Happy Friday, ladies and gentlemen! Jennie’s living it up at YALLFest this weekend—hopefully when she gets back she’ll fill us in on all the awesomeness that went on—so I’ve stepped in to bring you the latest and greatest of this week’s Internet finds.
Book-Related Things
Buzzfeed wants you to add these YA books with POC main characters to your TBR.
YA-adjacent: E. Lockhart wrote a children’s book that’s currently at the center of a controversy about its depiction of slavery.
J.M. Lee is writing prequels to The Dark Crystal.
You can now send your friends Lunar Chronicles emojis.
In defense of the romance novel cover.
Movie-Related Things
Check out the plot of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. And Daniel Radcliffe thinks everyone needs to chill about the—really, really, terribad—American name for Muggles.
Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses has been optioned! (I'm both v. excited and super hesitant. But isn that always the case with books you love?)
Chloe Moretz will go searching for a whole new world in the live-action Little Mermaid.
Allegiant posters were released yesterday, and the trend of really poor hair choices continues.
The Fifty Shades sequels will be filmed back-to-back. As Mandy W. put so eloquently, “Probs so as to not prolong Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan's suffering any longer than necessary.”
TV-Related Things
Devin Faraci of Birth.Movies.Death. wrote a fabulous piece on how great The 100 is, and I couldn’t agree more. IS IT 2016 YET?!
Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars, iZombie) and Josh Schwartz (The O.C.) recently sat down for a chat.
A great read on diversity among TV directors.
Related to the diversity piece: A few CW folks, including Julie Plec and Greg Berlanti, were interviewed on the subject.
Stephenie Meyer—yes, that Stephenie Meyer—is writing an adaptation of Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook for Hulu.
The iZombie cast is adorable.
Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, and Justin Hartley are starring in a pilot together.
Miscellaneous Things
In news that is no surprise to anyone here at FYAHQ: Champagne is good for your brain.
The meaning behind "Hit Me Baby One More Time" isn’t really all that surprising.
Aziz Ansari has some seriously smart things to say about race and Hollywood.
J. Law has a new interview in Vogue.
Semi-NSFW (for language), but this list of hilarious Internet memes and Tumblr posts that poke fun at Harry Potter SLAY ME.
Did I miss anything amazing? Let me know in the comments!