"sex doesn't belong in YA books"
Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.
At the least a geek, maybe a dweeb, and either a slut or a sporto on a good day.
Have I just always been old, then? 😅
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In Green, Orange, Blue most of the central narrative and several subplots (set in the past & future) take place in the Terracotta Tower Palace. The Academy for Art & Magick the three protagonist attend, including Fatimon whose family built it almost a millennium before the story's inciting incident.
And that pride is what makes the events of their individual stories that much more tragic and hopefully engaging.
Yeah, he has some self-esteem issues and makes them everyone else's problem.
Time does not heal all wounds, sometimes it just makes you more aware of others'.
Dru wants the social skills of a normal young lady, in place of the anxiety her magick controls her with.
Fatimon wants to know what this "trusting family" nonsense is.
Pearl *will* be known as the greatest painter in the world, though she'll have to knock her late mother off that pedestal, first.
In both works, Rise of the Emerald Tyrantess and Green, Orange, Blue, the church & state are one in the same.
The former, the God King rules the empire with an adamant fist, all beneath him are his children or his slaves.
The latter, the Pantheist Temple promotes cultural Arts & Magicks, worldwide.
In Green, Orange, Blue (working title) there are three POV protags:
Dru is the greatest Stormsayer of her generation, keeping a hurricane at bay by herself.
Fatimon is the hottest, wealthiest, youngest architect in all Valacia.
Pearl will change the future of the world with her art, it is promised.
How did Dante's parents treat him to make him aware that parenting doesn't have to be authoritarian
What did they do to make him believe that they could be better, too?
Does he hope this parenting style trickles down to the peasants or does he prefer to keep his mind on matters of the nobility?
The POV protagonist of Red vs the Flowerkillers, Sarah McKenzie, would want everyone in their place, equal but seperate.
While the antagonist and hero of the story, Jainie Davis-Brown, would set the world up so that everyone gets what they need and the accessibility to reach higher without backlash.
Plus two back-to-back Friday the 13ths
No one said "give." No one said we'd be asking nicely either.
That didn't work in either France or Haiti. But you know what did?
Then again it's not like most people even own their property, the house maybe, but the land itself is all owned by the state.
With the right legislation it can be done.
There is also a future where we stop saying things like, "Well what happened happened, let's all move past it," because that's the excuse of ashamed cowards.
Instead we can actively work to repair bridges, mend wounds, and make sacrifices to support those who have suffered silently for generations.
Were he in any other tax bracket, he'd have been charged with major malfeasance, corporate malpractice, and would have gotten 60 to life for the - again - thousands who have died because of him and his deathly ilk.
Plus proving that their prices were artificially over-inflated, just so that the company can drain as much as money they can from its dying, dependent customers.
But to save the C-Suite's asses, just as Russian, French, and Roman elites when their subjects made it apparent that more heads would roll if substantial change wasn't made.
Tell that to the thousands who have died due to his neglect, apathy, and particularly his greed.
As soon as the bastardly was killed, the company dropped select drug prices. Not out to save face, or to do something in their CEO's name, or even to be kind.
Yet the death penalty was just dropped, after having only been brought up because of the ridiculous claims of terrorism.
Because his bag and his completely legal gun were searched by police before he was even arrested. Meaning they illegally seized someone's property without a warrant, which in any other case would be completely in the dependent's right to have such faulty evidence thrown out.
Says the man siding with the government who's trying to kill an American they aren't sure did the crime and are using propaganda to make silly lil guys like yourself to bow down to the might of our corporate oligarchs ...
Self-awareness is a real two-sided blade.
Why should he face the death penalty, even if he were guilty?
Of the thousand Americans who were murdered that very week, those killers only got 20 yrs, plus probation, probably less with good behavior.
But just because the victim was in a particular tax bracket, the crime counts as terrorism?
In Lunarpunk, the City by the Sea holds the Storm Races, where young citizens with suped-up hover shuttles (think a toboggan w/ vertical jets) race across the sky in the middle of a lightning storm while scoring points according to the amount of lightning they capture in the shuttle's shock battery.
Five jobs I've had, in no particular order:
• Baker & Barista
• Baby/Pet/House sitter
• Lead Cook
• Butler
• Voice Actor Liason
Hey Ginny, do you have any advice for lighting a green/bluescreen photoshoot that'll depict an outdoor setting? I would guess that a singule, harsh light would look too ... indoorsy?
Multiple lights? Light grading/hue change?
My PC, a Minotaur Druid named Gordo, remembers most of his childhood & early adulthood when he was enslaved by Humans in Theros and forcibly taken from his home and family to Faerun.
He wishes he didn't remember the feeling of his father's blood on his face, when he was shot helping Gordo to escape.
Have you maybe read her previous novel, An Enchantment of Ravens? It's been in my TBR list for a while and was hoping to start by the end of Spring.
Thanks for the solid, concise review! ❤️