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ONTD original: 5 Horrifying plots in romance novels

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Creeped out by Edward Cullen and Christian Grey? You ain't seen nothing yet. Finding a healthy relationship in fiction can be even harder than in real life. Join me in the PITS OF DESPAIR as I talk about some of the most horrifying plots in romance novels by popular authors...


Kiss An Angel (Susan Elizabeth Phillips, 1996) - "Father forces virgin daughter into a marriage with abusive circus manager/lost Romanov prince... in the 90s"

When Daisy's mother dies, she is in a lot of debt and ends up facing jailtime for passing a bad check, so her father tells her that he'd pay her debts and give her a trust fund if she'd marry some guy of his choosing, and stay married for six months. Because... that's normal. Anyway the dude, Alexander, ends up being a circus manager (and also a lost Romanov, because of course he is), and a fucking MONSTER.

They begin their marriage with Alexander warning Daisy: "In case you haven't figured it out by now, this isn't going to be one of those modern, talk-things-through-so-we-can-compromise marriages like you read about in all those ladies' magazines. This is going to be an old-time relationship. Now what that means, angel face, is that I'm in charge, and you're going to be doing what I say. If you don't, you're going to suffer some pretty unpleasant consequences".

He isn't kidding. Alex expects Daisy to cook and clean for him, and when she tries to say no, Alex puts his hand around Daisy's throat as if to choke her and says "Listen to me, angel face. We can do this easy, or we can do it rough. Either way, I'm going to win. You decide how it'll be". Are you swooning yet? He also threatens Daisy with a whip, several times. Alex literally says he does not respect Daisy as a person and that he does not consider their marriage to be real, however when it comes to demanding sex he says "we're legally married, and it's only natural". It gets worse. He rapes her while she's asleep (of course she's a 26-year-old virgin, I hope you didn't think she was some kind of SLUT!) and Daisy gets pregnant, and he tries to force her to have an abortion. He literally whips her in a violent rage while she's pregnant. She tries to leave, but then he decides that he "loves" her and won't allow her to leave him, so he blackmails her into staying. Happy ending!



Someone to Watch Over Me (Lisa Kleypas, 1999) - "Old-timey cop wants to revenge-rape a courtesan because she spread a rumour about him. He gets his opportunity when he finds her after a murder attempt, battered, nearly drowned and amnesiac. But twist! It was her virgin twin all along!"

The hero is like an old-timey police officer, and he's mad at some courtesan who spread a rumour that she rejected him.One day she's attacked, beaten, nearly drowned, and gets amnesia, so instead of putting that tiny slight in perspective and doing his fucking job which is to find the would-be murderer, he thinks it's the perfect opportunity to punish her: he takes her to his house, ostensibly to protect her, but really he wants to fuck her for revenge (??). He wants to"teach her a lesson", "take her down a notch" and"put her in her place". "He was going to use her, the way she had used so many men. It was time for Vivien Duvall to receive her reckoning." Basically his plan is to tell her they are in a relationship, rape her by deception, and then reject her. Sounds sane, right?

So after some shenanigans they end up having sex (the aforementioned rape by deception) but then he realises that she was a virgin (and actually the courtesan's "good girl" twin sister) and he feels bad because he was TRYING to trick and humiliate a PROSTITUTE, not a RESPECTABLE virgin, GOD!! I mean, he's not a MONSTER!!



An Offer From a Gentleman (Julia Quinn, 2001) - "Rich guy saves serving-girl from gang-rape, tries to turn her into a prostitute instead"

This charming book is a retelling of Cinderella, if Prince Charming had taken a look at Cinderella and asked her "how much?" and then gotten really mad when she said she wasn't a prostitute, because she should be like, honored to fuck a guy like him and still get paid to do it.

Sophie is a bastard daughter of a nobleman, so living with that stigma, she vows that she will never have sex out of wedlock because she doesn't want to have a bastard of her own. She works as a serving girl, and one day a visiting Duke saves her from being gang-raped by her employer and his guests. He takes her to her house, gives her a new job, etc, and soon enough he decides he wants to fuck her. So he asks her if she wants to become his "mistress", basically get paid to fuck him at his convenience, because he definitely can't marry someone as lowly as her - think of all the parties he wouldn't be invited to anymore! Nah, he has to marry someone of his own standing (while still fucking Sophie on the side). So she says no, and he gets like, really offended. He then proceeds to repeatedly sexually harass her at her place of work and blackmail her. He does eventually sleep with her, and even though in the society of the time he "ruined" her for a respectable marriage, he still won't marry her. Eventually he discovers that she was the ~mistery lady~ he met at a party years ago and left a glove with him, whom he was apparently pining for while fucking the serving girl anyways; it's a happy ending, if you call getting married to the guy who threated to throw you in jail if you didn't have sex with him a happy ending.



