Pop culture has convinced us that the best love stories start with a fight. Conflict feels like chemistry, distance reads as depth, and unavailability looks like mystery, so we...
When Harry Met Sally, Love Actually, and Bridget Jones’s Diary. Here’s what these three rom-coms taught me about friendship, love, and embracing imperfection.
Ranking my favorite and least favorite romantic tropes
There are considerably more male characters in fiction, and when a female character is written, she often falls into cliches or tropes. The answer to this issue lies in...
The 2010s and early 2020s were filled with color and variations of expression in fashion; however in the last two years the vibrancy and idiosyncratic style of dress we...
Is it concerning that when asked to recommend or describe a book people turn to catchphrases like ‘enemies to lovers’, and nothing else?
Want to get into romance books but don’t know what books to read or where to start? Here are my top three recommendations, plus some others depending on what...
Why two of film's most easily identifiable characters resonate with one another, and how audiences see the same man in different fonts.
When you're picky with a genre, you need to know exactly what tropes you enjoy. For me, that genre is romance, and that trope is friends to lovers.