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Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · 5d
Rosie Brown @rosiesrambles
Tired: Hades/Persephone retellings where he kidnaps her and is all sorts of creepyWIRED: Hades/Persephone retellings where Persephone broke into the underworld and won't leave, Hades is begging her to go bc she's eaten all his snacks and Cerberus likes her more than him
::slams #MSWL button::
Megan Manzano @Megan_Manzano · Jun 10
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks
I keep thinking about how badly I want to read more smart, unnerving YA horror.I don't want gore. I want a story that makes me ask questions that I don't want an answer to. #MSWL
This 100%.
Examples like the ones Eric gives in his thread are often what I refer to when I say I want dark stories. Make me question things. Tip and break my reality into pieces.
#MSWL
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · Jun 7
π π©ππ¦π―π’ @clairewenze
I want horror-fantasy media about parasocial online relationships as vampirism, about unwritten-but-known arcane rules of social media interaction as fae dealings, about millennial/ gen Z loneliness and existential terror and executive dysfunction as a literal curse@briston_brooks tweet brought this to my attention and just
::slams #MSWL button::
WANTWANTWANTWANT
Tara the Story Oracle @Literary_Tara · Jun 6
Sibylline π»πβ¨ @Sibylline_M
Knight of the Sun π pic.twitter.com/m06oFtn4lGI need more female Knights in my life. #mswl
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · Jun 5
#MSWL contemp w/ #ownvoices rep for mental illness.
I donβt 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.
Tara the Story Oracle @Literary_Tara · Jun 4
Since #pitmad is around the corner, I want you all to know that I will be watching for any book with #polyromance in it. #mswl
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · Jun 2
So give me the heroes of the story, let them see and do and experience awful shitβbut 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
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · Jun 2
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj
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 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
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · Jun 2
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
Just finished watching #AlwaysBeMyMaybe on Netflix and I just need to say:
We need more romcoms featuring POC
We need more romcoms featuring POC
We need more romcoms featuring POC
We need more romcoms featuring POC
We need more romcoms featuring POC
#mswl
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · May 30
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
Cortney Radocaj π³οΈβππππ @CortneyRadocaj · May 30
I am CONSTANTLY finding myself drawn to Hades and Persephone retellings. C O N S T A N T L Y.
#MSWL
Tara the Story Oracle @Literary_Tara · May 30
Adam Pidgeon @CineLore
In the Middle-Ages it was believed that if a witch got hold of a childβs discarded teeth the child could fall under the witchβs control.So paying the Tooth Fairy to safely dispose of teeth is a bit like paying to have confidential documents shredded.
#FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/B1PqoatX7o
Ummm.. can I have this MG, please? #MSWL
Tara the Story Oracle @Literary_Tara · May 30
Fran Staines @StaBoFr
Tuatha de Danann, was the magical race of ancient Ireland. They were god-like creatures with supernatural abilities, worshiped during the pre-Christian era. Later, as Christianity took roots, the Tuatha de Danann persisted in folklore as either Saints or Fae.#FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/jYC6XAeG9r
Can I have a story about the Tuatha de Danann? #mswl
erin clyburn @erin_clyburn · May 28
First PEN15, now BOOKSMART? Give me more smart, nerdy, awkward-confident tween/teen girls with do-anything-for-each-other friendships. #MSWL
Megan Manzano @Megan_Manzano · May 28
ellie @odairannies
this photoshoot of maisie williams might be one of the most magic and atmospheric things i've seen pic.twitter.com/6IC8AGgfEcGive me a book/character that embodies this aesthetic. Please and thanks.
#MSWL