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Can I hijack anon's post and ask about slash instead?

i like angst, werewolves, or anything magical really except those uhh seelie court type settings (don't get them, am too afraid to ask at this point).

i also like mysteries, whodunits, that kinda thing. truly i just want like, a book that will please me like the big bad wolf series by charlie adhara (specially the first book, so good) did and preferably something that either doesn't have a big fandom or has a fandom that isn't annoying (this disqualifies the raven circle or whatever it was called even tho i liked those books)

So this might be a stupid question, or at least stupidly broad, but: does anyone here have suggestions on how to find good, published romance these days, or how to find good recs? I want to get back into reading published fiction, and romance seems like a good starting point after many years of almost exclusively reading fic. But the genre is just so huge (obviously), and the buzzwordy marketing is so off-putting, and all the cover art looks the same, and everything seems to be marketed to people who already read a lot in this genre and know exactly what they like, and the Booktok of it all...I'm so lost. I keep looking at bestseller lists, reading free first chapters and quitting because nothing grabs me. Help?

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Uh... well... I'm assuming you want het. That's a very, very, very large publishing category, especially if you aren't just looking at recent releases. Do you have any preferences? Like, any at all? Contemporary? She's a P.I.; he's a werewolf? Norman/Saxon forbidden love?

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Wanted to share a link in a more visible place: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10851

The hidden search operators cheatsheet! Most people have heard of "otp: true" by now, but there's plenty of other fun things to try in there

I wish AO3 had a filter for number of Chapters. Word count is great and all but I just can't read one chapter that's 17k (or more!) words long. I need it broken up into chapters.

First and foremost, its easier to keep track of my place. I need to take breaks while reading, if I have to leave the page open it drains the power on my phone, but if I close the browser I lose my place and have to scroll through half the fic to find it again. Its so frustrating I'd rather just quit the fic.

Secondly, it makes it easier to keep track of what's happened. Especially if it is a long fic that the reader has to take frequent breaks (or go to sleep/work/school/etc.). Breaking it up into chapters helps readers find sections in case they need to go back and reread something before they can continue.

Anyway, I don't even click on fics that are just one chapter (I refuse to call them one-shots) that should be multi-chapter fics. You could have written the next Lord of the Rings for all I care. You fic won't get read.

I wish I could filter them out of my searches so I don't even have to see them.

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Anon...

First, get an ebook reader.

Second, the syntax for chapters is:

expected_number_of_chapters: 1

expected_number_of_chapters: >1

-expected_number_of_chapters: 1

etc.

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‘Your Highness,’ Jord said, like clearing his throat. They looked up simultaneously.

-Green but for a Season

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"Oh dear! A tiny crab appears to have made his home in my shirt pocket. That's the trouble with living on the beach."

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I feel like at least some jocks are just autistic people with a special interest in sports.

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hunt or be hunted 🌆

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Whumptober 2021 | No. 18: THE DOCTOR IS IN

“Now smile for the camera” | doctor’s visit | CPR

ER s15e18: Carter, who suffers from kidney failure, goes into ventricular tachycardia and CPR is performed on him.

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Leverage Redemption features Noah Wylie and has a newer and more active fandom fyi

Thank you for the rec!! I actually checked out The Librarians 'cos someone mentioned it in that OTN post and I'm- not entirely sold on the acting so I shall see if this one is my style.

Hopefully I don't need any Leverage knowledge though, I never finished that show

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oh god SAME!!

if you have any recs i'm here for literally any fandom and ship. been having a horrible time finding new things to read that hit me right

The crux of the top/bottom issue is that people still perceive bottoming as inherently submissive, degrading thing, which is why always always it is about who bottoms and whose characterization it is more suitable for "bottoming."

"He's not a guy who will bottom" says someone. Please, tell me, who is the type of guy who will bottom? I'm so curious!

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I love characters who have a whole stupid Thing about it and then, oh noes, turn out to love it.

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Not now son mommy is glorifying toxic relationships and fetishizing villains

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does anyone else feel extremely mediocre and talentless it’s like you’re okay at some stuff but not good enough to ever truly succeed or make it into a career, not naturally gifted at anything nor motivated enough, and will never be recognised or special or exceptional in any way to anyone

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lately i been haunted by the phrase

'the axe forgets but the tree will always remember' because

for my whole life i been the tree but

i lie awake at night terrified, horrified, wondering

how many times have i been the axe and

forgotten

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Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise.

— Isabel Allende, The House of The Spirits

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Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan