Aliens Given for Monster Romance Requests: Why?
Recently, I’ve seen a fair few people on various social media platforms (predominantly Reddit, Tiktok, & IG) recommending alien romance novels when people are asking for monster romance recs. For example, I just saw someone recommending {Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon} for someone on the fantasyromance subreddit. How do people feel about this?
In my view, aliens are not monsters so they’re more of a scifi romance trope, and monsters belong firmly in the fantasy subgenre. So if I asked someone for monster romance books and people recommended me aliens I’d be peeved as it’s not what I asked for. I also feel like I never see it in the opposite direction: nobody is recommending monsters when people are asking for aliens. I think maybe people are supposing both aliens and monsters are equally unreal so they’re pretty much the same? But I’m curious to hear how others feel about this so I’m making this post. Are other people even noticing this phenomenon?
I know I can get overly rigid in my thinking & sometimes I feel like I’m Walter Sobchak ranting “This isn’t ‘Nam; there are rules!” into the void (referenced scene; NSFW) so I also want to know if I’m the only one bothered (in a very specific and not important way) by this!
ETA: thanks to those of you who took the time to reply and engage with my line of thinking! I’m going to stop replying though because most of my comments are being downvoted. That’s frustrating to me as I posted this thread looking for discussion (hence the flair), but it seems like since most people disagree with my viewpoint they’re saying I’m not contributing to my own discussion by explaining my own thought processes. I’ll keep upvoting any replies, though!