#this reeks of misogyny too !!

[xhanisai]

every time I think "Hmm, the ml fandom is chill", one of you nasties pop up, spouting shitty takes like blaming abuse victims for acting anxious or depressed or lonely or shit like that and then I remember why I never wanted to participate in this fandom in the first place.

you SUCK.

#delete later #ml fandom salt #you nasties also reek of misogyny and sexism too #LET BAD BITCHES BE BAD BITCHES.

[saetoru]

ppl who consider 30s to be old are wild to me bc realistically most people spend up until roughly 24-26 in college and so you’re basically saying you can rly only live your life for about 4-6 years freely before you’re considered “too old” to enjoy anything. wtf are ppl supposed to do for the next 30 years after that jackass ?? you tell me 🤨 are they supposed to just buy curtains and a new blender and be content with that 🤨

#like #if i’m in my youth rn #by your standards #this is a fucking stupid youth bc i spend every weekend writing papers #y’all are annoying #and i’m tired of seeing this on dash every other day stop telling women in their 30s they’re old !! #this reeks of misogyny too !! #what you’re really implying here is that 30s is the age where people (mainly women) start to show signs of aging physically #or are expected to be mothers by then and sell their souls to be the picture perfect mom and give up all happiness to put their kids first #and there we get into deeper issues with women in society and why we just never win no matter what we do #that or you think adulthood is all about work work work and taxes and bills and to that i say you are setting urself up for misery too #so rly #take ur internalized misogyny or just overall low iq #whichever it is #and let people exist as they please <3

[twowink]

you know what. fuck it it should be said. i think that erasing sakis illness is ABSOLUTELY ableism ESPECIALLY if you make tsukasa sick instead . i dont care if its a 'swap au' and i dont care if you make tsukasa ill but saki is a canonically disabled character (her illness reads very much like a chronic illness) and its insane how some of you people think that getting rid of that or trying to only Really focus on that ON HER NONCANONICALLY ILL BROTHER (whether its by making him ill or making him ill instead) isnt absolutely insidious

#.txt #project sekai #i think if you make tsukasa chronically ill thats fine. i dislike it when people try to focus on that . or write sakis illness and focus on #the effects on tsukasa because it Reeks of misogyny and for the latter ableism too ... and if you get rid of sakis illness #Biting Killing Maiming Murdering Attacking you get the gist. #tl;dr : if youre not going to discuss or care abt sakis disability outside of kasa angst then just shut up abt the tenmas entirely #this is a little aggressive but in the 13 chronic illness tag for prsk there are A GRAND TOTAL OF 3 ONES THAT ARE SAKI FOCUSED #or at least seem saki focused / tenma focused equally #lalallallaallallala <- wants to kill #amia.txt

[spinef0ryou]

On anon bc this is a personal topic but THANK YOU for your tags on the body hair post. It was driving me insane. I shave because of sensory issues and that's literally it. I have a cis male partner and he is very aware I do not shave for him, but because I'm autistic and the physical feeling of having body hair makes me want to d*e. Like yes!! It's great that we're challenging beauty norms!!! but also I feel like saying women only do "feminine" things to appeal to men is still taking our power away in a sense

yep. like i do understand the whole shaving vs not shaving from like. a feminist standpoint but so many paint it as just a feminist thing, and they just flip the script instead of actually supporting body positivity. it’s so obvious that they’re not really about supporting actual body positivity, and the shame they heap on woman who do remove hair just feels so off to me :/ like it comes across as if they don’t think sensory issues in that regard are a thing, or they act like you personally removing hair is an affront to all women.

bodily autonomy extends to people doing things to themselves one might personally find not their vibe, and until that’s fully accepted by someone, that person doesn’t fully support bodily autonomy. saying a woman should never shave because otherwise she ‘looks bare’ is still body shaming

how the fuck is this an acceptable thing to say about someone’s body?? it’s so fucking disgusting to say that someone else’s body ‘jumpscares you’. like how fucking gross is that to say??? there’s no circumstance in which it’s okay to say that?! how are you not ashamed to say such a thing? not to mention a healthy dose of biphobia!

