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ppl really are hilarious the way they keep putting dev patel in those "how's your taste in men" quizzes like do they think I'm gonna pick any other option when dev patel is right there??? clown behavior. an illusion of choice

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I've had a lot of conversations lately about what's lacking in cosy fantasy and romantasy, and the general consensus is that it boils down to being written like fanfiction.

Fanfiction is an entirely different beast than published fiction. Your reader is already invested in the characters, and you don't need to sell them on anything to get them to read it. And that's great! That's the beauty of fanfiction! You should write that if it is your true passion!

Cosy fantasy and romantasy that has no fucking plot whatsoever argh often skips the step of getting you invested in the characters. You're already supposed to be into the "hot mysterious baddie" trope, therefore there's no effort being made to make you interested in this particular hot dude. Female leads are interchangeable. What were they like growing up? What are their morals? Who cares, let them fuck.

Don't get me started on DnD-lite books that rely on you being familiar with DnD to do the world-building for you. First of all, this is boring as all hell. If you're not willing to world-build, you're not going to give us a good story. Second of all, DnD can be a great world-builder, and everyone not taking advantage of that is just being lazy. If you have orcs in your damn book, I want you to tell me what that means. I shouldn't have to flip through a source book to understand the conflict you're setting up goddamnit!

And listen, you can say queer cosy fantasy/romantasy fixes this problem, and I can promise you it doesn't. Some of it is better, but the vast majority is still written for tropes and nothing more. Please, I am begging you, you need more than tropes to write a good book. You need to actually convince us, the reader, to care about these characters as much as you do. That means letting them make mistakes. That means they have to have real problems that aren't solved by the power of love, but by confronting their own flaws. You cannot do this if your characters don't actually have flaws.

I cannot wait for this trend to die.

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I've had a lot of conversations lately about what's lacking in cosy fantasy and romantasy, and the general consensus is that it boils down to being written like fanfiction.

Fanfiction is an entirely different beast than published fiction. Your reader is already invested in the characters, and you don't need to sell them on anything to get them to read it. And that's great! That's the beauty of fanfiction! You should write that if it is your true passion!

Cosy fantasy and romantasy that has no fucking plot whatsoever argh often skips the step of getting you invested in the characters. You're already supposed to be into the "hot mysterious baddie" trope, therefore there's no effort being made to make you interested in this particular hot dude. Female leads are interchangeable. What were they like growing up? What are their morals? Who cares, let them fuck.

Don't get me started on DnD-lite books that rely on you being familiar with DnD to do the world-building for you. First of all, this is boring as all hell. If you're not willing to world-build, you're not going to give us a good story. Second of all, DnD can be a great world-builder, and everyone not taking advantage of that is just being lazy. If you have orcs in your damn book, I want you to tell me what that means. I shouldn't have to flip through a source book to understand the conflict you're setting up goddamnit!

And listen, you can say queer cosy fantasy/romantasy fixes this problem, and I can promise you it doesn't. Some of it is better, but the vast majority is still written for tropes and nothing more. Please, I am begging you, you need more than tropes to write a good book. You need to actually convince us, the reader, to care about these characters as much as you do. That means letting them make mistakes. That means they have to have real problems that aren't solved by the power of love, but by confronting their own flaws. You cannot do this if your characters don't actually have flaws.

I cannot wait for this trend to die.

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two bros, both alike in sexuality

in a hot tub, where we lay our scene

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Enough is enough, the eating series has now more chapters than wbbs and we (I) can’t wait for frigging sept-oct for a reason to live, we’re (I’m) wilting hereeeeeeee

We (I) beg for mercy, we (I) threaten violence 🔪🔪🔪

Whatever you want from us (me) but pls stop this jeronica abstinence

I AM APOLOGIES.

would it help if I said that a big part of this chapter hinges on Veronica putting on her big girl pants and admitting to Jughead what happened after the party (GROWTH) and she leaves that conversation thinking she's an absolute piece of shit and then he shows up at her door after a date he could barely focus on all 'show me'

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petal clouds

instagram - twitter - website

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1.01, The River's Edge 3.11, The Red Dahlia

