Now that JK Rowling is cancelled can we all agree on migrating to the Scholomance fandom?
☆ it's pitched as as a "dark feminist Harry Potter"
☆ set in a magical school where failure means certain death (!)
☆ there are no holidays, teachers, or friendships save for strategic ones, these kids want to survive and they'll use anything and anyone to achieve that goal
☆ uhm hello? dark academia aesthetic? CHECK morally ambiguous protagonists? CHECK magical school that literally tries to kill you, with useless absent adults, reflecting the reality of the academic world where everyone is truly alone and constantly vigilant of other peoples actions because you know only a few of you can succeed? CHECK
☆ what's missing? Oh yeah diversity
☆ the MC is half-indian, half-welsh
☆ aaand it's written by Naomi Novik who also wrote Spinning Silver (which had an amazing Jewish main character btw) so we can be sure she'll handle the diversity with respect
☆ it has an enemies-to-reluctant-allies-to-lovers romance! I REPEAT RELUCTANT ALLIES TO LOVERS!!!!!!!!
☆ it subverts the whole bad-boy-good-girl trope too by making the heroine a powerful dark sorceress
☆ honestly it's like a genderbend Hades-and-Persephone-romance
☆ the mc El possesses dark powers strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions, she only supresses her powers because she doesn't want to kill every fucking student
☆ the school's celebrated golden boy Orion on the other hand is her exact opposite: while El can destroy all good things he can destroy all bad things
☆ honestly I don't know about y'all but I love heroines who pretend to be weak, only to knock the others off their high horse when they finally reveal their true powers
☆ okay I lied there are probably also friendships in the book but you know what that means? CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT for our heroine!!!
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