#representation in ya

[rocksanddeadflowers]

character: *shows the slightest disgust/disinterest in romantic or sexual anything*

me, grabbing them and shaking them violently around, chanting: ASPEC ASPEC ASPEC!!!!!!!!

#gotta project somewhere when representation is so minimal ya feel? #reblog with your fav aspec headcanons mine rn is jotaro and so so so many tma characters #pls I'm not actively in jojo but i just remembered the way jotaro acted #he's so aroace coded??? pls tell me I'm making sense??? #ace #aspec #aro #aspec community #asexuality #aromanitc

[gentlemanbutch]

“Try yoga,” “try meditation,” “try EMDR,” listen just put OFMD on in front of me and my brain will process years of trauma over the course of a 30-minute episode.

#I’m pro therapy and blah blah blah but like. this show is healing in a way that nothing else is #therapy doesn’t replace actual representation ya know? #ofmd #our flag means death

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

sometimes i look like i’m driving safely but i’m actually thinking about how topham hatt is such an underrated character

#he’s Blorbo #free my boy yes he did do all those things plus a lot more canon barely acknowledges but that’s what makes him interesting? #also i kinda love the fat representation #he’s shrewd and active and formidable so he makes a good subversion #ofc sometimes he royally fucks up and i like that too <3 #blorboposting #ttte #the fat controller #fantasy capitalist bae <3 #(emphasis on fantasy lol. sometimes ya need one. To Cope™️)

[reminiscingtonight]

"Gooners in the room." Leah Williamson at New York's UN General Assembly 9.19.23

#heck ya there were gooners in the room #arsenal representation #also so proud of her for speaking here like damn you go queen #leah williamson

[scoliosisgoblin]

Summer doodles feat. Beth and Morty :)

#I forgot to post this #also wanted to redesign Summer and Beth's designs when they're older #I headcanon Summer shaving her hair at least once and sporting short hair afterwards (never above the shoulders) #also I'm so so sorry but I kinda hate Summer's gf's design.... 😔 #she's fineee I just don't like the design taht much... #also I miss Kronenburg Summer SO MUCH OH MY GOD #I love Summer and only want what's best for her #💞 #anyway folks that's Summer for ya #might draw her again some time? it was really fun tbh.. #rick and morty #my art #rick and morty fanart #queer representation #summer #bisexual #summer redesign?

[commander----shepard]

#Raúl Esparza #Raúl Esparza on the set #Raúl Esparza photos #Rafael Barba #El Rafael <3 #This is the best version of Rafael ever #he is so cool when he is shaven especially in the 22th season and up.....just perfect!!!! #The representation of the perfect man that Rafael <3 *sigh* #I wish he was wearing glasses in those.Just think what if he had the glasses of Merrick from The island.Them glasses are so cool I tell ya

[heyitsrink]

Fool's Fate but make it Death Metal

Inspired by yet another unhinged RotE discord convo from a while back.

#fool's fate goes hard #fitz would have been a metal head for sure #realm of the elderlings #rote #fool's fate #the tawny man trilogy #death metal typography #what is this even #fanart? kind of? #fan typography?? #custom typography #fun fact I work professionally as a graphic designer and this is a good representation of the kind of work I typically do #most of my clients tend to want a more grunge/zine style aesthetic and I'm 100% here for it #but it's a lot different from my very cute and wholesome comic style #some rink lore for ya I guess lolol

[ladywaterfall]

I, for one, will never forget that time i wrote a mlp g2 fanfic in which moon shadow stole an ancient powerful necklace which granted the wearer the ability to see into the future from queen silver rain because moon was an orphan with no friends except dainty dove, who was a pegasus/earth pony hybrid and couldn't fly even after her moult (in this fanfic pegasi have fluffy wings until age 12, then they grow into their flight feathers), but then the leader of the orphanage twinkle star (who was also a pegasus/flutter pony hybrid) got hired by queen silver rain to murder dove, but dove escaped and is now hiding in the woods near the pegasus kingdom, but moon doesn't know that and is planning her revenge on the monarchy.

