#thrill of a romance

[nelkcats]

Romance is (not) dead

Ghostwriter was one of the most annoying ghosts Danny tended to deal with, ever since their altercation at Christmas their fights only continued to escalate.

However, the halfa swears that he didn't mean to tear up the little book Ghostwriter was writing for Valentine's Day. He may not have a partner for that year but he understood how important books were to the ghost, they were his obsession! Danny didn't mess with obsessions.

But a ghost angry with his obsession attacked won't listen to reason, so Ghostwriter trapped Danny in another of his novels. The halfa was seriously considering destroying the keyboard that was causing all his headaches but that would be quite awkward.

Now, he had faced this scenario many times before. The problem was, this was a fucking romance novel, and what's worse, someone got stuck with him.

The tourist, whose name was apparently Jason, also had free will, which made more sense when the rest of the people in Amity Park started acting like they were a couple.

Contrary to expectations, Jason seemed thrilled about the situation, even after he explained that it was the fault of a ghost. The man was offended when he told him that he would release them! He didn't even seem fazed by the fact that they had been forced to be a cliché couple.

Jason on his side was quite happy to have visited Amity Park, he heard stories about ghosts and since he had nothing to do during Valentine's day he decided to check it out. The ghosts not only turned out to be real but they were also helping him fulfill his childhood dream, it was amazing. The boy he had been matched up with was also cute.

That's how an excited Jason Todd and an incredulous Danny Fenton found themselves stuck acting out all the typical scenes portrayed in books, from love at first sight to a confession in the rain. At least one of them seemed to be having fun.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #danny fenton #dc x dp #jason todd #dead on main #red hood #jason todd x danny fenton #Jason is ABSOLUTELY thrilled #You can basically hear his inner screams #he became the happiest man in the world #He is living his childhood dream #And he's not letting go this opportunity #Jason Todd gets the novel romance he deserves #and enjoy it #Ghostwriter is a matchmaker #Danny is absolutely DONE with the situation #But he's unable to resist Jason's puppy eyes every time he tries to avoid an scene #He may be falling in love #It's good that Jason too #Basically Jason being the ball of emotion he hasn't allowed himself to be since his rebirth #Think of literally any romance cliché and they have to do it #Jason brings out his inner book nerd #And Danny falls for it #Fake couple that slowly becomes real #slow burn #The best part is that to get free they have to live through the WHOLE book #And Ghostwriter has a lot to write #Jason decided to ignore everything and live his novel romance #He even contacted his family to tell them he's taking a few days off

[crimeronan]

i think what enthralls me most about mal/alina/nikolai is that i don't THINK the polyamory was intentional at all. or at least not the specific polyamory i'm reading. like, i think the intent was to subvert the trope of an angry rebellious royal and an angry rebellious chosen one who refuse to form basic political alliances through marriage even though it just makes fucking sense. and then i think the writers' further intent was to distance mal and nikolai from their worst shitheadery in the books by uniting them thru a deep emotional bond and genuine respect and trust and care for each other. like. it's an arranged-marriage throuple that has a lot of potential for toxic misery and the writers wanted to sidestep that by going "okay, but maybe it's more interesting if they're all friends who love each other instead"

then the EXECUTION of that concept is like. not only are nikolai and mal so chill with the other dating their girlfriend that that Alone makes the polyamory pseudo-canon, but nikolai and mal's friendship is also -- apparently intentionally?? -- written with a SHITLOAD of parallels to nikolai and alina's relationship???

i think the intention in THAT is to reinforce how nikolai and alina have a strong non-romantic platonic partnership. because nikolai does the same things that he does with alina with mal, too! who, you know, is a man! and who is not nikolai's betrothed! see! everyone is such good friends!! :D

and so of course the way it reads onscreen to me, spiders georg polyamory kitkat, is just. nikolai has two hands. and is bisexual. and wants to crawl into bed with both alina and mal so bad it's fucking UNREAL,

they're perfect. polyamory rights.

#you know. it's the same as with trc. the more you try to convince me this is intensely platonic Because it happens w more than one person #the more i'm like. wow romance doesn't have to be limited to one eprson tho. polyamory rights! 💕 #i love it. i love everything happening here. im thrilled #shadow and bone #shadow and bone spoilers #grishaverse #malkolina

[justafriend-ql]

I heard we have a new trainee teacher today. DANGEROUS ROMANCE Episode 5

#dangerous romance #dangerous romance the series #drts #june wanwimol #melgifs #i know people aren't thrilled she's a teacher. but listen. #you must admit she slays!

[howifeltabouthim]

When I saw him the other night he was just as handsome as ever;—the same look, half wild and half tame, like an animal you cannot catch, but which you think would love you so if you could catch him.

