#read category romance

[bree-unabashedly]

Throwback Category Romance ❤️

#harlequin romance #read category romance #category Romance #romance novels

[caffeinatedopossum]

There's actually only 3 genres of music. sex, romance, and mental illness

#we need more music that isnt sex or romance and wont make my friends keep my psychiatrist on speed dial !! #the elusive fourth category is songs that are about the stories and characters you made up in your head #unequivocally the BEST genre and unfortunately also the rarest #just read 'rarest' as 'arrest' ty dyslexia -_-

[scurvyratt]

Sorry but I generally dislike canon ships… the ones that I makeup with zero evidence are so much better. I know that hannibal is like the number one gay (let’s be real, FUJO) show, but I kindaaaa dgaf about Hannigram. Like hannibal is an alright show, and I don’t dislike Hannigram, but I think it’s a bit too canon for my taste…. Also I generally dislike hannibal fanfic since hannibal tends to be so ooc, most people don’t get his characterization right lol.

Like why are laloward and tony soprano X Johnny sack so much more entertaining to me than Hannigram…

#rats thoughts #I’m an acearo who like REALLY does not gaf about romance or relationships #I also think that romantic relationships are kinda evil #but that’s just me #I just ship whatever I think is entertaining and funny #and whatever characters I enjoy #and whatever has good fanfic honestly lol #I’ll read any fanfic from any fandom even if I’ve never watched or read it #fanfic to me is divided into 2 categories: well written and ijbol #the smaller fandoms tend to have more well written works #big fandoms like avengers or Harry Potter tend to be more ijbol

[skitskatdacat63]

hi hello!! I will be predictable :D vettonso? and also maybe sebson?🤭

Hallo Grace!! Aaaahh two of my ultimate favs 🥹

Vettonso:

Okay I think we all know at this point my feelings on vettonso.....My beloved, my favs, my little dolls to play around with, my forever ship, my muse, etc etc. Lmao tho I do agree w you said in your answer to me, that I feel obviously more invested in my AUs of them atp, but that's not to say I don't like the canon! The canon for me is just desperately searching for any footage/pics of them and being peak derangement abt it and making a whole narrative. Yeah I'm very normal about them. Also yeah, i like the ship itself, but I'm not a very romantic person so I think I often care more about the implications and how they relate to each other, and that kinda thing, if that makes sense? I care deeply abt them, but yknow make a lot of AUs, and the most fun I have is often trying to fit their narrative into different environments! One day I'll draw more shippy stuff I swear 🤧🤧 They are just perfect to me :)

Sebson:

One of my first loves 🥹🥹 I still really love them aaaahhh!!!! They're just so soft and fluffy and comforting to me!!! Obligatory Solar Flare mention. But yeah it's hard, just like the other ship above, to articulate my thoughts about them that isn't just screaming. It's just so fun to look at all the content along the years and see how they gravitate towards each other. To me, they're the 21st century blueprint for emotional support rivals 🥹🥹 Also, sending them to superhell for the amount of insane things they've done in public.

#lmao its hard to say how i feel abt vettonso bcs theyve almost become ocs to me #which ig is mainly bcs its sooooo unlikely we'll get anymore stuff of them #so yknow stuck digging at the bottom of the barrel for content of them #and thus making my own stuff and being increasingly deranged about them #tho i will say. 2023 Japan. never forget 🫠 #but yeah i think sebson and vettonso are in dif ship categories to me #bcs theres ships i rly like the romance of and enjoy reading fics and all that. i.e. sebson #but vettonso is more like one of oc ships. where i care so much abt the dynamic and characterization and story etc #and find it hard to draw more romance things bcs i just relate and love them so fucking much #if that makes any sense??????? #tho will say. last night imagined drawing them in boy king au all rumpled in bed together so. maybe you'll see that at some point #and chair wip </3 #lol hope my conclusions abt them make sense to more than just me. like i love them so much that theyre mine to me and i move at a slow pace #catie.asks.

[emeraldcreeper]

The way books are marketed now gives me fucking hives like it’s cool that you can find a romantic comedy where there’s fake dating (which is less fun when it’s characters I have to learn to care about it seems or I read a Bad One) but like I get so frustrated when all I read on a review is “this sapphic romance with xyz and trope trope trope is soooo spicy!” Just say it’s a romantic comedy with sex scenes, half the time they’re bad and awkward I just want lesbian porn that’s done well! And ain’t spiiicy scenes like cool I’d love to see good ones that aren’t written in to be there to say it’s spicy gimmie good porn in the romance novel make me love the characters instead of going oh they tick 3/5 diversity boxes that’s… so cool.

