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My Most Hated Romance Tropes

Hi, this is going to be me convincing you to hate these tropes :)

A) Misplaced Sexual Tension

Is this a real thing? I see this trope so much that I'm starting to wonder if i'm the outlier.

This tends to come up in the "hurt/comfort" scene a lot. Basically, a character is deathly ill or even unconscious sometimes. The love interest is sitting by the bed. I would think that this is going to be angst-y scene where you get incite into the deep love that the love interest has for the sick one. And the resulting fear and concern.

BUT NO! The "Love Interest" "feels heat rush in between their legs" as they run off to the bathroom!

I hate this trope because it always turns romance into just more sexual shit. I don't want that. if I wanted to see two characters have lust for each other I would have just read an erotica.

B) Random Sexual Tension

Character A cries about their dead parent and Character B gets a boner

Character A hugs Character B. boobas

Character A promises to protect Character B and Character B immediately thinks about bedroom affairs

Character A is fighting and Character B is staring at their chest

SERIOUSLY!?! Why can't these characters keep it in their pants for just one motherf#cking moment!?

I hate it because I want to see Character A and Character B have their personalities and inner depth explored. I don't want to see literal sex objects!

C) Everything Serves Sex

I hate the belief that writers and fans share that all characters must act either according to their sexual position or as a subversion of that.

Seriously, I'm just trying to read about a nice gay love story and all the comments are talking about is:

"who's da top and who da bottom?"

"who man and who woman?"

GOD Fucking DAMMIT!!! This doesn't matter. Personality doesn't impact sexual habits.

i just want to see gay man love gay man or gay woman love gay woman.

i'm not here to read about erotica :`(

KATE WHAT A SWEETHEART ):

honestly kate needs to realize it's okay to let go of her siblings because they'll do amazing and thrive since she was the one who took care of them

HAHHAHHA ROOPA SEEMS GREAT

I mean maybe her friends have more "personality" than her because they're more vibrant and open, you know? Like Roopa's clearly been through a lot with her father, so it makes sense that she's closed off. Maybe her voice is more authentic, because she seems like more of an introvert than an extrovert? From what I can see, she clearly loves her brother, is an antiromantic, and struggles to speak up for herself, but has the ambition to move forward and move on. Plus, she seems bad with emotions (which, what a mood- every character of mine ever!!) haha

I'm sure everything will work out, though!

hiiii

🌾 what's something an OC needs to learn?

🌼 pick an OC and put them on blast. Call out their flaws, complain about what makes them difficult to write, etc.

Bless you bunny, bless you!

Thank youuuuu

🌾 So my Melody OC, Kate, needs to learn that it's okay for the world to revolve around her sometimes. She's too engrossed in making it perfect for her twin Elena, her brother Jeremy and her aunt Jenna that she most of the times sometimes forgets to think about herself.

She has anxiety and weirdly, instead of feeling anxious about herself or things relating to her safety, she thinks about her friends and family.

Take a breather Katey, it's going to be alright. Think about yourself too, it's no sin.

🌼 My unpublished fic OC: Roopa Subramaniam. It's hard to write her because I don't know what defines her life except her daddy issues or keeping her brother safe. She's a doctor and she has friends, but those friends tend to have more personality than her. In the sense I have 5 booklets worth of what makes them them but a page on Roopa.

Roopa essentially has one flaw, or defense mechanism: keeping love at bay unconsciously because she doesn't believe men can be any different than her own dad in a relationship. She's rude without reason sometimes and due to her defense mechanism, she ignores her best friend- Madhav, crushing on her since forever.

But she slowly changes when another guy (the male protagonist, a restaurant-chain owner and Madhav's childhood friend) shows up and is sweet to her.

Like gorl, I can't have one guy like me back AND YOU HAVE TWO

I'm more jealous of her situation now that I think of it