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smh…

a “choice” isn’t “feminist” by virtue of a woman or a self-identified feminist making a choice. me choosing to watch TV while being a woman doesn’t make TV-watching “feminist.” it would be a mistake to say my watching TV is “wrong,” but i’m certainly not rosa parks for turning on my fave episode of spongebob. feminism is a political project that seeks to disrupt, upend and abolish the regime of heterosexual ideology and male supremacy. one’s “personal choices” aren’t tantamount to revolutionary action simply because a choice was made; the result and impact of the “choice” must be assessed upon whether or not it furthers the real, objective, political project of, again, disrupting, upending and abolishing the regime of heterosexuality and male supremacy.

why do male marxists get this but u girlies don’t. c’mon now. if you said something silly like “i am a worker and i like oranges so my choosing to eat oranges is a marxist act” you would not be taken seriously because no one treats the ideologies that benefit men like a lifestyle magazine. i love eating a juicy grapefruit myself but wtf does that do for owning the means of production my good sis? now apply that same level of political sophistication and rigor to feminism. the tectonic and foundational threat that feminism poses to a centuries-long system of male power is precisely why the world tries to suppress it by reducing it to a toy that can be played with, or a product to be sold, or a lifestyle choice that impacts nothing but the endorphins in your head. idc if i keep beating a dead horse like an insane person it’s time to get woker and the time to get woker is NOW. 🤫

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@thefudge

my fav genre of fanfic is "ship i have not ever considered but the author is insane abt it in a way that intrigues me immensely"

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when do u think the next part of the eating series will be out??

I'm still fairly early in, I'm so sorry! work's finally calmed down a bit but being on nights put me into a reading binge and now I'm in that hangover stage where I'm inspired but also hyperaware of my own lazy conventionality, you know? no idea if that makes any sense but man, there's something about reading truly singular and startling writing that just makes you want to drop everything and go to a writing workshop and genuinely learn how to be good at this.

anyway, that was absolutely NOT your question lmao, but that's why I'm dragging my feet a little!

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ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - Declarations of Love [2/5]

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THE GREAT | 3.01 “The Bullet or The Bear”    

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SCHITT'S CREEK 5.07 — A Whisper of Desire

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please share the eating series preview!!!!

it's honestly just the first few paragraphs of the chapter! but does spoil a little bit in terms of how long things went on for and is vaguely explicit so will keep it under a cut.

It’s almost dawn by the time Rafe’s winding back to his room. He drifts down the hallway like a bloated body in a river. His stomach’s distended. His spleen’s gorged. His brain’s soft and gelatinous, swollen with her, with the necrotizing musk of the last few hours.

He didn’t even fully soften before they were going again. Dazed and compulsive, slicked in his still-warm cum. He doesn’t know how many rounds they went. How many times he swelled then slackened in her like a pair of lungs. How many ruts of her clit against different juts of him had her shuddering for the fourth time. Fifth time. He doesn’t know. Fuck, he doesn’t know. Numbers were letters and letters were blunt smoke. Time was folding in on itself like dough. He was high in so many ways, so many fucking ways. He drags a hand over his face as he pushes the door open, mouth caught in something hazy and condemned, a death row smile.   He stiffens when he sees Sofia sitting on the edge of the bed. She’s staring down at her hands. “Hey.” His engorged stomach hollows out. Her voice is quiet. She looks unbearably young for a second, her flimsy pajamas covered in cherries.   He swallows. “Hey.”

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I agree with your take on Kiara as it relates to riara, I feel like them getting closer opens up so many interesting storyline possibilities (for everyone in obx) and adds much needed depth of character for Kiara. Pretty obvious those so intensely vocal against it are shippers of another pairing

p.s. can’t wait for the new eating chapter!! 😭

thanks girl! I mean, to be fair, there are a lot of other ways they can add depth to Kiara without riara (or any kind of ship), but I do think if done right this one would challenge her as of now fairly shallow self-conceptions the most. it'd also likely put her through it emotionally and not make her feel great about herself, so if that's their argument, they're probably not wrong. I just see that as an opportunity for deepening a character rather than 'hating' them.

and ahh, so happy you're enjoying the fic! speaking of putting her through it 💀

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an ice cold beer topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. lying on top of the ice cream foam is a salted peanut. this is the angel. around him are sprinkles (his tears). this is "the angel's lament", my new cocktail