An Unhinged Deep Dive into Booktok Tropes

Me: Fake dated my college boyfriend because I'm a lesbian

Stop cause I hate when authors try to make "touch her and you'll die" male characters and the book is literally in an office setting😭😭

This didn’t happen to me but my friend is bi and her twin brother is gay but their parents are homophobic so in high school she “dated” his boyfriend and he “dated” her girlfriend. It was honestly iconic.

you know where books are even cheaper than spotify? THE LIBRARY, SHAMELESS LIBRARY PLUG GO TO UR LOCAL LIBRARY RIGHT NEOW GO SUPPORT THEM WE LOVE LIBRARIES

Miscommunication trope can crawl into a corner and die there 😮‍💨

wrt the popularization of tropes, i'll never get over the tweet that's like "it's so charming to watch people who were too mentally well to be on archive of our own at age 13 reverse engineer ao3 tags" like it's sooo true lmao

the scary part of the modern world is you never know if the degen next to you is chilling or listening to people getting their cheeks absolutely destroyed

“she’s a dog groomer in the Empire State Building and he’s the king of the sewer rats” may have caused me to choke from laughing so hard

Diving into booktok??? You’re braver than the marines

the emphasis on height difference in these books is so funny to me at this point, because whenever I read about these 5'0 women and these 6'4 men I always hear Kennie JD going “I’m supposed to get scoliosis just cause I’m trying to smash????” 😂

This is the most enthusiastic I’ve ever seen a YouTuber get over a sponsorship

The R2D2 and C-3PO comparison for grumpy/sunshine TOOK ME OUT, that’s so accurate lmao

I commented on a post mentioning that I don't love categorizing books by trope because it kind of spoils them (I prefer to go in as blind as possible) and the responses were a wild mix of: "If I don't know exactly what's going to happen in a book my anxiety won't let me read it!" and "If it's a romance you know they'll get together anyway so who cares if it's spoiled?" And to the latter I say, y'all would not have survived the early-mid 2000s era of killing the romantic lead in the last 20 pages. Augustus Waters took us out at the KNEES!!! Bitches were sobbing on the subway!!!!

Re: right person wrong time, my aunty married the love of her life at 70, having met him when she was in her twenties. They had three marriages apiece and knew each other for DECADES, but the timing was off. They are now super happy. It wasn't easy, and there were a few broken hearts along the way but there is hope!

spotify sponsorship is insane so happy for u babe!!!

had to quit out of my candy crush game for this one queen. Thank god ur back

"he's a dragon slayer and she makes artisanal ice cream for dogs" Where's the book, Carly???!!

“I don’t flirt, I just act strangely and arrive in places that they arrive and don’t talk to them” I have never related so hard to something in my life. The type of rizz we have is unmatched

i'm sixteen. pretty much my entire grade level has decided i'm a lesbian. i have a guy friend in my class. i persuade him to fake date me for the plot, because i love chaos. we hold hands a bunch and go to the school dance together. the bit's over, we move on with our lives. a whole arse yEAR later i found out via some acquaintances that he had actually liked me and had been asking people for advice, but had been too scared to ask me out. horrible. terrible. THIS SHIT HAPPENS CARLEY

That was the longest sponsorship message I’ve ever watched, respectfully