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Pedophilia is bad should not be a radical statement.

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

@ girls who are starting to realize they’re bi, or have just begun identifying as bi, or who have come to terms with identifying as bi: 

I love you! 

Bisexuality is good. Being bi is good. Identifying as bi is good. 

There is no “good” or “bad” way to be bi. 

You are not dirty, wrong, impure, bad, or fake for identifying as bi. 

Your identity is pure, whole, and important. 

You are not “half” of anything. 

You don’t have to date anyone or have romantic/sexual experiences to wholly identify as bi. You are just as bi as bi girls who’ve dated people before. 

Whether you are in the closet or decide to come out, your decisions with respect to how you identify are entirely up to you and can’t be dictated by anyone else. 

I hope you come to love your identity, I hope you make peace with internalized biphobia, and I hope you become confident in who you are! 

so you like the percy jackson series….

me too but also we all know that the representation of the characters of color in the books are pretty……how to say, shit? so for each character, I’ve listed out a bunch of recommendations. there are a couple of characters that have a varied list of recommendations due to how vague rick made his characters. for example, while piper is Cherokee and hazel is Louisiana Creole, there are also recommendations outside of that. POC are not interchangeable btw, rr is just rly vague with descs lmao.

If you have any recommendations that are not included in this list, do not hesitate to reach out! I’m happy to make edits for each character and while, I made this list with my trusted sources, i still make mistakes!! a part 2 can always happen so if u don’t see ur favs…do not worry lol

All my recommendations are a collection of middle grade, young adult, adult sff/fantasy, and adult romance! 

Leo Valdez 

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Molrena-Garcia

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano

The New David Espinoza by Fred Acevas

Frank Zhang

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

Want by Cindy Pon (Taiwanese) 

The Dragon Warrior by Katie Zhao

Jade City by Fonda Lee

Reyna Avila Ramirez Arellano

Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera

With the Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevado 

Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

Piper Mclean

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day (Upper Skagit Tribe) 

Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette (Métis) 

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Navajo)

We Are Grateful * OTSALIHELIGA * by Traci Sorell (A Cherokee Picture Book)

Mary and The Trail of Tears by Andrea Rogers (Cherokee) 

Hazel Levesque

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown (Western African) 

A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow

Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Haitian/Dominican) 

American Street by Ibi Zoboi (Haitian) 

Ninth Ward by Jewel Parker Rhodes

Ethan Nakamura and Drew Tanaka 

I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn

Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani 

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean

Kojiki by Keith Yatsuhashi

This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda

Charles Beckendorf

How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

Jackpot by Nic Stone

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

books about poc written by poc

[disclaimer: while these books have been recommended to me by other people of colour i have not read all of them, and so i don’t know how good/accurate they are so please keep that in mind!] 

- More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (young adult, lgbt, contemporary, romance)

- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (young adult, contemporary, lgbt, romance)

- The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (contemporary, young adult, lgbt, romance)

- Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali (romance, contemporary, young adult)

- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (young adult, contemporary, lgbt, romance)

- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (historical fiction)

- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (young adult, historical fiction)

- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen (young adult, contemporary, romance)

- The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (young adult, contemporary, romance)

- Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (young adult, LGBT)

- What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan (contemporary)

- How Long ‘til Black Future Month? by N.K Jemisin (fantasy, science fiction, short stories)

- Warcross by Marie Lu (young adult, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy)

- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (young adult, contemporary, romance)

- The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (historical fiction)

- Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (contemporary, romance, LGBT)

- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (historical fiction, fantasy)

- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (contemporary, LGBT, short stories)

other lists:

YA books about POC by POC

YA Books by Muslim Authors

80 Young Adult Books by Black Authors

Refusing the Narrative: Books to Educate Yourself

How to be well-read without ever having to read anything by a white man ever again

Queer Desi Lit

a list of some bi books

(that you can read for free)

Bisexual Politics: theories, queries, and visions, Naomi Tucker, (1995)

Bisexuality: a reader and sourcebook, Thomas Geller, (1990)  

Women and bisexuality, Sue George, (1993)

View From Another Closet: Exploring Bisexuality in Women, Janet Bode (1976)

Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority, Beth Firestein, (1996)

Closer to Home: Bisexuality & Feminism, Elizabeth Reba Weise, (1992)

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexuals Speak Out, Loraine Hutchins & Lani Ka'ahumanu, (1991)

The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings By Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women, Sharon Lim-Hing, (1994)

I cried with this fic, and this piece of art was the cherry of the cake, perfect.

o(╥﹏╥)o

Hey there!  Finally I can show you my piece for the collab with the wonderful @iamwhelmed!! This drawing is for chapter 13 of her beautiful story that you HAVE to read right now if you love damijon! (https://archiveofourown.org/works/25581733/chapters/62083150) go and love this work with me <3 <3 

LGBT+ books by authors of color

For those of us tired of LGBT+ romance always being featured between white characters, or from the perspective of white characters, here’s a list of LGBT+ novels by authors of color centered on characters of color.

Thank you so much @percyannabcth​ for your recs! ♡

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz: a beautiful mlm coming of age story between two brown latino boys. Personally, one of my favorite books (young adult).

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia: first of a series set in fantasy Latin America with a main couple compromised of brown wlw (young adult).

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: enemies-to-lovers time travel fantasy novel featuring wlwoc (adult).

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan: I’ll admit, this one wasn’t my cup of tea, but I’m more the exception to the rule. Fantasy with main asian wlw. Heavy rape and abuse tw (young adult).

It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura: contemporary novel with a japanese protagonist that falls in love with a latina girl (young adult). 

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie Mclemore: not a mlm or wlw story, but one with a latina protagonist and a love interest that’s a Pakistani trans boy (young adult).

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera: borrowing elements from both sci-fi and contemporary, this is a story about the hardships a Puerto Rican boy from the Bronx has with coming on his own. Suicide and homophobia tw (young adult)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong: beautiful novel that tackles a lot of themes, including coming to terms with being LGBT+, from the point of view of an Asian man (adult). 

Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan: coming of age contemporary novel about a persian girl that falls in love with one of her friends (young adult).

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender: contemporary novel in a high-school setting about a black trans boy learning to navigate the dificulties that are put in his path due to his identity. Transphobia tw (young adult).

Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender and Kheryn Callender: a tale of magical realism about a girl whose luck was sealed when she was born on the dreaded day of a hurricane (middle grade).

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera: Juliet, a Puerto Rican lesbian, moves out of her family’s home and leaves to explore what her identity means both for herself and for those around her (new adult).

Ash by Malinda Lo: a wlw retelling of Cinderella with a girl of color as a protagonist and a very quick, entertaining read (young adult).

A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo: a contemporary novel where the main character, an asian girl called Jess Wong, used to being on the sidelines, becomes the protagonist of her own story as she falls in love with her best friend (young adult). 

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann: Alice, an asexual black girl, learns to navigate her sexuality and how the perception of others affects her (or not) after a break up with her girlfriend and the start of adult life (adult).

Seven Tears at High Tide by C. B. Lee: Kevin Luong, an asian-american guy, asks the ocean for one summer where he can find love - and a selkie boy hears his pleading and seeks him out, willing to give him exactly that (young adult).

Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee: an intern girl with no powers at a superhero school starts getting notes from a mysterious person that goes by “M”. Bisexual main character, and the sequel includes a trans boy on the main cast, both people of color (young adult).

The Wicker King by K. Ancrum: prepare for your heart to be torn out by this not-quite psychological thriller about two boys in a codependent relationship that must learn to cope with their less-than-ideal circumstances, and their also less-than-ideal dynamic. Read the book’s description for potential trigger warnings (young adult).

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo: a series of short tales that tells the stories of british black women through different years, including the those of lgbt+ women (adult).

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson: when a girl’s attempt to get a scolarship to the college of her dreams falls through, her only choice if she wants her life to keep going on the path she’s set for herself is to become prom queen. It’s just too bad that the competition is so cute (young adult).

Final Draft by Riley Redgate: an 18 year old writer, who happens to be a plus-size pansexual ecuatorian girl, learns the perils of adulthood and gains life experience in this extremely relatable contemporary novel (young adult).

