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On 9/22/2020 at 5:17 PM, Neon Green Packing Peanut said:

Anyway, YMBAI you deliberately avoid situations that could be misinterpreted as romantic/having a crush on.

Hold up...I thought that everyone did this? Because I purposely avoid saying I love you to my friends in fear of them thinking I have a crush on them, and I don't snuggle with them for the same reason even though I love snuggling. But allos don't do this with anyone they don't have a crush on??

On 9/21/2019 at 10:44 AM, nonmerci said:

YMBAI if you are confused by the "I love you" thing and why it is an important "step " in a romantic relationship. Because why would you date someone you don't love (romantically)?

(I thought that being crushes and being in love was the same)

Wait...it's not?  I get having a crush and not being in love I guess, but dating someone that you don't love and weren't friends with first blows my mind. 

This is a revelation.

So I love basically any genre for the most part.  I am very picky when it comes to romance novels, but I will read any other genre freely

• Radio Silence (the most amazing friendship on this earth I love it so much) by Alice Oseman
• Percy Jackson And The Olympians by Rick Riordan
• The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan
• Loveless By Alice Oseman
• House Arrest by K A Holt
• The Body (not horror and good friendships) by Stephen King
• The Insignificant Events in the Life Of A Cactus by Dusti Bowling
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver
• The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
• The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth

So I Wish You All The Best, The Divergent trilogy, have romance in it, in neither one is romance the main theme, but it is still there.  Radio Silence and Loveless have some ace and aroace representation by an aroace author.  I Wish You All The Best has nonbinary representaion and the Insignificant Events In The Life of a Cactus has some disability representation. Loveless, The Hunger Games, The Divergent Trilogy and House Arrest all made me cry. If I am being honest though The Phantom Tollbooth and The Insignificant Events In the Life of a Cactus are the only ones that are guaranteed to not make you cry.