Oh, hey. One thing while I have your attention: let's take a moment to bask in the pure source of light and darkness that is @adamsilvera. -this week, like always, Adam had been vividly transparent with his ups as well as his downs -and in a true testament to how the interwebs CAN be a force for good, readers and fellow authors alike are rallying around Adam and expressing what he (and his works) meal to them. Here's my small contribution: 🖤History Is All You Left Me shattered me. Wholly. Thoroughly. My uncle had died two years previously, and while the losses weren’t completely parallel, what this text allowed me to do was feel my grief and be messy with it. To react poorly or not at all. To grieve how my heart saw fit, even if it was peak self-destructive behavior. Adam’s book walked with me through the darkness hand-in-hand. And that’s all I think any of us want to do for him right now—walk with him through this time. 🖤More Happy Than Not (@therealcindylloyd remembers my meltdown after reading this one): admittedly, I was PISSED when I closed this book. Aaron Soto deserved better, right? Because we all deserve better, RIGHT?!?! Happiness shouldn’t be this hard, RIGHT?! It all should turn out okay in the end, RIGHT?!?! (You get the drift of my downward spiral) -well, turns out the answer to all of those questions is no, it’s not always alright. Happiness isn’t a guaranteed outcome and sometimes it doesn’t matter what you deserve. Life just is what it is. It’s an immovable object and an unstoppable force and it does not care. -that’s what this book taught me. That it’s okay not to be happy. And I needed to hear that. In more ways than the internet will ever know. 🖤this could go on forever, but the point is, @adamsilvera is a cherished author and human; his contributions to our healing through putting his self, his pain, his healing into his works are the greatest gift, and I for one am so grateful for his existence. #whatdoesadamsilverameantoyou #adamsilveraappreciation https://www.instagram.com/p/CILk5W1B4T3/?igshid=1g9nxt4ltttve