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Gaslight:

Gatekeep:

Girlboss:

Manipulate, Mansplain, Malewife:

This show was my LIFE. I lived and breathed Psych.

People: so you're neurogivergent

dirtyhands portrait in oil, my first finished oil painting actually

I joined the it after watching the show for the first time last year and everyone I've talked to has been nothing but kind. No one acted like they were better because they found it first which is something that happens to me a lot. (I was born in 2009 and like shows from around that time. So most of the shows are over and have decently small fandoms)

There's next to no hate for liking ships someone else might not like. I love Shassie and have never met someone that ships Shules for example, be rude about it.

Shawn : Dude you look like shit, what happened?

Lassie : I fell

Shawn : Off what?

Like, we have a morally grey character who's actually morally grey and has a real reason to push people away other than "once I killed someone in self defense, so I'm a terrible person and we can't be together." And every other character has a super fleshed out backstory as well, including real world problems that don't usually get talked about in fantasy books.

There's just as heavy an emphasis on platonic love as romantic love, instead of "I can fix him", it's "he can fix himself", there's a gay couple that's actually happy and not suffering every five pages, and all of the gay characters have personality traits outside of the fact that they're gay.

And speaking of the romance, it's so not rushed or sexualized. No one even kisses in the first book, but it's still so obvious how much they love each other. Each couple has such a different dynamic, and the way their pasts mirror each other? Perfection. (I also firmly believe that Kanej is the best couple in all of YA prove me wrong)

And then the diversity??? 3/7 of the lead characters are POCs, 4/7 are queer, 3 have disabilities, 2 have addictions, 2 have PTSD, 2 are religious, one was raised in a cult, and it's not one of those books that has diverse characters just for the sake of being diverse!

The plot is so unique, especially among fantasy books, and despite the fact that there's so many moving parts, there is not a single plot hole. And the CK auction scene will forever be one of the best end of series climaxes I have ever read.