Is this the most romantic photo in the history of… well, romantic photos?

[EmilyMiller]

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Looks artificial to me. They are both too pretty as well.
Stop making new threads, it is becoming hard to keep track!
Instead, make a thread called, let's say, "Daily Dose of Em", and fire away all the things that come to your hiperactive mind. Don't get me wrong, I like your hiperactivity and energy, but it is getting hard to keep track which thread was about what and where I posted what.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Looks artificial to me. They are both too pretty as well.
Stop making new threads, it is becoming hard to keep track!
Instead, make a thread called, let's say, "Daily Dose of Em", and fire away all the things that come to your hiperactive mind. Don't get me wrong, I like your hiperactivity and energy, but it is getting hard to keep track which thread was about what and where I posted what.

Because this place is such a hive of activity, you mean?

Sheesh!

Em

 

[cuppatea]

Most romantic photos are the ones that are meaningful to you, IMO.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Most romantic photos are the ones that are meaningful to you, IMO.

But this one is. And to millions of other people.

Em

 

[tenyari]

Looks artificial to me. They are both too pretty as well.

Having lived in Asia, they look like regular people to me. And the photo itself looks pretty normal. People pay a photographer to take photos like this for their weddings. Folks do that in the states too.

However that this is being posted here implies to me these are celebrities I just don't recognize. But they're not unusually attractive or even unusually well groomed / made-up.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Having lived in Asia, they look like regular people to me. And the photo itself looks pretty normal. People pay a photographer to take photos like this for their weddings. Folks do that in the states too.

Hyun Bin looks regular? That’s fightin’ talk.

Em

 

[tenyari]

Hyun Bin looks regular? That’s fightin’ talk.

Em

Yeah. Dime a dozen in Korea. Which is where I spent a half decade, still visit decently often, and am conversationally fluent.

I guess I'm just not up on current celebrities as I don't watch Korean cinema. But I'd say I know several Korean guys who look hotter right here among my Korean American friends. Ya'll gotta come out to California

 

[CyranoJ]

The most romantic photos in the history of photos are my parents' wedding photos. Seriously, they had drip for days. Pa looks like he was taking time off from the Rat Pack, and Ma looks like a queen out of a fairy tale. Even the groomsmen are glam. I'm not even kidding.

But I guess a lot of people would answer that way. In due fairness, the OP is definitely a serious contender in the "most romantic photo" sweepstakes.

Second-most romantic photo for my money, though? This one.

https://andscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/a1b15jx.jpg?w=700

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yeah. Dime a dozen in Korea. Which is where I spent a half decade, still visit decently often, and am conversationally fluent.

I guess I'm just not up on current celebrities as I don't watch Korean cinema. But I'd say I know several Korean guys who look hotter right here among my Korean American friends. Ya'll gotta come out to California

<sulky> None of them are Hyun Bin, let alone Captain Ri Jeong-hyeok </sulky>

Em

 

[ChloeTzang]

Now THIS is romance. Giving a guy your handgun....

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/05/c3/f6/05c3f6b86dc1f7fe22c2eaacbb160497.jpghttps://i.pinimg.com/564x/61/25/7e/61257e7051f6deee18a6a31767b3be7a.jpg

 

[tenyari]

<sulky> None of them are Hyun Bin, let alone Captain Ri Jeong-hyeok </sulky>

Asian guys are very underrated in the west.

Korean guys in particular tend to be softer spoken, extremally loyal and family focused (if you want to be swimming in people who won't stop talking about each other's kids, hang out with Koreans), but a little too hard working. And all but one of the Korean guys I know is the sort that goes to church every Sunday like clockwork. When I was in my 20s drinking and smoking were big in Korea, but now smoking is completely gone and drinking culture has gotten casual / lighter.

Western folks obsess over Asian women but honestly, it's the guys that are the picks. Which I know... I'm stereotyping folks so cancel me. But yeah.


On the celebrity angle of all the pics showing up here: I've never been into celebrities. Seeing one in a pic usually down ranks it for me in terms of evoking an emotion like romance.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Asian guys are very underrated in the west.