#I also forgot that sapphic ≠ lesbian so I accidentally read an awful m/f romance that was so British i dnf’ed it #I just want good romance novels and I feel like I’ve read them all now #and I hate ya I wanna see 40 year old women FUCK #I like new adult it’s fun ya is fine I’m just aged out of it most of the way so I just sorta go awwww babies! #instead of oh yes my age group #I just trawled a fucking book blog for sapphic books and got angry #when it’s tagged like fanfic I don’t know who the characters are #fics are tagged like that cause you care about the characters already #you don’t have to SAY it’s rivals to lovers say it’s a steamy romance between rivals who discover their relationship is a bit more than that #is it booktok books yeah but I can’t fucking find lesbians making out anywhere goddamn else #I think I’m gonna reduce myself to going back on goddamn goodreads #plus lgbt is in one category and I like m/m romance just fine but I’d like separate categories #so I don’t squint and ask myself if that’s a woman or not #I finished a very good series and I’m mad I can’t find more like it that’s my issue

[familyofpaladins]

To all writers who post on ao3 and are writing fics that dont have ships and/or aren't focused on romance,

Please, I am BEGGING you, use the GEN category!!

That's literally what its for!!

So MANY times I've gone to a fandom to look for fics, and I don't want to read about ships or be romance focused, and i use the gen category to filter out those fics , but when i search I hardly find any gen fics!

But then I happen across a writer and go check out their other fics and guess what? They have a ton of amazing gen fics!!! But it was only pure luck that i found the author, and if i hadn't, I never would have found their amazing fics!!

And that makes me wonder how many other awesome fics am I missing out on because it doesnt have a category mark or uses the "other" category

Please please, I wanna read your gen fics, help me find them easier by marking the gen category

#Yes I COULD just search through which ever specific character's I want to read about tag #But I would have to search through literally thousands of ship fics #LLPgen is literally for general fics. Fics that arent focused on ships or romance #Like if theres an established relationship that's just THERE in the background #But is not a focus or a major part of the plot #then the gen category is good to use! #I'm gonna tag a couple fandoms here. Just cause they're the ones I've seen the most unmarked gen gifs in #Lego monkie kid #monkie kid #Lmk #Submas #Subway masters #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #Rottmnt #also i apologize if this comes off aggressive #I just really wanna read gen fics and cant find them half the time cause they're unmarked or marked wrong :( #obviously people can mark and tag their fics however they want #but in case anyone didnt know about the gen category. #Its wonderful for sorting through fics #Ao3 #Writing #Fanfiction #Platonic #Platonic fanfiction

[tvwolfsnake]

one of the most interesting forms of yuri to me, whenever I stumble across it, is when the signifiers and structure of the genre (and more broadly the romance genre) are used to craft a story that is genuinely about a non-romantic relationship. I don’t mean romantic friendships (tho those are also good!) but stuff more like a growing relationship between in-laws, or something. familial love, literal or not. it’s still ultimately “yuri,” and you could read it as romantic if you wanted to, but the conclusion isn’t romance.

I wish I could give more than one example (I’ve seen this a few times, but the closest thing I can think of to a second example rn is ani no yome to kurashite imasu, which is wayyyyy too Charged to be this—I mean the stuff with hands alone) but I’ve just read konno kita’s cotton and the degree to which it’s Not romantic but still v much yuri in composition is fascinating to me

#yuri #romance is my first love in the genre but I'm fascinated at how broad a category it can be #I love reading anthology chapters and going 'huh. y'know what. that *is* yuri'

[bree-unabashedly]

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[fooligancity]

i knwo freya was played as a romantic interest but Very Much think that yknow. she was the first person who really knew merlin for who he was And had similar perspective/experiences/fears to him….. like thats creates such a kinship immediately between the two which i feel could absolutely be similar in feel to romance but. like i think if they ran away and lived together near the mountains and lake or whatever they wouldve been happy but i still dont think that wouldvt ended up as romance for either of them

#like i dunno i read merlin as gay during that episode. like they can both exist they dont conflict each other feelings are weird and #they dont fall neatly into categories #like merlin was ready to leave everythin g behind after like 2 days and its because of thsi intense feeling of kinship and understanding #not because of the idea of romance. still love but diffwrent. not lesser or greater but different #what im saying is its all messy and i cant put it into the proper words