meanwhile, sundance hates her responsibilities as the princess of the earth ponies, along with her brother firefly and her sister crystal, who has always been overlooked by her parents sunsparkle and night star (who dies while trying to stop moon shadow from escaping with the necklace), until light heart commits arson in the castle during the midsummer day tryouts for a new jester (her popular sister trixiebelle was chosen instead of her) and she ans sundance escape through a secret passage which sunsparkle ordered secret tale and merry moments to build before they ran away to the lost library in the middle of the rainbow forest.

Afterwards sundance meets sweet berry (who is melanistic and has really strong magic) in a cottage in the woods and together they go back to the castle, assuming light heart was captured. they sneak into the castle and watch crystal deliver a prophecy about incoming doom, then sunsparkle tells sundance that sweet berry killed her sibling ivy with her magic. they look for light heart in the dungeons, but instead find moon shadow, who drugged all the guards and she knocks sundance unconscious right before light heart showed up. turns out she had been in hiding in a nearby town. they run away from the scene of the crime and decide to go to the lost library, but not before scaring all the royal guards with sweet berry's magic.

they meet merry moments and secret tale at the lost library, who casually tell light heart that she is a hybrid and that trixiebelle is not her real sister. sundance captures moon shadow and makes her give up the necklace that she took from crystal, and she joins their friend group. merry moments suggests that they should go to the flutter kingdom, because she doesn't recognise the necklace and the flutter kingdom is the most mysterious of all the kingdoms. moon shadow leaves to contact her ex girlfriend dainty dove.

sundance, light heart and sweet berry go to the flutter kingdom, where they meet an exiled border guard named morning glory. she says that the flutter kingdom is an opressive dystopia ever since the old rulers mysteriously disappeared and were replaced by the new queen. morning glory disguses light heart and sweet berry as sundance's government officials and they visit the palace while sweet berry has an existencial crisis about killing ivy by accident five years ago. morning glory breaks into the royal library and finds out that she is actually the lost princess of the flutter ponies, but she rejects this responsibility in favour of escaping with light heart to the unicorn kingdom.

light heart meets her sister dainty dove, moon shadow, crystal (who ran away after sunsparkle tried to use her prophecy powers to declare war on the other kingdoms, and copper glow, who is an outcast from society due to not having magic. together they spy on queen silver swirl, and discover that she is stealing the unicorns' magic in order to conquer the world (why is every ruler in this fanfic trying to conquer the world smh) and that crystal is secretly half unicorn, and that the necklace was worthless all along. all the kingdoms go over and have an epic fight, which the main characters stop of course. crystal also turns her mom into a ghost because yes.

i spent half an hour typing this out.

DROP THE LINK-

but fr there's SO MUCH going on here. I love that you did that.

The corruption of ponies in power. arson. mysterious conspiracies. lost princesses. accidental murder?? turning your mom into a ghost. TRULY iconic. absolutely love it.

#also g2 representation! #truly the first time I have seen night star in anything #the high stakes and drama wow #this reads like the plot of a YA novel OR how we actually played with our toys in childhood #my little pony #my little pony g2 #my little pony fic #g2 mlp

[virtuallyleslie]

⭐TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH⭐

🍾 Congratulations Moniquill Blackgoose 🥂

Qualified for all 2024 awards for Fantasy, YA, and Debut Novel!

