The Character Romance thread (Official)

Thank you!
Mine is 12 years old, and he also had surgery, and the doctor says we need to wait week or two to things get better, but it's difficult in his age to fully recover 
But I refuse to lost hope.

You should! I would be interested in serious, adult fiction, rather than fluff, or romance, or things like that. (Not adult as in sex, just adults being adulty.)


I'm also happy to share with the thread that I helped someone avoid buying a "Josh Lanyon" novel. This is a women who uses a male pseudonym to write m/m romance novels. My person likes (serious) crime fiction and happened across one of the novels concerning a murder mystery while browsing Amazon. After learning that the author writes a bunch of m/m fiction, I suggested that we try to find a website or something to see if it was actually a man, but alas it was not. After we learned this, they were put off by the idea (of a woman using a male pseudonym to publish gay fiction) and decided not to purchase.

Thanks, thread!

Since I know you saw my previous post over in that other magical forum, this is the same person who read the Benjamin Justice novels; serious crime fiction with a gay male protagonist, written by a gay author. On seeing the huge volume "Josh Lanyon" has produced, the person told me that it was typical of romance authors: they churn out tons of work, sometimes with little variation in stories and themes.

One thing that was rather annoying is the FAQ on "Josh Lanyon's" website. Here are two of the questions:


She is so full of shit. Just say you think it's hot and move on. I bet women who are writing hetero romance fiction don't have a problem admitting that. You're churning out volumes of fluffy beach reading, not high-minded literature.

Dogs are more resourceful than they usually seem. Don't give up hope until you can!
I had to put down the dog I had before the one I have (he had bone cancer, and too old to try a cure) but he had survived many things before, some that should have killed him. Having a veterinarian who would operate a dog at three in the morning because the dog cut his side while chasing a fox helped   (I don't know if after the surgery was more grumpy the dog because of the anesthesia or the veterinarian because he was still in pajama. Poor man.)

I'll find the time eventually, and mark what I know od the authors in each recs.

Ah, yes. I heard of Josh Lanyon, but I've never read their stuff. There's quite a bit I could say speculating why they did what they did... but I gotta get up at the crack of dawn tomorrow, so, perhaps another time.

Even if Andromeda falls through, there's always gonna be something better to look forward to. Fingers crossed that the laws of equivalent exchange work this time- lackluster lgbt (particularly gay male) content in this one for more prominent and well written representation in the next.

Well it certainly counts. The reaction to that was vile. They didn't seem to care when Isabela did it.

The only time I'm aware of a gay flirt from a character was Anders in DA2.

I would welcome seeing flirts from any character (the more the merrier), my only minor concern about the Anders flirt was that he got angry at being turned down. If he had been chilled about it, that would have been perfectly fine.

I think we need to list them. 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

*ba dum tss*

Lol. IKR?

What a decimating response! It's disappointing, really. I'm quickly losing my faith in the efficacy of reasoning with him.

Yeah, don't tell me which fallacies I'm guilty of. Go hide behind the big Wikipedia Logo.

And then he gets mad if I use gifs. Hahahaha. 

Obviously, this is a case of all "can" and no "steel".

I've had training. 

I went to the University of Vexing Gays and Lesbinims and majored in how to annoy one trick pony shitposters with a barrage of rapid-fire logical fallacies from my Arsenal on Wikipedia.

Hear Me Roar! 

Annoyingly, the flirt option for Vivienne never disappears, even after having selected it. She goes the entire game, for male and female PC, with the flirt option active. I believe her response changed depending on her approval, so at first she sneers at the idea and later she is flattered but not at all interested. I really don't know why they felt the need to keep the flirt option open for her. If a woman says no, we don't need the option to stick around and see if she changes her mind later.




I would love in a future game for the PC to flirt with a crew member; the crew member bluntly states that they are uncomfortable having a superior officer flirting with them and politely but clearly telling them to stop flirting. We keep the flirt option active. We can try and flirt two more times with that person. The second time, they tell you to stop and if you don't they will take action, no matter how precious a pathfinder is. Third time, the person either files a sexual harassment suit and the PC is relieved of command, or the person gives a swift chop to the delicates, resulting in a non standard game over since the pathfinder can't path find anything without their naughty bits.


I also hope MEA2 has all human women with Cora's haircut. They will say that after so many people went crazy in cryo, they found that some men became intellectually diminished and more bestial and would fly into petty rages if they didn't see women with historically feminine appearance. So by cutting their hair to not conform with 21st century standards of beauty, which were already very outdated by the time the AI launched, they can weed out all of the genetically inferior men who complain about their hair and send them to live with the exiles.

Lol. Yeah, you're a master instigator! It takes inception level skill to plot a self-destruct with a voluntary "Appeal to Wikipedia" fallacy.
Damn, I'm so attracted to you right now.