that said here are some of the things i love about ya lit

• it provides safe spaces for the validation of emotions often dismissed because of the category of people expressing them
• like oh whatever she’s just an angsty teenager
• i mean fuck you
• it has a lot to work on w/r/t diversity but it’s also a) significantly more genuinely inclusive and progressive than adult lit and b) literally the only genre aside from romance that’s dominated by books about and for girls
• the fantasies of teenage girls who want to have it all are way more ground-breaking and important than the fantasies of middle aged white men who already do
• it explicitly rejects and reconstructs the oppressive adult ~real world that we are taught to view as normal and inevitable
• it’s allowed to be hopeful and earnest where adult lit feels obliged towards boring cynicism
• you will almost never read a ya book with the theme hrm hrmm i guess it’s all useless what can we do but grow cruel and die

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i am anticipating at least one person to argue that the last is the theme of the hunger games. and you are wrong. ya lit. lists. booksbooksbooks. there are a lot of people reblogging my last list to go GOD I HATE YA. and i'm screeching internally. THAT WAS NOT MY POINT!!!!!. thus--. it obvs does not always do this but i got tired of writing 'can'. in which i talk a lot. AGAIN.

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    Fucking yes OP.

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