#if the romance is not well executed

[sarascamander]

Me, finding a book to read: This better have romance in it. I am NOT reading it if it doesn't have romance

Me, upon reading: What the hell is this romance? You're distracting the plot and it is unnecessary, GET OUT OF MY BOOK

#if the romance is not well executed #then i don't want it #and if the love interest is just there to be the love interest #then get the hell out pf the book you unnecessary germ #usually fantasy book did this to me #i am enjoying it so much #and then the romance come and ruin it all #like The Wounded Kingdom is so good #but the romance make the mc an idiot #and she die in the end anyway so what's the point? #but i do love romance in my book especially fantasy 😭😭 #but it's hard to find the right one #cradle barely have any romance at all #but i still enjoy it immensely #because the love interest is not a love interest #she is a badass #and easily my most fav character

[parissonss]

mcr office au???

we know how it goes. i can write the a hell of a summary, but dont expect a full story. plus this idea is all over the place. my idea is that gerard works as an assassin type, and the organization he works for sends him out to take down the head-members of some company (idfk what i have a lot of holes, throw ideas at me if you want), eventually ending in the assassination of the CEO. there's our girl! shes evil, sorry. gerard is undercover as a normal worker, but after the first few deaths in the building, our CEO calls on him for an employee meeting or something idk how offices work. she explains that she knows whats going on, and blackmails him (with like. mikey? or frank and ray?) into working for her instead. she uses him to take down her competition in other companies, stuff like that. idk anything that would happen, but i have an idea for the ending. i feel like in the end gerard would be able to finally kill the CEO, but immediately after the office gets stormed by bodyguards and they GET his ass 😁

#i feel like i definitely coukd have executed this better but oh well #my chemical romance #mcr #mcr fanart #gerard way #traditional art #artist on tumblr #colasart!

[belle-keys]

what are your thoughts on this take? at a first glance, this seems like a mostly american/chronically online view. if i deep it, it seems that younger people maybe think romantic relationships in media strip characters of their individuality and so they want less of it?

#i don't agree that romantic relationships make you less of an individual btw #i absolutely gravitate toward romance and sex in media #romance should be done well first and foremost and that's all that matters #and i don't think having romantic relationships is inherently 'forcing' anything either #it really just needs to be natural and make sense #which is what most writers suck at: the execution of romantic relationships #media #books #stranger things #fandom ships #fandom #ya books #ya fiction #the bear season 2 #books and literature #fandom discourse #romance #romantic relationships #gen z #gen z problems #gen z experience #anti shipping

[figure-skating-avocado]

Super niche, but I just saw someone comment on something saying that they can't comprehend the fact that figure skating qualifies as a sport and as a figure it kind of just ticked me off? Of course the skaters seen on TV are really good at it and they make it look easy but the amount of work that goes into training that isn't seen in competition isn't as pretty as what's shown on the screen. There's a lot of off ice training for cardio and strength in the form of fitness classes and there's also the on ice cardio training which is running program parts in addition to the full run through. AND THEN, so it looks good, there's ballet, and on ice movement, and theatre on ice etc. etc. etc. which makes you THINK it's more of an artform but I've gotten so many bruises from falling that I don't think I can call it art, more like pain. Honestly figure skating is a dangerous sport, there's so many risks that can lead to injuries, I've a couple of friends who have gotten concussed from bad falls and I call myself very fortunate for not having gotten any bad injuries that cause me to take time off (knock on wood) but all of the gross stuff that happens out of the shiny costumes is what gives figure skating the right to call itself a sport.

#Obviously I mean no offence to the person who commented saying that #It's just that this has been sitting on my chest for a while and I needed to get it off #And I don't expect people to know what goes on at the rinks during training when we're not competing #Because it's not like it gets shown in competitions on livestreams and whatnot #But I really believe that figure skating deserves to be a sport #My friends and I actually had a discussion about how we believe it's one of the hardest #because most other sports are scored based off of time or getting an object into a certain target #whereas in figure skating (and gymnastics and probably synchro swimming(?)) #it's scored based off of how easy you make it look #the difficulty of the skills which you are doing #how well you execute what you are doing etc. #I don't think you can get points taken off in hockey or in soccer for falling #Do with it what you will #but I'm going to stand by my opinion #also #there is no romance with zamboni guys #most of them are old enough to be our parents or even grandparents #heck one of the arena guys at my rink retired #but then he came out of retirement to return to being an arena guy because he was bored at home or something #figure skating #And #figure skating and ice dancing are the same thing

