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Sara's avatar

5 stars for the smut peddler graphic hahaha

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Sanjana's avatar

much appreciated 😌

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Alyssa Jarrett's avatar

"How do we defend romance to people who don’t get it? We don’t." A-freaking-men.

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Sanjana's avatar

there are sooooo many better uses of our time!

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Natalie Anne's avatar

Lovely post! That’s some great insight! Let’s not focus on defending on romance but rather exploring what more we could do to make this romance community better 💖📖

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Cat's avatar

Loved this so much! It's exhausting having to defend the existence of romance or fantasy or anything that's not the flavor of the month litfic style.

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Katrina zarate's avatar

Your words always seem to give my jumbled thoughts direction, thank you

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Sanjana's avatar

thank you!!

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quill's avatar

I also want to be shouting from the rooftops about how One Burning Heart made me feel. But I will be giving equal air/shouting time to this essay.

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Sanjana's avatar

thank you omg 😭

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Niky's avatar

Loved this, thank you.

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Hannah Elizabeth's avatar

Love love love this! What a piece to read on a Friday morning. Thank you for succinctly articulating all my thoughts about all of this discourse!

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Sanjana's avatar

thank you for reading!

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Teal's avatar

this was so healing to read today while disillusioned at work (a public library)!!!

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Sanjana's avatar

💖💖💖

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sarah e philips's avatar

thank god someone said it

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sarah e philips's avatar

you’re like god to me

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Sanjana's avatar

sarah ily 😭

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reni esan's avatar

thank god

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Sanjana's avatar

lolol

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Haley's avatar

brilliant, as always

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Sanjana's avatar

🥹🫶🏽

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