#crowrants

something that pisses me off with the online romance book sphere is the whole "M!mc" & "F!mc" thing. wtf does that even mean? usually the male "main characters" in these book don't even have a POV to make them the main character of a book.

just fucking put MC & Love interest. it's so simple but nooooo there HAS to be distinction of these people by gender, not role in the story / how much THEIR pov takes up.

I could understand if a book was equal parts split up between two characters that would then require you to label them... but that's just not romances usually.

(this usually happens in straight romances though, which I don't read but I still see alot of this language used in reviews of books, summaries, etc.)

I actually hate how some people just decide it's okay to take queer things, & queer media & just... turn it straight.

I don't gaf if this is just an 'AU' someones making. it angers me and i WILL block people I see doing this. Anyone who makes a queer trend straight- BLOCKED.

It lowk sickens me. ESPECIALLY IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS DEEP / GOES OVER QUEER HARDSHIPS.

"summer hikaru died au!" "I saw the TV glow trend!" "(The subway by chappell roan trend on tiktok)" and it's two straight characters. just say you don't care enough about the source material or queer people.

"It's not that deep-" It is. Queer trends / media are something that QUEER PEOPLE create to feel seen & heard. To get their stories out there. Queer culture is so deep, & people who do these things have no respect for the fights people have gone through to be themselves.

I do block people, & I do criticise people who do this. Because they have not had to deal with being constantly berated, and questioned on their identity. They have never been called slurs over their gender or sexuality. They have never had to deal with seeing public figures call for THEM to be harmed, shot, outed, or forced to change just because of how they identify. They have never experienced the pain of hearing people you thought of as close friends directly say that YOUR IDENTITY is a disease.

They've never dealt with the pain queer people still face today.

Same with people who will erase queer characters identities (cough cough.. ronin from killer chat) for the sake of their stupid fucking smut fics w/o even acknowledging in tags or anything the characters original identity. Genuine instant block.

This really annoys me. The whole article is about women who don’t want to have children to reduce carbon footprint.

1) Reducing carbon footprint can be done even when having children. They are not mutually exclusive.

2) They’re not “sacrificing” anything. Not having children is not a sacrifice it’s a choice.

3) Children don’t make a family. A man and woman can be a family. A group of friends can be a family. An owner and their dog can be a family. What is the obsession with only classifying people as a family if they have children?

4) Nothing about not having children is groundbreaking in any way. For as long as people have lived on this planet, there’ve been some who haven’t had children whether through choice, circumstance or other reasons.