Dex-chan lover
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Of course he would get the phone that allows for the least amount of freedom and from the company that exerts the most control over its customers. Also no instructions in the box? He must have gotten one of those new iphones that only come with the box and sell everything else separately to cut down on environmental waste.
@wymar tbf that’s just the bad romance (and pretty much every shounen romance). Better romance series (or stories) start off with them dating or have them start dating in a reasonable number of chapters (or pages or episodes or whatever) or use the romance as a sublot and make it secondary to the main plot, story progression, and character development. Then for some reason there’s this offshoot of the romance genre that things all the romance is in the endless chase and just pile on tension and build up with either no (or unsatisfying) pay off. Because why have your characters start dating after a reasonable time and then focus on their further development as a couple, when you keep just keep teasing their mutual feelings for each other until the end of time (and then just keep going in the next universe)? It’s really not that bad (though it is pretty horrible). the problem is how annoyingly wide spread it is and how authors refuse learn from each other that it sucks. The foundation seems to be the comedy aspect, but pretty much always the jokes rely heavily on misunderstandings and the same tropes (and between hundreds of chapters in the same series and thousands across this terrible subcategory (sub genre? Idk what it’d be called), it gets boring quick). Generally speaking I just get bored and stop reading after a while. The entire thing is basically “how long can you stand getting blueballed and tension instead of actual romance development”, which for me at least isn’t very sustainable. That said, it’s still at least a billion times better than the frustrating “Drama, love triangle, drama, drama, love dodecahedron, drama” romance offshoot. Plus generic cheap tropes are generic because they are popular and sell, so can’t really blame them.
@wymar tbf that’s just the bad romance (and pretty much every shounen romance). Better romance series (or stories) start off with them dating or have them start dating in a reasonable number of chapters (or pages or episodes or whatever) or use the romance as a sublot and make it secondary to the main plot, story progression, and character development. Then for some reason there’s this offshoot of the romance genre that things all the romance is in the endless chase and just pile on tension and build up with either no (or unsatisfying) pay off. Because why have your characters start dating after a reasonable time and then focus on their further development as a couple, when you keep just keep teasing their mutual feelings for each other until the end of time (and then just keep going in the next universe)? It’s really not that bad (though it is pretty horrible). the problem is how annoyingly wide spread it is and how authors refuse learn from each other that it sucks. The foundation seems to be the comedy aspect, but pretty much always the jokes rely heavily on misunderstandings and the same tropes (and between hundreds of chapters in the same series and thousands across this terrible subcategory (sub genre? Idk what it’d be called), it gets boring quick). Generally speaking I just get bored and stop reading after a while. The entire thing is basically “how long can you stand getting blueballed and tension instead of actual romance development”, which for me at least isn’t very sustainable. That said, it’s still at least a billion times better than the frustrating “Drama, love triangle, drama, drama, love dodecahedron, drama” romance offshoot. Plus generic cheap tropes are generic because they are popular and sell, so can’t really blame them.
