I Was Crashing Into You

Happy 3 Year Anniversary to Wayward Son by @rainbowrowell

bright red sword guys with unfathomable daddy issues and really warped self-preservation instincts

"And then he kisses me."

The amount of times I've read this book and this chapter over.

“But I am having the time of my life with Penelope Bunce. And it’s not just because she’s an endless corridor of magical revelations—and not just because she’s excruciatingly cute. I mean … That’s part of it. I’m still human.”

Given that this series is about being imperfect and how that’s okay, surely we can accept that it’s possible to think something is imperfect (and to discuss that) and still love it.

It’s not tearing it down, it’s wanting to have a nuanced discussion about it; about what we find satisfying, about what we don’t—a lot of us love to write, and often this is a fantastic way of developing as a writer yourself!

It’s okay if you absolutely loved every inch and it worked for you in its entirety and you found everything perfect, and it’s absolutely okay if you loved 90% of it and the other 10% you didn’t. And it’s also absolutely okay if you only love 1 or 2 books out of the 3. I don’t think it’s right to expect every person in the fandom to love every inch of every book and Rainbow, or you can’t be here. Or that you can only ever discuss the things you liked.

I meeeeaaannn— @rainbowrowell