Korean guys in particular tend to be softer spoken, extremally loyal and family focused (if you want to be swimming in people who won't stop talking about each other's kids, hang out with Koreans), but a little too hard working. And all but one of the Korean guys I know is the sort that goes to church every Sunday like clockwork. When I was in my 20s drinking and smoking were big in Korea, but now smoking is completely gone and drinking culture has gotten casual / lighter.

Western folks obsess over Asian women but honestly, it's the guys that are the picks. Which I know... I'm stereotyping folks so cancel me. But yeah.


On the celebrity angle of all the pics showing up here: I've never been into celebrities. Seeing one in a pic usually down ranks it for me in terms of evoking an emotion like romance.

You are preaching to the choir, hun.

Em

 

[CyranoJ]

Asian guys are very underrated in the west.

True. Some of the very coolest guys I've ever known have been Asian guys. Style and confidence out the proverbial wazoo.

Asian girls are awesome too, although there's kind of a gross fetishism that goes on with that. But outside of that, Asian girls remain awesome.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Prettily decorative, but far from romantic. Romantic has emotion that this doesn't. It's a pretty anniversary photo with a pleasantly happy couple.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

OK, I’ll bite. I’m not a familiar with Korean stars and will happily acknowledge that those two are cute. All the same, to me, this is the most romantic photo I’ve ever seen. (Asides from the one of me and The Boss on our special day, of course.)

No glitz, no glam and neither of them is in the same timezone as Pretty. I don’ care. This is it. There’s more romance in these old, wizened, wore-out birds than Hollywood has put on screen in the past century.
century.

 

[CyranoJ]

Prettily decorative, but far from romantic. Romantic has emotion that this doesn't. It's a pretty anniversary photo with a pleasantly happy couple.

Boo-urns, my dude! What's more romantic than pleasantly happy couples?

The photo isn't passionate, I can see that being a different thing.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I feel - except for @ChloeTzang of course - a certain lack of context on this thread.

Em

 

[CyranoJ]

I feel - except for @ChloeTzang of course - a certain lack of context on this thread.

Em

I kinda think that's a feature rather than a defect? I'm actually looking forward to seeing what various peoples' definition of a "romantic photo" is. It'll be more fun if they actually post their own, though.

 

[Zenith77]

I don't get why people follow celebrities. I really couldn't give a fuck about what they do in their personal lives. If I like their films/songs/whatever, that's enough. I don't care who has divorced whom, what fashion they were wearing on what carpet and their political views. Does that affect their portrayal of a character in a movie I like? Nope. Don't get it.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Boo-urns, my dude! What's more romantic than pleasantly happy couples?

The photo isn't passionate, I can see that being a different thing.

Romance doesn't have to be passionate in that sense, but it does have to be an emotion between the people involved. This photo is akin to "parallel play" in children - the people are "parallel" happy. Their only connection is holding hands, and even that is devoid of emotion. It remains a pleasantly posed anniversary couple.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I don't get why people follow celebrities. I really couldn't give a fuck about what they do in their personal lives. If I like their films/songs/whatever, that's enough. I don't care who has divorced whom, what fashion they were wearing on what carpet and their political views. Does that affect their portrayal of a character in a movie I like? Nope. Don't get it.

But hun, it’s not because they are celebrities. It’s because of two beloved characters they played in one of the finest TV shows of all time.

It’s like if Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul were celebrating their first wedding anniversary.

Em

 

[Euphony]

I kinda think that's a feature rather than a defect? I'm actually looking forward to seeing what various peoples' definition of a "romantic photo" is. It'll be more fun if they actually post their own, though.

Once we release a creative thought into the wild, be it an entire story or a ruminating post, it is up to the universe (collective "audience") to ascribe its meaning, no matter the creative's meanings or intention.

There's a certain romance in that.

 

[_Lynn_]

Far from romantic. It's lacking real emotion, in my opinion.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

It’s like if Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul were celebrating their first wedding anniversary.

Em

I’m seriously, totally sorry to have to say this, but… who?

One of the few things in my life about which I am very content is that I can eye every magazine in a slow-moving checkout aisle and not recognize one single Botox’d face. I leave that to my social superiors (like you, of course, Em).