WIP FIRST TIME AUTHOR ISO CRIT PARTNER //Between Two Crowns WT
I could really use an EMT rn bc my GI sys is in 911. Could be the 🥵, but my SO is out & I’m drinking lotsa H2O. I’m also ✍️ a book, which is making my GI sys more diarrheal, but Im rly ISO an RN or an MD—maybe even a CRNP or a PA-C. WTF. Anyhoo, my FMC loves a RH, but the MMC is POd and wants no part of it. BTW, every MC in this book has magical elbows.
Also, hbd Violet 🎂
apparently we have a special birthday girl today! Eeeeeeep! Happy Birthday, Violet Sorrengail! We bought you a special scooper for your flying pooper.
What are some lesser known kinks or tropes that you'd like to read more of?
I, personally, would like to see at least six chapters with nothing but shrimping in my next book
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Half-year lists, babes!
It's time for everyone's half-year lists that hopefully features book covers with daggers, skulls, roses, courts and flames. I've started a frame to help you out:
- VC Andrews Honorable Mention: Takes place in a sexy, murdery, gothic castle in New England
- This Can't Be Healthy: Orfices, creatures, mental trauma due to reading about any of the above
- NLOG: Except you are. LEOG.: Mystifyingly beautiful, white, blonde/redhead, hardscrabble upbringing, gave bjs in the back of rusty cars just to feel something
- This is okay because I am a broken man, etc..: Scars--outside and in, never been challenged by anyone like NLOG, named by (now deceased) mother something like "Xyrdifax," "Cryznwel" or "Drothanwyxx." Gets away with a lot of bullshit.
- Y'all Know Birds Are Germy as Hell, Right? Sorry, but they are. Fleas, flu--just post books with ravens and crows, sparrows, mallards and pigeons. They are harbingers of feelings...and a lot of shit you do not want.
The rest are left blank for your own kinks at this point in the year.
Watching the Princess Diaries 2....
i actually want to scramble my brain with a pitchfork because Disney employs about as much imagination as a fungal toenail, and the lead actress appears to be formed from birch—maybe poplar. Anyway, I clearly want to read books that are as digestible as pureed rice, so please throw your Romantasy recs at me
I regret many things, most of all myself
I purchased a book. A physical, non-downloadable book upon recommendations from The New York Times and the Book Store Owner. I judged the book by it’s cover, and now I have opened said cover and discovered…a recommended playlist.
*takes an axe to all visible furniture*
Looking for books with the Secret Shame trope
I’m looking for the kind of books where the FMC or MMC exhibit the world’s healthiest emotion: shame.
it could be as follows:
- vomiting or diarrheal prior to social engagement and then shame
- self-loathing and perpetual feelings of rejection due to shame
- Crippling anxiety, weight loss or gain, hair loss or gain, magic loss or gain because shame
Great relationships happen when one or more parties is crushed under the weight of feeling totally worthless. And the sex! Bonkers.
I love Romantasy so hard, but the characters seem a little…shameless, dare I say? We can do better.
The book store cuck chair, where I can sit and watch my girl fuck our bank account😔😂 Meme / Humor
this is where I can watch my (MY) girl drain our bank account on books!! hahahaha! Bruh, hilarious! She’s spending my money! The money I earn in our shared life where I keep her!! Luckily for her, I love to spoil her and let her go crazy on expensive treats…like books.
Yeah, I bought her that designer Stanley for Mother’s Day—although, knowing my wife, she probably lost it at a game or one of the 400 afterschool and weekend our activities we’ve signed our three kids up for. I can’t make them—a man needs his downtime.
Luckily for my wife, though, I decided to let her go crazy and buy some books on a Sunday afternoon! She loves all of that imaginary world shit with imaginary fairy men. (I MEAN FAIRY MEN, AMIRITE?) She seems pretty wrapped up in them. she reads them while driving the Bronco I bought her, while she’s frying bacon, and even when I’d rather be doing other activities, ifyouknowwhatimean.
Bro, the cuck chair! Wife reading! Dude!
What is your definition of romantasy?
i ask because I worry we haven’t beaten this dead unicorn enough
going to a ROMANTASY quiz!! ✨ what would you ask?
i feel like i’m so under prepared, low-key scared to let my friends down! Most of them are thriller readers but we wanted to give it a go!