also the shit about coats and sweaters rubs me wrong

why imply that a lack of hair makes someone naked? huh? what’s so bad about nakedness that you’re implicitly shaming it??

body shaming isn’t cool just because you’re slamming what’s considered normal. stop being fucking weird about other people’s bodies and stop acting like a woman’s choices are anti feminist because they’re doing what makes them happy

beauty norms can really suck but there’s ways to subvert them that don’t include dragging people down and implying motives that haven’t been declared 🤷🤷

#it also smacks of radfem bs to me #like how they say (and yes i have seen this take unfortunately) that women only wear makeup for men #in the same vein as women only remove hair for men #acts like those women are too dumb to think for themselves #when the ‘issue’ is way more complicated #and it just reeks of ableism and misogyny tbh #a woman doing something to herself you don’t like doesn’t make her a braindead tool of the patriarchy #but to act like she is makes you a misogynistic asshole #similar to the radfems who say that a bi woman of domestic violence deserved it for being with a man #answer #anon #*radfemy if not outright terfy #** names not blacked out cuz they came from screenshots and at the time i was too lazy to black them out. don’t be weird to them either #(if this breaks containment) #biphobia #body shaming #for tw

[fairyofthehollow]

taylor swift being friends with a man who sa’d his girlfriend wow what a feminist she is!! girl power right?

#this goes for brittany mahomes too #i remember when i was pissed at ppl pitting them against each other bc it was annoying #and not giving girls girl and reeked of misogyny #well i take that back #they can have each other #literally so gross #idk how swifties still like her as a person #she’s who you look up too?? #as a role model???? #yikes #♡ fairy speaks ♡ #taylor swift #swifties

[milfheim]

the anna gunn & woody harrelson comparisons aren’t funny and all posts like that are usually accompanied by/made on the purpose of spewing vileee vitriol toward anna gunn and skyler as a character. there was a comment on an exact post just like that once that went like, “kim wexler is the best female character in the brba universe, the worst are lydia and skyler and marie” ok so the worst as in …. ALL THE OTHER PROMINENT FEMALE CHARACTERS? i love kim but real talk she’s been way more accepted by, usually, male fans of the series primarily because she was more enabling to jimmy than skyler ever was to her pathetic bitch of a husband. “skyler is a bitch” no skyler should have been even bitchier. skyler white nee lambert should have shot walter white herself and took all his money and ran

#just had to say my piece in this ever enduring skyler hate parade 😭 #bc that comment pissed me off so bad #with the resurgence (WELL I say this lightly because it never really left no?) of breaking bad thru memes there too is the whole #skyler is a nagging wife thing #obviously just reeks of misogyny #skyler white #walter white #kim wexler #anna gunn #skyler white defense #brba #breaking bad #better call saul #bcs

[twow]

i thought the terrible alicent takes couldn’t get any worse than last week 😭 y’all hate that woman so much, she could sacrifice herself to save rhaenyra’s life and y’all would still find some way to twist it and say it was selfish and evil of her

#some of the thinks said reek of misogyny too like. #it’s very much giving the early game of thrones sansa hate

[konigsblog]

gooner konig grossly obsessed with loser gf who’s a femcel? she’s like the embodiment of “damn bitch you live like this??” maybe…anal..

femcel!reader... save me.

tw/cw: ‘pick me’ behaviour, scent kink, loser!reader, porn addiction/‘gooning’, perv!könig, misogyny. DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT. MDNI 18+

you're the perfect woman for könig. although despite being loved by men for being different from others, for being misogynist to your own gender, women despise you. they think you're trying too hard and feel disgusted by your behaviour, especially when you put others down to lift yourself up.

you're pretty disgusting. your apartment is messy, with sex toys laying around everywhere and rubbish all over the ground. you're his ideal standards, messy, gross, perverted — just like him.