Now on the 4th printing and being featured on Best Book of the Year lists, such as:

Washington Post's 10 Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels of 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/14/best-science-fiction-fantasy/

Chicago Public Library Must-Read Books of 2023: Fantasy, Horror & Sci-Fi https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/199702383/2422351289

NPR's Book We Love

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2023&book=336

Pop Sugar's Best New Fantasy Books

https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/best-new-fantasy-books-2023-49056293

#to shape a dragon's breath #fantasy #ya fantasy #ya fiction #gaslamp fantasy #own voices #best fantasy books #bookblr #bookish #am reading #queer sff #queer representation #neurodiversity

[goldensunset]

pov a huge twewy/ntwewy nerd visits shibuya part 2

ramen town baby!!! yeah i was not about to climb that whole hill even though it really wasn’t that steep. dogenzaka beloved

you only visit this place once in the main game but there are so so many things i could say about it. man the neku-josh-sho week 2 dynamic was the wildest and funniest thing in the world

spain hill (from above) (idk uhh what’s iconic about here?) (i didn’t trip on any haunted step that much i know)

the vibes of this place… not accessible until so late in the game (in both games) but so good both times. like the story beats that happened here were always excellent. i always loved being at shibuya stream in ntwewy it was beyond surreal stepping out of the station and just actually being here irl

le susukichi boss fight (and some more cool puzzles)

shibuya hikarie! not much to say here but the food you find here in ntwewy looked so good man i need to actually eat more while here

there are a few more actually oops! part 3 momentarily

#peach rambles #twewy #the world ends with you #neo the world ends with you #ntwewy #neo twewy #subaseka tag #mine: twewy #yeah sorry og twewy but ntwewy was a much stronger representation of what this town looks like #the twewy map was so confusing honestly #the 3D really helps in this case #only things i still could not instinctually find were o-east and udagawa #i didn’t find cat street but i think i would’ve if i had kept going i just didn’t feel like it #i mean we made it to tokyu plaza and takeshita street the other day but i wasn’t paying attention to the route we were taking #maybe we took part of cat street idk #i’m just thinking about the first time ya visit cat street in twewy and that fake mission lol #y’know it didn’t feel like it took me that long to get across all the corners of town #sure it was far away but like #y’know if you were walking and dealing with huge crowds and also trying not to be rude yeah it would take you wayyy more than fifteen min #but like neku was a ghost he didn’t have to worry about other people or his own physical stamina right #i feel like fifteen minutes was a doable challenge maybe? #if he’s running and has no physical drawbacks and also knows where he’s going already

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

Will anybody be interested if I made a list of adult transmasc and Nonbinary/transneutral main/major characters in adult fantasy and Science Books.

Because I'm legit sick of the infantilisation both within and outside the community. Why is so much of the NB and transmasc rep children 😭.

Even outside of the miniscule rep Even less of it are grown adult main characters. None of that side character's love interest is a trans dude business, or a they/them appears for one page and is never seen again.

Anyway I've got a handful of characters in books I've read/on my TBR and I want to share them with others looking for this kind of rep.

#adult fantasy #adult science fiction #adult sci-fi #lgbtq #queer representation #trans #transmasc #nonbinary #transneutral #also I'm not interested in romance so a NB mc in a capital R fantasy romance i don't give. shit about that guff lol #And why are so many grown ass trans(or queer in general) adults so invested in YA #Like Gawd damn all the rep shouldn't regulated to kids books. #by adult the characters need to be 20s and above #because if i used the 18/19 year old legal adult excuse way too much YA BS will clog the list lol #adult sff #books

[haileygonzales]

Aro rep in my books:

Take Me to Your Nerdy Leader (Bowden Anime Club): main character Paige is alloaro. A coming of age YA novel about friends, first times, anime, finding your confidence, and art.

Strange Worlds (Jensen in the Multiverse): The main character is aroace. He vaguely thinks about it in book 1 (where he learns about the identity) and confirms it in book 2. There’s other aro and ace characters. A portal fantasy: Jensen used to be a thief. Now he’s on a quest to save the multiverse from the evil Overlord.

Ancient Magic (Gray Stone Witches): Side character turned main character, Rachel, is alloaro and bisexual. This is confirmed in book 2. In book 3 and onwards she has her own POV. An urban fantasy novel about college witches who struggle to survive in a dangerous magical world while an enemy lurks in the shadows.

