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Snowflake Day #11
Jan. 26th, 2025 02:08 amDay 11
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
This isn't going to quite fit one of these specifically, but let me tell you that the last year or two when I take breaks between more serious books like for book club or just my personal tbr which is often horror, I fell hard into the "dark" romance genre. Here's the thing though, I only really like it when it's also funny. Like, I'm not actually there for the romance necessarily (though it's often a bonus) but if the characters are witty? Sign me up.
One of the most popular this year was Lights Out by Navessa Allen, which is a stalker romance where the man is a masked thirst trap dude on TikTok. None of that is my thing. Don't care for stalkers, don't care at all for masks (in fact I find them terrifying) HOWEVER it took me listening to like three different clips on TikTok of the audiobook and I was sold. The characters are flirty and clever, the dialogue is campy, their romance is kind of goofy (when it's not sexy), and nothing in this book is taking itself too seriously.
This is my favorite shit. I want characters who, like every day real life humans, crack jokes and do silly shit and treat their romantic partners as friends they can joke around with. Sure, yearning is great sometimes, but it's less realistic to me and I get tired of it quickly.
If I want dark and gritty, I can read my regular horror novels.
If we're talking fanfic specific - I'm a fan of the yearning, the slow burn, the friends to lovers where we get to see the relationship transform. Because in fanfic, I know the characters right? So I want to know what makes them change their mind about the other person, what is it that finally unlocks the romance for them. If it's also silly, goofy and fun, that's a fun bonus for me.
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
This isn't going to quite fit one of these specifically, but let me tell you that the last year or two when I take breaks between more serious books like for book club or just my personal tbr which is often horror, I fell hard into the "dark" romance genre. Here's the thing though, I only really like it when it's also funny. Like, I'm not actually there for the romance necessarily (though it's often a bonus) but if the characters are witty? Sign me up.
One of the most popular this year was Lights Out by Navessa Allen, which is a stalker romance where the man is a masked thirst trap dude on TikTok. None of that is my thing. Don't care for stalkers, don't care at all for masks (in fact I find them terrifying) HOWEVER it took me listening to like three different clips on TikTok of the audiobook and I was sold. The characters are flirty and clever, the dialogue is campy, their romance is kind of goofy (when it's not sexy), and nothing in this book is taking itself too seriously.
This is my favorite shit. I want characters who, like every day real life humans, crack jokes and do silly shit and treat their romantic partners as friends they can joke around with. Sure, yearning is great sometimes, but it's less realistic to me and I get tired of it quickly.
If I want dark and gritty, I can read my regular horror novels.
If we're talking fanfic specific - I'm a fan of the yearning, the slow burn, the friends to lovers where we get to see the relationship transform. Because in fanfic, I know the characters right? So I want to know what makes them change their mind about the other person, what is it that finally unlocks the romance for them. If it's also silly, goofy and fun, that's a fun bonus for me.
