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There are so many things I wanted to do today: Answer emails. Work on my Stardew Valley mods. Make various dreamwidth posts I've been pondering for some time.

But instead you are getting my reactions to the first episode of the new anime Vampire Dormitory, which is like someone mashed together Ouran Highschool Host Club and Diabolik Lovers, but significantly worse in quality and more fluffily earnest in it's cheesyness.

The Crunchyroll summary:

After Mito loses her parents and is fired from her job, she must fend for herself on the streets disguised as a boy. She comes across a stranger named Ruka and learns his dark secret—he’s a vampire! Ruka invites Mito, still in disguise, to live in an all-boys dorm. Mito exchanges her blood for a place to stay, but a budding romance and her true identity threaten all that hangs in the balance.

Needless to say I am having a wonderful time.

Content note: Suicide, though it all turns out fine.
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I just read "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley after hearing it touted a bunch of places as "vampire romance done right".

I really enjoyed it, but
(a)it is not a romance(*), it's at most a drama about relationships, and is more a personal-discovery-and-thriller urban fantasy. Which is fine, but means it shouldn't be read in a romancey mindset.
(b)lilysea was right, I am craving cinnamon rolls like anything(**). I forgot she'd said that until I started reading and my brain went "Oh no! It's a trap!". *ponders if I can be bothered baking*

(*)At least not by my standards. Unless there's a mutual declaration of affection and at least a brief period of happy smooches/hugs and "Yay we found each other!" before one of the other of them dies or the book ends or whatever, it doesn't count in my book.
(**)The main character is a baker, and every day, throughout all the various supernatural drama, unless she is literally shackled to a wall she gets up at 4am to make the cinnamon rolls.