#romance novel hero

[howifeltabouthim]

When I saw him the other night he was just as handsome as ever;—the same look, half wild and half tame, like an animal you cannot catch, but which you think would love you so if you could catch him.

Anthony Trollope, from Can You Forgive Her?

#elusive #handsome #out of reach #description #figurative language #the thrill of the chase #romance novel hero #romance novel tropes #burgo fitzgerald #reunited #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #classics #wild #anthony trollope #can you forgive her?

[fated-mates]

Come for this two-hour deep dive on former AFC Richmond team captain and current AFC Richmond coach, Roy Kent and his bangin’ girl, Keeley Jones, Independent Woman…stay for the Bantr about Isaac, Rebecca, Ted and more. We’re talking about the whole season (except for that one episode we’re going to pretend doesn’t exist). Spoilers abound, so if you haven’t watched, do that first!

Released: Decmber 31, 2021

#roy kent #ted lasso #afc richmond #romance novel hero #Youtube

[nonegenderleftpain]

To all the new, young MCR fans out there who are just finding them during this tour - you will never know what it was like to be a fan back before and during the hiatus.

And that's a good thing.

I have been following My Chemical Romance since I was ten years old. MCR was the band that the freaks liked. The band that young queer kids were called fags and dykes for liking. Someone once called them the "poster child for suicidal depression," and they aren't wrong. We watched the band struggle with drugs and drinking and idolized how much they were able to do while blackout on tour, because if they could do something so powerful at such a disadvantage, then maybe we could, too. We watched the popularization of "guyliner," because having a term for men wearing makeup could make it an ironic fashion statement instead of a deliberate choice that would get you left bloody and unconscious on the floor of a gas station bathroom. We watched these guys destroy themselves, and we saw ourselves in them because we were destroyed, too. We wanted to believe that we could be just as important, no matter how broken we were, and we found shared experiences at concerts and cafeterias and skate parks and libraries, with other fucked up kids that wanted to listen to the guys that didn't care if people called them gay. The guys that made out on stage to the jeers of thousands of people and got bottles of piss thrown at them but kept doing it anyway. The guys that played with gender and sexuality and everything on the fringes of acceptability, in their lyrics and their performance and the way they treated each other.

This was important. It was life-saving. It provided a comparatively safe space in an unsafe cultural environment for the freaks to find comfort in. It was also hugely and dangerously unhealthy.

I've talked at length to my friends about how healing and lifechanging this tour has been for me, and I want to illuminate that for these young fans that are falling in love with MCR like I did when I was their age. When we were kids, most of our heroes were already dead. They died young, had tragic lives, and we saw ourselves in them. I fully believed MCR would end up the same way. It would have been so easy to be martyrs - to die young and beautiful. Gerard said it himself, back in the day, that MCR was destined to die young in a car crash and stay beautiful forever, and I think he truly believed that.

So they broke up. And, like a miracle, things started to change. They got clean. Got married. Had kids. Not just Gee, but the lot of them. They aged out of the 27 club, and then out of their 30s, and they only seemed to continue to thrive. Today, in 2022, Gerard Way is 45 years old. He has wrinkles. He has a daughter who is older now than I was when she was born. And they are touring again.

The cultural change from when I was a teenager to now, when you guys are, is monumental. It's insane. It's fantastic. Back in the day, Gerard made some occasional comments about playing with gender presentation (that all us trans people, including those of us that didn't even know yet, hunted down and cherished and kept in our chests for safekeeping), but the idea of doing something so flagrant as headlining Riot Fest in a dress was ludicrous. It would have gotten him booed (still did, even now). It could have gotten him killed. The fact that Gerard Way has stepped on stage three separate times this tour in a dress (so far! it's not over!) is such an incredible, monumental change from when I was a kid and I am so, so happy for you to be experiencing it as kids.

I had a cry about this at a P!ATD concert in 2018, after seeing preteens running down the halls in pride flags, and I feel even more strongly about it now than I did then. That you're able to talk openly about Gerard's gender performance without fear, that you're able to hear them go by he/they pronouns, that you're able to interact with other young fans in the wake of MCR's revival in a safe environment and take in the messages that are at the core of what they stand for? These are beautiful fucking things.

