#best romance of 2022

[sarahmaclean]

Heartbreaker is a Best Romance of the Year!

I'm so incredibly thrilled to be a part of this roundup at the Washington Post with some of my favorite people (and favorite books!) of the year! I can absolutely cosign Kennedy Ryan (the best drama/angst writer writing right now), Angelina Lopez (so much 🔥🔥🔥), Christina Lauren (the best adventure romance of the year, hands down), and Tracey Livesay (god I love this book so much) -- and I'm adding the others to my TBR right now!

Read the whole piece (and sort your end of year reading!) here.

[fated-mates]

MISTAKES WERE MADE by Meryl Wilsner

[literallygeeway]

every mcr fan help me to manifest another world tour because i cannot survive without seeing this band live at least once in my life

[iero]

x

[genghisthebrain]

i have never really minded being queerbaited as much as i should because i'm a QPR whore

wenclair as extremely codependent best friends who live together platonically and love one another in that deep and reverential way but not romantically would honestly be the dream

[hockeylovee12]

Anyone But Him

Table of Contents

Jack Hughes x Original Character

Summary: Over the course of a year Sadie Howe and Jack Hughes find themselves falling hard for one another only problem is Sadie is the best friend of Luke Hughes, Jack’s younger brother. Read along to find out their story plays out.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I previously posted a version of this story with a prologue, but I write this story on AO3 and I wanted to try my hand at coding, and at then when I came back to writing I realized I didn't actually need my prologue and decided to just recreate it, so this is the version that will contain the full work, the other version will be left up, because I don't believe in deleting my work, and I still like it it just doesn't work this, so just keep that in mind if you read the prologue, then come here and notice inconsistencies, it's because they weren't written with the intent of going together. Additionally, as I mentioned this is posted on AO3. Once a chapter is completed it will be posted below. Please feel free to leave any feedback for me in asks! And feel free to share just don’t take credit for my work please!

Characters

Sadie

Jack

Luke

Part One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

[iloveutoodeath]

my video of my chem performing sleep live!!!!! i love this song so much so so much

[big-gay-apocalypse]

wade and cable's bond is true. don't even try to fake it

// Deadpool (2022) #8

[raremikey]

[grishaxverse]

there is nothing better than rewatching the love story of a food researcher and a ceo falling for each other while her best friend and his secretary also fall for each other when your mental health is down

[sarahmaclean]

Heartbreaker is a Best Romance of 2022!

Thrilled to see the Kirkus Reviews best of the year list includes Adelaide and Henry -- Heartbreaker is on the list along with so many of my own favorites this year!

See the whole list, and fill your TBR!

[n0ne0ftheab0ve]

the thing is. lestat loves louis's worst self.

and like. how utterly painfully scorchingly romantic. someone who loves the darkest parts of you, will never recoil from your worst impulses, will never deny you comfort shelter love for even the worst thing you could do.

but. how do you build an actual relationship with someone who doesn't care about your self-improvement? who doesn't support you growing and becoming your best self, who actively denigrates you for attempts at kindness and empathy? how do you navigate on the day to day with someone who wants nothing more than for you to behave monstrously?

and for louis, his entire life he feels he's been loved/accepted only conditionally. loved by his family only for his good deeds, for managing the household and taking care of his siblings. loved romantically only for fleeting moments, stolen away from the everpresent watchful eye of a homophobic society. loved in spite of the omnipresent racism pressing in on his every breath. so of course the deeply encompassing love lestat is offering him is enticing.

but i always say, for me, love is someone doing the dishes for you. doing a mundane, annoying, everyday task just so that your beloved doesn't have to do it. doing it consistently. it's fine to be swept off your feet by someone, but most of life involves being on your feet. love means being able to build a life with someone. and life is full of mundane annoyances. so your love must be able to deal with mundane annoyance.

and lestat has no intention of doing the dishes for louis.

[iero]

we are the very hurt you sold.  x | x | insp. 

[empty-pools-vacant-alleyways]

i'm on the west coast so it's still 10:45 pm on may 11 for me but still HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDATIONS OF DECAY YEAHHHHHHH

[lipstickontheglass1985]

mcr warsaw artist here: exactlyyyyy warszawa centralna... i had to hoof it there from the show in the middle of the night and then wait until 4-5 am to actually get home. you couldn't walk without stepping on an mcr fan in that place.

yeah i was lucky enough to have a place to stay overnight after the concert (cause like man staying at the station overnight sounds honestly kinda awful esp with how overcrowded it seemed) but before that me and my friends headed there cause we were hungry and everything else other than the 24/7 fast food joints at the station was closed at this point and it was like. such a surreal experience. like stepping into an alternate reality where 90% of warsaws population suddenly got really into red eyeshadow

[monroevilledesigns]

Newly discovered Conventional Weapons tracks?!?! Number Six is a Kazoo?!?