Fan(fic) Service on Yik Yak | Y’all someone at my college is complaining about the dark themes of dark romance. I have never read it before, but could someone explain to me what dark romance is if it isn’t depictions of toxic/immoral/abusive relationships?? And like, crimes???

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Fan(fic) Service 1w

Y’all someone at my college is complaining about the dark themes of dark romance. I have never read it before, but could someone explain to me what dark romance is if it isn’t depictions of toxic/immoral/abusive relationships?? And like, crimes???

Anonymous 1w

dark romance was supposed to be “these are bad people who are in love and this is how their love is twisted” and now its just “he abuses her in any way i can think of”

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Anonymous 1w

Sounds like that person is the kind to complain about tagged content on a Dead Dove fic

Anonymous 1w

Dark romance was originally stuff like human/vampire (if twilight explored darker themes) and doing terrible stuff FOR the partner instead of to the partner. It’s gotten twisted into what you described, but I still miss what it used to be.

Anonymous

#3 1w

its important to remember here that dark romance is like a decades long trope that has gotten its current meaning quite recently, only accelerated with the rise of booktok

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Anonymous

#3 1w

I totally get this as someone who likes dark romance myself, I just interpreted the complaint as being of the “knife found in kitchen” variety.

Anonymous

#3 1w

AHHHhhhhh this makes more sense. Ty!!