one piece evidence for my argument that romance and horror are actually the same genre is in horror sometimes you know the jump scare is coming but it still makes you feel feelings and in romance sometimes you know the kiss is coming but it still makes you feel feelings
it’s like the same thing
@Lady i dont know enough about either genre to dispute this
@Satsuma okay if you want a Formal Academic Phrasing, romance and horror both belong to a broad genre of sentimental fiction which emerged out of the traditions of the Romantic (including Gothic) literary movement and consequently share broad similarities in aims and structure despite superficial differences in aesthetic and affective intent