#neal shusterman

[perfectquote]

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

[perfectfeelings]

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

[arcofacatboy]

[thoughtkick]

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

Neal Shusterman, Unwind

[quotefeeling]

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

[beesinmypancrees]

Scythehood gave Citra empathy and I eat that shit up entirely everytime I think about it: an essay

One of the first things we learn about her in chapter one is that she's quick to anger. We also learn that she freezes up when she's scared, and shuts down completely. These two are a deadly combination meaning that if's shes afraid of losing an argument, she'll just shut the other person down completely instead of admitting fault.

She literally pushes a girl under a moving truck and just. lets her live with that. She actually killed someone and got them ridiculed for like, ever, and said nothing about it and covered it up completely. I don't even remember her actually saying she was sorry about it, even years later, when she actually had to apologize to the girl. This girl does not give a shit about anything!!!

Yet when she's an apprentice and a scythe, she shows people more compassion than she knows how to give. She falls hideously under her quota just to give people their last decision in their death. She bends rules and makes her life all the more difficult because it weighs on her that their life is ending because of her and she does her best to accommodate. In conclusion, she's my precious little meow meow and i love her so goddamn much you wouldn't believe

[rezniiks]

how do i survive when the unwind dystology fandom is DEAD is DECEASED is SIX FEET UNDER

I HATE EVERYTHING!!!!!!!

[alma-n]

He deserves to scream into the void as loudly as he can :)💕

[meezimoo]

Scythe Volta and Rowan fanart from a little bit ago that I forgot to post. I love arc of a scythe so, so much and I highly recommend reading it. I'm not even an avid reader, yet I've enjoyed these books to no end

[scythe-fan]

the scythe fandom when scythe curie:

[greysontolliverowned]

Neal Shusterman disgusts me. This is nothing new, of course, but many people in the Arc of a Scythe fandom haven't read Nicht Schöner als Ich and I feel like it should be talked about.

Nicht Schöner als Ich, translating to "No More Beautiful than Me" in English, is a short story in Gleanings that was written exclusively for the German-language copy of the book. It's about the purge of all mortal-born people that was briefly mentioned in The Mortal Canvas. I haven't finished it yet, I genuinely don't know if I can considering everything it is about (and the fact that It takes about 20 minutes just for me to translate a page, but that doesn't matter), but the basic premise from what I can tell is that Rasmus has to flee where he is with his grandma, Elke, who was born mortal, so that the scythes of the purge don't glean them. These specific scythes kill mortal-born people so that they can "cleanse" the population as all a show of power, a show of torture and bias, and a want to rule their own world.

Of course most of Shusterman's works are about killing, death, sacrifice, running and corruption and stuff. Translating this story, though, really makes me uncomfortable in the way it mirrors current events, with the genocide in Palestine, and the way Neal Shusterman is ignoring and literally engaging the killing of tens of thousands of people all while writing sympathetically about people being attacked and targeted in such a similar way is just so hypocritical and gross.

This is your reminder: I know you've probably heard this all before, but it cannot be forgotten about or ignored. Do NOT support Neal. Don't buy his books, don't buy his merchandise; if you want to read his books, buy them second-hand or support your local library. Try to minimize the clout you give him. Personally, I feel comfortable mostly interacting with people who are already in/have been in the fandom, and I don't want to post much or share his books, but absolutely no hate to people who still want to post about his content. Over 26,000 people have been killed in Gaza now. This is not something that you can just ignore, and this is not something you can be neutral on.

[surqrised]

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

Neal Shusterman, Unwind

[perfectfeelings]

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

[arcofacatboy]

Please read this whole post, there’s no meme or catch to this, I’m not staying quiet on this.

this is the first post I’m making about Neal Shusterman’s recent actions - the second is about AI art usage, but this is so, so much more important.

Neal being complicit in the genocide that is occurring currently in Palestine and Gaza. Neal seems to have just gotten back from a book tour promoting a graphic novel he wrote, called Courage to Dream, which is about the Holocaust. He sent an email to everyone subscribed to his online newsletter.

Neal took this as an opportunity to state that he saw how “both sides” - both Israel and Palestinians - were doing things he did not condone, and that he would be remaining neutral.

Obviously Neal isn’t wrong in some of his wording, but what he’s fundamentally trying to say here is wrong and harmful. It doesn’t take someone who has lived through genocide to recognize that a genocide is happening. Genocide is a complex topic, but not in a “both sides should be shown kindness” way. It is complex in the fact that this has been going on for years, that history is repeating itself, and that people in positions of power are so easily falling for Zionist and colonialist propaganda because of their own bigotry and bias against those living in Palestine. How did you just go on tour promoting a book about the stories of people who were being targeted and killed in a genocide, and your first statement upon returning from that tour is to email all the subscribers of your newsletter that you’re “not qualified” to talk about genocide, and that you’re refusing to support the people being eradicated? Why did you write a book about genocide in the first place if you didn’t think you were qualified to talk about it? How do you write a whole graphic novel detailing the stories of people in what is the most known genocide in modern history and not see that Israel is trying to wipe Palestinians off the map?

Being opposed to genocide isn’t a simplistic opinion. It’s fucking common sense.

[thoughtkick]

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

[quotefeeling]

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere