#later in life romance

[brennabaileybooks]

Embrace the charm of small-town life and the beauty of love in every season with the Juniper Creek Golden Years novels!⁠

Follow the heartwarming journeys of adventurous septuagenarians and vibrant retirees as they navigate love, loss, and new beginnings in this charming queer contemporary romance series.⁠

The series spans from summer to spring, all within one year, but you can read each book as a standalone if you want!⁠

Main tropes:⁠

🌻 A Tale of Two Florists: rivals to lovers⁠

🍂 Of Love and Libraries: second chance romance⁠

❄️ Wishing on Winter: fake dating⁠

🌷 Forever in Flowers: grumpy sunshine⁠

Available wherever books are sold, including on my website!

[jestershark]

hello my psionic warriors

my friend wrote another book! it's a stranded on a mountain romance story (@modpix-blog did the sensitivity reading for her!)

if you don't use amazon

it's climbing to the top of the charts on amazon and it'd make her day if it hits #1

At thirty-five, single mom Emily Wyatt's world revolves around her autistic son, Jude.

Emily rarely dreams of anything more than a school day without tears or dinners beyond mac and cheese. Life is small, routine, and, to be honest, boring.

Planes, palindromes, prime numbers, and Pokemon are Jude's absolute favorite things, and Emily is determined to make his double-digit birthday special.

Dino gave up being a taxi pilot a couple of years ago to concentrate on his new business. But when Dino's old friend, the owner of Top Spot Tours, begs him for a favor, Dino can't bring himself to say no.

Disaster.

Their plane crashes in a remote area of Mt. Ranier's wilderness, leaving Dino injured, Jude in shock, and Emily nowhere to be found.

[betsysbooknook]

📚: When You Were Mine by Erika Kelly

Tropes:

👉 Second Chance

👉 Celebrity

👉 Later in Life

TWs 😟:

Main Takeaway 🏹: This book healed a long broken part of my heart

Synopsis 📜: Jess and Trevor have spent the last 30 years apart from each other after a horrible breakup when they were 20. Jess has spent 30 years trying to build walls and heal her shattered heart, Trevor has become a massive movie star but has never been able to forget his Elzy or forgive himself for the massive mistake he made when he walked away from her. But now that he’s got her back in his life, he refuses to let her get away again!

Personal Thoughts 🤔: This is the book I’ve been waiting for. The first book of 2025 that moved me and made me want to slow down and enjoy every word! This story hit very close to home for me and is healing a long broken part of my heart that I have also built walls around. Everything about how Jess feels about her life, being a third wheel to her sisters and less important to her nieces and nephews is how I feel everyday of my life. Erika may as well have written the book using my name. And the groveling from Trevor when they reconnect was beautifully written. Jess stood her ground and didn’t just buckle at the first apology. I’m definitely going to have to go back and read the rest of the Calamity Falls books!

[reineydraws]

i think a side effect of loving mishanks for many people is becoming very endeared by the "rayleigh is mihawk's parent" au's haha :') first one's part of this fic i posted where smolhawk challenges rayleigh to a duel ⚔️✨️ second one's just a random kid!mishanks doodle. i think their shenanigans (incl buggy!) would be cute.

[thatkdramatho]

she's just like me fr

[welcometogrouchland]

Also I am. Constantly forgetting how fucking funny Hunter is. We never give him enough credit for how funny he is because his life is so fucked up but I swear 90% of his lines are just bit after bit after bit. He's not even trying either. Anytime he actively tries to make a joke it falls flat but if you just put him in a Scenario he'll find a way to be so over invested and yet out of touch/at odds with whatever's going on. He's so autistic

[tangledinink]

im just saying that some of the people on this godforsaken webbed site would probably not survive watching siblings/young children interact irl

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

community that has only seen themselves represented in a small handful of romance stories that aren’t explicitly about their real-world oppression, watching a new show or movie where they are represented in a romantic story that isn’t explicitly about their real-world oppression: getting a lot of “that other show with a queer romance that isn’t explicitly about real-world homophobia” vibes from this

[snixx]

multishipping is a superpower you neeeeeeeeeeed to have when you love getting into shitty gay media with found family because OF course they're going to make an incest map of all the characters and your otp will almost definitely not be endgame. of course they're going to pair the main guy and girl together as endgame just because. and I mean you COULD be a hater about it and curse the writers and throw a four year long fit but it's so much more fun when you just make your peace with the fact that this was always going to happen and pretend everyone is in a happy little polycule as they go through 18575879 different pairings you know aren't going to last because fandom and just the experience of being a fan is so much more fun that way!!!

