Quick poll: What’s your favorite Easter candy? We* all know Peeps are trash, but personally I’m torn between Cadbury Eggs and Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs.

*Except Mere C, who legit loves Peeps because she’s deranged.

ICYMI on FYA

We’ve reached the final championship round of YA Adaptation Madness! Head to our Insta story today to cast your vote.

Get to know our April Book Club pick, The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

For this month’s FYA Reading Challenge, we’re cuddling up with our favorite literary pets!

Stephanie recommends A Black Lady Sketch Show to get a your maximum dose of lolz.

In book reviews:

  • Diana Peterfreund’s Across a Star-Swept Sea failed to make a splash for Regina.
  • Mandy C. enjoyed palling around with supervillains in Strictly No Heroics by B.L. Radley.
  • Ivelisse Houseman’s Unseelie has dragons and fairies, and Amanda can’t wait to read the sequel.

Book Related Things

Holly Black on the cover of Writer’s Digest.

Judy Blume, just being a badass per yooj:

What you should read next based on your favorite Taylor Swift era.

Please enjoy this thread about a wacky used bookstore in the Milwaukee airport:

Onscreen Things

Barbie began its campaign for world domination this week, and we are HERE FOR IT. Character posters! Barbie selfie generator! THIS TRAILER:

Ready for a hot (hey-o) role? There’s an open casting call for We Were Liars.

Melanie Lynskey and Sophie Nélisse on critics, cannibalism, and crying on screen.

Well, this bites: Claudia is being recast on Interview With a Vampire.

I am BEYOND ready to go deeper into the Spider-Verse:

This is why the Dungeons & Dragons movie is just a straight-up blast.

A gloriously detailed breakdown of the usage of “f*ck” on Succession.

A new GLAAD report claims that almost a third of queer characters on TV will disappear from screens next year. (To borrow a phrase from Succession, that’s f*cking terrible.)

Social Media Things

Happy Easter to all of us:

We did NOT know but now we see it (see Buffy and Shadow & Bone for reference):

@whydoiknowthem

Kind of obsessed with this #daisyhead #shadowandbone #shadowandbonenetflix #shadowandboneseason2 #shadowandbonecast #anthonyhead #gilesbuffy #buffythevampireslayer #merlinbbc #tedlasso #tedlassoappletv #booktok #bookish #buffytok #nepobaby #popcultured #fantasybooktok #fantasyworld #daisyheadedit #genyasafin

♬ Buffy The Vampire Slayer – The Theme Music – TV Themes

We recommend watching this without reading the tags but also like here’s our Twilight tag:

@zethdafer

This is the worst tiktok ive ever made #twilight #bellawherethehellhaveyoubeenloca #italy #twilightsaga #twilighttiktok #joke #europe #viral #trend

♬ original sound – Seth

Anyone else getting served a ton of TikToks about reading Archive of Our Own?

@totally_average_kid

THIS WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS IM SOBBING #totally_average_kid #archiveofourown #ao3

♬ original sound – Danny!

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Sarah lives in Austin, and believes there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure, which is part of why she started FYA in 2009. Growing up, she thought she was a Mary Anne, but she's finally starting to accept the fact that she's actually a Kristy.