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Fall Personal Curriculum | Romance University🎓📚
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items lessons in control, devotion, and the art of falling apart beautifully🥹
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emotional chess ♟️but make it romantic💗
love in the wild: the monsters inside us😉👽🐺
soft science: why normal love still hurts💐💗😭
emotional chess ♟️but make it romantic💗
this the course where we study why we want the people who ruin us. it’s about power, manipulation, devotion, and how sometimes love just be one long psychological experiment we volunteered for ❤️🩹😭
tropes: unhinged MMC, mafia, restaurant owner FMC, blackmail, forced proximity
description: a woman’s dreams of opening a restaurant turns into a nightmare as she finds herself in debt to a dangerous family and the heir collector wants her as paymen...
Heir of Flames by Asia Monet
by Dead Bloom Society | for the Unapologetic Reader
The Psychology of Obsession in Dark Romance | Why We Crave Dangerous Love
tropes: workplace, grumpy/sunshine, kinks, he falls first, dual POV
description: Dymon Danger has no problem following the no fraternizing rule until Quinci Everly became his assistant. now she’s testing his patience… & his restraint
Captivated by Danger by Endiya Carter
tropes: second chance, miscommunication, hate to love, dual timeline
description: Kade Mitchell can’t forget Stacey Rhodes, the girl who broke his heart. Back home and free he is torn between desire and hatred
Insatiable by Leigh Rivers
tropes: kidnapped together, forbidden (sister’s fiancé), shared trauma, dual POV heavy topics
Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann
tropes: unhinged MMC, stalker, serial unaliver
description: What would you do for love? For Joe, it’s anything. His charming crushes quickly turn dark as obsession takes over. Using social media to stalk and manipulate, he’ll do whatever it takes to...
YOU| Netflix series
love in the wild: the monsters inside us😉👽🐺
romance anthropology but make it messy. we talkin’ vampires, demons, shifters… every creature that made us question our morals and our type. this unit’s about attraction beyond human logic, and the beasts we secretly root for 🧟🧞🧜🏽
tropes: alien & human, forced proximity, spicy, poly, why choose
description: a woman is adopted by aliens and crash lands on a planet with dinosaurs where she falls for two sexy aliens and embarks on a hilarious & steamy adventure
I Got Abducted by Aliens: Trapped in Rom-Com
i love video essays especially ones by Princess Weekes. they are just so well thought out
Why We Fall for Monsters | Princess Weekes
tropes: dark romance, paranormal, fated mates, forced proximity
description: a woman on the run from a dangerous situation finds herself irreparably bonded to a possessive wolf shifter
Taming Kane by Tessa Stone
tropes: forced proximity, demon MMC, contractual agreement
description: event woman strikes a dangerous deal with a demon igniting an unexpected passion that transcends their contract
Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh
tropes: forced proximity, touch her & 🔪, serial unaliver, paranormal
description: a nightmare created who feeds on fear offers lethal protection services in exchange for clients lives. when Mina hires him for revenge, she becomes his next targe...
Guarded by the Nightmare by Cassie Alexander
tropes: forced proximity, captor/captive, curse
description: in exchange for her fathers freedom, Belle agrees to live with mysterious & angry Beast in his enchanted castle
Beauty and the Beast | Disney
soft science: why normal love still hurts💐💗😭
not every heartbreak gotta come with fangs or chains. this one’s about the quiet kind…the soft, slow, human love that still manages to wreck you. attachment styles, comfort chaos, and calling it healing when it’s really just coping💐💗🌹
tropes: opposites attract, college, FWB, dual timeline, dual POV
description: she’s the queen bee & he’s the brooding outcast, but their unexpected spark is impossible to ignore. after a public break up, Carmen Reyes swears off men, but resistin...
Strange Sweetness by Taahesi B Williams
the modern workplace love story that is Janine & Gregory (my fav onscreen couple)
Watch Janine and Gregory Fall in Love | Abbott Elementary
tropes: dual POV, hate to love, late husband’s bff, second chance, workplace
Restore Me by J.L. Seegars
tropes: second chance, business partners, failed marriage
description: after their failed marriage Yasmen and Josiah maintain a business partnership and coparent their kids. When passion reignites between them, they explore a second chance at love.
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
tropes: childhood friends to lovers, grief, first love, tragic romance, coming of age, star crossed lovers
description: former besties Autumn & Finn drift apart in high school despite lingering feelings. a life altering event in august forces Au...
If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
tropes: illness, romcom drama, sweet romance, black romance
description: Frank Cooper, an actor spiraling with discretions, meets Mali Waters, a sports agent living for the present. drawn together at the worst possible moment, as Mali faces her mort...
She Taught Love | HULU