Romance novels - ~Ravished by the Rogue Shitlord~

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

If someone could explain the fascination with Scotland, I would very much appreciate it.

I'm not a woman or gay (may be a fag, but not gay), but it seems obvious to me:

1) Manly men, Scots are always portrayed as loud angry warrior types

2) Slightly exotic, but not really. Most Americans have some kind of British Isles ancestry so it is a way to simultaneously be:
Exotic, by not being American or English
Directly tied to ancestry
Still be comfortably White and familiar

It's the same reason why people, both male and female, eat up Scottish/Irish/Viking shit of any genre.

3) Maybe connections to faeries? Women love their witchshit and magic and stuff. Again, it's Celtic culture, Ground Zero for witchery.


Edit: For ME my Scotland obsession began as a way for me to vicariously live the achievements of others, beat my chest, when I learned how much shit Scotland invented (technologies, scientific discoveries, social science theories). As Scots-Irish hill trash.

 

[DeutscheKatze]

any novels about werewolf women upset with their love interest, just end up eating the man?
no more love sickness.

 

[Hitchhiker]

any novels about werewolf women upset with their love interest, just end up eating the man?
no more love sickness.

I think what you just described is called vore, and you can find it on DeviantArt.

 

[DeutscheKatze]

I think what you just described is called vore, and you can find it on DeviantArt.

XDD nooo

 

[Hitchhiker]

XDD nooo

Somehow that's not very convincing that you're not looking it up right now.


On the thread topic, I occasionally read romance stuff, and I'm glad my parents didn't buy me any when I was younger. I probably already got fucked up badly by reading weird ass young adult novels in middle school, so romance novels would not have helped that.

 

[liam dees]

The first time I read about sex was from a Dan Brown novel. Dan Brown sucks.

 

[CaseyTatumm]

Not sure if this fits the thread but this kept showing up on my front page of Inkitt for a while.

 

[Hoof]

 

[Argos]

So.eone on the first page wanted to know why romances novels had the same language. A friend who was trying to write romance found a book of romance tags, a collection of phrases that help make romance novels, romance novels.

Read aloud and out of context, some of them were a riot:

"his long Viking legs "

As opposed to his short Pygmy legs?

 

[gobbles]

I think part of it is that romance is such a high-volume business--the last cited figure I saw was that romance occupies about 40% of the entire literary market--that you get a lot of boilerplate plots, boilerplate language, that kind of thing.

I also think romance is, by design, formulaic. Kids like Dr. Seuss because sounds repeat and the books are all quite the same; women like romance because ditto.

I am currently reading Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn, which was published back in 1988.

I don’t consider Dragon Prince to be romance at all. I wanted to read about dragons—it also doesn’t have many of those—and it was just relentless fictional politics. The cover is very deceiving.

I have a theory that female authors found it easier to sell fantasy books as romance. As soon as they got a contract, they dropped the romance plots basically entirely. It’s something I’ve noticed with a lot of 80s and 90s fantasy where the first book might have some sex, and then the next 2-5 don’t even include the same characters let alone a romance.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

women like romance because ditto

Women like romance because they wish their husbands/boyfriends were hot and wild sex gods just like the main dude who deflowers the self-insert. It's so rooted in our genetic code it probably can be traced back to cavemen days where only the most wild masculine beasts could procreate.

 

[She Beetle]

Is there a romance novel where the man starts off masculine and virile, but stops working out six months into the relationship then brings up pegging and/or cheats?

 

[CallmeCicada]

Is there a romance novel where the man starts off masculine and virile, but stops working out six months into the relationship then brings up pegging and/or cheats?