#that could potentially foster or develop those feelings they're always soulmates by the end
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It's kind of funny how romantic love in YA novels manages to be simultaneously thee most important thing in the world and also completely meaningless
#thinking about this a lot lately#like. romantic relationships and falling in love are often thee central element of the story with everything else coming in second and#who a character is or isn't in love with is often what the rest of the plot hinges on. but romance and love are treated like this weird#Thing That Just Happens To You with no actual agency and very little proper development (often because the characters themselves are poorly#established) so you have characters 'falling in love' with people they know next to nothing about and don't even really seem to like as#people but because they're attracted to them or they want to kiss each other now they're bound by this unfathomable force of nature that#makes the world go round#its genuinely so bizarre#and often you're just kind of told that they're in love or they start fixating on this other person so completely almost out of nowhere bc#you the audience are meant to understand that obviously Boy Character and Girl Character are attractive and the same age and therefore must#have an unbreakable romantic connection regardless of who they actually are or any other fact about them#it's a foregone conclusione they'll be in love by the end so no matter how little time passes or how few meaningful interactions they have#that could potentially foster or develop those feelings they're always soulmates by the end#like what does love even mean in this context?#like i would argue that the love between people be they siblings friends lovers parent-child actually IS the most important thing but thats#not really what you're getting here
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