Anthony Trollope, from Can You Forgive Her?

#elusive #handsome #out of reach #description #figurative language #the thrill of the chase #romance novel hero #romance novel tropes #burgo fitzgerald #reunited #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #classics #wild #anthony trollope #can you forgive her?

[fantasiavii]

When Rand called Aviendha shade of my heart… I am going to cry!!!

#rand is so much better now #he makes jokes!!! i love him he is my son #wheel of time #a memory of light #tbh still not thrilled with the romance writing in these books #but that was really sweet

[foolscapper]

current happenings at when we were young festival night 2

#gerard way #bert mccracken #mcr #my chemical romance #the used #wwwy fest #its the thrill of the chase i guess #(im kidding mr. bert) #my art #myfanart

[ihaveonlymydreams]

Went to see the Broadway tour of My Fair Lady and you guys

They fixed the bad ending

#When Eliza shows up in Higgins' study at the end of the show #She's an illusion #She walks off the set of his study and off the stage and he's left standing alone #I can't even tell you how thrilled I was to NOT have the romance ending lol #I've always hated that Hollywood changed the ending of the original play #Justice was done today y'all

[starrycove]

made a dark urge... kinda obsessed w him...

#it makes me ill to choose evil and mean options but ive been doing my best :'''') #honestly this run has been pretty fun despite committing vile acts of sin #i choked on the romance tho i cant be mean to companions #i pick snarky options but over all supportive ones #i think his character enjoyed the thrill of a kill the urge gave #but not if it means he might kill his pookie #kinda gay #im planning on durge and ascended astarion so theyre about to be toxic as hell #bg3 #oc

[velvetjune]

I viewed Jesse and Emily as having instant chemistry and crushes on the other that it’ll be genuinely shocking when they’re probably only friends in control 2

#remedy let them date. a little bit of romance between the horrors of what’s to come #control remedy #control 2019 #I never know which to tag it #jesse faden #emily pope #excited for control 2 😌 it can replace the hole in my soul after finishing Alan wake 2 #I don’t even want to think about how if Alan wake even gets a third installment it’ll be MANY many years from now 🫠 #as thrilled as I am for the DLCs I hope it doesn’t close off any of the major story there

[forcedhesitation]

I MISSED THIS ENTIRELY MY FIRST TIME AROUND....THIS IS SO DAMN PRECIOUS?!!

#bg3 spoilers #thoughts about media #this is so sweet. corydalis would cherish this present to the end of his days. #so nice of mirkon to say we killed the harpies in one blow! #we did not. #I couldn't long rest and reset corydalis' empty spell slots because the scene was glitching and the kid would spawn dead. #so i had to forgo the long rest and just fight them. #and then astarion and karlach kept getting lured by the harpy song! #lae'zel was the only one getting anything done! #and she sure as fuck didn't even want to be there!! i brought her to try and boost her approval... #but it's like. stuck at 6 or something equally abysmal because I keep pissing her off by being too nice. #I didn't realise there was an interaction between her and a tiefling in the grove in my first playthrough...she hated me more after that. #GIRL I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE ZORRU BOW FOR YOU! #like corydalis is a tiefling himself! be real lae'zel! #being nice to zorru got us the information we needed anyways... #astarion for whatever reason didn't complain even though i'm pretty sure being too nice in this interaction is supposed to annoy him. #i'm literally LOOKING for interactions to gain his disapproval!!!!! #BECAUSE HIS APPROVAL WON'T GO DOWN!!!!!!!!! #please my dearest I would like to NOT trigger your first romance scene too soon. #honestly if i could romance him without suffering through that again I would be thrilled. but it is not possible. #REALISTICALLY corydalis wouldn't even fall for his lying. he's ten times better a liar than astarion could ever hope to be. #and he's also extremely kind and caring! there's noooo WAY he'd let astarion's evasiveness slide unmentioned. #BUT ALAS. the game only permits you to avoid this TORMENTUOUS experience if you are playing karlach. #goblin camp is next though. I'm SURE I can earn disapproval there with him. #he may be allergic to disagreeing with my tiefling but this is still act 1 astarion! he is a bitter HATER with no healthy outlet. #I just have to like. oh I don't know. offer to help some random npc and ask for nothing in return.

[mermaidsirennikita]

I'm sorry, and I say this as someone who loves a lot of books with an accidental pregnancy in them, but like...

If you're writing a contemporary romance set in the now times, and your heroine gets knocked up in like a one night stand, and she isn't like, specifically crazy and attempting to get pregnant by a random, if she's genuinely not at all trying to get pregnant or planning on a pregnancy...