[bluhbleeblah]

save me cal i-was-a-teenage-exocolonist...... save me.............

[authenticity2025]

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later” Harold Geneen

[waywardwizzard]

Inara held the flower in the palm of her hand, running a careful thumb over a delicate petal.

Did he really have to haunt her like this?

She knew what it meant. She'd read scrolls upon scrolls about it back at the training guild, each one detailing how people died from coughing up flowers, the roots and leaves of their love choking the air from their lungs until they couldn't breathe. Thousands of years of old poetry romanticising the physical manifestation of love and death had been the main focus of their literature class one year.

Even now, she was pouring over the poems, drowning out the thoughts of Serenity and the family that could have been, trying to romanticise one of the things that was slowly killing her. She just had to choose which one she'd allow to take her first.

She hadn't expected to ever fall in love, even less, with a man like him. To be honest, she hadn't even expected to live this long. Her life had been forfeited the day she'd turned 18 and found out about her illness. Destined to die before she reached 35.

Staring at the flower still in her hand, the sticky feeling of congealing blood heavy on her skin, Inara realized something.

For almost all her life, she had been waiting. Waiting to love, waiting to live, waiting to die. It has all been a waiting game, and she was tired of it. She was tired of being a coward, tired of hiding, tired of waiting for Destiny to be satisfied with the narrative it was weaving.

It was time to take her life into her own hands again, make her own choices like she'd done all those months ago when she'd first boarded Serenity.

Taking a deep breath, ignoring the way it caught in her lungs, tangling in the stems of the flower, she gently put the gladiolus flower down (it was so him that it made her heart ache) and walked over to her Cortex.

She was half-dead, her joints aching on the better days and the world spinning like a planet without a sun on the bad ones, but Mal was half-dead, too. Dying was still dying, no matter the form it took or how it happened.

Giving one last glance at the flower, she typed in the all too familiar hailing frequency, feeling alive for the first time since she'd set foot off Serenity.

☆☆☆

Author's note -

This somehow didn't turn out as angsty as the first draft? I honestly don't know what this is anymore. I am super sleep deprived btw

Gladiolus flowers symbolize strength of character, faithfulness, moral integrity, remembrance, struggle, strength victory, and pride. Its Latin name means "little sword".

I tried to go with a flower that matches Mal's personality, and I hope I got it right.

[skyekitsuneart]

What should have happened when Loki reunited with Billy and Teddy in Loki The Liar

Teddy: So yeah, basically we're married and ruling space together now :D what have u been up too?

Loki: Oh not much,,,, worked as a spy for Asgardia,,,, fought with Thor again,,,, got betrayed by Asgardia,,,, died and was reborn again,,,, watched the multiverse collapse,,, i saw America briefly!!,,,,, became ruler of the Jotunhiem,,,,,, so you know, the usual

Billy, local reality warper: What do you mean the multiverse collap---

Loki: Oh! And i fucked your mom

Teddy:

Billy:

Billy: What. Please tell me youre lying again.

Loki: Damn you got me!!

Billy: Thank god

Loki: Yeah no, we didnt actually fuck, but we were really close. Wanda rejected me at the last second,,, :(

Billy: wha-???!!? you-?!!!? she-?!!??

Billy:

Billy: You have 10 seconds to run.

Loki: hehe

Teddy: D:

[sun-marie]

"Long Rest"

[lapis-lazuliie]

nah it is a wild ass thing that tommy canonically gave up everything for len; not just his career but his entire personhood, his living situation, his literal happiness, and is presently presented to us as this now broken unmarried man in his early 60s

like

how in the world is this a friendship lmao......

[bird-inacage]

A Fort x Peat Shitpost | The Epic Bridal Carry (Fail)

This will never not have me in absolute stitches. I’ve been laughing at it for 48 hours flat (and counting).