You can't know what it was like, growing up with MCR back in the day. But you get to know what it's like to grow up with them now. Cherish that. In Detroit, Gerard told us to take our meds, and reminded us that we made it. They made it. They fought through the hard parts, fought the demons, and came out the other side better for it. As you watch them put those demons to rest from concert to concert, know that there are older fans cheering you on, so fucking happy to see you sharing this experience with us, and so excited to see what way this changes you. We know it changed us.

#my chemical romance #mcr #mcr 2022 #my chem #gerard way #gender stuff #music stuff #mcr are my heroes and i dont use that word lightly #this tour has only further cemented my deep respect for them as performers and as people #seeing them so full of joy and life is so novel and i dont think it will ever feel like anything short of a miracle

[samijey]

Drew Mcintyre - WrestleMania XL

#drew mcintyre #wwe #wweedit #drew galloway #wrestlemania #wwe raw #monday night raw #wrestlemania 40 #stuff i made #fabio who #actual romance novel cover hero

[floral-stede]

Stede + red roses ✿ red roses symbolize desire, passion, and true love

#one word: would #he's in his romance novel hero era what can i say #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd #stede bonnet

[mermaidsirennikita]

There’s nothing better than reading a book about a girl engaged to an evil warlord while falling in love with a hot lower class guy and thinking “this is great but God I hope the evil warlord is a hero in a future book”

And discovering that the evil warlord is in fact the hero of THE NEXT BOOK

#romance novel blogging #villain! as! hero! always!

[separatist-apologist]

At the risk of reviving haters bookclub, so much of the trash that gets praised as "good" because of spice has the WORST smut ever written. Cringy dialogue, implausible positions and an author who barely has command of the language she's writing in despite being a native speaker (and asking people to pay for something that can't even rise to the level of mediocrity). Five chilipeppers for "do you like that?" and 0 foreplay?

#blah blah no yucking someone's yum but it's not even good for trash #I miss when trash novels were at least readable #and male romance heroes weren't such friendless incel losers

[thebisexualwreckoning]

Slowly collecting every single Marissa Meyer book as if I’m a dragon and they are my horde

#got the main series along with fairest and stars above for Christmas #next is renegades because I need enemies to lovers forbidden romance among superheroes #also villain x hero? like what more do you need in life? #and then I’ll finally top it off with heartless #not sure about the graphic novels yet cus they’re expensive #but hopefully someday I’ll be able to get to them too #marrisa meyer #the lunar chronicles #renegades #heartless

[beautifulworldsstuff]

"A hero would sacrifice you to save the world, but a villain would sacrifice the world to save you."

Do anyone know a novel/ movie/ managa... anything that is romantic that represents that quote?

I'm dying for Villain x hero or Villain x civilian thing...but a real superheroes settings.....do you get me?

#villain #hero #novel #managa #manhwa #movie #film #romance #supernatural #superheros #supervillain #villain x hero #villain x civilian #love #enemy

[xehanortsreport]

xemqua as a ship is fun but ngl ever since kh3 came out ansqua has also been eating my brain (both, both are good). xigqua is also fun. the three of them being obnoxious dark boyfriends to anti aqua even.

#theyre like my bodice ripper romance novel ships #TEMPTED by the DARK STRANGER #SEDUCED by EVIL #PLEASURES of the WICKED MASTER #and so on and so forth #im not immune to hero/villain ships

[micamicster]

The thibg about calling the guitar fabio. Is that Fabio is a famous romance novel cover model so famous in fact that his name has become a shorthand for the kind of bodice-ripping romance that Amina is so obsessed with but the guitar?? The guitar, this is key. Are you with me? The guitar is Saira’s

#SHE NAMED SAIRAS GUITAR AFTER A ROMANCE NOVEL HERO IMMMMM #LOVE! INTEREST! CODED! #we are lady parts #saira/Amina

[howifeltabouthim]

But romance novels have to end while everyone is happy enough with only the prospect of more happiness and only minor disappointments ahead. Poor Lavender Glass! Every time Maryanne Gorch sat down to write another chapter, another book, it meant more trouble for her heroine. More kidnappings, more misunderstandings, more sea voyages, more wickedness, bad luck, and suffering. Is a handsome man with an impressive dick and a good heart really worth all the attendant misery?