due to könig being a gooner, a porn addict, and a perverted weirdo, you usually spend the majority of your time underneath his desk, fucking your tight ass onto his slick, meaty cock, or sucking him off beneath the table, making a sloppy mess of his hard dick.

könig is the #2 fanatic when it comes to anal, with you being #1, the both of you fucked-out stupid laying around on the couch, reeking of alcohol and weed. yo throw your ass back on his broad, sturdy hips at the thickness inside of your hole, stretching your asshole out for könig, the throbbing sensation of his hard dick leaving you whimpering, sobbing, and drooling all over yourself pathetically.

you're depraved, just like könig. it's a match made in heaven, with you humping his t-shirt and huffing at his musky boxers, your eyes rolled back and your pearly arousal spread and smeared along the fabric, your aroused sex drooling with pleasure as it rolls down your thighs in glossy droplets.

perhaps you spend too much time in front of your computer, fingering yourself while playing video games with your horrible, filthy boyfriend. :(

#orla speaks #tw: misogyny #scent kink #könig x you #könig x reader #könig x y/n #konig x you #könig cod #könig call of duty #konig call of duty #konig cod #konig mw2 #konig modern warfare #könig modern warfare #könig mw2 #cod x y/n #cod x reader #cod x reader smut #cod smut #dead dove do not eat #dead dove fic

[yanderenightmare]

thinking about Touya and Tomura fucking a pretty little virgin and keeping her collared in their bed as their shy, slutty cumdump

Shigaraki Tomura x darling x Dabi

TW: NSFW, dubcon/noncon, power dynamic, captive darling

fem reader

They don’t seem to enjoy each other’s company that much...

Patchface and Fugly aren’t exactly names of endearment...

Tomura seems to think he’s in charge, but Dabi’s never shown any sign of respect for that – they both just do what they want. Fighting each other with childish insults – sometimes the odd shirt grab or childish push – but never actually throwing down.

You don’t understand the nature of their relationship. They behave more like brothers than anything – forced to share the same toy – you.

Tomura is the more clingy of the two. Cuddly with you – always lazing on you like you’re his personal plush. He sleeps a lot – lies with his arms around your waist and his head in your tits – drool dribbling down his chin, getting sticky on your skin. And when he doesn’t sleep, he’s sitting in his chair – three screens making his eyes beady and baggy. He’ll often keep you on his lap – his massive girth wearing you like a fleshlight as he clicks away on his controller.

Dabi is cuddly, too, but you wouldn’t call him clingy. He prefers it when you lie against his chest. He likes to stroke his fingers up and down your skin – play a little – lick you with blue flames, just enough for it to sting just a bit. He’s somehow lazier than Tomura – always in the bed with a blunt between his lips – rolling more – sucking the slim roll while you suck him. The air in the room is always thick with it.

They’re both trigger-happy – horny at the drop of a hat. Utterly shameless with it, too – stroking their hard lengths against your warm flesh even while you sleep. Sometimes you wake up with their cum smeared on your skin – other times you wake up with one of them inside you.

Dabi reeks of cigarettes and catpiss, and Tomura isn’t much different – dry sweat and boozy breaths.

You don’t think either of them has been with too many girls. Nor does it seem that either of them has had any proper education. Schooled by the internet – incel chatrooms and porn. You often have to raise your brow at their misogyny.

You find Tomura harbors more pure resentment towards you in that aspect – sometimes so cruel, forcing you to beg him for his mercy – when he’ll keep your throat in a four-fingered lock – the fifth ghosting the skin until he’s properly satisfied with the number of tears running down your cheeks. He calls you a pretty girl, but more so as an insult – a pretty bitch only worth taking his cum.

Dabi seems to have his rage focused elsewhere – on some distant goal. He’ll brood over it in silence – often long into the night. You’ll wake up only to see he has yet to fall asleep – but you don’t dare ask him about it. He can be just as ill-tempered as Tomura if you don’t watch yourself.

They both bite harder than they bark.

