There's an in-universe parody of Narnia called Fillory in The Magicians books. It is overseen by two incredibly gay goat men. The in-universe replacement for Lewis who wrote the books is a crazed pedophile who also uses kids to get to Fillory because it's the source of all magic in existence.
And yet that is still less disrespectful to Narnia than whatever the fuck this is.
Apparently there is an increase in middle aged women (not pooners) divorcing their husbands over YA/NA/romantasy fic like heated rivalry and a lot of them are talking about finding a love as 'pure' as the fictional books. A lot of 'you go girlie' 'you deserve someone who loves you' commentary, which I agree with, but holy shit imagine you think you are going to find a fucking love story thats straight out of a fictional book designed to titillate (to say nothing of how most of these books are about fags).
EDIT: I hate searching this shit it ruins my fyp. working on archives Divorce theory (AI generated caption, nice)
I read about the Heated Rivalry Theory online and it stopped me in my tracks.
The idea is simple. In long term relationships, couples can slowly slip into quiet competition…
Who’s more tired.
Who’s done more.
Who sacrificed more.
Who deserves the break.
And without meaning to, the person you chose becomes the person you measure.
When I read that, I felt a bit winded.
Because somewhere between school runs, work, logistics, WhatsApp groups, and remembering which child needs trainers on which day… it’s easy to stop seeing your marriage as a love story.
It becomes a management meeting.
But this is a love story.
It’s the boy I fell for.
It’s the man who became a father.
It’s the two of us building a life that once only existed as a vague dream in our twenties.
And it’s still a love story.
And when I stopped viewing the hard days as evidence of imbalance and started viewing them as chapters… everything softened.
We’re not rivals keeping score.
We’re co authors.
And suddenly the small things felt different. The way he makes tea without asking. The way we debrief the day in the kitchen. The way we both show up, imperfectly but consistently.
The Heated Rivalry Theory didn’t make me worried about my marriage.
I wasn't planning to talk about this here, but after opening up a little on Threads, I realized I'm far from the only Elder Loon going through a divorce.
As strange as it sounds, Heated Rivalry made me ask some hard questions about the kind of love I want, the kind I deserve, and what it means to choose joy instead of settling.
This isn't becoming a divorce account. It's still books, reader psychology, and joyful reading around here. But sometimes stories shine a light on our real lives, and I think that's worth talking about.
If you've ever had a book change the direction of your life, I'd love to hear about it.
Apparently there is an increase in middle aged women (not pooners) divorcing their husbands over YA/NA/romantasy fic like heated rivalry and a lot of them are talking about finding a love as 'pure' as the fictional books.
imagine you think you are going to find a fucking love story thats straight out of a fictional book designed to titillate (to say nothing of how most of these books are about fags).
Literal teenage brainrot. That's what this boils down to, they want fantasies akin to what they read on AO3 and Wattpad if only because they likely already self-insert themselves into the stories.
Women were divorcing their husbands after watching Hallmark made for TV movies or slop like the Notebook. Gay hockey romances and fairy fucking fics aren't the root cause just like pornography isn't the root cause in men leaving their wives.
Marriage just simply isn't respected as an institution. That's all it is at the end of the day.
I don't have a solution to this social problem, but gay hockey books are definitely not the root cause.
Yes I'm sure "Nicky Khan" the WhatsApp user is going to actually divorce her husband (Uncle Bashir) and not simply copepost on instagram in between halal beatings.
Apparently there is an increase in middle aged women (not pooners) divorcing their husbands over YA/NA/romantasy fic like heated rivalry and a lot of them are talking about finding a love as 'pure' as the fictional books. A lot of 'you go girlie' 'you deserve someone who loves you' commentary, which I agree with, but holy shit imagine you think you are going to find a fucking love story thats straight out of a fictional book designed to titillate (to say nothing of how most of these books are about fags).
Very similar situation as to why China is forbidding their media companies from producing more "rich man falls madly in love with poor dumpy woman" romance slop. Woman seem to be incredibly susceptible to being programmed by the media they consume.
Very similar situation as to why China is forbidding their media companies from producing more "rich man falls madly in love with poor dumpy woman" romance slop. Woman seem to be incredibly susceptible to being programmed by the media they consume.
Programmed? That's literally factory default settings for Chinese women. Even prior to the current short form "CEO boyfriend" slop trend, they were lining up in droves to be the second and third mistresses of rich party bigwigs rather than marry a normal dude with similar SES. That's just traditional Chinese culture.
China's slowly killing off most of its media industries because Xi Jinping is an old-school Marxist-Leninist who believes anything that isn't socialist-realism is bourgeois decadence. CEO boyfriend is one part of this but also a lot of content for men is similarly being hit with the stick.
Marrying "a normal dude" in China isn't like in the West. The family of the husband has to pay a bride price and men are expected to have a car, a house / big apartment and a high monthly salary. This is something deeply ingrained in chinese society. The CCP couldn't erase this tradition. There is also the problem of the luxury obession in chinese society (it's way worse than in the West).
Making young women responsible for the culture they grew up in is incredibly fucked up and retarded. (I'm not talking about you specifically).
Marrying "a normal dude" in China isn't like in the West. The family of the husband has to pay a bride price and men are expected to have a car, a house / big apartment and a high monthly salary. This is something deeply ingrained in chinese society. The CCP couldn't erase this tradition. There is also the problem of the luxury obession in chinese society (it's way worse than in the West).
Making young women responsible for the culture they grew up in is incredibly fucked up and retarded. (I'm not talking about you specifically).
Oh I'm not blaming them for it. I'm more just pointing out that the people who talk about CEO boyfriend videos as some kind of nefarious jew media programming don't really understand Chinese women - this is what they're raised and acculturated into. At best you can argue that they're using this kind of of content as a form of emotional/mental support to further put off settling down, but I don't know if I really buy that either.
Being a woman outside the western world is just kinda miserable and kpop/romantasy/tikslop romance is a coping mechanism, not a root cause.
If you want to start changing this, pointedly look for a book you want and check it out. If it's not there, ask the librarian to order it.
It's easy to fall into this gender war rut but at the end of the day you have to be a consumer and tell library systems and bookstores what you want. Romance dominates because women actually go out and buy/borrow this shit.
If you want to start changing this, pointedly look for a book you want and check it out. If it's not there, ask the librarian to order it.
It's easy to fall into this gender war rut but at the end of the day you have to be a consumer and tell library systems and bookstores what you want. Romance dominates because women actually go out and buy/borrow this shit.
>waaahhh libraries are catering to normies and not me even though normies are the ones who patronize libraries while I don't
Don't be a lazy nigger. Piracy is based and libraries should cater to more than just one audience on principle, but complaining about a problem and then refusing to act when given a solution to it makes you look like a whiny faggot.
If you don't like the stuff you see on display, just use the library's search feature and ask them to put the books on hold for you. That's how I look for my library books. This goes double if the library is part of a big city system with multiple locations.
Does Kaileb's Dream fall under the purview of YA? I hope so, it's so enjoyably awful and bad that I think it actually buoys other YA by its existence, thus of which is good.
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