Cortney Radocaj

@briston_brooks tweet brought this to my attention and just

::slams #MSWL button::

WANTWANTWANTWANT

#MSWL contemp w/ #ownvoices rep for mental illness.

I don’t want a pretty glittering version of it bc lets be real mental illness sucks a big back of dicks.

Give me the thoughts none of us voice that make us feel like the world is going to swallow us whole.

&then give me hope.

So give me the heroes of the story, let them see and do and experience awful shit—but then don't let that trauma just slip away into nothing.

Let them grieve. Let them rage. Let them burn and grow and heal.

And let me see the steel sharpen in their eyes.

#MSWL

I want stories about surviving trauma. About healing and growing beyond it and thriving after trauma.

I want to see the rage, the grief, the shame, each and every ugly shard--but then watch them grow stronger because of it.

#MSWL

The thing that makes me immediately latch onto and empathize with almost any character?

Anger.

Not just a flash of it. I want the deep-seated rage that burns after trauma. The rage that fuses to your bones and becomes an integral piece of you.

Give me more anger.

#MSWL

I need more snarky dark pointy boys with soft gooey interiors in my inbox STAT

(Seriously I am apparently on an insatiable Hades and Persephone kick, GIVE ME SOFT HADES. GIVE ME RHYSAND. GIVE ME KIERAN (@briston_brooks your boys speak to my SOUL)

#MSWL

I am CONSTANTLY finding myself drawn to Hades and Persephone retellings. C O N S T A N T L Y.

#MSWL

Also if someone could give me Tormund but like in YA form I’d love you forever PLEASE AND THANK YOU #MSWL

On today’s episode of Cortney Has Listened to This Song 582048 Times in a Row and Needs It in Her Inbox #MSWL:

(Plus it’s ALREADY gay so like???? Mega bonus points?????)

youtu.be/RVd_71ZdRd4

#writingcommunity I have been CRAVINGGGG anything with sirens

Vicious merpeople sirens? YAS

Supernatural-inspired sirens? HELL YEAH

Give me all the hypnotic, enthralling, alluring monsters—antagonists, MCs, LIs, ALL OF THEM

JUST

✨SIRENS✨

#MSWL

UH

#MSWL

PLEASE AND THANK YOU

Because I’ve been listening to this nonstop since @AllieLevick mentioned it yesterday—

#MSWL but like??? In a YA sci-fi or fantasy???

Y’all I really want that now GIMME IT

youtu.be/iahWWAr82Q0

If your character would say this

Please let me meet them

#MSWL

Bc I haven't seen NEARLY as many queer MS's as I'd like in my box:

Gimme all your lesbian, gay, bi, pan, demi, aro, ace, trans, nonbinary books!! Anything under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella--I WANT IT.

Make my little bisexual heart happy & SEND ME ALL THE QUEER THINGS #MSWL 🌈🌈🌈

Someone give me an MS inspired by this PLEASE #MSWL

UHM MAJOR #MSWL PLEASE

Also can I just say Theo is my new favorite angry child?????

#MSWL FOR AN MC LIKE THEO (anger and snark and gayness and EVERYTHING)

Okay I started watching Haunting of Hill House yesterday and can I just??? #MSWL??????

If y’all are going to send me horror THAT IS THE NEW STANDARD. Scary shit is SO MUCH more terrifying when it’s PERSONAL to the characters.

So—GIVE ME PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Here’s a link to my Spotify #mswl for any of you who get inspired by music!

open.spotify.com/user/125669852…

SOMEBODY MAKE THIS DANCE INTO A BOOK.

#mswl

youtu.be/DZJfxbpKqlc