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mrs-winters

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fallingforfall13

Where would you like to live and enjoy the autumn scenery? 🧡🤎

thisishalloween1331

Best time of the year 🧡🖤

hallowthings

Halloween Mornings

floral-coffee

Visit to the pumpkin patch

vida-imensa

Stacy

happyheidi

Just breathe.

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aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Everyone: How the fuck does Brandon Sanderson manage to write so much?

Brandon Sanderson: Check out this pie chart with percentages on many days a year I spend on specific activities, which I of course keep track of. As you can see, I maintain 20% minimum for family/fun, but in 2019 I spent 32% on traveling which is especially draining for me, so I planned to scale it down by 25 to 30% in the next year. With the pandemic, it allowed me to increase my time here and here….

voyage-of-the-basset

sleep was not on his pie chart

#lol love that guy #brandon sanderson

littlechamomilesworld

thegenderal

we’ve been hooting with delight over green kitchens as we should be but have we considered: yellow kitchens. I think we should consider yellow kitchens.

#bruh I have been saying for years that I want a yellow kitchen #they just seem the most inviting!!!#yellow #kitchen #photos

yukika-moved-deactivated2022010

she's getting dragged over there when she's literally right god let her speak

#big mood #there are literally people who just buy a book cause someone on booktok said to #and then I’m supposed to be surprised when they didn’t like it?#find out the premise #or go to a random page at least and see if you like the writing style #booktok

mightyjemma

read in 2019 - kill the queen by jennifer estep

Someone always wanted to kill the queen.

#currently reading this #kill the queen #crown of shards #jennifer estep

fairy-anon-godmother

Ok, here’s the thing. YA fiction features child and teenage protagonists because it is intended to be consumed by children, teens and young adults. If you’re going to browse the YA shelf looking for a rebellion against an evil empire, or superheroes in training, you just have to accept that the protagonists are going to be of a similar age to their intended audience. The genre they are in is literally called the Young Adult genre. It’s that simple. And the genre is not designed to support an adult’s recognition of the danger these young protagonists are facing when they go on their respective adventures.

If you find yourself going from ‘yeah! Fifteen is totally old enough to take on the evil empire!’ to ‘Oh my god who let these kids out on a school night they should have a curfew why aren’t adults handling this battle’, then you might want to look into adult fiction. If you feel like holding up a YA work and declaring that the mentors or guiding forces in the story are evil because they are training children for dangerous situations, then congratulations! You actually are ready to graduate to adult fiction! Where there might also be child soldiers, but that will be treated as a seriously bad thing.

Don’t get me wrong, sticking with YA fiction as an adult is fine! The genre is easy, fun, features delightful adventures, and can offer a very relaxing and comforting escape. But when you find yourself recognizing that ‘kids’ handling large adventures means the adults around them have failed, take that as a sign that you’ve matured. The YA protagonists won’t, they’re going to stay young. And they’ll continue to have adventures at young ages, because kids younger than you are coming up behind you now and want to have their fun reading stories meant for them. If you find yourself reading YA and getting angry over how young the protagonists are, you might save yourself some stress by browsing the adult fiction shelves.