#Rural romance

[justme-victoria]

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Sometimes the place you ran away from is the where you find your heart and home… 🦘

🦘 rural aussie romance

🦘 fashion designer & sheep farmer

🦘 rebuilding one’s life

🦘 sweet & swoony

🦘 small town life

Rural romance is always such a comfy and familiar read for me, and this book was no different - Nicole has perfectly captured the personalities of small-town Aussies so effortlessly, and even the fictional setting of Violet Falls seems so real.

TW: bushfires

🔗FULL REVIEW: https://bit.ly/Review-HartleysGrange

#HartleysGrange #NicoleHurleyMoore #VioletFalls #ruralromance #Australianromance #Aussieromance #romancebooks #romancereader #romancereads #bookreview #readin2023 #2023reads

#Hartley’s grange #Nicole Hurley Moore #rural romance #book blogger #book review #romance books

[carrieway]

early sunsets & kill all your friends - mcr

#mcr #my chemical romance #myart #mypost #stuck in a dead end barren/rural town vibes . Y'Know .

[angelunderheaven]

take me, sentence me to be your lover for life

#true romance #True romance 1993 #lover for life #90s girl #90s movies #southern gothic #rustic #rural #rural gothic #rural america #lizzy grant #lana del rey #born to die #road trip #driving in cars with boys #southern belle #southern boys #girl interrupted #white oleander #lover girl

[e-mptyflowerfields]

#dream wedding #buffalo 66 #natural born killers #motel aesthetic #americana #rural america #dark romance #nicole dollanganger #natural born losers #ode to dawn wiener #married in mount airy

[lxvenderghost]

my obsession with reading has come back in full swing pardon me if i become that annoying lit girl who lives in the corner of the room with a book again

#mine #reading #liturature #girlblog #the bell jar #sylvia plath #flowers in the attic #vc andrews #sharp objects #gillian flynn #gone girl #classic literature #romance #massachusetts #rural gothic #goth #rural #gothic #goth girl #romantic goth #books #books and reading #girlblogger #coquette

[louisianastranger]

unknown / nth. by hozier

do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, i still carry for you? that i'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowin' you?

(if a man wrote this song about me i would fall in love)

#words #southern gothic #rural gothic #preachers daughter #music #song lyrics #lyrics #lyric posting #hozier #romance #love #falling in love

[the-ablest-navigators]

Romance Cemetery

(iPhone 8; Romance, AR)

#iphone photography #romance #cemetery #gothic #rural Arkansas

[sapphicautistic]

My gf was listening to "White Blank Page" by Mumford and Sons and I once again told her that song is SO much better if it's gay.

She doesn't listen to the lyrics of songs but she's extremely good at literary analysis and this time she actually looked up the lyrics and has now come to the following conclusion: "It makes no sense if it's not gay."

My (objectively best) reading is this:

The narrator was in love with a guy who strung him along, never willing to be in a committed (or public) relationship with him and maybe insisting that it's extremely heterosexual "helping a bro out" sex, except in more intimate moments. Finally out of nowhere guy is suddenly committed to a woman and when Narrator confronted him, guy spat out homophobic vitriol and claimed he's not gay like the Narrator.

(For extra flavor imagine them as closeted, straight passing Midwestern flannel wearing, love-bonfires-and-camping guys who sat next to each other at church and elbowed and annoyed each other like best friends do and were each other's go-to source of emotional support! And then to suddenly shut Narrator out for the first time ever, by abruptly marrying a woman and insisting that he's always been straight and their relationship meant nothing...)

Here are the lyrics:

Can you lie next to her And give her your heart, your heart As well as your body? And can you lie next to her And confess your love, your love As well as your folly? And can you kneel before the king And say, "I'm clean! I'm clean!" ? But tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart? Oh, tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart? A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage You did not think When you sent me to the brink, to the brink You desired my attention But denied my affections, my affections So tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart? Oh, tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart? Lead me to the truth and I Will follow you with my whole life Oh, lead me to the truth and I Will follow you with my whole life

Why call multiple people "you" in a totally unclear way? Why would you claim that your female ex's new man can't love her AT ALL (not just as much as you did, AT ALL)? And invoking the judgment of God is so fucking tedious if you're just shaming your female ex for moving on or even cheating/getting with your friend. Also you look like a creepy asshole if you think a girl broke up with you for "loving her too much".

This song is tepid, badly written, and makes the narrator look like an asshole if it's NOT gay.

The gay reading is the ONLY compelling one.

#i don't even care about m/m romances lmao i get bored when there's no women BUT #this is objectively the best reading #anyways my gf and I came up with the main beats for an entire romance story about these guys #as a dyke raised in the church i really like the religious midwestern reading here too #also there's SUCH a phenomenon of guys having secret sex out in these rural areas and insisting even to themselves it's not gay #so this reading is very compelling to me #i also like to think the woman is like fine. there's nothing wrong with her she's sweet and friends with both of them. #gf said what if she's Narrator's sister? #like i think it's better narrative wise if the woman has no idea and isn't trying to 'turn him straight' #bc the ex CHOSE this. he caved and all so he can stand before God and insist he's 'clean' #which to me... very very resonant #updates on my boring life #also I think the ex can be either bi or gay like it doesn't matter because either way Narrator is convinced ex loves HIM still n not wifey #god i could go line by line but no one wants that lmao it's extremely funny that i fixated on this #i did not even know it was a mumford and sons song or that they are british until gf told me both facts today #i am in no way a fan #im jsut a sucker for religion flavored gay angst i guess or at least this variety of it

[lavenderhottie]

do I love him? do I hate him? I guess it’s up and down

#olivia rodrigo #messy moodboard #southern gothic #rural america #romance moodboard #young love #lana del rey aka lizzy grant #lana del rey

[angie-j-kay]

Happy WBW! What is one food/drink/treat that is associated with birthdays or similiar events in your world? Why?

