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*Sunday Scaries*
10.26.23
It starts slowly.
You’ve finally got some semblance of order in your life.
Then you feel it.
Out of nowhere and after every decision you make.
Doubt.
They say we’re our own worst enemy and our biggest critic.
It’s true.
Nothing you do is enough.
Nothing you say is enough.
You try so hard to fight against the demons that live in your head.
But you can’t.
Doubt.
Stress.
Anxiety.
They make you who you are.
You wish you could change it.
You’ve been trying your whole life.
Behind every conversation you have with someone your mind screams.
They hate you.
You hate you.
You think as long as you’re aware and you constantly reassure yourself that it will somehow help ease your mind.
It doesn’t.
Instead it creates a monster inside of your head.
A monster that is both parts you and every single thing you hate about yourself.
Maybe someday things will get better.
Until then you stand alone at the top of the mountain by yourself.
With you is all you’ve worked for and all you’ve accomplished.
What’s missing is everyone you care about because you pushed them away in your haze of self hatred and justified it all in the name of self preservation.
It’s all about self preservation.
Your entire life.
If you hide yourself away from everything scary and never really try then you won’t have to heal your broken heart.
But what if you break your own heart?
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*Motionless*
You feel yourself living and existing.
Yet you’re stuck constantly going through the motions day after day.
You’re a zombie.
You think maybe it’s enough to get out of bed.
The only difference between laying in bed all day and sitting in front of the tv all day is… nothing.
Either way you look at it you’re just finding something to pass the time.
So you continue on everyday trapped in a never ending battle with yourself over when it’s time to start getting better.
When do you ask for help?
If you had it your way it would be never.
Why should you burden those around you with your constant onslaught of mental torture?
They all have their own problems too.
Why is your struggle any different than theirs?
Why should you be the one being saved over and over again?
Maybe it’s someone else’s turn.
You take a second and a realization hits you.
You’ll never have to stop being saved.
It’s always been like this.
Why should it stop now?
Maybe some part of you craves to know you’re cared about?
No, that can’t be it.
That’s not it.
You know it isn’t.
How do you know when to save yourself?
You’ve taken time to think about it and you still don’t know.
You’re not sure you ever will.
YA FICTION CLICHE BINGO
REMEMBER: A trope isn’t an evil thing in itself! Tropes are like seasoning. A little pinch here and there is fine, but too much will spoil the dish.
—We Can All be Heroes (WIP)
—introduction
✧ genre | Sci-Fi, (LGBTQ+) Romance, YA
✧ POV | third person, alternating
✧ tropes | opposites attract, slow burn, mutual pining, government corruption, super-mutated soldiers, mutant high school
✧ warnings | mentions of war, mentions of death, mentions of past emotional & physical abuse, mentions of human experimentation, genre appropriate violence, cussing/foul language
✧ elevator pitch | two mutated gay superheroes fall in love while fighting a corrupt figurehead of their respective high school.
—status
✧ status | editing // 30 chapters
✧ word count | 57482
✧ tag(s) | #wcabh
—synopsis
Jonah ‘Spit’ Doe, a student in a not-so prestigious academy for mutants, is exactly that; a mutant. Faced with discrimination for his abilities, which include his corrosive saliva and subsequent regenerative power, he’s been seen as a freak among nature. He lives up to his title, though, and has garnered quite the reputation for himself for his poor habits of picking fights, causing public unrest amongst the school, and melting school property with his spit. Spit, as he likes to be called, also holds certain beliefs that rival that of the purpose of the school; to create an army of super-powered soldiers from mere children. Spit refuses to become a dog of the military, and he lets this be known. He’s a terror on school grounds.
Now, enter Coda Redd, another student and prodigy of the school. Hand-picked by the Principal herself for his power, endurance, patience, and prestige, Coda is everything Spit stands against. Everything that Spit isn’t and refuses to become. When Coda is assigned to babysit Spit, however, as a special project from the Principal herself, will the two be able to stomach each other?
Sprinkle in bits of corruption, rebellion, and romance and you’ll have yourself their story. A story for believers, for those who hold hope for the greater good.
—characters
✧ Jonah ‘Spit’ Doe | 8teen | “No, no, I can’t. Who would I be if I just let him do his job? He’d think he fixed me, and I can’t have that. I have a reputation to uphold.”
✧ Coda Redd | 8teen | “Then why do it?! Gah, I can’t believe I fell for a moron like you!”
✧ Iven Doe | 8teen | “You think we’re safe in that school?”
✧ Kieran Doe | 7teen | “Yeah, he nearly lost his eyebrows for months!”
✧ Alphonse ‘Alfie’ Erics | 9teen | “You need to, for your own sake, make amends for whatever happened. Do what you can and don’t expect more from yourself.”
✧ Jasmine Hoyos | 8teen | “It just, it seems like you planned this for a while and you didn’t… tell me?”
✧ Noel Doe | 9teen | “Ready.”
✧ Edward Wagner | 26 | “Doe! You’re ten minutes late, mind explaining yourself?”
✧ Amias Wagner | 23 | “We want to help.”
✧ The Principal | 32 | “You could’ve been great, Jonah. A fine soldier.”
