Romance is the genre of fantasy, political and sexual [...] the genre of desire and of rebellion

[epea_pteroenta]

One of the nice things about the course I'm not currently doing very much work for, is that it is really tapping into something I've been thinking a lot about, namely "What is a romance

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Romance, romancing, romantic

[tripp3235]

Great question! I'm too lazy to look up definitions of romance itself. You have three uses of the word: noun, verb and adjective. As a noun I take it to be a relationship between two people who's feelings are more than a platonic level. When it's a verb, I see it between "seduce" and "love". As an adjective, I have a specially hard time coming up with an explanation though if you could describe fluffy hearts and puppy dogs, maybe that's how I see it would look like.

So I hope I'm not showcasing my truly average existence. My life is anything but romantic and I'm a true cynic. On dates I've been on, past, present and future, I rarely have a truly romantic experience. My friends probably see me as a non-romantic. But oddly, for my entertainment, I love romances, but especially the evolution of watching two people fall in love with each other. Any love at first sight typically bores me. Thus I tend to go more with love/hate relationships or bad first impressions simply because it makes the path to true love far more interesting to watch.

Um, which is why I love Mary/Matthew.