I actually tried the first volume of Cantarella and am keeping an eye out for more. You've used all the right words for Wild Adapter, so that and Eternal Sabbath go on my list.
Here's my thing with romance: I love it. Except, and this is a change from my youth, what I really want to do is like and bond with the characters before the romance kicks in. An awful lot of romances raise my hackles because I feel like they're telling me, rather than showing me, how awesome the characters are and why I should care, in order to get more quickly to the romance elements. I can see--I can remember--why one would want to handwave some establishing issues. Hell, I do it all the time with things like "for some reason, X has wings!" But I need some foreplay for my romance! And, of course, I can get my peanut butter and my chocolate together much of the time in fandom, so I haven't been as aggressive as I might have been in pursuing the kind of romance I like in profic.
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Date: 2008-07-09 04:50 pm (UTC)Here's my thing with romance: I love it. Except, and this is a change from my youth, what I really want to do is like and bond with the characters before the romance kicks in. An awful lot of romances raise my hackles because I feel like they're telling me, rather than showing me, how awesome the characters are and why I should care, in order to get more quickly to the romance elements. I can see--I can remember--why one would want to handwave some establishing issues. Hell, I do it all the time with things like "for some reason, X has wings!" But I need some foreplay for my romance! And, of course, I can get my peanut butter and my chocolate together much of the time in fandom, so I haven't been as aggressive as I might have been in pursuing the kind of romance I like in profic.