ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Dr. Cable and Maddy (movie versions) kissing. Cable has her eyes open while Maddy has them closed
Needed another drawing of them kissing, because damn yeah middle aged mad scientists toxic yuri
#Uglies #DrCable #MaddyUglies #YADystopia #ToxicYuri
Have a FREE book on me!
Download link: freebook.tallerbooks.com
Happy reading!
#FreeBook #yadystopia #booksky
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
Action and adventure, die-for-each-other friendships instead of romance, and not one, but TWO strong female leads. Check out the award-winning #BattleGroundBookSeries Books 1-3 bargain box set on Kindle and KU!
mybook.to/BattleGround...
#Booksky #YADystopia
Every YA dystopian novel ever gets roasted here with love and mild trauma. inkican.com/sci-frid... #YAdystopia #scifi #books
Grab THREE ebooks in my YA dystopian series for the price of ONE!
Action and adventure, die-for-each-other friendships instead of romance, and not one, but TWO strong female leads. Check out the award-winning #BattleGroundBookSeries Books 1-3 bargain box set on Kindle and KU!
#Booksky #YADystopia
Quentin Tarantino sat down on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast and spoke without hesitation. He said the new YA franchise feels like a copy of a Japanese classic. #BattleRoyale #HungerGames #plagiarismdebate #QuentinTarantino #SuzanneCollins #YAdystopia
Quentin Tarantino sat down on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast and spoke without hesitation. He said the new YA franchise feels like a copy of a Japanese classic. #BattleRoyale #HungerGames #plagiarismdebate #QuentinTarantino #SuzanneCollins #YAdystopia
So excited to reveal the cover for my #yadystopia #novella #godsvengeance coming from @crystal_lake_publishing next May. This stunning cover was designed by talented artist @zachwincik_design - #booksofınstagram #coverreveal #artistsoninstagram
How far would you go to protect your family?
My YA dystopia ebook available on Kindle, Smashwords, and Kobo. #shamelessbookpromo #kimbaccellia #yadystopia
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
Catch the 'Battle Ground' download link in today's Fussy Librarian newsletter!
Download your 99p/99c copy: getbook.at/BattleGround...
Did I mention it's only 99p/99c? 📚 😊
#Booksky #Dystopian #YADystopia #UKYA #StrongFemaleLead #BattleGroundBookSeries #ReadersFavorite #RachelChurcherWriting
Book Spotlight: “Survival: Book Two ‘The After’ series” by J. Taylor
lieseblog.com/2025/10/13/b...
#ireadbooktours #middlegrade #middlegradebooks #middlegradefiction #yadystopia #ya #yafiction #readersofyadystopia #bookdragon #bookaddict #youngadult #dystopian #yadystopian #reading #yabooks
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
During Shays Special Surgery, she sees different ways her and Tally could have encountered each other.
-
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
Screencap of a tumblr post, with the first person writing: "ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on" and the second saying "FUCK this post and happy birthday" and then hastily pasted in "Tally and Shay"
Have to post this here too:
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #YADystopia
ID: Digitally drawing and colorized portrait of a rather pretty young black man with narrow face, big eyes, a long nose and freckles. He is wearing a coat stitched together from leather, with fur added at the neck and at one shoulder parts of what seems to be broken down debris from our civilization. There is a blurry forest in the background.
The OG YA dystopian rebel pretty boy
#DavidUglies #Uglies #YADystopia #YALit #KeithPowers
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing showing Dr. Cable and one of her henchwomen, General Clayton, sitting on her bed, Clayton behind Cable and rubbing her clit. Cable has her face slightly contorted with pleasure but is touching Claytons shoulder. Clayton looks pleased with herself. Cable is a very curvy, wiry middle aged black woman, Clayton is rather muscular white woman.
Love how this is the most explicit one for this fandom yet but at the same time so tender that I wondered if it's even in character for them #nsfw #EroticFanart #NsfwYuri #femslash #DrCable #Uglies #YADystopia #SciFiNsfw
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 colorized pencil drawing, showing Shay as a Special, surprised and flustered, in the middle, with heart or star shaped bubbles around her showing Tally (as Ugly, Pretty and Special), David and Tachs smiling at her. Above her is written "Go for it, Shay"
Very late to the meme, but just had to
Decided to include David and Tachs (guy she recruited into her cult in Pretties) too since canonically in the books, or respectively the graphic novels, she is attracted to them
#Uglies #ShayUglies #GoForItMeme #YADystopia
Sad news in the last couple of weeks that Neem Tree Press has gone under. Like other NTP and Unbound authors, I'm now looking for new representation/publication - with the sequel to 'Calm' ready to go. #unbound #boundless #neemtreepress #yadystopia #authorlife