Can you help prep me? What are some questions you’d ask if you ran a quiz??
Prep Question 1: Did you drink both prescribed bottles with lots of liquids at the assigned times? Have you had any solid foods in the last 24 hours?
Prep Question 2: Have you removed any smart watches or other devices from your body prior to taking this standardized test that could get you into college or destroy everything you ever wanted?
Prep Question 3: How are you with GPS? Waze? Google Maps? An old-timey “hand-sketched map“ of places both sinister and holy?
Prep Question 4: What are your thoughts on improbable sexual encounters with genitalia that range from t-ball bat sized to liver puncturing?
Prep Question 5: How are you with fillers? Not for your lips, silly, but the kid that drag out a book/series to untenable lengths? Food being sliced and eaten while plot-driving conversation happens, FMC reminding herself that she is strong, but curious, but feisty, bit horny over the course of three chapters and then repeated.
Can we get a nuanced take on Violet Sorrengail for once?
no. if you were supposed to spend this much time thinking about a book character, you’d be writing a paper on Ulysses
Best book to read on honeymoon
Getting married this summer and looking to pick which series I am going to read during the honeymoon! I want something with one of the best romances around. These are some of the things that are high on my TBR:
- Frog and Toad are Friends
- Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt
- Virginity: A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven
- Roget’s Thesaurus
- Becoming A Modern Godly Man: 30 Inspirational Stories For Modern Christian Teens To Connect Jesus Teachings With Building Mental Strength, Finding Purpose and Living Their Ideal Life!
- 50 Shades of Grey
- The SATs for Dummies
- The Book of Margery Kempe
Bring Your Own Box: My Wine and Romantasy Book Club
I‘be got 3 liters of moscato and some sandwich rollups. Now I just need help choosing the right read for my laydeees👠👠👠🥂🥂🍾🍷🍑🍑🧻
I’m so tired of being told there’s a plot twist in a book, THAT in itself should be considered a spoiler!
I like my romantasy like my men: predictable with no surprise knots.
Have any of you read the Marion Chesney romances?
I’m not frequently on Reddit, but last year I became a fan of the Agatha Raisin cozy mysteries (which are written under the pen name “M.C. Beaton”) Beaton worked in a bookstore in Glasgow, and later became a theatre critic and then a crime reporter. Before the Agatha Raisin phase, she wrote any number of romance novels because she felt those of her era (at that point the 1970s and 80s) failed to meet Georgette Heyer’s standards of regency details and setting.
In any case, her books are all very short with snappy writing and engaging characters. Because of the era in which she wrote them (which was much further along than the regency era in consent), readers can expect some outmoded takes on sex. I love them because she drops fascinating historical facts that blend in so well to the era, and in each novel, something absolutely batshit happens.
Hoopla, Kindle, and Audible are the best formats I know of to get them, but I was wondering how many people here had read them. I highly recommend the author for reading slumps.
reading is dying and writers are the last people willing to admit it
Greetings,
I‘m writing this from Discord, a platform famous for disaffected young men, incels, bros sharing state secrets, gun nuts, homemade bomb makers, white supremacists, rage supremacists, celibate supremacists, and kids who just wanted to game a little bit.
EVERYTHING I STATE IS ABSOLUTE. I am anywhere from 12 to “and over” and I shall shout into this empty soup can which I cleverly opened on BOTH sides to amplify my internet voice.
I‘m telling you, friends—no one reads anymore, so just put down your journals, your Google Docs, your AO3, your Literorica (you know who you are) and most of all your sparkly notebooks with flowery pens and give it the fuck up.
You are the worthless bags you feared you might be, so just give it up and pointlessly yell into an echo chamber. Troll strangers, avoid natural light, develop your own secret code, and consider the ratios of household chemicals instead.
Why do all MMCs look the same?
why are they all black haired with bronzed skin? Can’t they be Aryan heroes like 1980s He-Man cartoons?
I could go on forever about their chiseled, ticking jaws, the fleck/rings/floating magics of their eyes. In no way will I realize that the author wants to accomplish several things:
They need to be Just Dark Enough™️ to be considered inclusive and appeal to POC Just Light Enough™️ as not to turn off the mighty white reader.
It’s the movie peopleses problem to work with in casting. The author nailed inclusion and by the way, how dare you use the words “movie” or “film” because these authors write for the art so fuck off Edith Wharton