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Why the fuck does every fucking story need a shitty love subplot? I'm so tired of this garbage in every single story, its never good romance, its never passionate love, its just tacked on bullshit for the sake of tacking it on.

IN EVERY FUCKING BOOK

Stop it. I'm not reading fantasy books about dragons and magic to read about your shitty lovey dovey side plot. I'm not reading historical dramas to have some shitty forced love drama between a man and his milk maid. I'm not reading a space opera so you can inject some generic helpless love interest in space. I don't read mystery novels so you can have some random fucking faggot sweep in and save the day.

Fuck romance
fuck love
any author that forces this shit in their books is a hack fraud.

>> No.17529363

>>17529352
to love is the purpose of our souls, anon.

>> No.17529378

>>17529352
I know, right
>read nonfiction book about how trees function
>author manages to shoehorn some romantic plot about Jack and Daisy, two trees who fall in love and start a family

>> No.17529452

>>17529363
Killing you is the purpose for my soul

>> No.17529469

>>17529352
>>17529378
It's to draw in the female demographic.

>> No.17529519

>>17529352
I wish there was more Dragon girl romance.

>> No.17529529

>>17529352
Love is cringe.

>> No.17529551

I hate how characters have to hook up for no reason in every book/show/movie. Just stop.

>> No.17529564

>>17529378
That sounds kind of based though.

>> No.17529912

>>17529352
It is a problem, yeah. It's like reading a bad description from an author who was told in highschool that every description must include sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste in order to have life. It obviously fucking doesnt. Just like a plot doesn't need a romance, a character doesn't need a mentor, an ending doesn't need to climax with an epic fight, etc...

>> No.17530011

Love plots never show up in children's literature, even when the protagonists are a boy and girl. Plus there are hundreds upon hundreds of literary childrens lit books to read. Look for kirkus review starred books, ALA notable books written BEFORE 2012 when the great diversity awokening entered the childrens lit world

>> No.17530026

>>17530011
By the way, this is one of the main reasons I read literary children's literature -- because it doesnt have love plots. The last three adult books I read all had them, and I also find love plots tiresome and uninteresting.

>> No.17530044

>>17529352
>reading genre fiction
Well there's your problem right there anon

>> No.17530058

I don't mind if it's there I guess, but I'm also tired of the frequency of love plots. Just started watching another TV show: every episode theres obviously a few minutes of sex filler which is obviously lazy and uninspired writing. I mean you can establish the romance but after awhile it's like, "we get it, you guys bang." Anything else going on?

>> No.17530097

>>17530011
>>17530026
Depends how far back you consider "children"
Does YA books count as "children" books? Because they're filled to the brim with that garbage.

Even going further back, shit like animorphs and Gregor the Overlander had their side romance plots (albeit to a lesser degree)

>> No.17530106

>>17530044
Are you perhaps implying that normal modern day fiction isn't far worse with that? Its literally just fuck bunnies the 'genre', I'd rather they just relabel contemporary fiction to be horny millennials the genre.

>> No.17530176

>>17530106
I was alluding to the fact that genre fiction books almost always have a love story in them because it's almost certainly necessary. However, most genre writers can't write a great love story on the same level as those literary fiction writers.

>> No.17530256

>>17530097
Oh my goodness No, No NO! YA is certainly not the same as children's literature. I cant stand YA. Its the shittiest of all genres. Childrens literature is absolutely distinct from it.

I'm talking about good, literary children's books.

>> No.17530435

Have sex bro.

Also does anyone have a romance novels chart? Preferably good stuff like love in the times or cholera, or the red and the black.

>> No.17530446

>>17529352
Lmao have sex incel

>> No.17530455

>>17529352
>IN EVERY FUCKING BOOK
No. You need to calm the fuck down.

>> No.17530468

>>17530446
Unironically this. Most people have love in their lives, even if you don't.

Have sex.

>> No.17530494

>>17529352
You should read more nonfiction and literary fiction.

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17531639

>>17529352
it was the prior form to posting girls in few clothes to gain the attention

>> No.17531648

>>17529352
have sex

>> No.17531656

>>17529352
Its a human universal. Well.. Mostly

>> No.17531668

>>17529352
>love bad!!!!!!
>REEEEEEEEEEEEÉ

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17531681

>when the romance is the main plot

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>>17531668
i'm in love with you. i would teletransport back yto 2014 and lick your pussy over your desk, grab your titties break your shirt and fuck you all night long baby

>> No.17531717

>>17531710
Those are man hands.

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17531720

>>17531668
stunning littel baby i would make you mother of my children. who hurt you in your childhood and made you a lesbian?

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>>17531717
ypu wish, faggot

>> No.17531892

>>17531681
I actually like romance when its the main subject of a novel. Romance novels are cute. But the difference is that with a romance novel the entire focus is on making that romance work.

I hate romance as a subplot because it's just shoved in there as an afterthought that they need to shove in there because everyone else is doing it too.

>> No.17532263

>>17531720
Fuckkng digibro with tits

>> No.17533198

>>17529352
I do find it boring in stories, I find other relationships more interesting like strong friendships/admiration.

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17533225

>main character is a loveless psycho girl (XX)
i will now buy your book
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

>> No.17534581

>>17531668
>I find you desirable, i want to have sex with you, spend my life with you, have children with you
>Repeat ad nauseum
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

>> No.17534586

>>17529352
Read The Wanting Seed by Burgess

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>>17530011
Uhhh

>> No.17534614

>>17530256
Well that's generally how puberty works, yes. Let me guess, low T?