So many people seem to think YA and NA are the same thing, or NA is YA but with the sex. Have a bullet list from someone who’s tired of seeing them lumped into the same category.
Young Adult
the target audience is 12 to 18 years old
the protagonists are usually kiddos that still live at home and need their parents’ signatures on official documents
themes commonly work with personal relationships on an emotional level, and do a lot of coming-of-age/coming-into-ones-own-identity
sex, swearing, and violence are all watered down for a younger audience
New Adult
the target audience is 18 to 30 years old
the protagonists are of the moving-out age and can start making the big decisions on their own
themes commonly encompass the overall lifestyle shift of taking on adult responsibilities, moving away from home, and dealing with the consequences of the aforementioned big decisions
there is potential the sex, and the swearing, and the violence
These are incomplete lists, but the point is please, please, please stop equating these two different, but equally valuable, genres.
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Buck: *grinning through his clenched teeth* In all of LA we end up at the same restaurant at the same time?
Eddie: *closes find my friends app on his phone* What a coincidence!!!
Three exclamations because we all heard how loud Eddie was talking in that small restaurant
-Waiting-
Didn’t I told you to wait? yes, wait patiently. You don’t have to be perfect, you can’t be but be patient with yourself.
I have seen how things changes so quickly each passing day. It’s like in a moment, I watched this kid walking in front of me and after a few blinks an old man passed away. The world is a place of constant change, nothing stays the same.
Of course, eventually some thought there are things that until now they haven’t had any changes over the passing of time but some changes doesn’t have to be obvious. They just happen even before we notice them.
So to you my friend, dear heart, dear self, be patient. Your season is not yet here, summer may burn your skin or change the color of your eyes.
Maybe, those storms has hardened your heart but soon when even a leaf won’t fall from the tree, right when you’re about to close your eyes, you’ll be quickened and all you have to do is take a step forward because finally, you discover your purpose.
Everything will fall into place and all you have to do is follow where light & love leads you. But for now, stay objective, keep trying, believe, pray, do what’s necessary, just don’t compromise. You’ll get there, satisfied, healed, loved, fulfilled, mattered and accomplished. Don’t worry, my dear, you’ll finish well.
When a plot twist is so cleverly done that you just close your book and stare at the wall for a while.
sigh…
But thank you
the poetic beauty i believe in is a writer’s naked voice describing the world in the only possible way, originality, emptying the one brain like popcorn on the stove, bubbling up, rising into the clouds through a skylight, into the stars like the eyes of a child, into the unending night and back again to a toaster, to a lightswitch, to a fan you keep on for more than air,
it’s the greatest thing we ever made, and someday we’ll unmake it, with a look, we’ll say: jesus, do you remember when language made us mad, crazy, gone like a bat in the daytime?
yes yes yes we remember,
they were disastrous, letters, words, lines were a plague disguised, they were poison in the cake, tsk tsk tsk no,
it’ll be a great act, we’ll shame ourselves, the old us,
but when nobody’s watching, in bed when the outlights are on and the inlights are off,
we’ll pull a book of poetry from under the pillow,
we’ll finger the soft pages and our eyes will glow like burning diamonds, the words the words the words will dance like peacocks, irresisitble in the hopeless expanse, the hopeful warmth of a blanket, tomorrow, there’s that, and yesterday too, but the words have both by the legs,
the words in your head are killers, are lovers, are the flight of a flightless creature tasting the sky.
when faced with the decision to write a poem or not write a poem, i’m not sure how to justify the latter.
Therapists are just…. Common sense filters
when talking about fleabag, we all talk about "I love you"/" it'll pass" but what we don't talk about maybe cause it's implied, maybe cause just quoting this encapsulates the feeling but listen,
the lines go fleabag saying "I love you" and the hot priest says "it'll pass" and THEN HE SAYS "i love you too"
idk if you have to name it to know it, but the fact that he confesses his love for her, the fact that he chose God, the fact that despite right person-wrong time or maybe wrong person-right time, despite all that, it'll pass. The love wasn't unrequited but the choice was. the subsequent grief, heartbreak, it'll pass
this is just earth-shattering, cause the only person that truly saw her, loved her for what she was, didn't choose her, and no matter what it'll pass. as if the greatest heartbreak of life is that it keeps moving on and you have to move on with it POETIC CINEMA