I am SO late answering this...

Well, What You Cast Out is more or less set in the real world USA, so most people outside of the Fey realms have the usual cake and ice cream. Inside the Fey realms, if they're mortal and time doesn't get wibbly, they might still do that.

As for the Fey themselves, they don't have birthdays because none of them were ever born. They've just sort of always been there, and find the passage of time to be a burden that shouldn't really be celebrated. Though... many of them will not refuse cake if it's offered.

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What You Cast Out: A Tale From Little Egypt (Novel Masterpost HERE!)

A small college town is rocked by a horrific murder, with only one suspect. Officer Gabe Nelson knows Tracey Rutledge can't possibly be guilty, but the only thing more incriminating than the woman's behavior is everything else that his investigation reveals.

Why does the case trace back to her childhood home, and why did she run away from it eight years ago?

Why is the FBI as interested in Tracey as they are in the murder?

What smells like wet dogs?

As the case closes in on Tracey, so does the real killer. Gabe will have to choose between the life he has always believed in and the values he has always held, while the world he thought was real starts to fall apart.

Chapter 1 will be released to the public on March 1, and Chapters 3-5 will be available to Patreon and Ko-Fi followers!

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#what you cast out #writeblr #artblr #writers of tumblr #artists of tumblr #midwestern gothic #fantasy #horror #romance #rural gothic #wbw asks #worldbuilding wednesday

[justme-victoria]

#while you were in the country #Eva Scott #rural romance #romance reader #romance book #romance books #Australian romance #Australian author #while you were sleeping #romcom #90s romcoms #book blogger #book review

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Winter Knight

slow-building urban fantasy mystery

reincarnated arthurian legends living in modern Vancouver

follows a gay autistic college student who’s the reincarnation of sir gawain who just wants to live a normal life

and a 30-something valkyrie woman

when a knight is murdered, she’s assigned to investigate, and he’s pulled into things after finding the body

m/m and pre-f/f (she is bi ace)

#The Winter Knight #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is.....interesting #it is very slow and introspective…. I think because both the main characters are more quiet/isolated #i would def go into it more from a character study perspective than plot #also i know there are buildings on the cover but the vibes of the cover give like….rural fantasy not urban-city fantasy #I feel like most urban fantasy books with modern versions of x y z have them like…..they’re fighting demons or monsters or something #this is just like. they’re existing? there’s the occasional monster but they’re mostly just people living normally. why #I guess probably that is the question the book is trying to answer.. #(ie what Would they do? recreate the narratives they're doomed to repeat? or just live normal boring lives?) #but also like....there could have been a lot more (or different) done with some of it? #it’s very slow up until a final battle at the end. which also brings in 3 new POVs of various major characters briefly? #also. as the number one defender of pop culture references in books I admit I think there’s too much here #like it’s namedropping books and musicians/songs SO often #some of it feels like it could be music as wayne’s special interest - but there’s so much of it not in that context too #anyway something about the combo of that + slowquiet tone made the vibe feel. idk like it doesn't quite mesh #i did enjoy the characters tho? theres some interesting things in here #also yes it is a gawain/green knight romance #the boy is more of a significant mc tbh #+ trans girl major characters; polyam side characters; various other queer chars #there's a line where a character sees his friend “typing in pinyin characters” on her phone which....... #pinyin is the romanisation. pinyin characters is not a thing? SOMEONE editing should have clocked that. surely #tldr mixed thoughts. there are thoughts tho.

[angelunderheaven]

'cause trouble was made for two, don't care 'bout ruining my reputation loving you

#trash magic #trashy americana #bonnie and clyde #romeo and juliet #true romance #southern gothic #american gothic #americana #lizzy grant #lana del rey #dollette #forbidden love #80s aesthetic #wild love #80s girl #stranger things #rural america #a&w lana del rey #teenage dream #tulsa jesus freak #my post

[starrynight-onpennylane]

Today’s Albany Rural Cemetery trip was brought to us by this lovely song

#cemetery #love #trees #sunsets #pics art #Albany rural cemetery #my chemical romance #Spotify

[william-askton-1932]

You heard me. Smash. 😏

Denied. Get out of my restaurant.

#william afton #answered asks #anon ask #ooc: negative rizz sorry. can only romance him if you're a fat depressed roboticist from rural utah

[issak]

You guys YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!

You won't believe what I found in a random Toy R' us clearance aisle, Which I only went in to scape from the screams of a "distressed " mother in the courtyard, her voice was so high it pierced through my noise canceling headphones (a most impressive feat), I'm not kidding, hopefully she found her kid because if if wasn't for her and my need to [leave were the drama was been happening tm] I wouldn't have found these gems, I wish her good fortune forever more.

Lost children aside, I lost it when I lay eyes on theses, straight up say out loud, "I don't care how much you cost YOU ARE COMING WITH ME!!!!"

They are paperback volumes of 光が死んだ夏, or Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu which is an amazing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mokumokuren, Ghosts, trauma, a bit of homophobia, codependency, twisted romance, ELDRITCH HORRORS!!!!! a side of attempted murder. It has a little bit of everything, and Mokumokuren sensei's art is Breathtakingly haunting, for example, the dialog boxes merge with the background to illustrate our titular boy ever decreasing mental health, it has SO much going for it, and it IS AMAZING.

Do yourself a favor and try this manga out, is soooo good.

#manga #bl manga #horror #high school #the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu #romance #trauma #paperback #volume 1 & 2 #ghosts #japanese yokai #small rural towns nonsense #old timey traditions #familial duty #death #skin walker #albino #hints of LGBT characters