Luvian Code: main character, self-love Cupid, Theodosius is aromantic. A cozy urban fantasy novella about him reluctantly mentoring a fledgling Cupid, Kai, and teaching him the equality of the seven loves.

#aromantic character #aro representation #canon aro #fantasy books #aro rep #ya urban fantasy #contemporary ya #aromantic positivity #alloaro rep #aroace representation #aroace character #aro week

[stpwrites]

Art by Chris Yarborough.

Sometimes to save the world, you've got to punch a few dragons…

When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who literally tear holes in reality, what do you do? If you're Charlie Chase, you dive headfirst into an interdimensional adventure. Charlie knows her calling is a weighty one, but she trusts her mentor’s orders: Travel to another dimension, fix the tear, and get home to do it all over again.

But when she gets stuck on an alternate Earth, she has to turn to the most unexpected of allies: a younger, more eccentric, more infamous version of the brilliant mind that sent her on her mission. This version of Vera Baum is as much socialite as scientist, who seems to embrace the notion that curiosity killed the cat, in the way that means she's determined to use up all nine of her lives blasting through a kaleidoscope of genre-bending realities. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, especially when they’re pursued by reality-eating parasites and a biomechanical hound hellbent on killing Vera.

Ladyhoppers by Sarah Thérèse Pelletier and Scott James Taylor, a casually queer, genre-hopping, multiverse-spanning, madcap buddy comedy packed full of flaming zeppelins, coffee shop romances, car chases, dragon punching scientists, and more pirates than you can shake a multi-limbed death machine at, is available for order now!

#the main characters are an ace lady and a lesbian! #they're scientists! #it's for adults because the ace lady says fuck a lot! #there's a canon coffee shop au! #there are loving homages to everything from terry pratchett to the fast and the furious! #for fans of pratchett & pirates & dystopia ya & james bond & fast and the furious & musicals & star wars & star trek & marvel & multiverses #more ladies need to be the buddies in buddy comedies! #ladyhoppers #sarah thérèse pelletier #scott james taylor #science fiction #science fantasy #queer scifi #queer science fiction #asexual science fiction #ace representation #authors #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #authors on tumblr #publishing #books

[bas1c-lup1ne-ur0logy-66]

What would people like to see represented more in fiction? Gender, sexuality, race, neurodivergence, etc.

What do you feel is inaccurately portrayed and how can it be fixed?

#fiction #lgbt representation #poc representation #nuerodiversity #books and reading #books #novels #ya fiction #poc #questions #writing tips #gender #nb rep #nonbinary

[multi-fandom-mouse-rat]

So I was looking through some reviews on the bastard son and the devil himself and came across this

And I must say…

So true bestie! The minute I laid my eyes on Gabriel Boutin any hope of being straight was gone. Poof, nada. While i may not have converted to the gay life style my bisexual levels are through the roof!

Anyway go watch the bastard son and the devil himself, Netflix did very little in the way of advertising it most places and it’s really worth a watch!!

#Netflix #show reviews #netflix recommendations #Netflix rec #Netflix recommendation #show recommendations #show rec #queer shows #queer ya #the bastard son & the devil himself #tbsatdh #gabriel boutin #tbs&tdh #the bastard son and the devil himself #gay lifestyle #the gay agenda #gay #gay shows #lgbt representation #lgbtq friendly #bisexaul #just a rats thoughts

[the-narnian-sea]

If you want me obedient, prince, kill me and carry my corpse.

— Zafira bint Iskandar

We Hunt The Flame by Hafsah Faizal {@hafsahfaizal}

#we hunt the flame #we free the stars #hafsah faizal #zafira bint iskander #nasir ghameq #altair al-badawi #benyamin haadi #kifah darwish #fantasy ya book #book recs 2022 #arab #tiktok bookrec #arab representation #moodboard #imma use the hashtag #six of crows #bc the books are basically related #zumra #whtf #wfts #nafira #ancient arabia #enemies to lovers #enemies to lovers trope