#romance genres

[rookthebird]

"redemption arcs are toxic, you shouldn't try to fix someone!"

actually it is so important to me that being in community and experiencing human connection can save people. thanks

[castielsprostate]

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[haveyoureadthispoll]

[fuckmeyer]

the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.

if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.

choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.

if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.

even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.

Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.

[redysetdare]

All this aroace character shipcourse has proven to me that a majority of people that interact in fandom cannot actually interact with characters and media outside of shipping and genuinely I believe you need to learn how to interact with media outside of shipping.

[ao3demographicssurvey2024]

In the AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 - an unofficial demographics survey of 16,131 AO3 users - the three most popular genres/tags were Hurt/Comfort, Romance, and Canon Divergence, while the three least popular were Genderswap, High School AU, and Character Death.

To see more analysis, including comparisons to real fic data and previous surveys, please view the full results on AO3.

[carry-the-sky]

okay help i'm still stuck on a feeling that is like torture, but one which i cannot, will not, do not want to give up. he is straight up telling her that his feelings for her are killing him but if that's the price of loving her than so be it. like in the context of this scene colin has no clue that she reciprocates and in fact felt this way long before he did. other people have said this far more eloquently but he is putting literally everything on the line and opening himself up to the potential devastation of losing not only the love of his life but also his best friend. but he's saying you know what that's fine!! yeah i might lose you yeah i might have to watch you marry someone else yeah i might feel like dying every day for the rest of my life knowing i can't have you but none of that matters because it's you!! i'd rather love you and be miserable than not love you and be normal!!!! it's like how violet told anthony last season that she'd do it all again with edmund knowing she'd lose him because real love is worth it.

[elumish]

This is probably not a particularly spicy piece of advice, but I think anyone who wants to write (and particularly publish) romance novels should be reading a wide array of published romance novels.

The romance genre is fairly formulaic by definition, but reading a range of romance novels will help you understand how far you can vary from that formula and what works/doesn't work.

How does the formula exist in the subgenre(s) you write in? What tends to exist or not exist in romantasy versus historical romance versus contemporary romance? What irritates you in romance novels, and how can you avoid it in your own writing?

If you stray too far from the formula, you're not writing a romance novel anymore, and you will lose readers. I have dropped books/authors because they betrayed my expectations. And the only way to understand it enough not to do that is to read the genre--a lot.

[iamacolor]

Are you up? No, I'm still sleeping.

LOVELY RUNNER - EPISODE 16

[dapper-lil-arts]

Darlings. is it gay when the phantom you created as a manifestation of your dreadfull loneliness takes the form of one of your closest friends.

Fanart of this pretty good horror rarijack fanfic, "The haunting of carroussel boutique" personaly i am surprised the writer didnt take the chance to point out how fucking funny this is. Me n kim started laughing about it during stream and i just had to draw this

[strawbxttries]

are you revenge gay or danger days gay cuz theres a discernable difference and we gotta get that out of the way

[vermillionsketcher]

i hc that ram and zen "created" discord together. zen's discord orb could be the original, technically nonlethal version (bc it's just a debuff) and ram's abilities and weapon could be a more advanced version of it that he further developed after he left the monastery. also i hc the damage on zen's face (you can see it on his ow2 model and in his invasion cutscene) is a scar from the time when ram "nearly got him killed" that was mentioned is his short story

[kanrajpg]

Damian will watch shonen anime with Jon while commentating how unrealistic everything is but still being emerged in it

But Jon will fall asleep during shoujo anime while Damian is on the edge of a seat wondering if the two protagonists are going to hold hands yet

They both enjoyed Sailor Moon

[canisalbus]

you claim to not understand Romance and yet talk about gay dogs all day. which is it tumblr user canisalbus

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[angryteapott]

it's crazy with all the gay ass chemistry that zhao yuanzhou and wen xiao have with the other cast it's one of the only ensemble cast dramas in which the main m/f ship DOESN'T feel like comphet and the women in the show don't feel like an afterthought. You really feel like Wen Xiao is the love of Zhao Yuanzhou's life and vice versa. It's just that they're both messy bisexuals with ten loves of their lives each