Kelly Link, from The Book of Love

#romance novels #tropes #storytelling #writing #author #writer #romance series #romance #story arc #characters #meta #fav #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #romance novel hero #romance novel heroine #kelly link #the book of love #idealized #suffering #worth it

[fated-mates]

Derek Freakin' Craven!

#derek craven #derek craven day #romance novel hero #Instagram

[invinciblerodent]

brb, i have to go and. make strangled noises at nothing real quick; it just hit me over the head how Wyll's use of the metaphor of dancing as a stand-in for romance and intimacy really just. accompanies him all throughout his story, and how perfect it is

I guess I should have expected a character like him, that's both deeply poetic in his speech and courtly in his upbringing, would come to idealize a chivalric romance a bit, and translate his feelings on/of love to an element of courting that's as ritualistic and processional as ballroom dancing, but sometimes just realizing the obvious can really knock you off your feet for a second

like. just like how there is almost a blueprint to a perfect storybook romance in both stories and -consequently- in his head (I think romance might even be one of the literary genres with the highest number of unwritten rules that need to be fulfilled for a work to count as a romance), there is also a fairly strict method to a court dance. There is a series of well-known and practiced steps that was laid out in advance, and one is to perform them in succession, and in sync with one's partner. If one of the parties doesn't know or doesn't want to follow the rules/steps, it gets... tangled, messy, and you both stumble. The dance and the relationship both fall apart. The happy ending of a tale is not reached without all the steps in-between being followed, and he so dearly wants his fairytale ending, his happy, fulfilled love, I just---

it's such a perfect metaphor, and what makes it even more perfect is that Wyll is ostensibly aware of it, and he chose it, purposefully, and i don't want to watch the Act 3 commitment scene because I've not yet done it myself and don't want to spoil it, but I would be so surprised if he a.) made no mention of storybook romances, or b.) didn't just straight up propose y'know

i'm (metaphorically) crying, if it were possible to play this game on six different characters simultaneously without getting bored or confused I fucking would

#squirrel plays bg3 #yet another way my Trevelyan works very well in this situation for me #oc: raymond trevelyan #back in the day i made him... actually very similar to what Wyll is now #he was a young man of noble birth who grew up idealizing the storybook heroes of legends and romances #and while he wasn't really that stuck on the 'perfect romance' bits; being not interested in the ladies at all... #the Noble Hero On A White Steed image and the Charming Knight Saving the Realms images did appeal to him immensely #he was gregarious and brave and chivalrous and overall just... trying his absolute best to be good #he wanted to be the a gallant hero and to experience a sweeping passionate love- both wooing and being wooed #which he did get! and he did eventually find his happy ending! #only... the stories rarely mention that heroes don't often live this far past the end of their own tales #when the evil is slain and the damsel is saved; the story simply... ends #the characters; they live on frozen in the perfect moment of true love's first kiss #and nobody really talks about what happens after- not until you must experience it for yourself #so now he's... a burnt-out ex-knight #a has-been hero whose usefulness ceased and his happy ending was torn from him by pointless intrigue #and I just LOVE the thought of him finding a new happy ending; of starting over with someone who'll rekindle his passions #and dance the night away with him #YAY FOR TAG NOVELS

[triviareads]

Minerva Spencer/S.M. LaViolette:

Me:

#every single bellemey sisters book has a crusty old hero #old as in thirties and forties but they're all AGE GAPS and life has been *rough* on them #and i'm very into it #minerva spencer #s.m. laviolette #historical romance #romance novels

[tompettyscontroversiallyyounggf]

omg the guardian/[redacted] randomly popping up in their little EA toga for a tender heart to heart is absolutely sending me, i thought they'd axed the dream lover outfit but apparently not

#bg3 tag #i don't dislike it i had just gotten used to the armor #its funnier to me because i deliberately made them look like a rather yassified romance novel hero #bc like. go big or go home yk #and between that and the little toga of romance it fully is like the [redacted] read a bunch of questionable elven romantasy novels #in preparation for whatever...this whole thing is #they're living their best life cosplaying BG3's version of Tamlin from ACOTAR