[danmeichael]

both ad lib lovers and the summer hikaru died to something really interesting wherein they take typical genre conventions and set-ups of BL and place them into a genre other than romance, while still portraying the romantic undertones. where the summer hikaru died does this with horror, ad lib lovers does this with comedy.

as opposed to hikaru's focus on horror, in ad lib lovers, jealousy, desire, and a fear of inadequacy and loving someone more than they love you is portrayed through the lens of improv. this accurately depicts that having a crush on someone as an adult is humiliating.

#not fandom #the summer hikaru died #sokuseki ad lib lovers #is it weird i could talk a lot about how well executed ad lib lovers is #like OF COURSE i can talk about the summer hikaru died and horror as an allegory for queer coming of age #but ad lib lovers seems significantly less narratively dense on the surface but is (in my opinion) so perfectly executed #the mix of diagetic and non-diagetic comedy is so fantastic and both are executed really well #it's also INCREDIBLY grounded in a way a lot of manga focused on comedy really aren't #oh my god stop talking this was supposed to be a joke post oH MY GOD #it truly feels like two guys trying to be funny. i believe that their act is funny in-universe #as well as finding the non-diagetic jokes that are for you the viewer really funny. #reframing common BL tropes for couples getting together as them getting their COMEDY DUO together #while also doing a really good job of developing a very sincere (if goofy) romance just outside the boundaries of the cliche works so well #i think there is a tendency to undervalue the effort that goes into making comedy work #comedy is seen as the lowest common denominator #but this is a manga that is just mechanically incredibly well executed on top of being really enjoyable #in my opinion idk #AND ANOTHER THING another thing these works share is societal. #horror and comedy are two places that queerness was historically allowed to exist in media mostly unquestioned #you are allowed to be queer if you're the butt of the joke #you're allowed to be queer if you're the monster. #in this way that makes them such a poetic canvas to explore a genuine and sincere love story between same-sex characters

[darcpython]

looking through all the fanart of Wayne and Raj making out is so fucking funny in hindsight. we were close lmao

#total drama spoilers #I was hoping it would be an increasingly absurd bromance to romance arc #I love you bro. I wanna make out with you bro #hockey is life bro you’re my hockey because you’re my life bro #that sort of thing #but what we got was also pretty great and tbh super well executed #I like men bro #I’m super supportive and with you 120% bro #td raj #td Wayne #total drama

[transsexualjoanofarc]

the worst part about the godfather iii was the incest and the best part was how severely divorced Michael and Kay were. I wish they got into spy vs spy antics

heres the thing if yr gonna do incest you can at least NOT be lame about it the incest was serving ZERO cunt slay beyond the fact that andy garcia & sofia coppola were really hot in that movie outside of that it was just. wheres the DRAMA. wheres the NARRATIVE SIGNIFICANCE. 'wah wah wah you cant date him cause hes in the mob' BOOO its PATHETIC it just came off as awkward teen flirting with no plot relevance AT ALL!!! so i DID NAWT LIKE IT!!! but i DID like seeing michael MISERABLE & kay GETTING ON HIS FUCKING CASE. society if she killed him

#me.txt #correspondence #my friends :) #the godfather #im basically fine with incest plotlines if theyre like. good. yknow? like if its well executed & has some actual relevance #like with any ofher romance arcs i need them to mean something #& its like load bearing symbolism! family corruption! cost of power! perversion of protective bonds! #but even though tgf is sooo heavy with the fucking Family Themes it somehow pulled it off the worst way ive ever seen #granted i do not see a lot its like greek plays & dead ringers but STILL. #tgfiii fixing you either have to make it worse or make it better to make it actually good. you get it. #either eliminate that plotline or execute it like you fucjing mean it #i have less fhoughts on michael & kays relationship i do remember being vaguely annoyed cause some scenes it seemed to be #teetering on the edge of them still being in looove or whatever i wasnt into that shit i needsd them to be maximum bitchy

[itspileofgoodthings]

I think the fundamental part of growing up re: Anne of Green Gables is that Gilbert Blythe is such a good idea but Lucy Maude didn’t spend enough time on him to make him a fully real person.

