drink tea and talk about big love

[underhand_glory]

I recently watched the phenomenal Teenage Dirtbag and found it terribly romantic in a roundabout, messed up way, which is the way I like my romances best. Between this and 500 Days of Summer, I'm reconsidering my derision of "romance" as the primary plot of a story. So, what I am asking of you is: your favourite unconventional romances. Make me a

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[midfunk]

What is this Teenage Dirtbag? I IMDB'd it but it was VERY unhelpful.

[underhand_glory]

STREAMING LINK FOR YOU: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=Y5FZKX5H

Cheesy, super-angsty teen pseudo-romance involving harassment and poetry. I will link to the trailer for future readers as I should've done in the first place. Featuring that Cappie fellow from Greek if you're into that sort of thing.

[midfunk]

OH TY I WILL WATCH IT WHEN MY INTERNET RETURNS TO ME.

I've only seen Greek once so... no, but I LOVE TEEN HIGH SCHOOL ROMANCES. EVEN IF THEY'RE PSEUDO-ROMANCES. I ALSO LOVE YOUR NEW USERPIC.

[underhand_glory]

TY IT WAS A SPUR OF THE MOMENT THING. LOVE FOR GAGA X BEAUTIFUL ICON=GOODBYE ARTHUR AND MERLIN :(/:)

NOW REC ME SOME ROMANCES XOXO TY

[marketchippie]

Oh god, I love Ada or Ardor SO MUCH. Epic.

Hm...The Time Traveler's Wife is actually wonderful (book, not movie). Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia has one of my favorite love stories ever and is basically just the greatest thing ever. And then there's Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (both book and movie, but more book), which is just charming and honest and fantastic and LOVE.

(Also, when you get into classic literature, I have such dysfunctional taste in ships it's ridiculous. I'm trying to rec the nice ones here.)

[underhand_glory]

I have a lot of problems with the romance in The Time Traveler's Wife but I really enjoyed the Nick & Norah's film so I will check out your other recs for sure. Thank you!!

PLEASE tell me about your dysfunctional classic lit ships! Seriously, dysfunction is my favouriteeee

[perfectlystill]

I have to second the Nick & Norah book. The movie was great, but I love the book an infinite amount more.

[marketchippie]

I love Heathcliff/Cathy in Wuthering Heights not because it's how love should be at all but because they're too psychologically twisted to love anyone else ever and they're basically the same person. I have this thing where every time I read The Seagull I flail all over the place about Arkadina/Trigorin because they have such a dynamic and it's all moral ambiguity and mutual understanding and twistiness. I think Jane Eyre is probably too good for Rochester, but that said I absolutely ship him with Blanche Ingram and someday plan to write an essay on why she is actually awesome. And I ship Macbeth/Lady Macbeth. (Although in terms of Shakespeare, the best romance is Beatrice/Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing. But the second best effed-up one is Margaret/Suffolk from Henry VI because it's basically sex at first sight and she marries the king but is his protegé in court intrigue and they are nonstop badass all the time.)

LIT!GEEK FLAIL.

Also, Scarlett/Rhett from Gone with the Wind and back to nonclassical, AHH READ NORWEGIAN WOOD. I

[underhand_glory]

HAHA YOU LIKE AWESOME THINGS TOOOOO

SO I BOUGHT "THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH" ON YOUR RECOMMENDATION

I was blown away by Kavalier & Clay so I want more Chabon!

[decemberlungs]

Have you read I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith? Not exactly an unconventional romance, but a painstakingly realistic one.

[underhand_glory]

I haaaave oh my god it's absolutely heartrending. And such a terrific narrator-- it's rare for me to enjoy first person narration, but I absolutely did in that novel.

[likesonnets]

read the unbearable lightness of being, read henry and june by anais nin, and for a little nick cage action, watch wild at heart and moonstruck :-D

[underhand_glory]

Anais Nin! Thanks, I'll check them out :)))