#the only good soulmate romance is lloydven and that is only good because it leans into the parts of soulmates that are just messed up

[project-catgirlpillar]

So soulmates and Love at First sight are tropes that i've Seen a Lot of people deride for being Like shallow or unrealistic or amatonormative and i while i definitely don't disagree with that as a practitioner of the noble Art of aromancy myself i Just have to say i could Not give less of a Shit about any of that. I don't hate These tropes because they're problematic i hate them cause they're boring

#idk man #like with a romance subplot ideally i should be invested in their dynamic and i think why they love each other is an important part of that #doesn't even need to be much hell i'm a sucker for childhood friends dynamics but like #with love at first sight they love each other before there even is a dynamic so it boils down to they love each other just cause #and that is just so uninteresting to me #like at least give me just one scene of them actually bonding or have one fall for the other as they're kicking ass #i'm not even asking for much hers #soulmates imo just don't really add much #like if you really give a shit about romance i can see how the idea that there is someone out there for you can be reassuring #but in romance i don't really see the difference between loving each other because of fate and loving each other without fate to intervene #the only good soulmate romance is lloydven and that is only good because it leans into the parts of soulmates that are just messed up #like the codependency #i feel like your mileage with these tropes will vary depending on whether you find them romantic or not #i don't! #so they do nothing for me