#I love him in the first book #and I think there are real flashes! But she kind of won’t … give you any more of him #and listen. It’s complicated because I LOVED them so much growing up and I think genuinely their romance taught me a lot about life and lov #the idea of it is so right and good #but in this case the tv series is better I think because he’s more of a real person #Lucy Maud was (imo) a little scared of men and romance #and her execution of Gilbert is that she forgot to give him enough to be his own person #like she just didn’t put in the work #the readers of Anne of green gables did!! And they’re so valid for that #Like I have this whole meta I wrote about him once and it is honestly such a good meta and I think it gets to the heart of the idea #but the execution just isn’t there. Especially with time #She was deeply uninterested in doing any underground work for his character so he isn’t terribly real #you know who made me realize this? Coach Taylor lol #well. Coach Taylor and Emma #And listen it’s not like Gilbert is actually evil. He is NOT and what is there is good! But it isn’t technically artistically enough #for it to endure #idk I’m not explaining it well also I feel mean even saying it #But I feel like I’m allowed to because I DID love them so much and they were so important to me #and their love story gets something so right!!!!!! The shape is so good!!!!! I still got all of that #it’s just imo one of her limitations #like she had all the right instincts to make Anne’s partner his own person #Someone who sometimes pushes back #But #idk because like. I can still do all the work of it and fill in all those spaces and I want to #the romance in Anne of the island still has me in a chokehold!!!!!! #I LOVE pining Gilbert and the flashes there. because it almost disguises the lack of substance. But yeah it’s not what it looks like #Idk I might delete but #I just wanted to share

[milkbreadtoast]

Rewriting the Villainess is sooooo good. You should also read Another Typical Fantasy Romance. It’s really funny and cute

grrah i got up to ep 11 (cant read more cuz daily pass, regret not binging it before) and im already rly invested!!! and omg another rec... i cant say ill read it immediately(i always get to recs late,,) but i'll def check it out..!!

#man there r so many romance isekai webtoons huh!! #ty for giving me recs guys #as long as theyre executed well and have some sort of fun twist... #ask

[barbieaiden]

i hate admitting this but. i hated ascended astarion tbh. like hated. hated

#worst outcome for a companion like ever #well actually i think you can sell da2 fenris back to slavery so #either way bad outcome didn't like it didn't like him and the thing is #i don't mind characters being bad and i mean for astarion in particular i don't think like #him being a little evil is necessarily BAD because he is. well. astarion but #worst of all. i found ascended astarion. dare i say it. boring #i thought it made sense with my playthrough at first because i'm playing like a semi-resistant dark urge so i'm making some bad choices #but idk i'm also romancing astarion and he literally encouraged me to fight the dark urge so like. #idk i went back i just really didn't like ascended astarion it was written in a way where it made me uncomfortable tbh and #not in a good way #maybe i'm sensitive lmao but the thing is i thought the concept was fine until i witnessed the execution so

[britneyshakespeare]

has anyone ever written about how much the comedy of errors (shakespeare's first comedy and one of his earliest plays in general) has in common with the late romances, as far as tropes go? that play where the main plot was ripped from terence but then he added in a second pair of twins for more slapstick and extra complications? the really really silly one that for centuries many considered to be too low to be a proper "comedy" and instead was actually just a farce? that play where, like in the late romances, a family is seemingly lost and ripped apart forever for most of the play until the miraculous ending when everything comes back together again and the peace is restored? has anyone ever written a paper about that? because i think about it ALL the time

#i guess you could say twelfth night is kiiiiinda similar to this with tropes too #but twelfth night doesn't have the stakes really to be categorized with the romances #like. egeon is going to be executed in the first act of coe #and reveals his tragic backstory #like it IS that deep to me #and the ending is so much like. well all the romances really but i suppose the shipwreck aspect #that gets everyone separated in the first place reminds me especially of pericles #text post #shakespeare #and the long space in time between comedy or errors and the romances is what really gets me #that's CRAZY #and i love the romances #that also gets me #i love the romances so much #the comedy of errors

[bittercoldbrew]

Tideline (2786 words) by BitterTori Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Coral Island (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rafael (Coral Island Video Game)/Original Character(s) Characters: Rafael (Coral Island Video Game), Original Non-Binary Character Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Getting to Know Each Other, Fluff, Oh No He's Hot, Rating May Change, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Falling In Love, this is so self-indulgent please don't look at me, his autistic swag has bewitched me body and soul Summary:

Mika's just trying their best, starting over, taking some time to help clean up their grandparents' old farm and figure out what they wanna do with their life. But wow, that's way easier said than done. Turns out the farm is far larger and in much worse shape than they realized.

