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@valtmy I never read specifically romance books, and I don’t usually like romance subplots in any genre, so yeah, I have a lot of pet peeves. 😛
I don’t know it anyone has said this already, but really, it drives me bonkers when they don’t respect each other. Like, they see their partner talking with someone else, and IMMEDIATELY they think “he/she must be cheating on me!” Seriously folks, have some faith in this person who you claim to love so much. And, insulting each other ain’t cool, ever. It just means they don’t respect their partner to consider that their words might hurt them.
@princessfoo … A chicken nugget? *quizzical eyebrow raise* 😉Blog: https://weridasusual.home.blog/
@daughteroftheking I get what you mean, once I watched a Hallmark movie about this lady who was training to be a shrink, and coincidentally struck out a friendship with this 11 year old girl and her widowed father. At the Dark Moment of Doom of that movie, the dad read part of the MC’s therapist thesis paper thingy, that closely described the situation his daughter was in, and thought “She wrote this paper about my daughter. Therefore, the ONLY reason she became friends is to secretly observe my daughter and write a paper on her.” and broke up with the MC. But if he had read TWO MORE SENTENCES, he would known that the MC was in fact talking about herself, when she was a young girl. He apparently had no trust in her at all. Because it was a Hallmark movie, they got back together at the end, but I don’t think they should have.
About the metaphor, I was trying to think of something other than “as flat as a pancake” because normal metaphors are boring 😉 I was originally thinking “as flat as Tony Stark’s new phone” because every new phone comes out thinner and thinner, and Tony Stark would have the newest, flattest phone. But I thought it was too confusing, so I went with a chicken nugget.
@princessfoo That dude had trust issues. He must have been flat as Tony Stark’s new phone. 😛
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@princessfoo That’s one of the absolute worst things for me: when there’s this huge fight and if they had just let each other explain, there would be nothing wrong. I actually saw another Hallmark movie where the same thing happened. So far I’ve read one book where they did it right. When the guy was out of town and got an accidental letter from the girl breaking the engagement – which she didn’t really send, of course – the first thing he did was call her on the phone and ask her what happened, while telling her he loved her. That’s the way to handle it, right? 🙂
Hallmark movies are supposed to be good because they’re clean…but they’re really not that great, are they? Sometimes the actors are a little better than mediocre, and sometimes the plots are a little interesting, and sometimes the characters are not flat, but usually not all three at once. 🙁 Too bad.
When I want “clean” I usually go back to the 1950s. 😀
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@rochellaine I agree. What book did you read that did it right?
@princessfoo It was Patty Bride from the Carolyn Wells Patty Fairfield series. The Patty series is one of my absolute favorite book series. 🙂 If you’re interested in reading the series you can get them free or for a couple of dollars on Kindle, or find most of them online at gutenberg.org and Google Books, because they’re now in the public domain.
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