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[saysthemagpie]

I have some huge deadlines looming plus some guest teaching stuff this week (which always stresses me out bc it's not your class!!! they don't have to be nice to you!!!) so most of my time/energy/brainpower is being sucked up by that right now. but I am saving up comments on fic that people have been posting! ALSO, I am reading a bunch of old Harlequin romances for my dissertation and they're pretty zany and enjoyable. it's been so long since I read something where everyone was Definitely 100% Heterosexual that I keep thinking we're about to meet the love interest but then I realize no! the love interests are already here! it's that dude and that lady!

anyway the one I just finished was called WILDCAT TAMED, which I thought was going to be about a feisty woman being tamed by a man but actually turned out to be hilariously literal. a wildcat moves into this sleepy Scottish town and the police want to kill it. but then the woman and her love interest (a mysterious Hungarian antiques dealer) come up with a plan to feed the wildcat chicken and vegetables every day so it won't raid the village for food. then they fall in love. that's it. I mean I think the woman's wildcat spirit is also tamed by the Hungarian's muscular arms and brooding manner, but also, actual wildcats. If it were a 1D fic harry would definitely be the feisty female protagonist and Liam would probably be the hunky Hungarian with the well-sculpted biceps. I feel it would almost certainly end with harry getting mauled by the wildcat and Liam nursing him back to health. (that is not what happens in the novel btw. now that I think about it we don't actually get much closure on the wildcat front? they just get engaged and the whole wildcat issue just kind of fades away.) 

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[countthestars]

oh god i LOVE the ridiculous premises of trashy romance novels (and how many green-eyed, red-haired female protagonists there are. trashy romance novel universes are 50% redheads. but only the women.) my sister used to really love the paranormal ones where the author was apparently trying to play paranormal bingo, like: SHE is a badass vampire-fighting ghost valkyrie who can do earth magic and whose only joy in life is stabbing vampires, and HE is a highland warrior-turned-vampire born in the 17th century who was cursed by a mage to turn into a beast once a month but also has a secret heart of gold even though he's spent centuries killing people. oh and there's time travel for some reason. will the fact that he's a vampire and literally her whole thing is killing vampires keep them apart? or will... their passion... make it a matter....... of the heart?

anyway i don't know where this is going other than i wish publishers would pay me money for my garbage stories.

[ferryboatpeak]

Sleepy Scottish town? replace liam with jack and you've got yourself a deal. harry definitely gets mauled while trying to coax the nice kitty to, like, eat a piece of chicken out of his mouth or something.

[ferryboatpeak]

oh, also louis is the wildcat.