/media/ - Media

>>37872
Im sorta neutral to it. But, I also prefer to watch non romance stories and just pair the characters together and project onto that.

I suppose I am lonely, but i'm at the stage where I crave intimate friendship more than romance.

>>37873
That makes sense. The times in my life without any friendship have been really hard.

I avoid it because it's just kinda boring and sucks most of the time. You've seen one Hallmark romcom you've seen them all. The rest are overly porny or feature horrific moid shit that's treated as romantic (like 50 Shades Of Gray which does of those). I don't really feel loneliness when I see it but I'm just uninterested. I don't care about watching people being couples irl why would I care in a movie or a show? I only really like it as a side plot to something else (like 2 characters being a couple but the main plot is about something else). Basically like what Sokka and Suki were in Avatar. I also can't stand last second relationships because Will They Won't They is annoying and I'd rather see the characters interact as a couple than have the story end when they get together because then that implies that the characters whole purpose was to get together at the end

I avoid romance media because it's too pornographic for me. I want to read a love story that focuses on love, not descibes dirty sex.

>>37872
Media like that makes life as rich as it can possibly be without the actual hell of vetting moids so no

I found otome games pretty fun, but in hindsight I wasn't thinking of romance while playing them, just cute guys.

>>37887
You know actually now that you mention otomes, I don't really avoid them. It's depressing but otomes do make me feel slightly fulfilled romantically speaking. Otomes don't really make me want a real relationship, or make me feel lonely like other romance media does.

>>37872
i avoid romance because none of it is any good

>>37872
Well I don't really watch romance or write it either, but I hate actual moids and want them to stay a million miles away from me. I like things that are written well enough. I love writing my own things. I refuse to put it any category, it encompasses way more than that. I love bl that I've come up, I can watch it like a movie in my mind sometimes, its better than most shit out there so I won't consume most of what other fujo's do I don't see the point

But no I want nothing to do with actual moid relationshit I'm not lonely like that and thank Jesus Mary and Joseph for dodging that minefield

>>37933
What about yuri? Or are you straight?

>>37941
It's troon bait

>>37943
I mean yeah most of it. But some works, especially those written by women, can be pretty good.

>>37941
Mostly straight. I'm not closed off to it, but I have no experience dating women only men.

>>37877
>I also can't stand last second relationships because Will They Won't They is annoying and I'd rather see the characters interact as a couple than have the story end when they get together because then that implies that the characters whole purpose was to get together at the end
are you me

>>37872
I just want to consume media that's not garbage. I don't gravitate to or avoid any genre. Avoid it because I'm lonely though? That makes zero sense even if you are lonely.

If it's good I will watch it. In the last decade almost all of it turns me off because it's crap, not because it's romance.

>>38156
>Avoid it because I'm lonely though? That makes zero sense even if you are lonely
It's just logic. If seeing food can make you hungry why wouldn't romance make you yearn love?

>>38163
Because you have to eat to stay alive? Love is just fraught with seemingly endless annoyance from the opposite sex. Making romantic love that important to you makes you unstable/ easily manipulated. Maybe some people subconsciously approach life with the goal to enjoy life rather than be held hostage by it like that

>>38166
>Because you have to eat to stay alive?
Do you really have so little reading comprehension?

>>38166
tbh I agree with this, romantic media is nothing like real life romance

It's just stupid and they're all cash grabs without any sincerity. I tried a couple times thinking maybe just maybe I'm wrong but every time I came back realizing I was right all along, as always.

Straight romance media is either a snoozefest or makes me roll my eyes every 5 seconds or so, I find yaoi and yuri more interesting on average.
So essentially I do avoid straight romance, but can tolerate it if its not too obnoxious. I like yaoi and yuri better but romance isn't exactly my #1 favorite genre so I usually don't go out of my way to find it. None of this is because I'm lonely, however.

>>38208
I avoid straight romance too because I hate how women are written. Can we name any straight romance where they show a future shot of the old and gray couple and they're just happily hanging out and never had children? That's a big part that fucks me up. If I like a female character, she's usually a cool adventure lady, and to see her fate as being demoted to pregnant and/or nurturing just ruins the whole thing. Kids ruin adventure and romance, I don't want to see anything to do with the topic.

This usually doesn't happen with the gay male ships. Though with the trans stuff in the past 10 years, I've seen more art where they turn one female and she ends up pregnant anyway, so I can't even get away from it that way anymore. I've learned that I don't hate romance, I hate contrivances and unequal relationships that are treated as normal.

>>38252
this reminds me how a lot of the time the mc in otome games is an amorphous blob. she's often timid, lame and lacks initiative.

I mean it makes sense, MCs in romance are often like that so the other characters have more space to shine, but I just think it is lame. I want something like female Rance

i like looking at romance media with rly abusive relationships - not that i want them irl lol. it just makes me feel better about myself and its on the same entertainment level as true crime