I'm not saying you have to have her consider an abortion, but the idea of her being like "this is all hunky-dory", even if she wants a baby in the long term, is INSANE

Like... in this economy? In this current world? In a reality wherein even if you don't typically support abortion, you know you can't have one even if it threatens your life depending on where you live? Not second-guessing your accidental pregnancy or having negative feelings at all is INSANE and to me it makes your heroine unrelatable, even if she was knocked up by a random billionaire who later swoops in and takes care of her

I mean, I know someone who recently got pregnant by accident, and she was with a man she was planning on marrying and kids with in the long term, they lived together, they had a dog together, the proposal was discussed and right around the corner... and she wasn't happy and she wasn't immediately sure she was going to have it. She decided to in the long term, but she was like, SOBBING when she found out. Because it's a big deal and even if, after some contemplation, you're super happy about having the kid, it's at min OVERWHELMING.

idk I just... that's bad writing imo.

#romance novel blogging #like i guess i can see a heroine who wanted babies super badly and previously had been told she couldn't have kids #being happiER about it #but if it's accidental and the father isn't a sure thing in terms of his emotional or financial involvement #i don't think your feelings would be wholly positive unless you were like DELUSIONAL #and i'm gonna be real... i've known girls who were just thrilled to be pregnant at like 16 #and i was 16 at the time and i thought they were idiots and i still think they were idiots #you don't have to terminate but to not be at least a little freaked out is idiotic and naive and out of touch w reality #and i'll say it: if you aren't at least somewhat concerned about your totally unplanned pregnancy conceived without a steady partner... #idk man. maybe it's not a gr8 time to have a baby just yet

[ystrike1]

#i am approaching The Guy Upstairs with cautious optimism #do i expect romance? #no but last time the author killed the thrill of their own story with entirely illogical nonsense #The Guy Upstairs #yandere

[eclipsedcrystalstar]

I think it would be absolutely hilarious for another character that disrupts the natural balance into Star Thief and have yet another astral date them

#Astrals maintain order simply by romancing any threats to order /j #Libra is not thrilled

[annicaax]

mitsuhide eternal route ending

#otome #ikesen mitsuhide #mitsuhide eternal route #ikesen #this didn't thrill me #im more of a cutesy fan stuff #would have loved some cosy holiday romance kinda ending cg

[fictionadventurer]

An underrated benefit of love triangles is that they allow you to have a love story where the ending isn't immediately obvious. In your standard romance, the two leads meet, and then it's just a matter of time until they hit the plot beats that lead to the happily ever after. But the love triangle gives you two plotlines! Two different dynamics! Two valid directions for the plot to veer that will still lead to a romantic happy ending without that ending being a foregone conclusion.

The main character can grow and change in multiple different ways because there are two men on equal standing with her, who can have an influence on her in different ways, giving her multiple different lenses to help her understand who she is and who she really wants to be. When it's done right, the story will be satisfying no matter what the endgame is, because the point is going along on the journey and seeing who the characters become. And the great thing is that you don't know who they'll become because there are two valid options, so the entire story can be surprising, which is so refreshing when so many love stories are so predictable.

#random thought of the day #books #ignoring the multiple books i'm in the middle of should-be-reading #i dove into the only other una silberrad book available on ebook #('the good comrade' if you want to know) #and i'm a quarter of the way through #we've met two possible love interests #and i'm thrilled to find that i have no idea what endgame is going to be #there's one that i'm probably leaning toward that's a bit more standard enemies-to-lovers who enjoy intellectual sparring #but the other option is a *lot* like the love interest in her other book #i don't know if she'd be happy with him but he's going to have a huge effect on her character arc #and honestly she'd probably be a better person with him #both options would be satisfying endings so i can just settle back and go along for the ride #a theme i'm finding in her work (at least these two books) is what happens when people with different moral systems collide #people who are ruled by morality vs people ruled by convention vs people ruled by honor #and people who have different ideas of what they mean by all these things #different definitions of what they mean by right and wrong #and how their worlds are shaken when they interact with each other and find different ways of viewing things #and it makes for *really* satisfying romances because it's about how these people clash and collide and change each other #i'm not even sure she's doing it on purpose because these books are really rather slight #but the somewhat shallow style secretly offers a lot of ways to dive deeper #but it only really comes out later when you find yourself thinking about it after the book is shut #it's not necessarily obvious in the flow of the plot #i don't know how it works but it's fascinating

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Pulp - Thrilling Love (Nov1937)

#Magazines #Pulp #Thrilling Love #Romance #Vintage #Art #Radio #OTR #Old Time Radio #1937 #1930s #30s