers judged your enjoyment based on how much you enjoyed Asimov and GoT

6) less likely to read “wow she was so young and sexy tragic that she’s dead” narratives

7) not a lot of extra meaning so you can simply Enjoy the story and characters without the author putting in a pretentious message about the meaning of life that doesn’t even make sense

8) can actually contain legitimate meaning that impacts both kids and adults

9) is typically a helluvalot less depressing to read

Why OP thinks adults read YA:

1) being ✨toxic✨

People who are now ✨toxic✨:

1) everyone over the age of 21 who has enjoyed a YA novel and does not scorn it as the vapid pleasures of youth

2) teachers/librarians who interact with the target audience and probably read these books for various reasons

3) adult writers of the YA genre who dare to enjoy writing their characters

4) by proxy, every adult in the cartoon industry who write young characters for young audiences instead of making edgy adult cartoons (and all those weird college students who watch them)

5) people who read YA books and *checks notes* become attached to characters

And god. That’s really fucking ridiculous.

Anyways thank you for coming to my TEDtalk

Just made this fun quiz for some of my favorite ocs! (I might add more questions later, but we’ve got these for now!)

this is based off of THIS amazing fic by @botherkupo

[tapping sound, followed by stabbing sound and suspenseful music]

Red, offscreen: [ahem]

Blue: You were right. Black's the imposter.