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera: a heart-wrenching novel about two boys that meet up to live the entirety of their life in a day - a day which happens to be their last. (death tw) (young adult).

Adaptation by Malinda Lo: when strange events turn the American government into a paranoid mess, Reese wakes up with a month of her life gone from her memories. This time, as our main character finds herself pulled in two directions, the love triangle is bisexual (young adult).

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum: a slow-burn, slow-paced romance between two women that will leave the reader bewildered and feeling like they have a new understanding of life, with a touch of sci-fi (young adult).

She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya: an illustrated novel that touches on gender, sexuality and a re-imagining of Hindu mythology (adult).

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin: fantasy novel set in an apocalyptic world, with a cast made up mainly of black characters, that includes polyamory in the first book and wlw relationships on the latter ones (adult). Be wary of possible trigger warnings.

Note: all the links redirect to The Storygraph, a Black-owned site currently on Beta! Consider checking it out and giving it your support - it lets you import all of your books and shelves from Goodreads, but unlike Goodreads, it’s not owned and ran by Amazon.

Anyways if you want to know some comics to understand Talia’s character pre-Morrison more some good ones are

Detective Comics 411

Batman Chronicles 8

Detective Comics Annual 1

JLA: Tower of Babel

Detective Comics 750

President Lex Luthor: Secret Files

Man of Steel 120

Her character is more than just Ra’s daughter, and just because she was raised by him doesnt mean she shares the same morals as him.

Recommeded reading for Dick Grayson / Robin and Nightwing

This is an updated repeat of a couple of lists with reading recommendations with Dick as Robin and Nightwing (Pre-Flashpoint) that I’ve made earlier. But since I wrote them as answers to asks, the posts don’t have a headline, and I find that they can be easy to miss (for me, when I want to look something up…) So I thought I might as well make a new, single post of them.

The stories are in what I imagine would be an in-universe chronology. They are from all periods, ignoring that the Golden/Silver age stories and Bronze/modern age stories have at times been considered two different universes. Most of them are stories that, at the time of their publishing, were canon and in continuity. None is explicitly Elseworld, so you can certainly imagine that they have happened ;-)

To be honest, not all of these comics are examples of great storytelling. Older superhero comics, for instance, are definitely something else compared to modern comics, for better and for worse. I’ve picked some because they are “the first time” or significant in some way (e.g. the first time Dick was almost killed, when Bruce has to fight to keep custody, an infamous fight between Dick and Bruce, the most well-known different origin stories, panels that are often quoted); others because they have a cute or fun moment. I have also included some books that I don’t like myself but are well-known.

Storytelling has changed a lot since Dick was Robin. Back in the Golden and Silver age, with very few exceptions, comics were stand-alone short stories. In later decades, it’s usually arcs that span at least a couple of issues and some stories have consequences for years.

Dick has been an active team member since the 1960s, and he has arguably been at his best in some team titles, but I still don’t have a lot of team books here. I find it difficult to, off the top of my head, recall any “special Dick issues”.

Obviously, these are very personal preferences, and the list is based on what I’ve read and remembered best.

Robin the Boy Wonder. Detective Comics # 38 (The original origin story. There has been maaany more since then – I’ve made a list just with origin stories….) (1940).

Batman: Year Three. Batman # 436-439. (An origin story where Dick spent some time at a nice orphanage before he came to Bruce.) (1989)

Robin Annual vol 2 # 4. (Another origin story, where the Gotham authorities remove Dick him from the circus, and he is put in the Gotham City’s Youth Center. Not my preferred but it’s well known.) (1995)

The Gauntlet. The Batman Chronicles #1. (The test before Batman let Dick start out as Robin.) (1997)

Grimm. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #149-153. (A story set when Dick is new as Robin and still uncertain about his place. For a while, he wants to leave Batman and stay in a children’s underground paradise.) (2002)

Robin: Year One. (Traumatic events during Dick’s first year as Robin. He was nearly beat to death by Two-Face. When Bruce said he was not permitted to continue as Robin, Dick ran away because he didn’t think there was a place for him at the Manor any more.) (2001)

The case of the honest crook. Batman #5. (1941)

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