LGBTQA+ YA Books

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[youarebetterthanwaffles]

I LOVE TARA AND DARCY

PARP

[signedupforthis]

Are you sure you wanna come back to Truham? Because you don’t have to. We could all pretend to have sprained ankles, or something. All three of us? What, we all have some group ankle-related accident?

[ourravenboys]

The Baby-Sitters Club (2x07) | Janine Kishi and Ashley Wyeth

[lgbtqreads]

Mlm (men loving men) retellings

Peter Darling by Austin Chant (T) (Fantasy, Peter Pan)

Gay Pride and Prejudice by Ryan Field (Pride & Prejudice)

Thrall by Avon Gale and Roan Parrish (Dracula)

The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode (YA, Cinderella)

First Impressions by Christopher Koehler (Pride & Prejudice)

Perfect Day by Sally Malcolm (Persuasion)

Beau and the Beast by Kay Simone (Beauty and the Beast)

Rabi and Matthew by L.A. Witt (Romeo & Juliet)

[lgbtqareads]

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[lgbtqareads]

Always thought this meant Amy's wife was wearing a pansexual jean jacket but was listening to the audiobook and heard this and all I could think was. WHAT IF IT MEANS CASH IS PAN? WHAT IF HE WAS THE ONE WEARING THE JACKET?

[troyandabedsnewapartment]

Cash and Luna for the win

[lgbtqareads]

Yes.

[lgbtqareads]

Always thought this meant Amy's wife was wearing a pansexual jean jacket but was listening to the audiobook and heard this and all I could think was. WHAT IF IT MEANS CASH IS PAN? WHAT IF HE WAS THE ONE WEARING THE JACKET?

[lovepyramus-deactivated20230105]

The way this is a common topic of debate on the RWRB discord server lmao

[lgbtqareads]

I mean. It doesn't really shock me at all, I always got queer vibes from Cash, but was just a weird light bulb moment for me

[zigster-ao3]

Alex Claremont-Diaz

“A hasty mural on a wall in Mexico City of Alex’s face in blue, purple, and pink, a crown on his head.”

It’s not quite June yet, kids, but happy Pride, y’all!

[lgbtqareads]

I REMEMBER MAKING A POST ASKING FOR THIS MONTHS AGO AND I JUST SAW ON A REPLY TO THE POST THAT IT HAS BEEN DONE!!! FINALLY, THE MURAL IN MEXICO CITY!!!!

Brb gotta cry again

[lgbtqareads]

Always thought this meant Amy's wife was wearing a pansexual jean jacket but was listening to the audiobook and heard this and all I could think was. WHAT IF IT MEANS CASH IS PAN? WHAT IF HE WAS THE ONE WEARING THE JACKET?

[queerbookmemes]

shout out to casey mcquiston’s instagram for never disappointing

(and a very special shout out to alex claremont-diaz for checking off nearly EVERY box in the aries bingo except for 2, one of which is ‘getting over things quickly’ which I personally find extremely hilarious - see: the literal YEARS he spent holding a grudge against henry)

[sandersgreysage]

It’s really important to remember that Diana Wynne Jones was dyslexic and that when she was a little girl and said she wanted to be a writer, people told her that she couldn’t be a writer because of her dyslexia.  She became an incredibly popular author.

[penig]

She actually became the greatest writer in the English language of the 20th century. It’ll take a couple of hundred years for academia to recognize this because she was female, she was funny, and she wrote for children, but - seriously. Try it. Read the best Jones alongside the best Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Nobokov, anybody whose life overlapped hers who is canonized in literature courses, she will win handily on any criterion you care to use; style, theme, structure, characterization, sheer reading pleasure. Hell, the worst Jones will stand up against the best of some of them! (I leave you to name your own names, but I bet someone’s already occurred to you.)

[underwaterwoods]

#and so many of her books have a theme of finding yourself#but not in like a neutral way#not just ‘hmm who am I oh ok’#but finding yourself when other people have confused and misled you#into thinking you’re nothing important#so you have to figure out what you are#but also you have to realize that you can be something#and it’s so good#I really did not sufficiently appreciate ‘the lives of christopher chant’ the first time I read it#gosh#using his talents for the ‘wrong’ things#muddling through stuff he doesn’t understand and not realizing how close he is to disaster#hashtag relatable#diana wynne jones (x)

[soggywarmpockets]

I love her books so much. Every single one I’ve read is so vibrant and colorful and whimsical and memorable. She created such beautiful worlds that children and adults alike could find an escape in. She was brilliant.

[twistedingenue]

She really was. I attended a talk/lecture of hers entirely on accident and it was one of the best days of my life.

[daroos]

When I was in second grade we had to practice writing letters by writing to our favorite authors. Everyone else wrote to RL Stein or the like, while I wrote to DWJ. Everyone else got a form letter. I got a typewriter’ed note from her responding to my letter and adding her own thoughts. 

She’s forever my favorite.

