u/Tiny_Matter_4231

Why are books so ugly now? Every new book looks exactly the same. Shiny lifeless covers with overwrought titles. I don’t care whether you’re reading Maas or Sanderson or Yarros or the dungeon crawler guy, the carefully curated bookshelf you’ve been showing off is hideous.

Personally, I cannot read. All I know is all books are ugly now and there’s no point even pretending to be literate. The 21st century has seen the fall of the humble cover artist. Gone are the Margaret Brundages and Michael Whelans and Alicia Austins and Frank Frazettas of the world. I don’t know if Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell are dead yet but they might as well be.

Once upon a time you could show off your array of smutty fantasy without needing to crack open the spine. Everyone knew just from the cover exactly how perverted your tastes were. Now, no one can tell you are into naked alien ladies or ripped fantasy men just from a cursory glance at the book you left out on the coffee table. Not unless they’ve actually read the heinous tome, and what kind of nerd would admit to being literate?

I have no idea what the world is coming to. It’s pretty dark out there. All I want is for people to know that sapphic harems and MFM threesomes make for elite literature, but those books don’t even exist anymore.

Hello! I am new to the community and my collection is non existent. I am also from the other side of the world from both the west end and broadway theatre districts, so my opportunity to attend musical theatre beyond community shows is limited (though I do love community shows! More pointing out my lack of access to being able to contribute at this point in time)

I would love any gifts to help start a collection so I can get trading! I love tragedies and queer classics, but I am super keen for anything to help get my foot in the door. I would be super grateful to anyone willing to share :)

like I enjoy it ya know but now it’s playing in my head like a movie and I am so jealous of these MMC who can keep it going for six hours with their elephant dicks, it’s worse than any of the porn I’ve watched knowing there are werewolves out there who give it to their ladies in ways I never have.

I’ve never been more traumatised than by reading the first person perspective of a FMC getting dicked down in ways I’ve never experienced.

I’m actually a virgin and I don’t know if I want to pound that pussy or get pounded myself but all I know is that booktok smut with all its grunting and heaving and sliming is making me throw up five times a day.

After people recommending Quicksilver by Callie Hart over a thousand times, I DNF at 38% and I honestly don’t know how I made it that far. I typically don’t write reviews on here but this book was simultaneously boring and infuriating and I just had to state my piece.

I cannot believe this is the book people have been gushing over. I for one, LOVE shitty booktok books, they’re my guilty pleasure, add in a shadow daddy as they all do? And I’m sold. Except for this nothing burger book.

I’m sorry to the author and those who love it, i know I sound harsh but it took me 3 days to get to 38% that’s how horrible I found it.

Kingfisher was insufferable and boring, nothing about him excited me and I hated that she agreed to that whole rubbish, he was extremely obnoxious and degrading. Everlayne pissed me off because he is an objectively bad person but she wants her to forget how he treated her just because she claims that he’s nice and had family issues? Don’t we all.

I don’t even know anything about Saeris (it took me a second to even recall her name just now). I was pissed from the moment her queen ganged up on her and decided that she would be the one to go in the portal that wasn’t her idea and might jeopardise her future. I’m not going to lie, she was dumb because she chose to put her life on the line, steal extremely expensive things (she made it sound like it was special but how would she even have gotten her hands on that, and so quickly), then take the brunt of the damage cost by subjecting herself to that loser.

I love an enemies-to-lovers but not when the other person is just a shitty person making life harder for everyone around them. I’m not even going to talk about her turning down that outrageous amount of money just to do all this for nothing because of “her brother”.

I had to stop reading when she suddenly started feeling tingly around him because he woke up one day and decided to give her five seconds of attention. That whole part just didn’t make sense, they both did a completely unrealistic 180. I honestly should have stopped reading when she agreed to move into his house but I told myself it would get better—spoiler alert—it didn’t.

Everyone here needs to dust off your long forgotten copies and reread Twilight, stat 🍎🤲 It is the ultimate dark romantasy!!! 🖤🥀

🚨‼️ Before you uncultured gooners downvote, let me make my case!!

Dark romantasy does not necessarily have to be spicy!! ❌🌶️❌🌶️

And I feel like Edward is a very morally grey character, having murdered people and actively wanting to EAT Bella, neck first. 🤤🗡️🩸

Yet she is infatuated with him because of his vampire rizz 🦷🧛‍♂️🍆 and their story is portrayed as a romance 💋🥀❤️‍🩹

Ya’ll out here acting like Alchemised was the first dark romantasy hit, but NO!! It was Twilight all along 💅😌