Delphine Roy

Thank you, it's a romance bookmark I got in a bundle, so I handpicked it just for this read 😊

A picture of the book "The Best of All-Story Love 1929" on a pink background. The cover represents a man in a rowboat pulling a woman from a river.

This arrived just in time for Valentine's Day. I haven't been this excited for a book in a good long while and the introduction alone has got me hooked. @lucynka.bsky.social

Was not expecting this in a "sweetheart" Valentine's Day prompt. Sharp writing and very intriguing, I love it.

Technically this one is done and released, but it counts if the series is a WIP, right? 😛 Because we have six more books planned. I just couldn't resist the "sweetheart" prompt (that's not going to show up in my romantasy any time soon).

Ooooh fun! From book 6 of the #hockeyromance series I co-wrote as @acsheppard.bsky.social. Chloé is the owner's daughter working in PR, and Drake is the team's new forward. They have *history* and he's definitely a bad boy 🔥 Happy Valentine's Day! 💘

#WriteSky #romancelandia #WIPSnips

These past months I saw multiple posts on Reddit requesting knight/princess romantasies. Today in a free assignment one of my junior students wrote an UBER romantic scene where a knight swears fealty to a lady and brushes her knuckles with his lips, the whole bit. The need is REAL.

#romancelandia

Also, who has read a truly "unpredictable" book, seriously? The ending of Shakespeare's plays are pretty damn predictable. French naturalist novels of the 19th century aren't filled with huge shocker gotcha moments. And I love Haruki Murakami's novels precisely because they all have the same tone.

So well said. To me saying all romance books are the same because of tropes and HEAs is like saying all children's books are the same because they're short and colorful and use simple language. Within a genre there's an immense variation of talent and style, landmark authors, classics, etc.

She was badass indeed, and the family drama backstory only made it more compelling, I got so teary when little Sasori makes puppets of his parents for comfort 🥺 Such a perfect mix of action and fleshed-out characters.

Thank you for posting this banger. The first arc of Shippuden was peak Naruto and no one will ever convince me otherwise. I rewatched it so many times back then. The fight between Sakura and Sasori might be my favorite in the entire series.

I feel like sharing pretty things this week that might brighten up someone's day 🩷

I honestly didn't think it through that much, I just took from my own experience. I'm in my 40s and there are many things I'm much better at now (teaching, organizing, managing a high level of responsibility) but I clearly don't have the same physical or raw intellectual stamina as in my 20s.

The limitations of magic are the same as our limitations with regards to sports or intense intellectual activity. At some point you're just tired and you need recovery time. When practicioners age, their knowledge is greater but their actual capacities diminish.

#Febchantment

It's "Kidnapped by the Viking" (book 1) and "The Viking's Runaway Concubine" (book 2) by Caitlin Crews. The writing is excellent. Obviously they touch upon themes like consent but it's done in a historical way, not a "2020s tone pasted on to a historical setting" way.

If you want to get even more mad at that shitty NY Times “I write 200 romance books a year with AI” article, check out the title they used in the print edition.

Do you research by talking with real romance authors and readers, you unethical fucks, we are not “making way” for this garbage.

A screencap taken from Threads naming people or entities who use AI to produce books: Coral Hart, Sydney Marsh, Plot Prose, K.C. Crowne, Lena MacDonald, Sonia Rompoti, Future Fiction Press, Elizabeth Ann West.

From this reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/Romantasy/...

We need to systematically call out people who generate books using AI, they're harming all of us authors and readers.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

The New Fabio Is Claude

Using AI is like taking published books, cutting out entire paragraphs, gluing them together, using Wite-Out to change the names, and sticking your name on the cover & saying you wrote it.

AI is just faster. Both are theft.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

I heard the whole "romance is so dumb and stereotypical you could have machines spout it out and sell to housewives" speech thirty years ago, ages before AI. The technology has evolved but the sexist contempt is the same, and apparently it's strong enough to pass off literal theft as "innovation".

It's so clearly that, it is astounding to me that not only is there nothing in the law to stop it, but the NY Times are making a whole-ass article about it with a ~quirky~ headline.

"The way Ms. Hart sees it, romance writers must either embrace artificial intelligence, or get left behind." Get left behind from WHAT, exactly? The endless diarrhea of AI slop fed to the masses to make a quick buck? Jesus, does it ever occur to these cretins that authors actually LIKE writing?

"she’s taught more than 1,600 people how to produce a novel with artificial intelligence": this person forfeited her right to be called an author. An author creates, imagines, and, you know, WRITES. A grifter uses stolen material to produce a plagiarized work. There are no gray fucking areas here.

99.9% of the time, whatever generative AI and LLMs are used for doesn't justify the precious resources they burn. I can understand why it's hard to give up traveling by plane, but not "I will contribute to wasting water in the middle of a climate catastrophe so ChatGPT can make my grocery list".

This is so relatable and the demise of HH is indeed tragic. The best non-19th century historical I've ever read is the Viking duology by Caitlin Crews.

Also books are not TikTok videos. They should not be clones of each other with minor differences. Publishing is digging its own grave.

Thanks, will do 😊

I literally just one-click bought this. It sounds AMAZING.

I have the same problem so I'm trying to keep all writing/bookish stuff in one place and not have multiple platforms. I recently created a Leaflet blog to link my longer posts here. I wish people would start blogging again because the people I follow have interesting stuff to say.

Discord is great for conversations but one thing I really miss is social media with a chronological feed of long-form writing, which was my experience on LJ (and also Tumblr for about a year or two). Sustack might work for that but it doesn't seem very fandom-friendly.

True magical powers are genetic in my world, with two exceptions: 1) brewing certain potions can be learned (though not the most potent) 2) the power of seeing and fighting supernatural creatures can acquired after a near-death experience.

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jeans = 👖

genes = 🧬

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