#YA Fantasy

[caihosreads]

Six of Crows - finally got all of them together!

Prints available on my etsy.

[jccatstudios]

vengeance is waiting

[sol-niczka]

Haven't drawn Six of Crows fanart in a while so here's the one and only Kazzle Dazzle, also known as my wife <3

[fandom-witch]

"Nick's mother, Sel's mother, mine. How many mothers has the order taken?"

👩🏿‍🍼👩🏻‍🍼👩🏼‍🍼

"Mothers, gone. Mothers, taken. Mothers, lost."

Happy (early) Mother's Day to Faye, Natasia, and Anna with their little ones 💕

The amazing artist: @marf244 thank you so much for making these!!

[writtenbycassandra]

most female main characters in ya fantasy usually don't have their parents around/are orphans/ran away from home (e.g. the mortal instruments, lockwood & co, a deadly education, ...), which is why there are often no adult figures around to manage the (magical) chaos the teenage characters have to untangle standalone.

but the raven cycle is different — the adults work together with the teen characters, actually listen to them, and try to help them with their quest. blue doesn't have only her friends around to help her out, she also has a giant home with different, female rolemodels. calla, persephone, maura, and all the other aunts and friends — they give blue something most ya characters don't have.

and as the series continues, she also meets the grey man, who becomes a familiar figure for her, too.

instead of having not enough help and support from adults, which is a thing most ya protagonists struggle with, blue has so many people constantly trying to protect, guide, and help her, and i think that's awesome.

she has a family, and they're actually a part of the story.

[catfayssoux]

us in the gc

[ekbelsher]

It took me forever to finally get around to finishing this 😅 It's still my favourite scene though

[siriuslyobsessedwithfiction]

Turning YA book selection into purely romance and romantasy needs to be studied, as well as tiktokification of reading. Skipping paragraphs without dialogue, finding simple plots too difficult to understand, not even remotely analyzing the text, ignoring inconsistencies and blindly following trends and what author spoon-feeds the readers, etc. It essentially boils down to wanting to read just porn without saying you want to read porn. Nothing wrong with that, except instead of admitting it, people have turned to doubling down that these objectively bad books are the pinnacle of self-care, progress and being a girlboss.

I’ve seen booktokers on tiktok (before I deleted tiktok) say they “didn’t get” older booktok books like Cruel Prince, Six of Crows, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and other good books or had to DNF them because it was too “boring” and "too much politics, no smut”. People have been tiktokified or have never read a book that wasn't romance or YA to begin with, so please go read one. It's good for you to broaden your horizons. Besides, YA never has a lot of politics, it's YA. Not even when YA dystopian books were thriving did it have too much politics.

I'm not shaming anyone for wanting to read smut or smutty books but there is no need to turn YA into just a combination of tropes. YA is an age category, it doesn't need dumbing down or becoming more sexual. There are plenty of smut books in YA, new adult, adult, etc. There is no need to shit on and make good YA books unpopular. Writers are getting hurt because the publishing houses would rather publish same mediocre books over and over with slightly different plot and names than good ones. And teenagers in that age category need to have a variety of books to choose from. Instead, they have the same thing over and over, mediocre smut with problematic undertones. Y'all realize Wattpad exists for that and it's free, right?

[popnovelspn]

One thing I love about The Cruel Prince: Jude put her foot down and said ‘I belong here’.

And eventually Elfhame responded and flowers grew where she bled.

Never let anyone tell you, you don’t belong.

[thepencilgirlsv]

ʚ Kaye & Roiben ɞ

Kaye Fierch and Lord Roiben from "Tithe" by Holly Black, the first book in the "Modern Faerie Tales" trilogy! I really enjoyed the book a lot, and it was nice to be back in faerie after a reading slump.

Hopefully there'll be more bookish fanart soon!

[puppiesareperfect]

I understand why people say they forget the crows are teenagers, but I honestly disagree with people who argue they should have been significantly older. Part of the tragedy of the crows for me is that they are so young. They are classic examples of kids who were forced to grow up too fast. I think it’s also worth noting that the crows are still incredibly emotional & many of them struggle with their sense of self. Developmentally, those are traits that show up heavily in teenagers (and young adults). Really I’d argue their maturity is more of a surface level thing—they make themselves appear confident and collected because they have to for survival. But behind closed doors? They’re going through a lot. It’s all weighing down on them. And for many of them a large part of their struggles is the separation from family. (Or, in Jesper’s case, a strained relationship with his father).

I’ve heard before that the crows were supposed to be older originally. I’m not sure how accurate that is (I’ll come back later if I can find a source). Regardless, I can only really imagine them being aged up by a few years. I’m just not sure the story hits the same if the crows are older adults. I absolutely think there should be more fantasy with older characters (highly suggest Leigh Bardugo’s stand-alone “the familiar” for a protagonist who I believe is middle aged) but I’m not sure those characters should be the crows.

[jccatstudios]

Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

Part 1, Chapter 4

Pages 13–14

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[i-live-in-my-bookshelf]

If ya'all even want to know my new hyperfixation is The Mortal Instrument books all over again like i am 12. That's right, I am reliving my childhood and I realized that I had a banger taste

[fandom-witch]

Oathbound spoiler ish art of Bree, Nick, and Sel ✨️✨️

The artist: @yanabanz on ig did an amazing job with this artwork and brought this idea to life so well 🔥🔥

Characters belong to Tracy Deonn