#yandere shigaraki #yandere my hero academia #yandere boku no hero academia #yandere shigaraki tomura #yandere shiggy #yandere shigaraki x reader #yandere mha #yandere bnha #shigaraki smut #shigaraki thirst #yandere tomura shigaraki #yandere tomura #tomura smut #tomura shigaraki x reader #shigaraki fanfiction #shigaraki x y/n #shigaraki imagine #shigaraki x you #tomura x you #yandere dabi #yandere dabi imagine #yandere dabi x reader #yandere touya #yandere todoroki #yandere touya todoroki #yandere touya x reader #dabi smut #dabi x reader #dabi todoroki #dabi my hero academia

[beware-thecrow]

#FUCKING THIS #FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT #johnny depp vs amber heard #Youtube #aside from who is to blame or whatever the media reaction only serves to discourage women victims of abuse to speak because media #is so over the top about defending a man just because he's an icon more than anything else. #and because people WANT TO BAD TO PROVE THAT WOMEN CAN BE EVIL TOO as a response because they are angry #that often violence accusations against men are FUCKING TRUTH. #the whole way media has treated this case REEKS OF MISOGYNY #and people think a case of domestic abuse is memeable????

[bone-cathedral]

i'm just gonna say it.

a lot of the criticism of ascended astarion fans absolutely reeks of misogyny.

it's giving "women are too stupid to understand that abuse is bad" and it makes me want to wring necks.

"you can't romanticise AA's behavior because that can lead to harmful ideas in the real world!!!"

a few hundred women finding AA's abusive behaviour sexy isn't why men are abusive, and adult women are intelligent enough to understand the difference between fiction and reality. ironically, this demonstrates that you don't understand the difference between fiction and reality.

where is that tweet that says "stanning reylo is misogynistic, but what do you expect from stupid fucking women" because that's what you lot sound like.

#you sound like a puritanical book burner trying to protect the “weak and impressionable female brain” fucking shut up #fandom critical #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #ascended astarion #i don't even like ascended astarion but holy shit dude

[ranjxtul]

okay so we all know that in reality every single saw ship is very toxic right? like all of them. yet, we love them in good fun especially i see a lot of love for the mlm ships, which is great they’re fun to discuss etc but the minute god forbid i, a sapphic, lust after cecilia or ship her with amanda, suddenly, “her actions are too unforgivable!” “ew she’s so gross” ok. next time y’all bring up mark with ANYONE i will remind you of his police brutality, misogyny, and the overt brutality of his whole arc from in saw vi and saw 3d. tbh it reeks of some misogyny. let the sapphics have something goddamnit and please check the internalized misogyny. we’re well aware the ship is toxic but so is every saw ship so… to quote the woman herself, “a lecture on moral decency, from you?” …. anyway, how about larcenyshipping for their ship name?

#saw franchise #saw 2006 #saw 3d #saw vi #saw x #amanda young #cecilia pederson #mark hoffman #maybe a hot take #but i’m serious #amanda young x cecilia pederson #y’all every ship is toxic let the lesbians have a crumb #posted by amanda #chainshipping #shotgunshipping #coffinshipping

[romanticatheartt]

Bridgerton spoiler

Kanthony ->

This is just me ranting :')

I know we all expected Kanthony to have a subplot in s3. I did too, the way Jonny and Simone talked about staying till the end, their excitement in their very small press for s2 and future seasons. The way Simone didn't sign a contract for Sex Education new season. And how this show was a priority for Jonny while shooting both Fellow Travellers and Bridgerton. Fellow Travellers production had to work around his schedule for s3...

But this is Bridgerton production we're talking about. They used the diversity to gain more audience in poc. But they care very little for their poc actors. Why do you think Regé left? Why do you think Ruby instantly talked about her experience while filming Bridgerton right after she left? And there were so many fans called her out for overreacting or now that Regé is free he should come back so he can be humbled since he's not booked after Bridgerton

It might be weird as I am a hard-core Kathony shipper but I need Simone to get out of the show. She was a leading lady but she was a side character in her own season. People think she stole Edwina's man while it was never Edwina's season but Kate's. P*lin stans think she was just a love interest and not a leading lady that's why she didn't got that much promo. That's why she didn't get any back story because she was just Anthony's love interest. "It was Anthony's story not Kate's."

