Looking back its funny how after first reading the books I actually hated Shay, and only learned to understand her because of another girl I had a friendship with a very similiar dynamic with. Her rage, her manipulation, her self-destructive behavior…
#ShayUglies #Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #YAdystopia
#scottwesterfeld #mirrorsedge #newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookshelf #bookaholic #bookaddict #booklover #instareads #youngadult #bookishcommuníty #bookcommunity #impostors #impostor #dystopia #romance
ID: Closeup on Shays (as an Ugly) face, with a rip with edges like a glitched screen going diagonally through it, showing Tallys face underneath
ID: Shays face as a Pretty, with Tally as a Pretties face behind a rip again
ID: Special Shay, with Special Tally under the ripped picture
Did these for a fic cover, showing Tally and Shays interconnected arcs and so on, but thought they looked too cool to not share
The way bluesky arranges pictures *really* does not work well here; click for better view
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ShayUglies #TallyYoungblood #YAdystopia #FeministSciFi
#specials #scottwesterfeld #newpurchase #youngadult #scifi #scifireader #sf #instareads #bookshelf #bookaholic #bookaddict #booklover #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookishcommuníty #bookcommunity #midureads
#therisenempire #scottwesterfeld #successionseries #scifi #scifireader #youngadult #instareads #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booklover #bookishcommuníty #bookcommunity #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookshelf #midureads
two of my favorite YA series as a kid, Midnighters and the Maximum Ride series
#scottwesterfeld #jamespatterson #yafiction #yareads #booksky
Schlocktober Day 18: Weakness Kink
Behold! The prompt that got me to participate in this event in the first place.
"Dr. Cable has taken an interest in an unsuspecting young male scientist from another city"
archiveofourown.org/works/72705966
#Schlocktober #DrCable #Uglies #ScottWesterfeld
ID: Shoulders up portrait, digital drawing, of a middle aged black woman with a haggard face, dark brown eyes, big nose, wearing her greying locks in a messy bun. Her clothes look self-made, a headband, a pullover, a vest. Behind her is a stony wall with flowers growing in the cracks
Love that the reasons she is an asshole are, besides all the typical things you would expect of an dystopian resistance leader, very personal and not exactly rational. God, I love her
#MaddyUglies #Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #CharminLee
Day 14: Predator/Predator
"During the rebels feast, Shay and Tally escape into the privacy of the prairie to give in to their instincts"
They were compared to wolves too often to not use this
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #Schlocktober
archiveofourown.org/works/72485246
Thought about doing one of these pride flag icon queer headcanon things for the Uglies cast, but honestly, it would just boil down to:
"Everybody's bi, Fausto can be gay as a treat"
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Dr. Cable standing in front of a injured Maddy, knife in one hand, blood on her nails on the other, in fighting stance. Cable wears her lab-coat esque robe, but it is ripped and dirty. Maddy wears a sneak suit, but it is damaged on the side of her stomach where she holds her hand over an injury, and glitching out. (Both of them are middle aged black women).
Keep thinking about how Laverne Cox noticed Dr. Cable being described as a wolf doesn't just mean she's brutal and ruthless, but also fiercely protective
Then I remembered I still had an AU where Maddy is a Special too..
#Uglies #DrCable #MaddyUglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #Yuri #BattleCouple
Found another fridge horror: Shay canonically choose how she looks as a Special - but forces Tally back for surgery, so Tally doesn't.
So either Dr. Cable chose, or Shay. Shay would be both darkly romantic and absolutely disturbing...
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #ToxicYuri
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Tally and Shay dancing on a party, with flickering lights and other people in the background. Shay is a thin but curvy east Asian woman with tied back black hair, wearing a suit vest with no shirt underneath and a glittering suit pants. She smiles at Tally. Tally is a petite white woman with long blonde hair, wearing a white dress with golden straps at a cutout on her back, outlining her broad hips. The viewer only sees her back.
Saw a woman wearing this outfit and thought about Shay starting to remember her old self, starting to dress just the slightest bit more like herself, but before she starts spiraling
#Uglies #TallyxShay #ShayUglies #TallyYoungblood #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
ID: Screencap from Netflix “Uglies” adaptation. Tally and Shay walking beside each other, both in futuristic school uniforms, both carrying hoverboards under their arms. The viewer looks at them from the side. Tally is a pointy-faced white girl with messy dark brown hair, Shay is a East Asian girl with short black hair, also rather pointy faced, thin and short.
