the twisted world of dark romance fiction

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  @nagisa9147 · 1 year ago

  It’s crazy because i’ve heard the big balls snippet so many times but not once did anyone add in the detail that they were STEP-SIBLINGS 😕

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  @Oceanatornowk · 1 year ago

  I’ve heard it said that these books are for women who never had a fanfiction phase and from everything I’ve seen, that tracks

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  @eirenses · 1 year ago

  Guys, we did it. A day has come where Mina Le mentions ao3. We've won

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  @judyprinceneeb · 1 year ago

  As someone who leads a Percy Jackson Book Club for middle schoolers, I would like to take a moment and discuss the impact that series has had on kids - specifically their understanding of Classical Greek Literature. I have two eighth graders who went in hard when we started to discuss the second book, The Sea of Monsters. Their understanding of the Odyssey was better than some of the university discussions I once had the “pleasure” to partake. At our most recent meeting, we spent at least ten minutes going over the tragedy of Achilles and Patroclus and why reading The Iliad is important in relation to fame and fortune. <br><br>That students are shamed for citing Percy Jackson as their favorite is a travesty. That children’s literature is easily dismissed because it’s just for kids means dismissing amazing literature that sets the tone for how we see the world. I know I’m going off on a soap box about kids lit on a discussion about dark romance but I’m just tired of it being easily dismissed when there are some amazing titles out there.

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  @catis4 · 1 year ago

  One criticism that I see about dark romance and that I think almost everyone can agree with is how they are marketed. A lot of these books are marketed as a cute romance with flowers designs in the cover or sometimes as YA fiction, which makes teenagers or uninformed people more susceptible to read a dark book, when they were expecting something else.

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  @laviniaseganfredo · 1 year ago

  Plot twist: Wuthering Heights is, in my opinion, dark romance.

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  @LightYagami-xl1wz · 1 year ago

  For anyone wondering, the bird you hear at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR0WIhqdfpE&amp;t=30">0:30</a> is a Wood Thrush!

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  @tiffanymoton704 · 1 year ago

  honestly we owe a LOT to AO3 for providing an alternative platform for fanfiction that caters more to adult writers/readers. there are so many incredible writers publishing beautiful stories on there, and the communities forming around various fandoms are some of the most positive and supportive i&apos;ve ever seen. i think we have AO3 to thank for the fact that fanfiction isn&apos;t as dirty of a word as it was 10-15 years ago. i&apos;m a 29 year old writer who started writing/reading fanfic only 2 or 3 years ago, but my god it&apos;s been pivotal for me. i managed to stumble into a fanfic community in which the vast majority of my fellow writers/readers are around my age and have a lot in common with me. and they&apos;re wildly talented too, like, i&apos;m constantly astounded I even get to read their work for free. i&apos;ll die on the hill that fanfiction is deeply misrepresented and misunderstood within the culture and just needs better PR, because it&apos;s quite a beautiful little hobby to have as an adult, if you know where to look. :) and shoutout to the firstprince community on AO3: a bunch of filthy, brilliant, angels who changed my life.

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  @eve7896 · 1 year ago (edited)

  To be fair to ao3, I&apos;ve read (and still do) many seriously good fanfictions there. Written just as good, or even better, than an original source.<br>I feel like it&apos;s hugely dependant on what an age demografic/emotional maturity of fans of the original source looks like. <br>If the fans are early teenagers, the fanfics will be, unsurprisingly, on their level. If the fandom consists of people in their 20s, 30s and so on, the stories will be written by them, and it will show.<br>(An example of that, which comes to my mind, are fans of Thomas Barrow from Downton Abbey. Many of them are long after their teenage years, or even their 20s, and I find the the percentage of good quality stories published to be high.)

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  @CoraMaria · 1 year ago

  My main problem with dark romance is that so many of the readers and writers refuse to acknowledge it as a k*nk thing, and when you refuse to acknowledge it as a k*nk thing, you talk about it in ways that tend to soften or normalise the behaviour rather than have that healthy separation between real life and fantasy.

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  @66kandFabricHordeDragon · 1 year ago

  Speaking of true crime. Two years ago I did my first year of criminology at university as an adult learner. &nbsp; By the end of the year it was legit myself and one other lady left, hundreds of people had thought it was a course on true crime, which is was, only it turns out the truth about crime is that it&apos;s corporations doing most of it using numbers and not unsolved murder mystery podcasts.

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  @TheLunecy · 1 year ago (edited)

  While i don&apos;t believe subjects shouldn&apos;t be a taboo and that anything can be written, i would like that dark romance to be categorized as a genre, shown its trigger warnings and be properly rated. It worries me when i see teenagers reading dark romance and believing that it is despicting a healthy relantionship. If you are an adult reading it, you do you.

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