Maybe their life is, too.

A sleepless night drags them out of bed and into the quiet, pre-dawn streets of Starlet Town in search of direction, or answers, or something. What they find is a handsome, soft-spoken blacksmith willing, at least, to listen.

Maybe that'll be more than enough.

Whoops, okay, if you've been wondering what I've been up to lately, the answer is mostly playing Coral Island, and now also writing fic about Coral Island �� What can I say? I love this game and I love Rafael and I wanted to write some stuff about him and my farmer, so here they are, being cute and awkward and sweet imo 🥹 Thanks for reading 😌<3

#coral island #coral island rafael #coral island fanfiction #rafael sanchez #tideline #my writing #oc mika #alright sheesh i think that's all my bases covered #anyway even if you dont go here i do very truly recommend this game its so satisfying and wholesome and lovely #its still in early access but it has been such a treat to watch it develop and unfold #each new update has been exciting and well executed and the dev team really takes feedback to heart i love it #ive only ever occasionally dabbled in the farm sim genre. was never able to really get into stardew. #but this is far and away the best execution of the genre ive encountered and (again) its still just in early access #(and also eventually theyre gonna incorporate multiplayer so like. if you do get it come add me on steam lmao) #anyway. mika's just like 'was anyone gonna romance the hell outta this kind sweet beefcake?' and then doesnt wait for an answer #i mean. just look at him. baby boy....baby

[thegoldenavenger]

Sometimes I am convinced that if I could just finish something (one of my comics or novels or animations or games or—) I could make something people would really connect with!

#misc #and then i remember that i have nothing important to say and no interesting way to say it #so then i go: well even self indulgant pieces can be worthwhile! #so i have high hopes for the terrible monster romance series i have outlined in the depths of my files #but hah #anyways when will my executive function come back from the wr

[clarabow-mp3]

enemies to lovers is my least favourite trope and maybe part of that is because i was introduced to it by r*ylo and dr*rry and dr*mione who were enemies for very good reasons.

#yk like fascist/anti-fascist nazi/anti-nazi member of oppressed group/nazi #you've gotta pull off a long complex and VERY well-executed redemption arc before i'll believe #that ANYONE should be in a romantic relationship with a (former?) nazi lmao #plus it feels like it comes out of nowhere to me idk their only interactions are antagonistic where are you getting the romance from here #anyway. friends to lovers supremacy.

[bother-blame]

something I do like about lad gaiden so far is that the plot has been relatively well executed. Nothing has felt like an egregious ass pull or stupidly over complicated, even though a decent portion of the game involves running around a giant secret container ship with a golden Osaka castle and other eccentricities.

I feel like the writing breaks out of the typical framework in at least one case that I think is beneficial for the series moving forward. I haven’t finished the game though, so I’ll have to wait until then to really be able to look at the game as a whole.

#im praying that akame and kiryu aren’t paired together in some side content or in the final chapter or I’ll look really dumb lol #I just appreciate that they’re allowed to have mutual respect for each other without it being another weird shoehorned romance #The writing feels like it could be on par with the judgments if the ending is executed well #have to wait until Friday to finish because I have classes though #Uhhh just in case #Spoilers #lad gaiden spoilers #like a dragon gaiden spoilers

[watcherscrown]

it's bizarre how different my taste in movies is from my taste in books. there are books that i love that i would not watch in movie form with a gun to my head

#op #red white and royal blue really cemented this for me #like i know it was a bad bad movie #but... there are romance books that i think i'd hate as films even if they were well executed #and i don't watch as much sci fantasy and that's almost all i read? #horror books are hit and miss for me bc so many of the things i love about horror movies are the visuals/sounds/music cues etc #and it just doesn't translate for me. i do still love horror books but like. in a different way? and different kinds of horror too