[fearcicada]

Since realizing I'm aro I've gone through about a billion different phases regarding being neutral about romance, liking romance, hating it etc. And a few months ago ended up at the stopping point of "romance doesn't exist"

#words #not as in like. ignoring it when i see romance stuff like valentines etc. but just as in like. #romance is just a category of human relationships. like defining a relationship as ''romantic'' is the same as the differences people make #in the types of friends they have to me. its all just a matter of different actions/feelings one has towards someone in their life #and its like yea there's different emotions ig involved in romance but its the same as like different emotions between family and friend #relationships like....? i literally don't care for it #and not in a neutral/repulsed way like to me the boudaries between different types of love do not exist any more than #the boundaries between like ''light blue'' and ''blue'' and ''pink'' and ''red'' #i stay on the ''romance'' wikipedia page ok i looove me a Wikipedia page to read ... #uhh #oh yeah #aro #aromantic #mine #Aromanticism

[13eyond13]

7, in reference to the questions designed to make you hate me thing??

I’m just really curious to know, thanks!!

Is there anything you used to like, but now can’t stand?

I honestly can't think of anything for this! I feel like I'm pretty okay with most stuff, or else just fairly indifferent to it and do my best to avoid it? I'm very much somebody who tries just to steer clear of the stuff I don't like, and I think generally I do a pretty good job of that.

One thing I can think of for the REVERSE of this question (something you used to not be able to stand, but now like) is alternate universe fics! For some reason I used to turn my nose up at them a whole bunch when I was younger and first getting into the fandom, and only want to read things set in the canon timeline or universe. But that actually almost reversed for me over the years, and now I actually almost prefer reading creative AUs that switch up the characters circumstances and relationships and such somewhat, particularly for shippier fics.

#i think maybe i just finally read enough yotsuba arc handcuff angst to be like #ok i dont think this will ever actually work out in a way that is satisfying to me #and then AU and canon divergent fics started becoming much more interesting to me #so you could ALMOST say that yotsuba arc romances would fall into the category of something i used to like but now dont #but i do still occasionally enjoy them if they're written well #ask #anon #lawlight #p

[queer-ragnelle]

NOT SARAH J. MAAS WINNING THE GOODREADS FANTASY AWARD FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW???

#I’m not gonna pretend I’ve read literally any of the nominees but #but I’ve read the work of many others on the list & I am baffled #how did you beat Sanderson & Jemisin???? #honorable mention to Novik & Kuang #what the actual fuck I don’t understand #Sanderson is literally a Mormon who has queer diverse characters WHY is Maas being celebrated for mediocrity & no effort #holy shit #at least Hazelwood & Hoover lost the romance category #my heart couldn’t take it

[potter-inthe-tardis]

Does anyone have any good book recommendations? Ideally an easy read sort of book to help me get back to reading more!

#I like mostly nonfiction #fantasy is good historical stuff is good romance is good #like if its funny thats nice but not needed #it can be sad but like lets not make my depression worse so not super sad #just a little bit sad is okay but also thats not a requirement #even if it doesnt fall into these categories but you think its a really good read let me know about it #my post #book recommendations #book rec request

[lightningstorm003]

There's nothing quite like watching a movie on Netflix and thinking "this seems familiar" then realizing that it's based off a wattpad book you read in middle school. Life sure is strange...

#wattpad #netflix #the kissing booth #cliche romance #that we continue to devour because even though it's absolutely horrible we love it to pieces #it's like tropes #even though you can read a million of essentially the same thing #you still get that giddy feeling from seeing your favs go through your ideal scenarios #flowershop au? check. #sunshine and shadow child?? double check. #pain and misery heaped upon the unfortunate character that you just want to hide them under a fuzzy blanket #but at the same time you are simultaneously opening another angsty h/c?? #couldn't be me... *switches tabs to my fanfic on fanfic.net* #*gets bored after a few chapters* #*switches to another fic on AO3 about a completely different fandom in a completely different category*

[lovevalley45]

okay i wouldn’t consider ‘sense and sensibility’ spicy spotify,,, are we allergic to calling things romance or

#alli says shit #like listen we don’t have to use spicy THERES OTHER WORDS #like it’s been an issue where there’s no romance category but this is not the solution #i think it’s bc i tend to read romance for romance more than sex scenes #but like. what are we doing here #i blame booktok and social media censorship to appeal to advertisers