I admit it! I like romance!
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jlhI like it as a B plot! I like it as an A plot!
I like it with boys, I like it with girls, I like it with boys and girls.
Please no farm animals, though. Lady and the Tramp is about as far as I'm willing to go.
I was raised on the romantic comedy. It is my manna from heaven, my bread and butter, my rock of faith in a world gone mad, my hope when I have none myself, my bright-eyed ideal. It's deeper and more intricate than it looks. It's what I reach for in a novel, in a film, in any sort of fiction. Any era, any subgenre--regency, musical, I care not.
I only care that the major tenet is preserved--that through this battle of wits or feet or what have you, but at any rate, this conversation, the reason that this couple are perfectly suited for one another will be revealed. And no, it isn't just the coming together. I'm also interested in the staying together. I may be the only one, though. I mean, I love the very last chapter of Pride & Prejudice where Austen tells us what their lives together will be like. I liked Thrones, Dominations (though everyone else thinks it's a bad book and I likely should shun it) for the same reaons.
I like declarations of love both large and small. I like watching characters make love to each other in words and/or music and/or dancing and/or fencing (necessary or unnecessary).
I don't think this is a sign of my lesser intelligence, or my low taste, or my overidentification. I like to think that I have reasonably high standards for my romance, though I'm sure you all will disagree; in fact, I'm getting a reputation as a highly unreliable recommender, which is why I try not to make recs here. I suppose, at the end of the day, I'd rather have realistic characters and plots whose engine is the internal dynamics of said characters, rather than "conflict" being created by a character whose sole purpose is to be an agent of chaos.
I don't like chaos.
I also don't like romantic tragedies where things don't work out for reasons that make no sense whatsoever but are supposed to be either More Realistic or More Meaningful. That is to say, I hate Wuthering Heightswith a great and t00by passion.
Likely, in a fandom based on a boy's adventure tale, this will get me labelled a cream puff, a girlie-girl, a disgrace to my gender, not as bright as I might have been, or something else I haven't thought of. But the fact remains: My favourite chapter of GoF is "The Unexpected Task" while I have only a fuzzy grasp of what actually went on in the graveyard.
So I reckon you'd better get rid of me now before Book 5 comes out, or I'll just sit here writing more romances. And then where will we be?
I like it with boys, I like it with girls, I like it with boys and girls.
Please no farm animals, though. Lady and the Tramp is about as far as I'm willing to go.
I was raised on the romantic comedy. It is my manna from heaven, my bread and butter, my rock of faith in a world gone mad, my hope when I have none myself, my bright-eyed ideal. It's deeper and more intricate than it looks. It's what I reach for in a novel, in a film, in any sort of fiction. Any era, any subgenre--regency, musical, I care not.
I only care that the major tenet is preserved--that through this battle of wits or feet or what have you, but at any rate, this conversation, the reason that this couple are perfectly suited for one another will be revealed. And no, it isn't just the coming together. I'm also interested in the staying together. I may be the only one, though. I mean, I love the very last chapter of Pride & Prejudice where Austen tells us what their lives together will be like. I liked Thrones, Dominations (though everyone else thinks it's a bad book and I likely should shun it) for the same reaons.
I like declarations of love both large and small. I like watching characters make love to each other in words and/or music and/or dancing and/or fencing (necessary or unnecessary).
I don't think this is a sign of my lesser intelligence, or my low taste, or my overidentification. I like to think that I have reasonably high standards for my romance, though I'm sure you all will disagree; in fact, I'm getting a reputation as a highly unreliable recommender, which is why I try not to make recs here. I suppose, at the end of the day, I'd rather have realistic characters and plots whose engine is the internal dynamics of said characters, rather than "conflict" being created by a character whose sole purpose is to be an agent of chaos.
I don't like chaos.
I also don't like romantic tragedies where things don't work out for reasons that make no sense whatsoever but are supposed to be either More Realistic or More Meaningful. That is to say, I hate Wuthering Heightswith a great and t00by passion.
Likely, in a fandom based on a boy's adventure tale, this will get me labelled a cream puff, a girlie-girl, a disgrace to my gender, not as bright as I might have been, or something else I haven't thought of. But the fact remains: My favourite chapter of GoF is "The Unexpected Task" while I have only a fuzzy grasp of what actually went on in the graveyard.
So I reckon you'd better get rid of me now before Book 5 comes out, or I'll just sit here writing more romances. And then where will we be?
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Date: 2003-06-07 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 12:03 am (UTC)However...
That is to say, I hate Wuthering Heights with a great and t00by passion.
*clings to her Heathcliff*
Get thee behind me, wench!!!
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Date: 2003-06-08 12:05 am (UTC)But thank you for your support. ^_^
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Date: 2003-06-09 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 07:33 am (UTC)Shibby icon, there.
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Date: 2003-06-08 12:15 am (UTC)But what about the Giant Squid? I mean, it needs love too. . .
:D
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Date: 2003-06-08 09:20 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-08 10:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 01:22 am (UTC)Then we'll have more romance to read, and in the immortal words of Bill and Ted, this will be excellent.
I'm more of an action!adventure!epic!person, but I have such a soft spot for romantic comedies -- Much Ado anyone? I just can't write them, and am quite envious of people who can. This means you. :P
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Date: 2003-06-08 09:53 am (UTC)Um, filled with happiness?
Guled to our computers reading the latest chapter?
*huggles*
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Date: 2003-06-08 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-08 05:56 pm (UTC)::snorts:: I SO hear you! LOL