forum Things You Want MORE Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @HighPockets group

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Oh same!

Characters whose thought process isn't inherently "ew gross, a XXXX person" or "XXXX person needs my help, must help them now" and is instead more like "ew, a XXXX person. Wait. No. That's a terrible thing to think." Characters who aren't naturally perfectly good and have to actively strive to be a good person
Also characters who aren't bad all the time. But I feel like there's either a lot more of that in semi recent books or I've just been finding it more often. It's nice and I like it

I love awful characters. I love reading about them and I love writing them.
Specifically when they're well-written and not just bland.

Good villain retellings. Not that I can pinpoint what separates the good and the bad. What I'm trying to say is I need Starkid's Twisted in book form. Like now

Good villain retellings. Not that I can pinpoint what separates the good and the bad. What I'm trying to say is I need Starkid's Twisted in book form. Like now

YES

Good villain retellings. Not that I can pinpoint what separates the good and the bad. What I'm trying to say is I need Starkid's Twisted in book form. Like now

YES

I wanna do it but I wouldn't be able to do it justice

I love Hook as a book. But as a retelling it absolutely sucks bc it defies all cannon.

So does Twisted and it makes me cry. It's beautiful

Also something I'd like to see. Abusive relationships (that are shown as such) with the girl as the abuser.

Dom we've got a separate chat for that lol

Whoops.

I personally have a fondness for slow romances that aren't great triumphs of love against the odds. I'd like some, "Dang I've liked you for a bit and we seem pretty compatible" and then they walk to the sunset working through minor issues they find along the way.

Instead of true love's kiss always being romantic, I want true love's kiss where it's just someone who truly loves the person. Whether that's a parent, or a friend, or whatever. I'm just tired of it always being this mega hot guy lmao

Instead of true love's kiss always being romantic, I want true love's kiss where it's just someone who truly loves the person. Whether that's a parent, or a friend, or whatever. I'm just tired of it always being this mega hot guy lmao

I'm very bitter that this was meant to be the ending to

Instead of true love's kiss always being romantic, I want true love's kiss where it's just someone who truly loves the person. Whether that's a parent, or a friend, or whatever. I'm just tired of it always being this mega hot guy lmao

I'm very bitter that this was meant to be the ending to

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Solitaire, and it still is! but a bunch of people with no reading comprehension interpreted it as Michael being in love with Tori but he just meant it platonically

oof that sucks

I know this has been mentioned before but flamboyant straight guys
I know three of them now and I don’t understand why they aren’t more common, like they’re hilarious, there’s so much potential

Ah, thank you, Nut. I quite agree.

I know two. Dom is one of them.

And the other's name I've forgotten but I'm pretty sure you've mentioned to me multiple times.

I need more scholarly boys in books. And characters who had a religious upbringing but it doesn't define them as adults. These are all random but I feel like I don't see them enough.

So Nathaniel Lol. His grandmother tried to convert him to be an Anglican but it didn't work. (His parents were a mix of Protestant and vaguely agnostic.) But now he quotes the Bible all the time.

I feel like books skip over all the references high school kids make to the stuff they're reading in class? Watching a group of boys learning about Shakespeare for the first time call each other Shakespearean insults and bite their thumb at each other or dramatically reenact scenes from Frankenstein or spoil Of Mice and Men and then cackle at the ensuing rage and angrily talking about the shit you learned about in history at lunch with your friends has honestly been the highlight of my highschool career. It's peak comedy and just. I want it in books
also it's really good for actually learning the stuff, just enthusiastically making lit references and telling your younger friends about history stuff so like if you're not doing that, you should

Yeah.