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colorisbyshe · 1 month ago

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this post is so funny to me because like... no... every gender/sexuality is writing the worst romance imaginable. commercial romance and honestly... indie romance is 99.999% slop. often fun slop, like get me a second bowl of it slop, but... slop.

and, yes, Gender-Norms-Are-Killing-Us-All type slop, too. even in the gay shit. even in the trans shit. even when they're Own Voices written and consulted.

romance is a low barrier to entry type genre that caters even more to wish fulfillment and tropes than other genres and... well... a lot of that stuff is propped up by things like heteronormativity and things adjacent to that

bisexuals and other gay people can't save the genre.... not even the insane ones

like... commercial romance is always gonna fall into... appealing to the widest base of consumers i'm sorry!

#you could literally culminate every single marginalized identit yyou could think of into an author #and there is at least a 50% chance of their work #still being 'oh god... the hteronormatiity of it all'#beacuse so much of our conception of romance is... heteronormative #it reminds me of the proliferation of cozy gay literature #thats literally just like insanely racist or like yearning for the pastoral history (which is still racist so redundant)#or like whatever #and i guess you can say oh thsoe aren't the CRAZY gays #but then the crazy gays are just writing pure smut #or like... genre fiction #not commercial romance #commercial romance is commercial for a reason lmfao

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