Not Quite a Husband (Sherry Thomas, 2009) - "Wife isn't keen on sex with cheating husband; he proceeds to regularly rape her while she's asleep"

This book won the Romance Writers of America Award for Best Historical Romance in 2010. Leo is going to marry a lady doctor, Bryony, whom he claims he loves. But his fragile masculinity is threatened by her being smart, so he has a brilliant idea: to fuck someone else the day before the wedding. Bryony sees him, but doesn't say anything. She's disappointed that he's a fuckboy but still marries him. She sleeps with him, but can't enjoy sex with her husband and is kinda cold in bed because, obviously, she thinks he's a douchebag. And he's like wahhhhh I'm such a nice guy, why is my wife so frigid!!Solution: sleep rape. Oh you read that right. He starts coming into her room in the middle of the night and raping her while she's asleep. She only realizes it when she's woken up by the rape one night, and she's like CAN YOU NOT RAPE ME WHILE I'M ASLEEP PLEASE. And our romantic hero does NOT get it at all - UM, why are you making such an unreasonable request? I'm a NICE GUY let me rape you in your sleep! So the next night he goes and rapes her again as a punishment for crazy talk. And Bryony is like SERIOUSLY, STOP. And he does it again."And on it went. Until she couldn’t go to sleep for fear of what he would do to her that night. What he would make her do. Until she almost killed a patient because she was so under-rested and distraught. That evening she went home, bolted all the doors to her chamber, and never let him into her bed again for as long as they lived under the same roof".

She gets an annullment and gets the fuck away from him. He gets very angry because he's such a nice guy and he bought her a microscope once!!! Ungrateful bitch!!! So a couple of years later he tracks her down and he's still angry. She finally confesses that she saw him cheating on her, he gives her a half-assed apology. So now they're cool and they get together again because ~true love~



No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (Sarah MacLean, 2013) - "Woman frames random man for her own murder, ruins his life, comes back 12 years later to ruin whatever he managed to rebuild during that time. He really wants to bone her though"

Winner of the Romance Writers of America Award for Best Historical Romance, this one turns the tables and has the heroine, not the hero, be a fucking psychopath, because #equality. Mara wanted to escape an unwanted marriage, so she fakes her own death, framing a guy for murder Gone Girl-style, with lots of blood and everything (not even the guy she was going to marry!), and then runs away. She ruined his fucking life!!!! Everyone calls him the Killer Duke, he loses everything, his family is blackballed from society and he has to go into exile. And because he can't remember that night since she drugged him, he actually thinks he's a killer.

But wait! There's more! Twelve years later, this Regency Amy Dunne is back. She wants him to forgive her brother's massive debt to him, in exchange for her revealing to society that she was alive and well all along. "A fair trade", she calls it. But... she is literally asking for a massive pay-out in exchange for something she owes him. She drugs him again. She challenges him to a boxing duel so that if he wins, he's a woman beater, but if he loses, he lost to a girl. She lets her brother stab him in the chest. It's a mess!

The guy gets revenge by buying her pretty dresses and taking her out and giving her money and daydreaming about her hair.

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Cartoon Network Once Again Drops The Ball and Five New Steven Universe Episodes Leak

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With starting off a new year, Cartoon Network continues it's old tradition of accidentally leaked Steven Universe episodes. The new Steven Universe episodes were suppose to air starting January 30th with another Steven Bomb premiering five new episodes throughout the week. Cartoon Network though mistakingly uploaded all the episodes onto their app making them accessible for a short time before taking them down but you can still find the episodes online throughout the internet. Two significant members that work on Steven Universe, Matt Burnett (writer) and Michaela Dietz (voice of Amethyst) commented on the most recent leaks.

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I haven't seen a show before with so many leaks lol. Anyone else watched the new episodes?

RHOA 9.09: Char-lotta Drama (Preview)

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Kenya's violent ex-boyfriend Matt shows up uninvited at Peter's Club One niteclub. Porsha tries to have sex with her fake boyfriend. Kandi's ex-employee goes to Phaedra to file a lawsuit against Kandi. Sheree attempts to write a tell all book.





