drink tea and talk about big love

[underhand_glory]

I recently watched the phenomenal Teenage Dirtbag and found it terribly romantic in a roundabout, messed up way, which is the way I like my romances best. Between this and 500 Days of Summer, I'm reconsidering my derision of "romance" as the primary plot of a story. So, what I am asking of you is: your favourite unconventional romances. Make me a

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[marketchippie]

I love Heathcliff/Cathy in Wuthering Heights not because it's how love should be at all but because they're too psychologically twisted to love anyone else ever and they're basically the same person. I have this thing where every time I read The Seagull I flail all over the place about Arkadina/Trigorin because they have such a dynamic and it's all moral ambiguity and mutual understanding and twistiness. I think Jane Eyre is probably too good for Rochester, but that said I absolutely ship him with Blanche Ingram and someday plan to write an essay on why she is actually awesome. And I ship Macbeth/Lady Macbeth. (Although in terms of Shakespeare, the best romance is Beatrice/Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing. But the second best effed-up one is Margaret/Suffolk from Henry VI because it's basically sex at first sight and she marries the king but is his protegé in court intrigue and they are nonstop badass all the time.)

LIT!GEEK FLAIL.

Also, Scarlett/Rhett from Gone with the Wind and back to nonclassical, AHH READ NORWEGIAN WOOD. I knew I was forgetting something: it's glorious.

[underhand_glory]

Oh I feel like we're going to get a long VERY well since I love H/C for precisely the same reason. I have a fixation on the whole "no one but you for me" to the point of misery-trope.

I will check out your suggestions. I have a friend who pimps Murakami to me CONSTANTLY so probably that one first.