#then on international women's day he met me with chocolate and flowers and an umbrella because it was raining

[theladyofbloodshed]

Alright, gotta get this out of my system because I’ve been gone for a while.

The kind of romance you write cannot be compared to any others I’ve read so far (fanfics or original works). Your fanfics have been the highlight of my ACOTAR journey. Where SJM failed to show/write true romance, you always gave the best kind of romance. I remember how obsessed I was with the mating bond in the beginning. As I went on to read all the books, I realized that mating bond was just a device for lazy writing (idk if I am using this term correctly). There’s nothing common between mates (Rhys and Feyre being the prime example). They have sex and that’s it. Sometimes the ‘love’ aspect of it feels so forced that when I think about how things would be different if the mating bond didn’t exists, all I can come up with is that Rhys wouldn’t have bothered with Feyre. If his mate was Clare Beddor, regardless of how the series went, she would have been the queen of his heart and the High Lady of Night Court (this doesn’t make much sense but it’s just something that comes to my head when someone talks about how the title was earned and not given). The romance is just not there. But your romance 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. I am often labelled as someone who doesn’t like romantic stuff because honestly, I can’t connect with what most people think is romantic. But everytime I read your fics, it make me feels so many emotions. There’s a yearning. I have questions about when my theladyofbloodshed/Chelsea’s male protagonist will come and hold my face in his hands and ask me what I need and tell me how much he loves me. Or rather, show it to me (Pardon the dramatics, I’m emotional 🥹😂 I think I’m getting my period soon). I just can’t deal with all these emotions and yet I come here to read more of it. I love your couples, the romance, the friendship from where the romance starts (as opposed to the general approach where rather than being supportive to their vulnerable SO after a truly horrific incident, the supposed mate bends them over and fuck the pain and misery out of them).

Your writing reminds me of people who say that the male character is so good he seems to be written by a woman. You know, sometimes just exactly what we dream of.

What a comment 🥺🥺🥺 Thank you. I'm so glad you like the romance. I tend not to read romance books either but I always look for a nice romance embedded in the story. (I just finished Rule of Wolves and I am on my knees for Zoya and Nikolai). My golden rule is would these people want to spend an afternoon hanging out? Would they want to spend every dinner time together? There needs to be friendship. Take away the lust, are they on each others team?

My issue with sjm's couples are the points you've made here, that the mating bond is lazy. My favourite couple is probably chaol and yrene because at least they had their disagreements initially and had to become friends before they became anything more and it felt far more genuine.