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Scythe_bio t1_j29jarf wrote

I dont even care about sex scenes in books. They can be good, they can be bad. But what really grinds my gears is that every story (whether books or movie or tv show) needs to have a forced love story cranped in there. Where is the story about a boy and a girl who are just friends? And stay that way? Surprise me with a story where there are two protagonists of different gender who dont end up together but just high five at the end or something.

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TheNextBattalion t1_j29vvm2 wrote

Harry Potter almost made it like that, and I loved that about the books

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tommytraddles t1_j2awt0d wrote

Everyone married someone they went to elementary school with.

That's some wild ass shit.

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capn_corgi t1_j2bq8up wrote

That’s why I hate Christmas movies and Hallmark movies, so over everyone always ending up with their high school boyfriend. My high school boyfriend is a woman now so what am I gonna do?

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TheNextBattalion t1_j2bxs8q wrote

Marry her of course. I don't think it'd make a Hallmark movie though

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Not-your-lawyer- t1_j2c9ohv wrote

I think they already included a lesbian couple? So it's at least partway there.

Break up in high school because she realizes she's into women/ done with his stereotypical masculine presentation & behavior. He moves to the "big city" and drops all contact with everyone at home. Ten years later, someone's back in town, making an effort to reestablish connection with their family. They're still not 100% on board with their daughter's new presentation, but they're trying. The rest of the town isn't so cool with it.

The ex stands up for her, since she's dealt with something similar being gay. They reconnect as they try to change the minds of everybody in town. By the end of the movie, nobody's fully on board with it all, but they're moving in a positive direction. Small town girl leaves for the city with her ex-bf-now-gf, thinking maybe it won't be so bad to come back home next Christmas as well.

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ActionDeluxe t1_j2d4i28 wrote

What a nice, hopeful ending to a story that really reflects my life right now.

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MollyPW t1_j2cnnq9 wrote

Isn’t elementary school American for primary school? Hogwarts is a secondary school.

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tommytraddles t1_j2dcqeq wrote

They start going there when they're 11. That's Grade 5/6 in the US, and elementary age.

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Scythe_bio t1_j29z9do wrote

Yeah, Harry Potter was great about that until almost the end.

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FreshChickenEggs t1_j2az0ig wrote

I am really good friends with a guy from a friend circle that I've known since we were like 14. We're both late 40s now. We've never hooked up or had anything other than a friendship. His ex-wife had the same type of relationship with my husband from the same friend circle. When we'd run into them, it was great. No one ever got jealous, and everyone caught up, and friend pairs could have conversations without anything being weird. We still text to catch up every few months.

There are several books that could be written about this friend circle where it was just a group of friends doing things, and rarely did anyone hook up,if they did most of them ended up married. Just some guys and girls hanging out having fun and doing stuff.

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Yellowbug2001 t1_j2bvv4t wrote

Sometimes I wonder if I'm strange because I'm a woman with a number of male friends from high school, college, and grad school, we've always been just friends, it's never been weird, there was never any question of romance, we went to each other's weddings and were happy for each other and are now friends with each other's spouses, too. I literally can't remember having seen this dynamic in any work of fiction outside of like, The Muppet Show. Are most people just randomly horny about literally every member of the opposite sex they meet and very short-sighted about who they decide to flirt with? Or is this some weird thing where fiction doesn't reflect real life at all and writers only bother writing male/female friends if they're going to use it to inject some drama when the plot lags, because "seriously, actually friends" is boring on paper even though it happens all the time?

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hodler41c t1_j2e2j5q wrote

But have you ever solved a murder together? Because if books have taught us anything that will do it.

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SoriAryl t1_j2crfgc wrote

I wrote an urban fantasy book like that for a class. The chick and dude were roommates, and they loved each other like best friends. Writing prof docked my grade because there was no romance in the book. The FMC literally summoned devils to save her roommate but because they weren’t boinking, I lost a letter grade.

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TheImposibleGrl t1_j2cwhgy wrote

Might I suggest, if you’re interested in British police procedurals, Jackman and Evans series by Joy Ellis and Kim Stone series by Angela Marsons. They are perfect examples of two detectives that are friends and never romantically interested in one another.

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jorjor-binks t1_j2aq0ta wrote

Hey, my books are like that! Two bffs that stay that way, because I had the same thought. Plus I loved their chemistry the way they were and just was not interested in them becoming more.

(Not trying to advertise, just offering a perspective.)

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Scythe_bio t1_j2az4ud wrote

What are you books called? I wanna give them a shot!

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