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Claire Danes covers the February issue of Harper's Bazaar UK

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Exclusive: Bold, brave and brilliant... Claire Danes is our February cover star - the first of our 150th anniversary year

- Claire Danes is wearing a Prada coat

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On her character Carrie Mathison on Homeland: "You know, I don't think of her as female," says Danes. "I'm playing a person. I'm playing a person. She's just not defined at all by her sex. She is defined by her ideals, by her patriotism, by her commitment to righting wrongs, by her relationship to her mental condition [but] it's just really beyond the more conventional stereotypes about what it is to be a woman in this world."

- Clair is wearing a Salvatore Ferragamo dress


On why she admires Carrie: For all her imperfections, Danes says she admires Carrie because, "she gets shit done, you know? It's really great because, boy, am I not that in my true self."

- Claire is wearing a Bottega Veneta coat

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American Idol Finalist Bo Bice gets called "white boy" by Popeyes staff, goes on television to cry

Amazon renews The Man in the High Castle for a third season

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  • Been renewed for a third season.

  • Will get a new showrunner, Eric Overmyer, who was EP for Bosch (another Amazon show).

  • Season 2 was the most-watched Amazon show during it's debut weekend.

  • Amazon's head of comedy and drama said, “As timely as ever, the exploration of characters at a dark point for humanity has provided incredible stories for two seasons. Eric and his team are doing an incredible job crafting stories about the inner lives of those who struggle to do good in a world that is not. We couldn’t be more excited to bring season three to customers in 2017”.

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Yessssssssss. Season 3 wishlist?

Dylan O'Brien Spotted at LAX by trash Paparazzi

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First video of Dylan O'Brien since his accident in March 2016, this was taken on December 11th 2016

In the beginning of the video he is happy and smiling with his parents and some blonde rep but once the paparazzi approach he covers his face, his Dad tries to get the pap to go away but he keeps filming
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Dylan's Dad with the sass though

Kenya Moore discusses pulling gun on WWHL

Angelina Jolie Rips Brad Pitt in New Filing: He's 'Terrified the Public Will Learn the Truth'

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Angelina Jolie Will Seal Custody Documents.

Angelina's Lawyer Claims Brad Pitt Is Afraid ‘Public Will Learn the Truth’

“There is little doubt that [Brad] would prefer to keep the entire case private, particularly given the detailed investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Dept. of Children and Family Services into allegation of abuse,” state the court documents.

“The kids are traumatized. The mom has been protecting the kids by not revealing what really happened on that plane. Her interest since the outset hasn’t changed: to protect the health and safety of the kids.”

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Diego Luna shares touching story of why representation in film matters

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Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams will star in the comedy 'Game Night'

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'Game Night' follows several couples who gather for their regularly-planned game night when something goes terribly wrong.

(Bateman is currently working on his new Netflix series “Ozark". McAdams's next project “Disobedience,” in which she stars opposite Rachel Weisz, is currently in development.)

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Connie Britton is staying on Nashville!


2017 ONTD Film Critic Society Awards - Reminder to Nominate/Vote

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*The above image was taken from Morgan90's previous awards posts, I don't know how to use photoshop or whatever, so credit to them*

NOMINATE/VOTE HERE


I'll start counting everything tonight and should have the voting post up tomorrow, but want to make sure as many people as possible nominate/vote.

Britney serving in new photoshoot + her new relationship is instaofficial

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Your fave celebrity instagramer Britney Jean Spears uploaded a series of fun, flirty pics to welcome the new year in style.







She also posted a cute pic feat. her hot new bf Sam Asghari:





Finally, Britney gave an interview to some magazine named Think where she had this to say about the possibility of a new tour:

"I hope we can do some touring! It’ll be fun to see my fans from overseas who haven’t been able to make it out to Las Vegas”



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Casey Affleck Wins NY Film Critic Award, Reads Negative Reviews as Acceptance Speech

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After fraudulently winning Best Actor at the New York Film Critic Circle Awards, Inferior Affleck read out five negative reviews he's acquired in his career. Four of them were by David Edelstein, a NY Magazine writer who was in attendance.

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Naomi Campbell on The View: Talks George Michael, Star, Smoking Addiction, and Judges Co-host's Walk

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-Fondly remembers George Michael, who she kept in contact with after appearing in his Freedom video.
-Is still addicted to smoking. Whoopi shares of an encounter with young cystic fibrosis patients that caused her to quit.
-Discusses her role in the messy Star tv show.
-Judges Sarah Haines' runway walk, is visibly annoyed that she isn't taking it seriously lmao. Watch out for flying cell phones, Sarah.

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