WHAT ARE THEY GOING ON ABOUT?
A Fated Mates Glossary (and a work in progress)
BANGXIETY - The anxiety you feel while waiting for your MC's to bang!
CATEGORY ROMANCE - A shorter romance novel (~55k words) hyper-focused on tropes
CINNAMON ROLL - A love interest who is ooey-gooey, soft at the center and everywhere else.
DANGER BANG - When you’re facing the end of the world as you know it and gotta get that tension out!
EXAMPLE: Andriana Anders’ Whiteout
DARK ROMANCE - Definition needed.
DERECK CRAVEN WOULD NEVER - DEFINITION NEEDEDEXAMPLE: Dereck Craven Day
DNF - Did not finish (the book)
EMOTIONAL TITTYFUCK - A big mess. An emotional experience but not in the way you expect. The hero is emotionally messy. Explosive feeling moment. on the part of a constipated character.
EXAMPLE: Lord of Scoundrels
FATED MATES - Two characters who are destined to be together. This is most common in paranormal romance.
FOSSILS - Extraneous plot details that do not move the romance between main characters forward. In reference to Amanda Quick’s Ravished, in which the heroine studies fossils.
GROVEL - When a character -- usually the hero -- has to make up for something terrible they've done to their love interest.
HEA - Happily ever after.
HFN -
MACRIEVE BRAIN - When something shocks you or throws you off balance to the point that your mind goes blank - nothing but static between the ears
MC - Motorcycle Club or Main Character
POLYANDRY - n. polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband. <special usage> [zoology] a pattern of mating in which a female animal has more than one male mate
ROMANCE REASONS - When the plot point doesn’t need expiation because it only serves to forward the romantic arc
STERN BRUNCH DADDY - I don't know how to define it, but I think Zaf from Take a Hint, Dani Brown probably qualifies. And maybe Roy Kent. Juergen Clop is the “sternest brunch daddy”.
In the words of Andie J. Christopher - A top who will take care of you. Someone who will take you out to brunch, cuddle you while you’re waiting in line, and make sure that your mimosa stays full… and later, they’ll spank you until you cry (but only if you’re into that). Comfort, domesticity, and filthy sex.
In the streets - the perfect gentleman/woman/them.
In the sheets - knows you’re not made of glass.
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S02.6: Cinnamon Roll Romance Heroes Interstitial with Andie Christopher
SURE (as said by Jen) - What you just described is completely bananas/unbelievable, but please keep going.
TAKING THE FINGER - A decision by an author (or the execution of that decision by the author) in a romance that takes a risk, pushes the boundaries, and does something totally bananas
TINCTURES, TONICS, AND TEAS - Birth control and abortion in historical romance.
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