ID: Closeup on Tally up to slightly below the shoulders, looking devastated and terrified. Dr. Cable is standing behind her, her face out of view but her chest and her gloved hands on Tallys shoulders visible. In the background a clean, futuristic room is visible.
ID: Closeup on Dr. Cables face, looking particularly cold, angular and intimidating. She is a middle aged black woman with straight, blonde hair, and her unnaturally grey eyes make her look even more intense. In the background forest and one of her henchmen are visible.
ID: Showing Tally from behind, running towards the edge of the hoverboard park, with futuristic, twirled, airy towers in the background. Tally is a short, thin white girl with messy dark brown hair, wearing a futuristic school uniform including a skirt.
I had accepted I would never see #Uglies on screen..
Didn't really go how teen me had hoped. But by now I'm still glad to see all actors embody my heroes so well, get into contact with other fans & get new ideas about a story following me since 15 years
#ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #Dystopia #SciFi
#quote #quotes #quotation #quotations #aquoteaday
#quoteoftheday #variousquotes #ScottWesterfeld #do #think #beautiful #whiteflowers #flower #flowers #nature #flora #blackandwhite #ponderings #foodforthought
During Shays Special Surgery, she sees different ways her and Tally could have encountered each other.
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Harrows “This is not how it happened” fever dreams (Locked Tomb) but with Shay
#ToxicYuri #Uglies #ShayUglies #TallyYoungblood #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
archiveofourown.org/works/70643586
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally and Shay sit outside, both holding a wrapped present (it isn't clear who gifted it and who recieves), and holding each others arms with the other hand, smiling. They are both young woman with short hair, a wiry built, tattoos, and self-harm scars, but Tally is white, with battered clothes, while Shay is East Asian and wears pristine futuristic clothes. There is a futuristic city and the sea in the background.
Happy birthday Tally and Shay (well, in around 300 years...)
Headcanon that not until their 18th birthday they actually celebrate together. 16th obviously bc events of the book, and 17th they still need to process and heal
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #YALit
Book cover. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan trilogy #1 / 2009) Cover shows various pinwheels.
Photo of Scott Westerfeld taken Utopiales 2010. Born Dallas 1963. American author of young adult fiction, the Uglies & Leviathan series, etc.
💙📚40 Fantasy Novels
No particular order (40 authors, 40 books)
Day 40 / 40
#Booksky 🪐📚👀
#bookchallenge
#Fantasy
#ScottWesterfeld
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing, six portraits up to slightly below the shoulders of Shay. 1. "15 (Uglies), showing her with long, brown braids, green eyes and a pointy face 2. 16 (Pretties), with wavy long hair and bangs, her face now slightly softer, her eyes bigger and copper 3. 16 (Pretties, Specials). Long black hair in a tight braid, red and purple eyes, tattoos all over and angular and intimidating 4. 20 (Extras), shoulder length hair, the upper part tied back, other than that just like the one before 5. 25-30 (between Extras and Youngbloods) Short hair in a relatively flat style 6. 35 (Youngbloods), very short so that all of the hair stands, wearing futuristic armor
Wanted to do a companion piece to (my pre-movie design) Tally over the years and her hairstyle changes (link in comment), but then forgot to publish it
I actually predicted both Shays short hair and her having bangs and waves as a Pretty, lol
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ShayUglies #YADystopia #SciFi
ID: Screencap from Netflix "Uglies" adaptation. Dr. Cable standing in the foreground, shown from behind above her shoulder, looking at David, Tally and Maddy trapped in the surgical tanks.
Been open about how much I hate changing the surgical tanks from being creepily medical and claustrophobic bc filled with liquid keeping the body alive to something easier understandable but lesser effective in the long run...
...but this shot still slaps
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #SciFi
ID: Shay (as a Special) punching for Dr. Cables head, other hand already pulled in a ready position, but Dr. Cable moved out of the way and used that to step closer to her. Shay is a young East Asian woman with a pointy face, undercut, tattoos all over any visible body part, and wearing a tank top and long, loose trousers. She has self-harm scars on her arms. Dr. Cable is a middle aged black woman, both wiry and very curvy, angular face, intense grey eyes, hair in a braid and wearing a white sports bra and short leggins. Both of them are sweaty and mildly bruised.
