He doesn’t write romance because there’s never a hea and the woman always dies. We don’t want him 🙅‍♀️.

I used to work in a sbux and I can assure you, people (men) watching porn and then getting off because a (usually) young woman has to come tell you to knock it off is ABSOLUTELY a thing. Men are why we can’t have nice things.

Jenny is the one I recommend to non-romance readers (specifically, Bet Me) for just, everything wonderful in romance. If mini buttercup had been a girl, we seriously considered Minerva for a name (yes, Min would probably tell me not to, but whatever). I re-read that book probably 3 times a year, or when I don’t feel…

Jennifer Cruise!! And also La Nora, or course. Sarina Bowman has good hockey series if you’re into that, as does Rachel Gibson. Susan Elizabeth Phillips is excellent, though she’s been writing since at least the early 90s so some of the older ones may seem a little dated. Alisha Rai is amazeballs and Roni Larsen has a…

A much more eloquent response that I managed, which pretty much amounted to “these fucking motherfuckers need to gtfo”. If you don’t wanna take romance seriously, fine. We get that all the time. But don’t pay lip service to a real critiquing of romance when Smart Bitches has been doing it for far longer and actually…

My aunts (my mom’s sisters) call themselves the Practical Magic Aunts and have gone about making their house (it really belongs to one aunt but they’re both there all the time) the Best Place To Be (tm). My 8 month old lights up when they come into view and I do not doubt that they’ll be teaching him some sort of…

Same. I had an awful pregnancy, topped off with an induction at 33 weeks and my baby in the NICU for almost a month after the placenta tried to kill us both. My best friend, pregnant at the same time, had absolutely zero issues, not even nausea or cravings, and the baby came exactly on time and they got to go home the…

Yeah they are the same age as me, and I suddenly feel really good about how I’m aging 😳

☝️Yep. It makes you feel like the worst, terrible person, because you know you should be happy for the woman who is pregnant, but mostly you feel awful about how you’re not, and you can’t stop it. Baby making hormones fuck with your head.

Smart Bitches Trashy Books! They have great reviews and everything is tagged/given a grade. I get tons of recommendations from them. They have a podcast too, which is great.

I *love* Alisha, but fair warning, her books are pretty explicit. If you’re down with that, her books are excellent! If you’re not, you may want to try something a little more tame; Lynsay Sands has a good, somewhat ridiculous, series about vampires that you might like (the first one is called A Quick Bite, I think).…

What th FUCK. This is reeeeeeeally not okay. If my partner had done this, we’d be divorced, not pregnant. Men: taking reproductive choices away from women is not funny, cute, or romantic. Someone please clue in (republican) congress 😑.

I live in a large city, which means my child sees penis graffiti on a regular basis. He also is the proud owner and uncoordinated operator of an actual penis. I assume he will draw many penisi* in his lifetime. This is not a big deal 🙄.

I’m going through some health stuff and lupus has been thrown out as a possible explanation, which on the one hand is terrifying because of shit like this, but on the other hand I WILL be making myself a shirt that says “it was lupus”, so. Hope she’s feeling better and all the people that were being absolutely…

Seconded. I live in a city with relatively shitty public schools (our Repub controlled legislature is criminally underfunding public schools - like, there was a court case, our Supreme Court was like “yeah, you’re violating the constitution, we’re going to fine you until you fix it” and they STILL HAVEN’T FIXED IT)…

There is literally no way that man came from Woody Allen. I’ll continue to believe he’s Sinatra’s kid til I die.

I’m in seattle and we woke up to ash falling this morning from all the fires around us, and a this weird orangey light. It was freaky as hell. Hoping we all get rain this week that helps. Stay safe and try to stay out of the smoke if you can 💕.

I didn’t even have HG, just regular old ‘morning’ (this is a lie. Do not believe it. It goes on all day and sometimes in the middle of the night) sickness and I was MISERABLE. The only thing I could keep down for the first 5 months of my pregnancy was sausage mcmuffins from McDonald’s. I have no idea why you’d do this…

I was one of those people that assumed I’d have trouble, but turns out I’m closer to your end of the spectrum and we got pregnant basically right away. I am now so fucking paranoid about accidental pregnancy that I had to talk about it in therapy. The ironic thing is that while it wouldn’t be ideal to get pregnant…

I haaaaaaaate push presents. The phrase gives me hives.