I've seen all of it in twitter. It reeks of misogyny and racism there.

So please don't get your hopes up. I knew we're only going to get them in the first episode and we'll be done with it and I was right. They don't care about Kate...

They had so many opportunities to make Kate part of a story as a viscountess and her experience with the title and not just Anthony's wife but as we were proven so many times in the past, Simone doesn't have any value to them. They used her (and Jonny) as a bait.

And I don't want to hear about how it's not their season. Benedict, Francesca, Violet and Eloise all have a plot in this season, they could've give one to Kate but they didn't. So no it's not just about p*lin... it's an assemble show after all, right?

#bridgerton #bridgerton s3 #bridgerton season 3 #bridgerton spoilers #kanthony #kathony #anthony bridgerton #kate bridgerton #kathani bridgerton #kate sharma #kathani sharma #simone ashley #jonathan bailey #don't blame this on Jonny and Simone #and I'm not suprised that they're not posting one simple story for the new season #they used to be so active about it...

[strawberryraviegutz]

Great. Just great. First we’ve had people making fun of Alastor fangirls/simps for pretty much everything(headcanons, selfshipping, ect.) and now people are starting to do the same towards Lucifer fangirls/simps too. As for what triggered it, the reason why people are getting upset is because of....

*checks notes*

headcanons that involve him giving his s/o cute nicknames related to ducks like “duckling” or “little duckling”

…

HUH??? BE SO SERIOUS RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO DAMN WAY YALL ARE GETTING MAD OVER FUCKING NICKNAMES BE SO FOR REAL NOW LIKE WHAT???

Why tf does this fandom hate selfshipping and or headcanons so much like yall are crazy(hate towards hcs and selfshipping it’s not necessarily exclusive to the hazbin/helluva fandom but yall sure love to pick and choose things and get on people’s asses when it’s something you personally don’t like.) What happened to cringe culture being dead huh? Are people just not allowed to have fun anymore???

“Lucifer fangirls are a different breed lol he’d never say/do that”

Sweetie…that’s the beauty of FICTION. We get to imagine WHATEVER WE WANT. I promise you a silly little self indulgent headcanon and or AU someone makes of your fave is not gonna fucking kill you. Also the fact that this shit always happens everytime whenever women/afabs simp over any fictional male characters(or fictional characters of any gender)makes this whole thing reek of internalized misogyny.(I’ve seen it happen towards other genders too but it’s almost always women people go after first)

What’s wrong with Luci calling his partner duck related nicknames??? Dude like that’s fucking cute af yall are so damn boring..

#hazbin hotel #lucifer hazbin hotel #lucifer magne #lucifer morningstar #lucifer #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer x reader

[bas-writes]

a lot has happened lately, but so far i haven't made any official statement about my decisions and the path i want to take as a writer. it was a long road of trial and error & detailed examination of conscience in regard of my bad habits, gained experience, and goals and expectations. there are some massive changes that i need to address, followed by explanation of my decisions. i know i don't need to explain myself but i feel it's only fair to my loyal readers to share at least little insight into the context.

I. One Piece goes on indefinite vacation...

not going to lie, i was falling out of this fandom for years. it's started in 2021 when i fell victim to bullying and stalking, initiated by a widely-known (and still active, as far as i am aware of) x reader writer. it's the biggest reason for my slow withdrawal but not a sole one: pressing discourse around my comfort characters, toxic environment i fell into when looking for a relief from relentless bullying, forcing myself to write for topics and characters i didn't even like, readers overstepping my boundaries over and over again, falling into a trap of purity culture...oh, the list is long. way too long.

i still love one piece but i don't want to create for it en-masse anymore. right now it's just a wound that's far from healing, i need to treat it at my own pace. aside from an occasional poke at sapphic topics and my fav trio, i doubt it will appear in other way than commissions or gifts for friends. and some characters (kid, sanji, marco, katakuri, shanks & a few more) will never return.

