Years of Magical Thinking

Writer of MG and YA fiction. This is my public acknowledgment of fantastical tastes.

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🌈 In honor of our theme this month, we want to fill your TBR with DREAMS! Whether large or small, the characters in these books all have dreams they’re striving for! Here are 24 queer books about following your dreams for your tbr! Comment with your favs if they didn’t make the list!

- Fence by CS Pacat

- Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

- The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

- Dare mighty things by Heather Kaczynski

- Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cory McCarthy

- Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

- Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala

- The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

- Cinderella is Dead by Kaylnn Bayron

- Bloom by Kevin Panetta

- Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu

- The Weight of Stars by K. Ancrum

- The Fascinators by Andrew Eliopulos

- Written in the Stars Alexandria Bellefleur

- Rise to the Sun by Leah Thomas

- You Should See Me in A Crown by Leah Johnson

- This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria

- Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert

- I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee

- Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei

- As Far As You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper

- The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune

- Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

- A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy

🌈 Don’t forget to #ReadQueerAllYear!

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...if I make a song where two things that are competing are existing at the same time, and I've been told my whole life that I have to just pick one, but then I make like four minutes where they can be just next to each other? I mean it doesn't fix anything or solve anything but it just makes you feel less lonely for four minutes.

Perfume Genius, in conversation with Jia Tolentino, on the New Yorker Radio Hour podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/segments/perfume-genius-talks-jia-tolentino

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Over and over I’ve said it — two people can do three jobs but one person cannot do two.

Repeating / contemplating / internalizing this brilliance from Ursula K. Le Guin 

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I’m afraid, “What if none of this matters?” Maybe this is the working-class roots of my family, where I feel like—I sit two days in a hotel, I get 10,000 words—what if it doesn’t matter? What if I could be doing something better with my hands for my community, my people? Maybe, in a queer body, that’s always a question: “How can we be of service to one another?” At least for myself. That’s how I think of art, is how we are service to one another.

Ocean Vuong in this interview, which is bringing me life at the end of a hard day

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Happy bookday to Zac Brewer’s The Blood Between Us, a coming-of-age mystery about the insidious limits of labels. And that means labels of all kinds, familial and otherwise. Like, if your adoptive parents die in a tragic accident, what does that mean for you and the sister you never really got along with anyway? And if you’ve kissed girls and boys and you’re still not sure how you feel about all that, why is it anyone’s business what that makes you? Of course, as Kirkus said in their glowing starred review, “Brewer weaves sexuality and identity into the story but does not make them the engine for it.“ The engine, as it were, is the question about what really happened to Adrien’s parents the day they died. The fact that Adrien’s quest for answers leads him to a lot of unexpected discoveries about himself is a testament to the tightrope act Zac has pulled off with this book. My Lois Duncan-loving inner teen rejoices; my Zac Brewer-loving editor self couldn’t be prouder. Happy reading!  

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Unless all the voices of our culture are in the history of art, it's not really a history of art, it's a history of power.

The Guerrilla Girls on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert 

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You could see revision as a sort of form of active love. It's actually a sort of love in progress, I guess.

George Saunders (whom I actually, actively love, I guess) in this sweet short film about writing process: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/12/14/george_saunders_shares_his_secrets_of_storytelling_in_a_short_animated_documentary.html

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So, this week was pretty amazing.

Nimona is only the 4th graphic novel to be a National Book Award finalist - and I’m the youngest finalist ever (or so they tell me). My parents and my sisters flew to New York to celebrate with me, I got a medal, and I got to dress like a fancy vampire - so it was pretty much perfect?? Nimona didn’t take home the top prize, but it was such an honor for my book to make it as far as it did. And dig that shiny sticker!!

So proud of the life this little comic has had, online and off. Thank you to everyone who’s followed me over the years, who read and supported Nimona when it was online, or read and supported the book. I never dreamed any of this was even possible but you all helped it happen ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 

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I’m all wrapped up in sunshine

Underneath a sky of blue

I’m sailin’ on a sunbeam on my way to you

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Happiness is a gif set of a Mrs. Dalloway moment from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

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To me, Please Like Me is perfect.

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Nimona is a National Book Award FINALIST!

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YEP

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Galhalla comics: pt 1

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Oh my gosh! Nimona has been nominated for the National Book Award!!!

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Congratulations to the amazing Noelle Stevenson, one of Tumblr’s finest, and one of the youngest people ever nominated for a nationalbook award. We couldn’t be prouder, and she couldn’t be more deserving! If you haven’t read Nimona yet, there’s no better time…

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oh my wow

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Fangirling is a method of self love. It’s a heartspace that is free from fear of rejection, and therefore cannot be compromised by identity.

Lucy Betz in this essay: http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/09/what-a-fangirl-knows/ Yes to everything.

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"...sometimes you held somebody's hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact."

Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, reminding me why I'm rereading it

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“Don’t you worry, sir, we only rob the dead.”

THE BONE ARTISTS by Madeleine Roux