—extra
✧ playlist
✧ Coda Redd, Amias Wagner belong to Cass
✧ Jasmine Hoyos belongs to Arial
✧ taglist
@night1rst , @001arial
@zoya-writes , @darkmatternonsense
@pretend-im-normal , @opes-magnas
Some cute art i made <33
My commissions are open if anyones is interested btw, all the money goes to my transition fund (mostly top surgery.)
Andres appeared on a single page with Tierra and has already become my favorite couple in the book the sunbearer trials (By Aiden Thomas)
Just realised that this is my last teen year
i still feel like a kid 😓
Just realised that this is my last teen year
i still feel like a kid 😓
Just realised that this is my last teen year
i still feel like a kid 😓
kinda wanna do those
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kinda wanna do those
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kinda wanna do those
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Life at 25: New perspective New Ideas...
So the year of 24-25 has been a beautiful one if I look at it poetically, as the struggle to survive the world I'm in has been difficult. But my eyes have been opened to new angles and view points. I've always been a multidimensional thinker, but I've discovered new sides to life, issues, people. It's been a fabulous year and a half with discoveries, revelations, new perspectives. I have become stronger even if at times I think I haven't come far at all. As crappy as life is right now, there is a positive and that is in my mind. My mind is a gift to me. My writing, my photography has become my strong holds when at times it feels as though they are being taken from me, that is when I tug even hard at my core to dig deep within myself to create something. Something to express. So I had a new shoot this week. And although my camera is just ticking the crap out of me as it can barely handle anything (such as clouds/rain that happened on Sunday) I'm too broke to get a new one. So I'm still shooting. And although my brain fog has my hands out feeling and listening to what is around me I still write. As difficult as it is sometimes. I wonder what else I will discover this week.
Sequoia Red (via Sequoia Red)
You mean Jem and Will
Books similar to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood:
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett and Extasia by Claire Legrand are both distopyas dense of religious fanatism and women's segregation, in which sexism and sexual prejudice are associated with various aspects of religion (e.g. belief, faith, and fundamentalism). This novel shows also how higher religious fundamentalism is associated with internalized misogyny and passive acceptance of traditional gender roles, and both hostile and benevolent sexism.
In The Grace Year the stereotype of a women as source of sin was laid down by the dominant religious authorities before the inception of widespread violence led by women against women, but after all the violence and blood, women learn the importance of sorority, female friendship and start to support and help each others.
The main source of conflicts are ribbons, which, in The Grace Year, are the sign of a women lifestage and the bride's ribbon is a valued price among most of the girls of the age of Tierney, the protagonist. The bride ribbons create a competition between girls to get bachelor’s attention, self-objectification, and humiliation toward each others. Although the competition eventually destroys most of them, this characteristic offers pleasure to those who survived their Grace Year. Tierney learns to survive on her own, learns that the religious values she was thought were wrong and learns also to appreciate her peer's friendship.
Extasia adds witchcraft and supernatural elements, but the main character (Amity) believes deeply in social conservatism—Amity has a preference for stability, conformity and the status quo— which is often a key trait of the religious experience, but also betrays deep feeling of self-hate.
In Extasia, the very patriarchal structures that decry witchcraft – the Puritan church in which the characters lives in and escapes from, the male headship to which the community so desperately cling, the insistence, in the face of repeated violence, on the sin of her mother – are the same structures that inevitably foreclose the options of the lead character, Amity.
To this two, I will mention also The Year Of The Witching by Alexis Henderson. In this novel, Immanuelle, a young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society, discovers dark powers within herself. This book is very similar to Extasia, but not such as good: Amity character is way more believable than Immanuelle and shows way more comprehension of the injustices committed in the name of the religion. The cult in Extasia contains more original elements and believing than the one in The Year Of The Witching, which seems more a copy-paste of mormon radical close-communities, including the elements of racial prejudice. Both Immanuelle and Amity live in the disdain of their own community because of the sins committed by their mother, which were both punished for their love affairs, but when Amity is a girl-of-action and actively search for mercy and witchcraft, Immanuelle is cursed - literally - by passivity and events occurs without her active consents, including the defection of the evil antagonist. Also, female friendship doesn't take place among the main themes and the book suffer a lot of the male love-interest help.
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.
In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive.
Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other.
With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.
Extasia by Claire Legrand
Her name is unimportant.
All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.
She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.
Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?
The Year Of The Witching by Alexis Henderson
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement. But a mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still lurking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the journal of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood. Fascinated by the secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her.
Time to show off some of our more obscure book tastes
Title: The Fever King (Feverwake #1)
Author: Victoria Lee
Page length: 375
Synopsis: In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear. Caught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he’s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good.
In these confusing years, remember that tough times never last, you are gaining resilience and strength you will need in the future. Keep doing your best. Faith will keep you afloat.
3 YOUNG ADULT ROMANCES GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU CRY YOUR EYES OUT
Romeo Montague was 16 and Juliet Capulet was 13, meaning, these two fictional characters are teenagers. These characters are also the undisputed poster kids for tragic romance. What does this mean? Teenage romance stories are just tragic stories about two teenagers. Could this reasoning be fallacious? Most definitely, yeah. Young Adult novels are one of the most popular genres of fiction. Young…
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And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.
It’s time, I think, to break free.