Testing the prototype
Man, the dynamic between Shay and Dr. Cable at the end of Pretties and beginning and middle of Specials is so uncomfortable and interesting
#Uglies #ShayUglies #DrCable #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
#SciFi #BuffWomen
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing showing two girls standing beside each other, broad stance but hands and arms clasped in an insecure way. On the left is a short, petite, sharp faced white girl with messy dark brown hair, wearing a futuristic pastel colored shirt, shorts and boots. On the right is a tall, chubby black girl with a long, square face, shoulder length hair, wearing a futuristic grey school uniform with a skirt.
Of course I had to do one for Tally too. Clothing swap the third. Adaptation design and my pre-movie design
#TallyYoungblood #Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing, depicting two middle aged women from the hip up. The taller one, Dr. Cable, is sharp faced, wiry and white, with a black bob, eerie grey eyes, aquiline nose, fangs and claws. She is holding the other, Maddys, chin in her hand, tilting it up, while holing her arm with the other hand. Maddy reaches out to her shoulder and looks at her pleading. She is a slightly chubby black woman with short hair, wearing a worn out, mended red dress.
Since before the movie I was on the fence about shipping Dr. Cable and Maddy, I never actually drew my pre-movie designs for them in a shippy way. So I had to
#Uglies #DrCable #MaddyUglies #ScottWesterfeld #ToxicYuri
#YADystopia
ID: Digitally drawn portrait of a young white man with a sharp face, big golden eyes, a pointy nose and a generally emaciated appearance. His hair is dyed bluish black and in an emo bob, and he wears a futuristic faux leather jacket and several golden necklaces.
Can you believe that I used to hate Zane as I first read the books because I hate bad boys and didn't notice that he isn't actually one, he uses that trying to hide just how hard he is fighting for his life
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ZaneUglies #YADystopia #YAlit
ID: Meme: "Going to the home improvement store", showing text on one side and a photo of the person it applies to on the other. "fell in the cacti display while wandering around in the gardening section": David "being yelled at by employees while frantically ascending the Forbidden Orange Stairs": Zane "taking sick af selfies in the lighting aisle": Peris "shitting in the display toilets": Croy "tokyo drifting one of those flatbed carts down the aisles": Shay "lying on the fucken flatbed, holding on for dear life": Tally "lovingly touching all carpet samples": Fausto "stealing paint chips for aesthetic purposes": Maddy "just wanted some goddamn light bulbs and everyone ruined it": Dr. Cable "in the car sleepin": Az
Surprised that I hadn't done this meme with the cast already
Also added Zane and Fausto despite them not being in the adaptation (since they only appear in book two), but left out the lesser important side characters
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #IkeaMeme
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Tally and Shay naked cuddled against each other, Tally half on her back but with her legs draped over Shay, and Shay half under and half beside her, arms and legs draped around her. Both are tall and muscular, tattooed all over and have self-harm scars on their arms and battle scars on the rest of their bodies, but Tally is black and curvy in a sturdy way, while Shay is just lean and a Latina.
How peaceful they are. I love this, even beyond my OTP being cute. Maybe it's because their scars and angular faces and warriors bodies, but they're resting instead.
(Tally/Shay post-canon, my pre-movie design)
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #Femslash #NSFW
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally, a chubby black girl in futuristic, pastel colored clothes, dangling from her cuffs and looking slightly upset, while Shay, a skinny brown girl with a futuristic black tank top and a green cargo pants, hoverboards close to her, smiling. The hoverboard Tally fell from is waiting in the background.
This was my pre-movie imagining of the hoverboard training scene by the way
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing showing two thin and rather bony girls standing nonchalantly beside each other. Left is a short East Asian girl with short hair, crooked nose and angular face, wearing a black tank top, a dark green cargo pants and hiking shoes. Left is a vaguely brown girl with dark brown hair in long braids, a long, pointy face, wearing a futuristic school uniform and a frayed scarf over it.
Clothing swap between the movie version of Shay and my pre-movie design.
I love Shays short hair in the movie. They toned down the bisexual subtext otherwise, but this fits so well
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ShayUglies #BrianneTju #YADystopia
How a YA dystopia from before the genres boom changed the way I think about my neurodiversity and queerness
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #QueerAnalysis #DisabledAnalysis #FeministAnalysis
youtu.be/yRREVk1KwIo
The girls friendship/enmity, the dystopian world as reflection of being a teen who can’t quite fit in, the worldbuilding, there are so many interesting details playing into the greater topic of these videos
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #FeministAnalysis #QueerAnalysis #DisabilityRep
youtu.be/C55Ptyq-LWw
