#jaye text posts to herself

[deathnoting]

not to be a light yagami apologist but being so unable to deal to with your gay feelings that you simply murder your crush is like. a mood

[theomnilegent]

2019 Upcoming LGBTQA Fiction I’m Excited For!

A new year, a new top nine for women-lead LGBT fiction I’m looking forward to reading! There are, of course, a great many more books than the nine I’ve chosen this time ‘round - I think I will eventually make a part two to this post. I am so, so happy to see that this year we have even more diversity, even more stories about characters from all walks of life, from different parts of the LGBTQA umbrella, and even more LGBT novels. I remember a time where it’d be hard to find more than two YA novels with LGBT themes published in a single year - and now we have so many amazing works coming out!

The themes for 2019 seem to be gay witches, space gays, and explorations of mental illness in the LGBT community. I am so excited to read stories about girls and magic! I am more excited to read stories about girls and love! And I am definitely excited to see multiple books seriously addressing the issues of mental illness in young lesbian and bisexual women - it is a serious topic that has often been glossed over in the past, and to see multiple works that want to tackle these issues, and the issues of toxic relationships, in a healthy way is refreshing. 

Below you’ll find titles, summaries, and goodreads links.

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. Maybe it's Freddy, who is rapidly losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever. Fortunately for Freddy, there are new friends, and the insight of advice columnists like Anna Vice to help her through being a teenager in love.

Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst & Paula Garner Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts up walls so no one can see her true self: the girl who was abandoned as an infant, whose adoptive mother has cancer, and whose disabled brother is being sent away to live in a facility. When an unexpected encounter results in the girls’ exchanging phone numbers, they forge a connection through text messages that expands into a private universe they call Starworld. In Starworld, they find hilarious adventures, kindness and understanding, and the magic of being seen for who they really are. But when Sam’s feelings for Zoe turn into something more, will the universe they’ve built survive the inevitable explosion?

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta Danny didn't know what she was looking for when she and her mother spread out a map of the United States and Danny put her finger down on Tempest, California. What she finds are the Grays: a group of friends who throw around terms like queer and witch like they're ordinary and everyday, though they feel like an earthquake to Danny. But Danny didn't just find the Grays. They cast a spell that calls her halfway across the country, because she has something they need: she can bring back Imogen, the most powerful of the Grays, missing since the summer night she wandered into the woods alone. But before Danny can find Imogen, she finds a dead boy with a redwood branch through his heart. Something is very wrong amid the trees and fog of the Lost Coast, and whatever it is, it can kill. Lush, eerie, and imaginative, Amy Rose Capetta's tale overflows with the perils and power of discovery — and what it means to find your home, yourself, and your way forward.

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi Sana Khan is a cheerleader and a straight A student. She's the classic (somewhat obnoxious) overachiever determined to win. Rachel Recht is a wannabe director who's obsesssed with movies and ready to make her own masterpiece. As she's casting her senior film project, she knows she's found the perfect lead - Sana. There's only one problem. Rachel hates Sana. Rachel was the first girl Sana ever asked out, but Rachel thought it was a cruel prank and has detested Sana ever since. Told in alternative viewpoints and inspired by classic romantic comedies, this engaging and edgy YA novel follows two strongwilled young women falling for each other despite themselves.

The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown Before, Jessica has always struggled with anger issues, but come sophomore year that all changes when Vivi crashes into her life. As their relationship blossoms, Vivi not only helps Jess deal with her pain, she also encourages her to embrace her talent as an artist. And for the first time, it feels like the future is filled with possibilities. After In the midst of senior year, Jess’s perfect world is erased when Vivi suddenly passes away. Reeling from the devastating loss, Jess pushes everyone away, and throws out her plans to go to art school. Because art is Vivi and Vivi is gone forever. Desperate for an escape, Jess gets consumed in her work-study program, letting all of her dreams die. Until she makes an unexpected new friend who shows her a new way to channel her anger, passion, and creativity. Although Jess may never draw again, if she can find a way to heal and room in her heart, she just might be able to forge a new path for herself without Vivi.

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends. One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the two misfits are brought together despite themselves—and Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria’s mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system. Every night without fail, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. And its up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more...   

How It Feels To Float by Helena Fox Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, who loves her so hard, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she doesn't tell anyone about her dad. Because her dad died when she was six. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface--normal okay regular fine. But after what happens on the beach--first in the ocean, and then in the sand--the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Dad disappears, and with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe--maybe maybe maybe--there's a third way Biz just can't see yet.

Going Off Script by Jen Wilde Seventeen-year-old Bex is thrilled when she gets an internship on her favorite tv show, Silver Falls. Unfortunately, the internship isn't quite what she expected... instead of sitting in a crowded writer's room volleying ideas back and forth, Production Interns are stuck picking up the coffee. Determined to prove her worth as a writer, Bex drafts her own script and shares it with the head writer―who promptly reworks it and passes it off as his own! Bex is understandably furious, yet...maybe this is just how the industry works? But when they rewrite her proudly lesbian character as straight, that's the last straw! It's time for Bex and her crush to fight back.

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling Hannah's a witch, but not the kind you're thinking of. She's the real deal, an Elemental with the power to control fire, earth, water, and air. But even though she lives in Salem, Massachusetts, her magic is a secret she has to keep to herself. If she's ever caught using it in front of a Reg (read: non-witch), she could lose it. For good. So, Hannah spends most of her time avoiding her ex-girlfriend (and fellow Elemental Witch) Veronica, hanging out with her best friend, and working at the Fly by Night Cauldron selling candles and crystals to tourists, goths, and local Wiccans. But dealing with her ex is the least of Hannah's concerns when a terrifying blood ritual interrupts the end-of-school-year bonfire. Evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, and Hannah's sure it's the work of a deadly Blood Witch. The issue is, her coven is less than convinced, forcing Hannah to team up with the last person she wants to see: Veronica. While the pair attempt to smoke out the Blood Witch at a house party, Hannah meets Morgan, a cute new ballerina in town. But trying to date amid a supernatural crisis is easier said than done, and Hannah will have to test the limits of her power if she's going to save her coven and get the girl, especially when the attacks on Salem's witches become deadlier by the day.

