drumlincrape.bsky.social
PhD candidate in English at Queen’s University, studying queer horror and new media. Current focuses: queer fanworks claiming monstrosity, adaptations and multiplicity. They/them.
👤 Joined on 15 November 2024
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@drumlincrape.bsky.socialOk, so I see I have managed to include roughly 5000 typos but you have to understand... I saw that tweet and got real angry and it is past 2am here in Ireland. The biggest error is 'couple of years of...', it should read 'couple of hundred years of'
Show PostGive me romance and don't condescend to me. And keep your lit fic which continually thinks its reinventing the wheel. Stop pretending people being depressed and breaking up (or 'discovering reality') is more innovative than people navigating human relationships and love. Just stop.
Show PostI get pretty fucking sick of people assuming romance readers are stupid to be honest. As someone who works on the history of romance, who teaches romance, there is always so much going on. Reflections of and on contemporary society, questions about love and relationships, about gender...
Show PostRomances are ABOUT so many things because we have all different settings, time periods and situations. A romance can be a reflection on monarchical rule, it can part of a reassessment of the NHS's role in British life, it can be a historical reflection on Britain's colonial past.
Show PostAcknowledge that people are interested not in reading the same thing over and over again, but in exploring one thing from an almost infinity of approaches an angles. Of exploring different facets of the thing itself. Of making a familiar thing new, of using to explore different ideas or realities.
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