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@SaltyLasagna

I would’ve never posted what I wrote, though. I was just writing it for practice because I knew if I was going to write an adult book when I was older, I needed to practice that alone with other writing styles. Posting it would’ve been inappropriate.

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Whatever you do in your own time is your business. I'm just saying that published authors shouldn't be exposing children to adult themes.

@HighPockets group

Exactly. A high schooler or maybe a late middle schooler writing smut as practice is fine, but posting it is weird and gross, not to mention fuels potentially harmful stereotypes, for lack of a better word, about sex.

@HighPockets group

Whatever you do in your own time is your business. I'm just saying that published authors shouldn't be exposing children to adult themes.

Yeah, you can write sexual scenes about YA characters in your stories, but putting anything above a fade-to-black and maybe some very vague emotional sex is crossing a line. Not to mention that writing graphic sex between teenagers is disgusting and borderline pedophilic.
Which is why we need to resurrect NA

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

NA seriously is needed. Publishers are dumb as hell though

@HighPockets group

And not even just for Sexy Times, but for those books where the MC doesn't fit into the YA or A catagories/have an ensemble cast with a lot of different ages.
My main story has POV characters ranging from 16-26, one has POVs from 15-21, one from 16-late 30s/early 40s, one has 16-200+, one has 22-28, and then the other two have strictly teen POVs.
So agewise they're not YA, but contentwise they aren't adult.

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And most popular authors these days are not YA either. SJM? NA for sure. Leigh Bardugo? NA.
Even Hunger Games would really be considered NA with all the violence and death.

@HighPockets group

Yeah. I feel like the Grisha trilogy is YA, Six of Crows is right on the line, and KoS is probably NA, but only because the prince of my heart Nikolai, Genya, Tamar, Tolya, Nadia, Zoya, David, etc. are all 18+. I think Nikolai might even be in his early 20s?
SJM is definitely NA because of the sexy times and the ages, most of the MCs are 18 at the youngest.
Fangirl should be NA because Cath is in college.
ADSOM is another series that's supposed to be right on the line between YA and A.
Cassie Clare's latest book apparently has the Sexy Times, so NA.

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Ugh ugh ugh.
So true. Why can't people seeeeeeeeeeee?

@HighPockets group

Because YA is a woman-dominated genre/age category and so even when books are just as good as adult ones, they aren't considered as such by the general public since adult (or at least 'respected' adult) tends to be man-dominated. Nevermind that a teenage girl invented the sci-fi genre…..

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GOD FORBID WE REMEMBER MARY FUCKING SHELLEY.

WHO WAS SO METAL SHE KEPT HER HUSBANDS CALCIFIED HEART AND LOST HER VIRGINITY ON HER MOTHER'S GRAVE.

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GOD FORBID WE REMEMBER MARY FUCKING SHELLEY.

WHO WAS SO METAL SHE KEPT HER HUSBANDS CALCIFIED HEART AND LOST HER VIRGINITY ON HER MOTHER'S GRAVE.

Wow… goals I guess? I'm impressed.

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IN SCYTHE ONE OF THE FIRST SCYTHES EVER NAMED HERSELF AFTER SAPPHO!!!!!

LESBIAN ICON. I LOVE SAPPHO.

also Scythe is a ridiculously good series? like wtf?

@HighPockets group

IN SCYTHE ONE OF THE FIRST SCYTHES EVER NAMED HERSELF AFTER SAPPHO!!!!!

LESBIAN ICON. I LOVE SAPPHO.

also Scythe is a ridiculously good series? like wtf?

I know! I didn't expect it to be as good as it was, I can't wait for the conclusion this fall!!!

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IN SCYTHE ONE OF THE FIRST SCYTHES EVER NAMED HERSELF AFTER SAPPHO!!!!!

LESBIAN ICON. I LOVE SAPPHO.

also Scythe is a ridiculously good series? like wtf?

I know! I didn't expect it to be as good as it was, I can't wait for the conclusion this fall!!!

about time amiright???