II. ...but new fandoms arrive!

jujutsu kaisen is right now the main love of my life & will remain as the main fandom for long. but i found more series and characters i adore enough to feel that creative spark buzzing in my veins. soon you should see fics appearing for: demon slayer, chainsaw man, haikyuu and hell's paradise!

i'm keeping my head low rn when it comes to requests but i want to hold at least a kinktober open for them so you definitely will have an opportunity to see your faves from those series from me!

III. It's a gender neutral & afab Y/N sphere now!

it's something that was inevitably floating over me and my fics (and some of y'all definitely caught the whiff of it already), but i couldn't quite find courage to put a hard limit. we all know how it is in the y/n circles: way too many people expect from writers to cater to everyone, and treat it as a personal offense if you prefer to play in your own sandbox. as if writing y/ns was "activism", not a fandom activity like any other.

so, i won't force myself to write against myself anymore. i feel the most happy and comfortable when i make my y/ns gender neutral and when i'm giving them vaginas (and sometimes boobs) when i'm writing smut with them. i don't want to battle my weirdly-veiled dysphoria to force female reader out of myself. i don't want to stress myself while writing amab y/n, from the sheer biological fact of being unable to relate via lack of penis, to being sick and tired of the toxicity and misogyny that m!reader circles reek of.

so, gender neutral and afab it is. sometimes i will stray towards afab nonbinary or transmasc direction, if i feel like i need some good gender vibes coming from my fics.

it doesn't mean i will never write different y/ns. commissions, gifts for friends, exchanges, random ideas for a plot that requires a specific kind of y/n, sapphics feels, and such will appear here and there. i will also interact lots with f!reader fics, since it's what i see lots around & don't mind reading, if i feel more fem or if it's from a writer i like and trust.

incoming ino x reader (that i hope to publish tomorrow) will be the last non-sapphic f!reader that will appear for a long while. all requests i'm keeping in my drafts right now will be turned into completely gender neutral or from fem to more general afab reader (i don't have any requests for amab readers rn anyway). unless you really don't want to have f!reader taken out of your request - then please, let me know, i will delete it so you can head with it to a different writer.

IV. Never miss a fic again - sign for a tag list!

and now a little treat! if you don't want to miss a fic about the topic that might interest you, you may sign for a tag list by filling a simple form!

V. And what am I going to do now?

write, write, and write even more! i wanna write the in the heat of spring drabbles before the spring is gone, have three fully-fledged multichapter fics outlined and itching to be written and posted, and an interactive event with which we will welcome the summer 💦

in june i want to publish a few sapphic fics that i had in mind for a while now & later towards the second half of summer (think august-september) i'll smile at you again with a kinktober i really want to complete this year!

there might be a few smaller events on the way, depending on how busy i'll be. there's an idea for dilf enjoyers and for a chubby y/n, as well as many others that still didn't take a clear shape.

i also didn't forget about the kiss event and nonsexual acts of intimacy for the fluff enjoyers!

if you survived this wall of text (or just scrolled down here lol understandable) - thank you for your patience, understanding, and support. whether you're here with me since the very beginning or clicked the follow recently, i'm happy to have you here ❤ if you have any questions or just want to talk, my askbox is open for any kind of interaction! and if you want to support a poor writer who has way too many health-related spendings lately, you can buy me a ko-fi ❤

#bas speaks

[ejunkiet]

ej's adventures in romance: the good, the bad, the ugly

i've had kindle unlimited for the few months, and have been on a deep deep dive into all the recs from the romance genre that i can get my grubby little paws on. I've read.... many, many books. so many.

I've made a rec list of my new fave authors in the genre before, and this is not that. I'm just gonna list what I've read, by tropes, with ratings, and you can read my full reviews on goodreads. I've gone there. there are quite a few of the booktok hits here, because they came up on rec lists, and I'm gonna give my honest opinions on them okay. my goodreads!