[chloekelly-factual-research]

Catfish

Directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, Catfish follows the unlikely friendship of twenty-two year old photographer, Nev Schulman, and Abby, an eight year old painter from Michigan. This friendship then involves Abby’s family, more specifically her older sister, Megan. The friendship between Nev and Megan, eventually becomes a long distance relationship through text, email and phone calls. After Megan sends Nev an mp3 file of her latest cover, Nev and the two directors become suspicious of the song, later discovering that the song is not a cover at all, but cover by another artist that had posted the file online previously. This inspires the three to travel to Michigan to confront the family on their lies, and eventually they find out the truth. All of these online profiles and stories have been created by Angela Wesselman, mother of Abby, but had actually painted the canvas herself, passing it off as her daughter’s work in order to seem more successful. 

After this happened, Wesselman, deactivated the Facebook accounts of Megan and her friends. This meant that Schulman and Joost had to recreate the pages in order to film the messages being sent, having not done so at the time. They claim these are the only scenes that had to be remade throughout the entirety of filming. Although, critics have taken another approach with Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me claiming that Catfish was the “best fake documentary” he had ever seen. 

I personally believe that the storyline is real, with some scenes having to be remade or slightly fabricated in order to create more of a storyline to help the film along. 

“To put it more bluntly: Either he [Nev] has spent weeks of his life on a steamy long-distance love affair with a mentally ill Michigan housewife in her 40s, or he purposefully played along with her in order to entrap her on camera.” [O'Hehir, Andrew. "Untangling The “Catfish” Hoax Rumors". Salon. N.p., 2010. Web. 27 Apr. 2017.]

“So for running a production company and making another film as the same time as CATFISH they still had time to film Nev almost completely non stop and at all the perfect moments. So this is either extremely lucky, or really staged.” [Dundas, Jaye. "Catfish: Real Or Fake?". Jaye Dundas Media. N.p., 2014. Web. 27 Apr. 2017.]

[greyjoyism]

thramsay is illegal and will not be tolerated

[marikishtars]

yoooo i hit 200 followers on this blog thank you guys!! B) B) B)

[necromanticisms]

i'm writing veronica mars fanfic again is it 2008?? it feels like it must be 2008

[deathnoting]

honestly should i just pull a carry on and rewrite death note as a romance, change all the names + branding and publish it as an original novel???

[deathnoting]

sorry but the fact that light is 18 and L is 24, that light is imprisoned and powerless and L is illegally, unethically powerful, that light is a “good boy” and L is fucking sketchy, that light is super pretty and L is in-universe gross,

all that combined with the fact that light is bonkers crazy horny about the idea of murdering L is just. really fucking hot. so sorry

[deathnoting]

holy shit i’m so sorry but i am obsessed with watching jack rackham power bottoming his way across land and sea in his little outfits

[deathnoting]

we frankly do not need another death note remake where L and light don’t fall in love. it’s been done. it’s tired. yawn

[deathnoting]

ok hang with me here bc i’m feeling this. my off brand death note novel (you know, Death Phone) would be set in like idk san francisco and light & his family & lots of other characters would still be japanese (bc fuck you light turner). it’s the 2020s and everyone hates cops and soichiro is sweating it. matsuda is like “acab....? i am a bastard :-(”

light is v gay and in denial and when misa (an influencer) shows up to make him date her and he doesn’t want to, she’s like, “hmm are you queer? you wanna fuck men? are you asexual???? nb? gnc???” and he’s like “i’m Very Normal and Heterosexual. i am an Ally” and she’s like “great then so then you can be my boyfriend and i won’t have to kill you >:)”

L would be a mix between alessandro juliani’s L and lakeith stanfield’s L except i’d make him say fuck all the time. things would roughly follow the canon plot except it’s a phone idk. i don’t care about the plot. i would just scrub out all of the most egregious canon rip-offs and make up some supernatural shit. who cares

the real point is that it’s a romance between a teen mass murderer and the twenty-something detective trying to catch him. it’s “call me by your name...... so that i can learn your name and kill you”

[deathnoting]

tbh i’m stoked for the new noteflix. why not let em keep making terrible remakes of my fave media? it’s not my fuckin tax dollars funding it. worst case scenario it’s garbage and we can all get stoned and watch it with our friends. best case scenario ya’ll tweet “turn the foot massage scene into a make-out scene” at the duffer brothers 7 million times until they give in and give the people what they want or simply scrap the project and retire

[deathnoting]

as a huge death note fan i reject everything about death note canon except

the manga art

alessandro juliani

labb's famous "B was the top L was the bottom" line

the blooper panel of L and light fist bumping

every single one of misa and mello's outfits

all the shinigami but especially justin whathisface

that one girl who thought L was hot

[deathnoting]

sorry death note dark rom-com reboot 2022 is the only reboot we will accept. someone tell the duffers

[deathnoting]

after putting it off bc i have a psychological block & can’t let go, i’ve really actually finished the last chap of all saints as of today

[deathnoting]

i guess i really haven’t been on top of linking these, but i’ve had three publications in the last few months (all poetry) if any of ya’ll are interested:

Black Earth

March; Fable; Something Green

Botched Fertility Rite