#the romance and plot are amazing

[muchcelebrated]

Crying because Disney+/Hulu did The Artful Dodger so dirty by not marketing it properly and it could and should be getting the same amount of praise and love as Bridgerton or My Lady Jane, but instead they were stupid and most people don’t even realize it exists.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This wine tastes like pigs blood!

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[atomicpirateperson]

allow me to introduce this AU version of rob where he gets disfigured worse :>

[nothing-but-just-thoughtss]

no matter how many danmei's i read, tgcf's gonna be my only comfort read (the novel has me on a chokehold and i cannot still be in denial no more)

[kuiinncedes]

i am reading da poppy warrr

[dilfdyke]

wait ok apparently contentious episode

[romanticatheartt]

{ Nocticadia }

First read: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 Second read: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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“To be honest, I feel a little out of place here.” I glanced around, catching the stares of a few guests–men and women. “It feels like everyone knows I’m dirt poor.” “You think they’re staring at you because you’re poor?” He buried a smirk in his drink and tipped back a long swill that emptied the glass. His jaw flexed with the clenching of his teeth as he swallowed. “The wealthy possess an insatiable appetite for the rare and priceless. They stare because you’re the only thing worth staring at.”

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[mermaidsirennikita]

because I see discourse about this again, I'd like to once again be brave and controversial and say that the issue with Sebastian St. Vincent having an (unbeknownst to him) secret baby revealed in Devil in Disguise is not that he has a secret baby at all... because let us be honest, no matter how careful he was, no man in the 1800s was getting as much ass as Sebastian St. Vincent pre-Evie without siring AT LEAST one kid (probably more lbr)

The issue is that Lisa Kleypas honestly wants me to believe that Sebastian (a man who, let us remember, KIDNAPPED HIS BEST FRIEND'S LADY LOVE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANNA GET A JOB) would've been a good dad to his illegitimate child pre-Evie, which actually makes his entire arc of "becomes a real boy/learns how to be useful and have character" in Devil in Winter pointless because apparently his inner goodness would've just been triggered had he found out that some lady he was fucking got up the duff

Like, look into your heart and you know that AT BEST Sebastian would've been floating some child support that kid's way, and those checks would've bounced 75% of the time pre-Evie

And you know what??? I think he PROBABLY would've just told that lady to go convince her man that it was is baby, JUST LIKE my boy from Flowers from the Storm. OR he would've put him in some corner like Dain from Lord of Scoundrels (and Evie would've been like ARE YOU FUCKING FR ABOUT THIS just like Jessica in Lord of Scoundrels)

Oh but look both of the books I just referenced are considered historical romance classics even though the heroes do legitimately shitty things would you look at that huh

[beanghostprincess]

I finished S2 of Link Click and what the fuck (more on the tags for spoilers)

[venomgender]

required reading .

[deus-ex-mona]

chizuchan was right. childhood friend romances are the b e s t

[nightrae13]

Our wifi was cut-off for weeks, so I was late in some Comic Bang episodes.. I'm on episode 22 now, and excuse me, I want to cry because after more than a decade, there's now a Nozaki who was emotionally aware of his feelings😭😭❤️❤️ Grabe yung kilig sa montage putek HAHAHAHAH

[sapphicautistic]

if you write a book with a cool idea but you do a bad job of it somebody should get to just take your exact idea and try again but better. actually wait even if you do a good job and it makes me want to read another take on the exact thing somebody should get to do that too

[goreybubbles]

I finally watched Dinner in America... I want what they have (I have a whole boyfriend and I could never date Simon irl he is the biggest red flag I've ever seen but omg I love him so much me and Patty have the same taste)

[romanceyourdemons]

nothing more romantic than painting huge murals of mao zedong all over your house together

[eris-of-disco]

I want to rant about how YA dystopian novel romances suck while I'm sick, so here we go. These are just my personal opinions, so if you like this type of stuff, good for you

First off, Hunger Games. I read this series about 2-3 years ago, and I thought the first book was pretty good until they had to put the Peta and Katniss romance in there. I do not care about angsty romance, I want to read about how corrupt the world is and I want President Snow to be tortured for all of the people he killed. I do NOT want romance, the series was perfectly good without it. I lost a lot of interest in it reading the 2nd and 3rd book. The best part of the 2nd book was Nuts and Volts, I could not care for the fake pregnancy. 3rd book was just boring as hell. Too angsty for my taste. And WHY did they kill off half of the characters I actually liked?? Their deaths felt rushed and pointless. This may just be a rant about things that piss me off in YA dystopian novels.

Second and lastly, Divergent. I didn't even finish the series. I stopped reading it in the second book. I thought the concept of Divergent was good, and I thought the world was cool but I could not CARE for Tris. I had to look her name up for this. I thought she was just boring and forgettable (although it has been a while since I read the books) I liked it at first, but same with Hunger Games, I lost all interest when it came to the romance plot. I liked Four better when he was just Four, Tobias sucked. Also the age gap in the books is about 2 years. In the movies its NINE YEARS. A 25 year old and a 16 year old. A ADULT AND A MINOR. In the books it makes more sense, since the age gap is only 2 years. I DO NOT NEED ROMANCES IN YA DYSTOPIAN NOVELS. And the second book. THE SECOND BOOK. OH MY GOD. I only was able to read until about chapter 7 because it was so boring. It was just Tris and Tobias being angsty and in love and Tris wearing oversized shirts and either shorts or no pants.

I also want to talk a bit about Harry Potter and how I completely lost interest after the 4th book. I stopped in the middle of the 5th book because OH MY GODS WAS IT BORING. I didn't even understand most of the plot! Also they did the Weasley twins dirty. Fred did not deserve to die and neither did Hedwig.

That's about it. If anyone has any good fiction books with no romance plots and/or romance doesn't become the theme in the books, please tell me.