Before we get down and dirty, have my actual recs from the last month: Heather Guerre remains a diamond in the rough, although she can now be joined by a further two authors: Kathyrn Moon (smutty RH queen) and Zoey Draven, a surprise last minute entry that doesn't shy away from darker themes, but handles them maturely.

other recs are the obvious: Talia Hibbert, Katee Roberts, and our very own @dominimoonbeam (whose book Doors I've been reccing a LOT lately, as I love it so much, and the sequel will be out soon >:3)

Okay. lets do this. this gets long, be warned. >:3

the "grovel" trope

books where the MMC fucks up and tries to make up for their mistakes. a good read where you get a healthy dose of angst and then a lot of making up for it. can be a great cathartic read.

Cate C. Wells has a whole series dedicated to this, "the five packs", one of which I already recommended as a guilty pleasure: the lone wolf's rejected mate". Now look, these books are ridiculous, the worldstate is terrible, each pack is a dude fest that reeks of misogyny, but they're pretty fun. I've read book 1 and book 3. I want to stab the MMC of book 1 with a rusty spork. you can skip it.

the lone wolf's rejected mate however is a ride, with a broken MMC who rejects his soulmate because he thinks he's too broken (literally, his wolf tries to kill her), and then they get captured, save each other, and he builds her a treehouse, yada yada. mind the content warnings, but if you want to read something OTT that basically epitomises the craziness that is the PNR and "grovel" romance genre, read this, and hold onto your butts.

the paranormal romance genre: shifters, vampires and more

Heather Guerre's books. okay, so actual recs. She focuses on characters from working class backgrounds with a sprinkle of the paranormal thrown in, everyone is over the age of 25 (thank god, most are in their 30s), and she can really write. I won't tag Eeshley again, but the "Tooth and Claw" series was their rec and *chefs kiss*. this is still the self-published romance genre, so these books could use an editor/polish, but honestly, I'm a big fan of her writing, and have picked up all her books. (her contemporary romance is also excellent.)

post-apocalyptic trope

Claire Kent's books. Imagine Joel from the last of us as a book series. I've only read Last Light so far, which is the prequel to a longer series that explores life in america 5+ years after an asteroid collides with western europe, causing global environmental catastrophes. I'm not 100% sold on her world building, but this is a romance novel, and the way she writes the characters and their relationships are human and organic, and the most realistic I've come across so far. the world state is the walking dead, with evil biker gangs that rape and pillage. i'm assuming this is an american thing, but can't comment on what it'd be like in the UK considering we no longer exist, due to aforementioned asteroid collision. probably for the best.

omegaverse and reverse harem tropes

yeah, I thought omegaverse was just a fanfic thing too. it's not, and it is super prevalent in het romance. it was never really my thing in fanfic, and the fact it is not a shifter thing was very surprising to me, as knots/packs/heat/rut still exist, but it's just humans with animalistic traits. I kept on waiting for the motorcycle gang in 'baby and the late night howlers' to turn into wolves, and they never did.

So Kathryn Moon writes some delicious reverse harem books. I read the first of monsterfucker series 'a lady of rooksgrave manor' years ago, and liked it, although there wasn't enough plot for me to continue. she writes excellent smut. Seriously, just really, really good smut. BIG FAN. I've been making my way through her 'Sweetverse' series, which has more connections and actual relationships between the characters, and polymances, and I recommend starting with Lola + the millionaires, if you can handle a little omegaverse. mind the content warnings, this is a book about recovering from trauma, which happened in the first book (baby's book, although offscreen. Lola has a lot of flashbacks in italics.)

Otherwise, you can stick with the monsterfucker books! I bought her latest monster series off of regular kindle, instead of KU, and I'm really excited to read it hehehe

"mars need more women" and "fated mate" tropes

hehehe okay HERE WE GO. these books are all about women ending up on planets where due to some sort of cataclysmic event - disease, mostly - 80% of the female population of the planet has died. now as we're not here for angst, the arrival of these women are usually due to some other species abducting them, and they are then "rescued" or recovered after a crash on metaphorical mars, which needs a better sex ratio to ensure the survival of the species.

this trope is coupled with "fated mate" tropes, where basically the rescued/recovered women end up with a devoted alien husband, who yearns until he can win her over (we're all about consent here folks)

the ice planet barbarians series by ruby dixon. this is basically na'vi aliens that crashlanded on an ice planet 250 odd years ago, and have made it their home, living in tribal colonies. to survive in this planet's toxic atmosphere, they've taken in a native parasite called a 'khui' which helps their bodies adapt to the climate and atmosphere. the women in the books also receive the same parasite to survive (they're given the choice), and this is the basis of the "mate bonds" formed throughout the series.

now book 1 is a rocky start, and the weakest of the series. I nearly put it down because of the first 20 pages. you can skip the first 20 pages. it basically recounts the abduction of the women from their home planet, and mistreatment by their captors (tw for sexual assault of a side character, not explicit). the ship malfunctions, and the women "cargo" are dropped onto the ice planet, where they are found by the not-na'vi, who are called sa-khui, because of the parasite.

now the rest of the series is about adapting to life on an alien planet, understanding the culture of the sa-khui, and gaining a devoted alien hubby. look, I read four books in a week. they're fun, they're exciting, the smut is good, and it's an easy read. it's also written by an experienced and practiced author, as the topics are handled maturely, it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it has great representation.

(one of my favourite books in the series, book 7, is centred around Lilah, who was born deaf and had a cochlear implant that was surgically removed during the abduction. the book focuses on her struggling to adapt to life on the planet, aided by a sa-khui that rescues her and learns ASL to communicate, and it's an excellent read okay)

I'd say read book 1 (maybe skipping first 20 pages, or even to part 2) for context, read book 2 (my favourite of the series omg), and then pick and choose from there!! I've read 1,2,4,7, and I'm gonna end up coming back for more hehehe.

"choosing theo" is another in this genre, but it didn't quite vibe with me. it leans into the 'rescued human ends up on a planet that needs women for propagation', with a matriarchal society where the men go to husbandry school to learn how to please women, and all residents of the planet are required to participate in three month long marriages to try to find potential mates to propagate the species. the premise is a fun one, but the first book is not the strongest, and I didn't continue from there. (another rusty spork for the MMC...)

dothraki in space trope

we're at the end of my trope list! I liked the ice planet barbarian series a lot, and I'd kept on seeing the Horde Kings of Dakkar by Zoey Draven recommended, and they are good. (thank you woofs >:3) think dothraki from GoT in space; humans live in small, poorly maintained colonies on the Dakkar planet, where they aren't allowed to hunt or damage the earth. offenses are punishable by death. these books lean into the captive trope, and handle the issues of the worldstate and navigating cultural differences super well, with a heavy dose of consent and BAMF heroines that rise up to their situation and make a place for themselves in their new (objectively better) lives.

i'm on book two now, and I love the maturity in the characters and the writing (which I did not find in 'choosing theo'), and they're an excellent romp. fantastic rec, really glad I picked this up >:3

am I finally going to take a break from my reading binge now? I keep on saying I will, and then not doing that ahahahaha. my kindle library is still stuffed full, mainly with other books from my fave authors above, but also some nice space horror to round it off.

next on my list is gonna be either 'Haunt, Heart, Havoc', a horror romance that I've been meaning to read forever, or 'Dead silence', which is aliens meets titanic in space. >:3 if you read all of this, KUDOS TO YOU, have a lovely sunday ahahaha!

#ej adventures in romance #so nobody asked for this but I've been keeping track hehehe and honestly it's been super interesting diving into romance land #you can still find better writing - especially with actual smut - on ao3. #in general romance authors go for volume and tropey plots that don't do the subjects justice! major romance pitfall #which I blame on the need to churn out full books for consumption. commercialisation ruins quality #tmi