[odairiver]

#i love diana wynne jones madly#her books have such a particular and special place in my heart#did you like the studio ghibli movie howl’s moving castle?#if you saw it of course you did it’s wonderful#it’s based on diana’s book#and the book is of course so much better#because it’s so much MORE#sophie in particular expands in breadth and depth and capacity endlessly#and howl too#but sophie is just wonderful#the dalemark quartet should honestly stand with narnia and middle earth for beautiful fantastical worlds#and do you know how much i would GIVE to see a fantastically well funded and carefully shepherded movie franchise of the chrestomanci books?#absolutely magnificent#deep secret is so very 90s and so very magical#fire and hemlock and hexwood and the dark lord of derkholm and so MANY more#i love her and so should you

[synebluetoo]

Honestly I have this suspicion that DWJ doesn’t get recognized for how brilliant her writing is cause it’s TOO brilliant. Like, she’s just too good at making it too easy. And her work can be read at a deep or shallow level and all sorts between, so you can read Howl’s as a generic fantasy without realizing it’s an absolute send-up, or a social commentary, or a feminist manifesto, or a fucking razor sharp psychological character study. And you’d be having a marvelous good time reading it.

Good Literature got this Rule that it needs to be unpleasureable to be Good, that it must be Difficult or Uncomfortable or Ugly. I could go off on why but I’ll leave it at gatekeeping. Make Good Literature so nasty and not fun that finishing a book becomes some sort of litmus test of Who’s In. If Good Literature was something just anybody could get through how would we know who was important? /ugh

[fyeahdianawynnejones]

The thing about DWJ is that you can read her in any way: as genre or even as mainstream literature, as a children’s book or an adult’s book. And she doesn’t rely on tropes to make her point. So many of her characters seem real. Especially the teenagers.

I suspect DWJ would have very much agreed with this accurate assessment of “Good Litearture.”

[adventures-in-asexuality]

I agree with all this, but also, I wanted to add that I got a letter back from her too when I wrote a fan letter; she wrote back and apologised for taking so long because she’d been laid up with an illness like in Hexwood, and said that all her books had a way of coming true for her eventually but it was very inconvenient that this one had.

[elodieunderglass]

 I recently picked up Howl’s Moving Castle on reread and I realized something I never had before, which certainly isn’t in the Ghibli movie, so I hate to spoil people who haven’t read it, but I just have to mention it. As a young American child I simply accepted the bit where they RANDOMLY visit Howl’s home. But as an adult I just started laughing my ass off because I SUDDENLY GOT IT. what a fucking hilarious swerve in a High Fantasyland story.

Basically, Howl is an adventure-comedy set in a sort of medieval-ish High Fantasyland, like a generic Disney story. At one point the characters make a brief visit to Howl’s home. Howl is…. NOT from High Fictional Fantasyland. He is FAR more exotic than that. 

He is… in fact… Welsh. And worse: modern. He is, in fact, a grad student. He is a flippant Welsh fuckup with a PhD, who keeps his car at his sister’s house because he’s incapable of adulting properly. Reading between the lines, he may be maintaining an ENTIRE life in the magical medieval land of Ingary simply in order to escape the bother of finding a job in academia. Fuckin relatable, am I right?

[trans-fan-boy]

I am so glad to see this amazing author getting the credit she deserves!

If you haven’t read at least one of her books, you should try

[headcanonsandmore]

As someone who is currently reading through the Chrestomanci books and loving them so much, I adore this thread, 

[benditlikekorra]

The biggest of any Avatar

[asexualquotes-blog]

“[M]any identity terms are personal. When someone says that they’re Jewish or Australian, that word is part of who they are. It’s often deeply ingrained in how they relate to the world. It’s a complex package of meaning in a deceptively simple container. “Asexual” is a word that I need. It’s a word that many others need. For years, I had no idea what I was, what was wrong with me. And then, one day, I found a word. A word that described me. A word where I belonged. A word that meant I wasn’t broken. If you take that away, I am lost and broken again. Without that word, I am invisible.”

— AsexualityArchive | The Comment Section: So What? Who Cares!

[patroclusdefencesquad]

queer girl starter pack

[i-will-help-you-swim]

Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I'm trying to prove something.

[cmoon-rabbit4-blog]

Reblog if your blog is a safe place for asexuals.

[cayde-the-fennec-fox]

Yep!! All members of the LGBTQ+ community are welcome here as well!!!

[thedemidisaster-deactivated2021]

Aces are so incredibly VALID

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Mspec Pride Flag

Multi- Spectrum: an umbrella term for those feeling attracted to more than one gender (as in, experiencing multiple-gender attraction/MGA) and the m-spectral community.

The colors are also seen in bi, ply, pan, omni, tri, quad and quint flags, then orange color is for any other identity & those identifying just as multi- and nothing else.

-Ap

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Yes, the description of pansexuality/polysexuality/omnisexuality as "being attracted to trans people as well" is in poor taste and also transphobic and biphobic. Yes, those identities and the people that use them are still real and valid. Stop the spread of harmful misinformation but also stop policing identities.