Some Lurker Too
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- Jun 24, 2020
People yearn for a slow burn romance where the payoff is two characters finding home in each other's company. Modern media can't seem to handle anything that's not bite-sized and pornrotted anymore, there's a lack of that genuine connection between characters that comes with a proper romance in today's weird-ass coom-driven culture. The childhood rivals to loving partners is a very sweet, wholesome story arc and something a lot of people now see as unattainable for a smattering of reasons, the fact that people are portraying it with Malfoid x Harry is definitely one of the draws of the trend. Humanity yearns for belonging, for community, for family, for home.There has to be a return home to the village and the wife. And it cannot be an afterthought.
I can't count how many times a book has been a letdown because a perfectly good dynamic was rushed into getting together for the sake of smut. The story didn't need the smut! It was better without it! Hell, it didn't even need the romance! It all just feels so damn forced, at least give the damned characters a chance to get to know each other, for fuck's sake! I'd rather be left in anticipation for multiple books waiting for them to confess at the end of the series than have them hook up halfway through book one. We used to have culture, god damn it!
Ah, well, we might never put gooners back in pandora's box, but it's always lovely to see people reaching for something deeper and more meaningful, even if they only manage it in fiction.