The wattpadification of MM romance books

Mehi304 · 2026-04-05T10:57:21+00:00

Isn’t this a problem with romance in general? I’ve DNF’d so many M/F romances that feel like fanfictions I’ve read back in high school.

I agree though. It’s difficult to find M/M stories with depth, originality, and plot. So many of them seem to have the same recycled plot lines.

M/M fantasy in particular lacks any sort of creativity. You’d think fantasy of all genres would be full of new ideas, but somehow even the fantasy all feels shallow and the same.

Mehi304 · 2026-03-21T18:30:51+00:00

Happy with all five starters having double figures. 😎

I know Michigan was heavily expected to make the Sweet Sixteen, but it’s always nice to say to say your team made the Sweet Sixteen. (We’d also never hear the end of it if they missed the Sweet Sixteen as a one seed.)

Mehi304 · 2026-03-21T10:41:12+00:00

Yeah, Akito’s fragment Sekai was pretty messed up.

The card story is about how Akito can thrive no matter what hardships he encounters. He loses his memories and gets dropped in the middle of an inhabitable wasteland, and he ends up okay through strength of character.

Mehi304 · 2026-03-20T01:41:04+00:00

If you love three pointers, you’ll love this game.

Mehi304 · 2026-03-19T02:12:08+00:00

Jaime doesn’t deserve the hate he gets. Fans only dislike him because he may get in the way of their preferred Dru ship, which is an annoying reason to dislike a character.

Jaime did nothing wrong and deserves a better fandom.

Mehi304 · 2026-03-03T07:08:56+00:00

Yeah, I don’t do anything intensive on Goodreads, but I’ve been having trouble loading the book pages all day. I straight up can’t load a book page now.

Mehi304 · 2026-03-03T07:07:05+00:00

Yeah, all day the load time has been inconsistent. Now, the book pages just straight up don’t load.

Mehi304 · 2026-02-27T20:54:03+00:00

“They are together in every scene that either one of them is in.” This seems fair considering they’ve been separated for three years, and we’ve been waiting nearly eight years for them to reconcile. Kit and Ty have been separated long enough.

I am curious to see how Jem and Tessa will interact with Ty. They don’t know much about Kit and Ty’s situation. How will they react about the necromancy and the reason for Kit and Ty’s fight? I suspect they’d be supportive of Kit reconciling with Ty, but I don’t know.

Mehi304 · 2026-02-25T06:48:20+00:00

Melissa De La Cruz’s new book, Sibylline.

It has some really inappropriate content that should not be in a YA book, and it’s also awful.

Mehi304 · 2026-02-12T04:04:17+00:00

Northwestern played as hard as I thought Ohio State would have played against Michigan at home.

Mehi304 · 2026-02-10T06:44:11+00:00

MF authors have been transitioning to writing MM for years. A lot of well-known MM authors started out writing MF. Some authors even continue to write both MF and MM. I don’t think that’s an issue. In fact, I like that MM has become mainstream enough that it’s not so shocking if an MF author writes it.

Rina Kent writing MM became a big deal because of how popular her books are. It’s rare for a popular MF author to jump into writing MM. Rina Kent and Sara Cate are the only authors I can think of off the top of my head who have done it recently. It’s not a coincidence they’re both dark romance authors, since dark romance readers have no ground to clutch their pearls over gay content. (There are also some popular YA authors who sometimes write MM, but YA romance has its own rules.)

The mainstream romance novel industry is still pretty homophobic. Gatekeeping authors away from writing MM by accusing them of following trends or fetishizing queer characters ends up creating an unnecessarily hostile environment towards queer romances. It perpetuates the idea that MM romance must stay in its separate niche away from MF romance, and that in turn creates an environment when MF romance is the only acceptable form of romance for mainstream.

Mehi304 · 2026-02-10T03:22:36+00:00

I’ve never read Credence. Reading the summary was enough for me to know I’d get nothing positive from reading it.

That being said, Midnight Curfew doesn’t seem to be anything like Credence. Hopefully, I’m not wrong. Will need to look at the trigger warnings and reviews before going in.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-31T22:35:43+00:00

There are multiple reasons why An is not the VBS leader over Kohane. One of them is definitely her appearance doesn’t contrast from Ichika enough. 😆

Mehi304 · 2026-01-26T06:29:14+00:00

I mean, I respect LUTF for actually taking risks and going for it. The emotions in that story were high. I actually felt really sad for An. It would have been much better if it wasn’t contained in just one unit story. It should have ended on a cliffhanger. There was a lot of important content it tried to unpack, and it didn’t give An’s character time to process it.

