Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all

[urnotgettingmyurl]

[donnajosh]

[baejoos]

favorite k-drama couples: 2/? — do bong-soon & ahn min hyuk (strong woman do bong-soon)

“You know what’s different about a soulmate? I can see myself in that person’s eyes and I look so, so happy.”

[melynskeys]

Gertchase + height difference

[schittsource]

I love you. I’m in love with you. I know I don’t have any right to say that to you… I just feel like if I didn’t tell you how I felt, I would literally go insane.

[fairweathermyth]

Singles are sad enough, so we want the puppies to be happy and fun and flirty.

[claudia-kishi]

While I’m looking at me, I’m hoping to find you.

[astraldemise]

god nerfed me by making me allergic to garlic and sunlight

[valquita]

so, a vampire?

[astraldemise]

i can confirm that i am not a vampire as i have blood

[nisslaboratories]

Is it your blood?

[astraldemise]

it is blood, yes

[nisslaboratories]

Is it blood that has always belonged to you, from the moment of your spawning?

[astraldemise]

it is blood, it is in my possession, therefore it is my blood

[tahthetrickster]

[kyrumption]

a few of my favourite things ☆ (21/30) male characters: matt saracen

no, i’m sorry… i don’t like carrots and i don’t like when they touch the meat. i’m sorry, i’m sorry. i’m being rude, i’m sorry. i don’t like being rude. i don’t like being rude. i’m just having a moment here. i’m just having a moment, i don’t think i’m ok. i hate him. i don’t like hating people, but i just put all my hate on him so i don’t have to hate anyone else so i can be a good person, you know to my grandma, to my friends, to your daughter. that’s all i want to say. i want to tell him to his face that i hate him but he doesn’t even have a face.

[ale-la-pazza1]

[fugascious]

                  She chewed her lip. “I don’t sew very well, I mean. Septa Mordane used to say I had a blacksmith’s hands”

          Gendry hooted. “Those soft little things?” he called out. “You couldn’t even hold a hammer.”

A Storm of Swords | Arya's POV VII

[halpertjames-deactivated2016100]

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[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

It’s INSANE to me how controversial romance novels are. Romance novels. Like, being openly a fan of them immediately opens you up to people constantly coming at you like “but don’t you think it’s ~limiting- and ~juvenile~ to have a genre of books with happy endings for women?”

Like.

No?

Why is it such a big deal to want to read stories where women have sex and then don’t die at the end? Jesus Christ.

Why is the concept of female characters being happy seen as less creative than female characters suffering? (Trust me, creating a world where women win in the end takes a lot more creativity and artistic vision lmfao)

Anyway, literary bros will pry my romance novels with their happy endings from my cold dead fingers.

[jennyredford]

Or die in the very beginning of the book. But no one calls out James Patterson for writing another formulaic thriller in which a woman is horrifically killed after getting laid and then some man solves her murder. Every. Damn. Time.

But hey, those romance novels where women get happy endings are so limiting, eh?

[dandiliiontea-deactivated202105]

Real talk: realizing how common it is for female characters to be punished for on-the-page sex with death was a big part of my embracing the romance genre. Once I noticed it I couldn’t unnotice it. It’s everywhere. A woman having sex in literature or non-romance genre fiction is the literary equivalent of a red shirt on Star Trek.

[roo-bastmoon]

It’s not just the sex thing, though that’s a key element. It’s that, in romance novels, the heroine gets to be cared for the way she normally would care for everyone else. It’s wish fulfillment in that her romantic partner will do emotional labor, spend a great deal of time thinking about her, or sacrifice his desires or fortune or reputation to be with her, or spend days nursing her back to health, or risking his life to save hers. In romance novels, you’ll find men taking care of children, talking about their feelings, putting effort into their appearance—even if they are adorably bad at it. Watch how many romance novel protagonists fall in love with a man who happens to be rich or handsome, but she didn’t give in until his behavior changed and he starts mentoring her, or providing for her, or being gentle toward her, nourishing her, listening to her, appreciating her… I suspect romance novels are looked down upon not for being juvenile formulaic “beach reads” but because they paint a fantasy world that leaves men feeling uncomfortable or even emasculated. But whether you’re a Midwest housewife or a big city CEO, women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty. Great sex they don’t have to die for is also a huge bonus, but the *romance* part of the novel is genuinely more about the woman being appreciated (for her beauty or spunk or intelligence at first, and then for all of her by the end).

[codenamecesare]

“women who read romance novels just want to read about men loving women the way women are expected to love everyone else—with a nurturing and protective form of unswerving loyalty.”

[obsessionisaperfume]

THANK YOU.

[lyricwritesprose]

According to the website smartbitchestrashybooks, which analyzes romance novels to a great degree, one common element of the average romance novel is what they call the grovel.  That is, there’s a turning point near the climax of the book where the leading man says, in effect, “I hurt you.  I had my reasons, but they don’t make it right.  I am devastated that I hurt you, and I will do whatever it takes to make it okay again.  Leaving you is completely on the table even though I find the prospect horrific.”

And that’s a very important fantasy.  To have your feelings, your pain, be made so absolutely central to the narrative, to someone else’s world.  You could call it a power fantasy, but I don’t think that’s exactly right.  It’s a significance fantasy.  A romance story is a story in which the woman is the most significant damn thing in the book.

And when you think of it like that, you realize why some people are really, really threatened by it.

[carolinekualii]

Tommy x Jude Kisses

[kaimonel]

[ceremonial]

Ophelia (2018), dir. Claire McCarthy