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oh man thank you so much ❤️

thank you so so much 🖤

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thank you for reading! ❤️

thank you so much 🖤

(im tryna get better about posting in two places, not always successful, v sorry)

but then i’ll say to myself, self, you’re overthinking it; just keep going! well guess what! i’m never overthinking it when i have that instinct! i’m *feeling* it! as a romance writer i should know to recognize that as essential

i keep telling myself i’m gonna do that and then forget every time 😩

thank you so much ❤️

i bet a lot of those ideas touch each other (not in a romance way alas)

(btw i do think it’s possible to make meaningful observations about this network while you’re living in it—i just mean that it’s challenging to see it all at scale without the benefit of time/distance. let’s hope we get the opportunity to have that)

genre fiction is so illuminating in this regard in part because of volume and pace of production and innovation, and the romance genre in particular has been nimble in these ways (“nimble” does not equal progressive, let me be *real* clear on that)

some of the best literary criticism ever written has been mindful—maybe even obsessive—about this idea of network, about tracing all the ways a text or set of texts is touched by all sorts of things at the same time. politics, tech, religion, identity, economics, geography, climate, whatever

i say “in time” because i think it’s challenging to be inside one of these networks and see a very layered movement in literary history clearly—but i genuinely hope people who take genre seriously will study this period

do u want to dissociate? if so then yes