I've got all these people whining in my mentions about how it's not a romance if the couple doesn't end up together (what's Casablanca, then? or Romeo & Juliet?)

and all I can say is

fuck your boring, traditionalist, slut-shame-y idea of what constitutes a romance. https://twitter.com/TheLadyLudovica/status/1319387864078188551

I wasn't going to say anything after the first indignant Romance Novel Stans got all up in my mentions, but now they're just annoying

and maybe we could have a good convo about whether rigid genre limits are good but

yo, assholes: the original tweet was about TV & MOVIES

The original tweet (now deleted, probably because y'all Traditional Romance Novels OMGZORZ!!!1!! stans swarmed the poor person) was promoting this article: https://mashable.com/article/romcoms-without-happily-ever-after/

Gotta say, the entire "genre is sacred writ" attitude about novels is also gross as fuck, though.

A romance without a relationship at the end is like fantasy without magic users--unusual, but hardly so different that it should be a different genre.