drumlincountry reblogged
The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity
#Its the UNEXAMINED gender of it all!#Look if your kind of freakiness aligns with heteronormativity. You could make a good story out of that#I personally would include a sense of creeping dread where the main characters are blissfully happy but they realise that#Most of the people they know are miserable in relationships that look just like theirs#And that they're all mindlessly embodying the same forms bit for the main characters its like.#Idk finding an ancient temple carved specially for you? All of the robes and thrones and crowns fit perfectly#While for most people its like cutting off your limbs to fit in a box#But that's just because heteronormativity is a prison#IT would be kind of funny to tell a story about characters strange enough to inhabit it as neither prison guard or prisoner#Unfortunately many romance writers haven't noticed any of this!!!!!#So yeah. Bring in the bisexuals.#Storytelling