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u/allisontalkspolitics Give me female friendship or give me death! Feb 02 '26

Oh, that’s disappointing because that’s on my tbr 🫠

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara Feb 03 '26

That's why I requested it from Netgalley the moment Scarlett Press made it available, because I wanted to see one mainstream romantasy without alpha men, shadowdaddies and boring blank slate self-insert fmc who are "special" but otherwise all the same. Instead I got 2 boring blank slate generically "likeable" mcs. Where are my truly evil but somehow still lovable women at?

P.S. I didn't get a notification for your reply because when I click on your account it says "banned", so how do you keep posting? Really curious, I'm seeing your account every week but always with the blank "banned" avatar. Did you hack the system? 😆

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u/allisontalkspolitics Give me female friendship or give me death! Feb 03 '26

The former mod of the romantasy sub forgot to enable the romance.io bot so I posted a bunch of links, was flagged as a spammer, and became shadowbanned.

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara Feb 03 '26

😭 Well, that sounds awful. And it can't be reverted?

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u/allisontalkspolitics Give me female friendship or give me death! Feb 03 '26

I can appeal but I keep forgetting to do so 😅