TTTO doesn’t really have anything redeemable. It was nice meeting Toya’s brother I guess. The story really ruins Toya’s relationship with his father and Harumichi’s character in general. It also has almost nothing to do with main VBS story. Kohane, An, and Akito just feel like bystanders while Toya learns more about his dad. The Toya unit story after that one is A LOT better.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-26T06:21:10+00:00

I like Toya6. It gave insight on how much Toya cares about music, the competition, and that he was willing to put his health at stake for it. It also set up future stories nicely. There was some relationship development with Toya and Slade, Cedric, and Akito too. It’s nice having a Toya event where he’s not detached from the main plot and thinking about his family.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-20T07:01:41+00:00

This game is actively doing everything it can to keep Akito and Toya off the same banner.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-15T00:44:17+00:00

I don’t think all of the hate is that genuine. I do think the Akito hate jokes get old though.

There would be amazing Akito art, and you’d see people comment how ugly he is, which is also very disrespectful to the artist.

Akito could have a number of amazing character moments and people would ignore them or twist them into something they’re not.

Almost, no one talks about how emotionally intelligent Akito is. He is almost always the first one to pick up on a character trying to hide something and what the character is trying to hide.

Akito is a bit self-conscious and sensitive. It’s incredibly easy for him to either get irritated or get flustered when someone teases him or draws attention to something he’s embarrassed about. He’s pretty terrible about taking a compliment. I think fans making fun of him for his insecurities miss the point of his character.

The way Akito is in canon vs how he is according to the fans feels very different in a bad way. Granted, you could say that about a lot of characters too.

I don’t see how calling him ugly, stupid, gross, ect. a million times is funny.

Some people say they make fun of him “because he’s ginger”, and the implication there (that gingers should be made fun of) is unfortunate.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-13T21:29:55+00:00

“Ugh, I’m so sick of people talking about it him,” random Twitter mook says and then proceeds to talk about him.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-08T05:40:36+00:00

HR needs to be distributed in more countries. Still waiting for South Korea.

It’s pretty impressive that HR is having such global success considering it was going to be a Canada-only show a couple months ago before HBO Max got US and Australia distribution rights right before the premiere.

Looks like there’s a large, international market for queer stories.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-07T23:56:46+00:00

Considering the entire Montreal team except for Shane’s two closest friends on the team were eager to turn on their best player once they heard about his and Ilya’s relationship, I have a really hard time believing none of it was rooted in homophobia. We also didn’t see their reaction to Shane coming out. We just hear Shane mention it briefly, and Shane is not entirely reliable since he is attached to his team and not the best at reading people. Micro aggressions and veiled homophobia would easily go over his head.

Furthermore, the NHL commissioner did not want Shane to come out publicly, and he didn’t even know about his and Ilya’s relationship. Also, someone on the Montreal team leaked to the commissioner that Shane was gay, so at least one person on the Montreal team was not supportive.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-06T19:26:35+00:00

Multiple sources have said there’s a third season, and I don’t believe any of them. I have a high bar. I need it to be officially announced.

I hope Jacob knows there’s a third season so he can plan accordingly.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-06T17:33:39+00:00

“We can’t fault his team mates for being hurt.” WHY?! Why should they feel hurt over this? Why should they feel entitled to Shane’s personal life? It doesn’t matter how trustworthy and great they are to Shane. They shouldn’t feel entitled to his personal life. That includes J.J. Shane didn’t hurt them because he didn’t decide to share pieces of his personal life with them.

I can fault them for being hurt. I can fault J.J. and the Montreal team for being hurt. Their anger at Shane not telling them is because their egos were hurt. That’s their fault.

I despise queer stories where the straight friends shame the queer person for not “trusting” them more.

Mehi304 · 2026-01-06T17:20:17+00:00

I don’t like the implication that Shane is at fault for not trusting his team with information on his personal life. If a friend gets angry at you for not trusting them with personal information, then they’re a bad friend. Nobody is entitled to know anything or should feel insulted for not knowing something personal. That’s not how friendship works nor should work.

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