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Feb 11

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Romance: The Bleeped Upon Genre No One Respects

Or, in defence of Twilight

Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash

I consider myself a sci-fi girl, with some experimentation in fantasy and horror. Despite that, I do not trounce upon romance as a genre. Why? Because I think it gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

We are a hardened society. The feminine is not valued as much as the masculine, nor feel-good stories as much as…

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